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    Zadie Smith is a British African writer, she was born October 25, 1975 in the United Kingdom. Some of her most well-known books are: On Beauty, White Teeth, NW, The Autographed Man, and latest book, Swing Time. When she wrote White Teeth she was known as a strong and powerful writer. She wrote White Teeth when she was 24. Her latest work Swing Time is the first piece of work that is written in first person. In her books there are many themes that she has in her book, she has relationships with friends

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    Symbolism In Swing Time

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    Swing Time by Zadie Smith talks about two childhood friends who have completely different personalities but share their love for dance furthermore shows their journey through the passage of time. The name Swing Time comes from the 1936 film Swing Time which is a crucial symbol. It represents the girls' ultimate fantasy of success in the dance world it is an exuberant, old-fashioned film that celebrates the passion and power of dance. One of the central themes in this novel is betterment, ability

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    James Joyce’s short stories “Araby” and “The Dead” both depict self-discovery as being defined by moments of epiphany. Both portray characters who experience similar emotions and who, at the ends of the stories, confront similarly harsh realities of self-discovery. In each of these stories, Joyce builds up to the moment of epiphany through a careful structure of events and emotions that leads both protagonists to a redefining moment of self-discovery. The main characters in both these stories are

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    Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad, on seventeen August 1932, the eldest son of a second-generation Indian. He was educated at Queen's Royal college, Trinidad, and, once winning a government scholarship, in European nation at University college, Oxford. He worked shortly for the BBC as a author and editor for the 'Caribbean Voices' programme. he's a Noble Prize-winning British author acknowledged for the comic early novels of island, the bleaker later novels of the

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    Anita Desai 's ' Desai '

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    She finds totally alone and helpless in her husband 's house. Anita Desai 's language is marked by three characteristics of sensuous richness, high sensitiveness and love for the sound words. She is chiefly interested in the emotional world of woman, and her fiction reflects a rare imaginative awareness of the various forces in operation and a genuine understanding of feminine sensibility as well as psychology. Her central characters are sensitive and respond faithfully to the needs of the self.

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    Rushdie has explored many themes and issues in his writing cosmos within the postcolonial perspective in relationship with language, history, politics, identity, migration, and globalization. The present paper is focused on his two famous novels The Moor's Last Sigh and Shalimar the Clown that had taken a reversion from the other works that are based on western countries and characters. He is traversing back from routes to roots, envisioning the Indian subcontinent within his critiques. Rushdie encompasses

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    The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh explores different storytelling forms and complicates the picture of pre- and postcolonial South Asian identity in his fourth novel The Glass Palace1. His ambitious epic tells “the stories of a cast of characters, royal working – clogs, and bourgeois Indians, Bengalis, and Burmese – as they grapple with their sense of place and self while violent historical events reshape twentieth century Burma and India2”. Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace is an evocation of the recent

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    Dirty Dance Lighting

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    Dirty Dancing Dirty Dancing is a 1987 film directed by Emile Ardolino, produced by Linda Gottlieb, edited by Peter C. Frank, and filmed by cinematographer Jeff Jur. Dirty Dancing stars principal actors Jennifer Grey as Baby, Patrick Swayze as Johnny, Jerry Orbach as Dr. Jake Houseman (Baby’s dad), Kelly Bishop as Marjorie Houseman (Baby’s mom), Cynthia Rhodes as Penny, and Max Cantor as Robbie. Introduction “Dirty Dancing is a film based on “Baby” Houseman, a

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    The first example I noticed in the movie was on Halloween when Julian was holding a mask and saying how Auggie looked like the mask. Jack says also in this scene if he looked like him, he would kill himself. This would be an example indirect bullying because they aren’t saying it directly to Auggie, but behind his back. This would also be verbal, because they are talking behind Auggie back. Also on Halloween, Julian asks Jack why he friends with Auggie any ways. This would be an example of relationship

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    Critique of Sandra Salmans “Fighting That Old Devil Rumor” This essay aims to provide an analysis and evaluation of Sandra Salmans article “Fighting That Old Devil Rumor” published in the Saturday Evening Post, October 1982. “Fighting That Old Devil Rumor,” is an article highlighting Procter and Gamble 's efforts to clear the controversial rumors created by a few individuals of rival companies that hoped to tarnish Procter and Gambles reputation and image in the business sector. Salmans states “The

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