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Nadine Gordimer’s Six Feet of the Country As active in the anti-apartheid system, Nadine Gordimer, the South African writer who was born in 1923, doesn’t stop bombarding the apartheid system in most of her works which deal with the moral and psychological tensions of her racially divided home country. She was a founding member of…

Introduction The small South Asian nation, Nepal is located in the Great Himalayan mountains range. Traditionally, Nepal has been a peace-loving country and maintained a cordial relation with its neighbours. Another major South Asian country India has been supportive to Nepal both financially and politically. India and Nepal share a strong cultural bonding for centuries….

In our solar system, the constant danger of meteors hitting Earth presents a significant peril with profound consequences. Should a meteor strike the sea, it would generate an enormous tidal wave of hundreds of meters in height. This forceful impact would submerge extensive land areas and result in widespread devastation and loss of life. The…

North Korea is a country shrouded in mystery and characterized by poverty, extreme governmental control, and isolation. The government controls almost every aspect of the citizen’s lives from what kind of clothing they wear, to what religion can be practiced legally. The division between the lower class and the high class grows wider every day….

In the past of years, Chinese is a poor country and Chinese people had to work to earn money. But now, Chinese is better than the past and Chinese people pay more attention to the country’s basic state. We talk about all things about China such as: citizen rights, poor’s welfare and judicial fairness. First…

On August 24, 1992 Hurricane Andrew slammed into the South Florida, devastating Homestead, Florida City and parts of Miami, then continued northwest across the Gulf of Mexico to strike Louisiana coastline. In all, the storm caused 15 deaths directly, 25 deaths indirectly and $30 billion in property damage, making it the costliest disaster in U….

Classical Athens and Han China share major similarities yet they have distinct differences. Their form of government was different because Han China had an emperor and Classical Athens ran a democracy. When it came to the children both Classical Athens and Han China the murder of a child was justified. Also women in both Empires…

One of the most vocal modern-day women’s rightist authors, Maxine Hong Kingston provinces in her autobiographical book The Woman Warrior ( 1976 ) , “The swordswoman and I are non so dissimilar. What we have in common are the words at our dorsums. The parlances for retaliation are ‘ describe a offense’and ‘ study to…

French Village and the Loyalists The division of Nova Scotia to create the province of New Brunswick in 1784 set forth a wave of migrating Loyalists to settle this new province. Many of them settled on the ruins of abandoned Acadian villages where many Acadians had settled their families. After the destruction of the “Pointe-Saint-Anne”…

The core reading is Eric Schlosser’s “Fast Food Nation: Why the Fries Taste Good”. Eric Schlosser was born in Manhattan, New York, he spent his childhood there and in Los Angeles, CA. Schlosser studied American History at Princeton University and earned a graduate degree in British Imperial History from Oxford. Schlosser is known for his…