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British Imperialism In India
1,708 wordsAll the leadership had spent their early years in England. They were influenced by British thought, British ideas, that is why our leaders were always telling the British "How can you do these things? Theyre against your own basic values. ." We had no hatred, in fact it was the other way round - it was their values that made us revolt. " -Area As Ali, a leader of the Indian National Congress. (Masani, quoted in Wood, 32, 1989) There is no doubt that British imperialism had a large impact on Indi...
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Made Them Feel Reader To Understand
1,458 wordsLet me just show you how you looked to us (Kincaid 35). That is exactly what Jamaica Kincaid expressed, with malice, in A Small Place. The you is identified as being the reader, a tourist, someone who travels in the pursuit of pleasure. Kincaid feels strong resentment towards the tourist who comes to Antigua, a place where Antiguans suffer and want to escape. The natives suffer and slave in order to provide pleasure for the tourist. While the natives are trapped on their tiny island, living in p...
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Rise To Power Caesar
963 wordsthe ill P Gaius Julius Caesar helped establish the vast Roman Empire. Caesars triumph in a civil war in the 40 s BC made him the absolute ruler of Rome. Caesar was neither good nor bad, rather, he was a force of change. His folly was ambition, for when he took power the way to advance changed so drastically that the other Roman? s ambitions were thwarted, which lead to political jealousies among his opponents and his assassination. Caesars rise to power obliterated the traditional way of attaini...
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Peut Tre Albert Camus
4,646 wordsIn The Stranger, Albert Camus portrays Meursault, the books narrator and main character, as aloof, detached, and unemotional. He does not think much about events or their consequences, nor does he express much feeling in relationships or during emotional times. He displays an impassiveness throughout the book in his reactions to the people and events described in the book. After his mothers death he sheds no tears; seems to show no emotions. He displays limited feelings for his girlfriend, Marie...
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