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In the country of India there are many creative programmes, one of their projects are ‘the solar electric rickshaw.’ When new technological inventions are being made, the consumer market also changes accordingly. Hence the factors of technology, market and needs of public are to be considered. So these new inventions target a market, where there’s already a product which has a foothold. The lower group of the pyramid are targetted to buy this new innovation. Since the concept of micro financing has

The effect of society on the outcome of an individual’s goals in Lao She’s “Rickshaw Boy” In our present society, the role of an individual may seem to have little significance in the grand scheme of things. However, the lifestyle one partakes is important, and it will shape not only oneself, but will also influence many of those around, as well as society influencing the role of the individual. In the novel “Rickshaw Boy” by Lao She, the protagonist, Xiangzi, is representative of an average man

“See’s emotional themes are powerful...the bonds of sisterhood and the psychological journey of becoming an American” - (The Washington Post) Shanghai Girls is written in the atmosphere of 1937 Shanghai, ‘the Paris of Asia’ . Where the Chinese were influenced by the westernization. The developing Shanghai features the rapidly growing influence of the west over traditional Chinese beliefs. This enlightening story written by Lisa See shows the complex relationship between two sisters, Pearl and May

Observation Essay – The Clown He’s a young man, the clown, with white socks striped in black, and black suspenders over a white T-shirt. White face, red nose. His MO is to follow people and imitate their motion without their noticing, to the glee of the sizeable, ever-changing audience. We’re sitting here on the steps of the Museum, hot and sweaty, watching the show. The clown can follow anyone: a slinky woman wearing pink ruffles, a kid with a mountain bike, a muscle-shirted dude talking

sections of the society) challenged the implementation of some aspects of Delhi’s transport policy, which were approved by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. The policy fixed the total number of cycle rickshaws that could ply on the streets of Delhi at 99,000, required that the plier of the rickshaw be its owner, and certain other provisions. The High Court ruled in favour Manushi Sangathan, holding most of the provisions of the transport policy to be arbitrary and unconstitutional. The Supreme Court

In the decades after City of Joy was published, the world’s focus on climate change and sustainable living increased greatly. People started to look to the future and realize the actual costs of a rapidly changing world. The World Bank report called, “Turn Down the Heat” reports on new research related to climate change and alayses the impacts and risk to developing countries. Lapierre’s novel certainly does not tackle an issue like climate change explicitly, but he does show nature to have a large

Rohinton Mistry’s (38) first person autobiographical narrative of his trip to the Himalayan city of Dharmsala is on the surface a quaint, visual, biographical account of a journey to an Indian town that helps the author come full circle: His childhood visions of the city he dreamt of visiting and its reality as he sees it in adulthood are different in many ways, yet his childhood and adulthood converged in serene moment that epitomizes Mistry’s glorification of his native India: “To have made this

In “Journey to Dharmsala,” Rohinton Mistry offers a memoir narrative of his trip to the mountainous city of Dharmsala which emerges as an attractive, ocular and fictional delineation of a tour to a Tibetan people’s town in India that ease the speaker come full circle: His childhood imaginations which he pictured by seeing the photographs of his uncles family in reality were quite different in adulthood: “How far was it- that Dharmsala of my imagination and of my uncle’s youth-how far from what I

Rickshaw Boy by Lao She was set in China during the 1930s. Students were able to see an insight of the culture and history of China during this time through the reading and discussion. Through She’s writings, it is clear to see that his techniques had great influence from a significant event, the May Fourth Movement. This allows to show the contrasts from 1930 to modern day China as well as connect the significance of occupations She used in the novel. As a common Chinese occupation during the 30’s

Gardiner Harris, a former expatriate who works for The New York Times, uses his article “Holding Your Breath in India” to recount his family’s unpleasant experience in New Delhi. Through doing this, Harris persuades the reader that, due to Delhi’s pollution, raising a family there is not only dangerous, but definitely not worth the risk. In order to convey his message to his audience, Harris effectively uses rhetorical devices like pathos, ethos, and logos, along with meaningful word choice in order