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Scholarly Article on “The Namesake” By Jhumpa Lahiri The article I chose is titled, “From Hybrids to Tourists: Children of Immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake,” written by Natalie Friedman. This in depth article focuses on the inner personal struggle of an immigrant family to the United States with emphasis on Gogol Ganguli. Friedman distinguishes…

In the work ‘Farewell to Manzanar’ one can find the description concerning the influence of family and culture on the man’s personality formation. This work shows that the main character was influenced by various factors such as race, ethnicity, family, and, cultural and socio-economic background. The factors such as cultural identity and environment influenced the…

According to an anonymous source, it is important to be cautious about transforming into the thing you are fighting against. This quote implies that one should avoid behaving in a manner contradictory to one’s beliefs. Indeed, contradiction and hysteria often arise and result in a shift in perspective. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and Jon Krakauer’s…

Thomas Becket In 1154 Henry II became king of England at the age of only 22. He appointed the 36 year old Thomas as his chancellor. The two got on very well together. Thurston includes the quote “they had but one heart and one mind’ in his 1912 article St Thomas Becket. However Thomas’s priority was…

Identity Islam is a monotheistic religion that claims Allah as their one and only God, Muhammad as the messenger for that God, and the Qur’an as their holy book of scripture. In order to follow the Islam faith a person must be willing to first surrender to the” rites, rituals, and practices of the Islam…

The Terri Schiavo case was a legal struggle involving prolonged life support in the United States that lasted from 1990 to 2005. The issue was whether to carry out the decision of the husband of Teresa Marie “Terri” Schiavo to terminate life support for her. Terri was diagnosed by doctors as being in a persistent…

Science and Religion in ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’ The Island of Dr. Moreau depicts the dueling concepts between science and religion. Throughout the Victorian Era within which H.G. Wells’ novel was written, turmoil between science and religion was at its peak. New scientific theories were proposed including Darwinism, which H.G. Wells strongly advocated as…

As the religious wars consumed Europe, the ‘invasion’ of Philip II aroused rebellious feelings on both political and religious grounds–as the majority of the Netherlands were Protestant and Phillip and his Spaniards were emphatically Catholic. In 1 566, a “league” was formed to counter the Spanish influence and their petition to Spain to forgo the…

“It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it” -George Carline, 2005[2: https://expectoration’s. Com/us/ definition/American_English/American-dream] The American Dream: the image of a white picket fence house with a perfect family, two educated children, one girl and one boy and the mother and father both working without worrying about financial concerns….

General Information Achilles is widely believed to be one of the greatest heroes of the Trojan War and also the most handsome, the quickest and one of the strongest warriors during the war. According to Encyclopedia Mythica, one of his greatest achievements was when he defeated Hector, who was one of the greatest warriors among…