Sharif Ahmed

The play “Hamilton” by Lin-Manuel Miranda brings the founding fathers back to life-with a lot of hip-hop. It all started when Miranda, a writer, composer, and performer, was asked to perform at the White House centered on “the American experience.” The White House expected him to perform something based on his own Latin- American experience, but Miranda had something else in mind. Few months’ prior, Miranda was on vacation with his girlfriend when he started to read a biography on Alexander Hamilton

PLOT ANALYSIS In the beginning scene only we can see the protagonist (Changez) staring thoughtfully ahead, and his attire mixed with music in the background gives a sense of tradition. In the next scene we can see the family listening to a qawali giving impression of affluence and aristocracy. Protagonist phone rings capturing his attention, and he excuses himself from his surroundings. These scenes are juxtaposed with that of a Anse Rainier and his wife walking out of a cinema, and as the qawal

Benjamin Franklin is known best for being the president of the United States or you may know him for his inventions or his writings, but there is so much more to him than just that. He is a man of wisdom and integrity. This is why I chose him as my figure of interest in my research. Franklin's life was full of wisdom and science, as he was a well-known writer, inventor, printer, as well as, a founding father of the United States. I had the opportunity to sit down and converse with Franklin during

“All the convergent influences of the world run through this society: Hindu,Moslem,Christian,secular;Stanlist,liberal,Maoist, democratic socialist, Gandhian. There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or East that is not active in some Indian mind.” E.P.Thompson “The singular thing about India is that you can only speak of it in the plural”

the way they are treated and do nothing to fight against it. If the poor people take a stand and fight for their rights they can actually overthrow their masters and live better lives. This point is especially focused in Faiz's poem "Kutte". (Faiz ahmed faiz, 1943) The poem "The nobodys" by Edvardo Galeano tells us that the poor never get lucky. Their dreams never come true no matter how hard they pray or wish for it. The poet also tells us that along with all other things the life of the poor is

“I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.” (Miranda) January 16, 1980, Puerto Rican parents, clinical psychologist Luz Towns Miranda and political consultant Luis A. Miranda Jr. brought Lin-Manuel Miranda into this world. In New York City, Miranda and his sister were raised by their Broadway loving parents. Both children were encouraged musically by their mother and father, taking piano lessons early in life and were exposed to a

Faiz Ahmed Faiz presents connotative diction through his poems to express how a character's expression of emotions effect being alone. “The branches of this tree of night shoot arrows into my heart” (553 Faiz), the character feels discomfort because of the characters loneliness, showing how loneliness affects the characters feelings, expressing a theme of loneliness. Another way Faiz Ahmed utilize connotations to express negative words coming out

This imagery helps readers imagine dark, gross, and scary events. The author, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, wrote a poem called “Three Quatrains,” which gives an example, through his third paragraph, of dark imagery that can be gross, “I dip my fingers into my heart’s blood,” (Faiz 550). By imagining the hearts blood, one can infer that the person

INTRODUCTION Each country today has faced the heart rending impacts of colonization and imperialization, clothed in the ideas of modernization and contemporary thoughts, their effects cannot be camouflaged to a great extent. The present still continues to be a doubtful chronicle of the history of the respective nations in question clouded by the diverse issues of linguistic and cultural transpositions , alienation and loss, or for that matter the conflict in

Faiz Ahmed Faiz writes: “At night my lost memory of you returned / I was like the dying patient who, for no reason, smiles.” Of course, the night has been the time when people become vulnerable of their thoughts and their painful past experiences. In the mid-1900s, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, delves into these painful nights, where he reminisces about his beloved and longs for it, usually shown in his poetry. Consequently, Faiz Ahmed Faiz uses three literary devices in many ways to portray the true subject