Sarah Macdonald. Australia: Bantam(Transworld Publishers, 61-63 Uxbridge Road, London W5 5SA). ISBN 978-0-553-81601-3, 2002, 320 pp. (references), $18.89 (paper). An amalgamation of a travel journey encompassed with occasional wit and humor, Sarah Macdonald wrote Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure. Macdonald, an Australian Journalist and radio presenter at Triple J, left her job to join her husband, ABC’s foreign correspondent Jonathan in India for two years. Clearly an impactful journey, Sarah published her first travel account. Holy Cow is an inside look of a vividly diverse religious field study. It demonstrates the challenges and benefits living in India especially to travelers, people traveling with the purpose of learning new experiences …show more content…
Shortly after surviving double pneumonia, she was accompanied with news of her friend Padma’s mother demise due to Indian conservatism. India then decided to take away most of her hair as well as leftover self-confidence. Towards the end of her journey, her spiritual growth amplified after picking up eight other religions. But once again, her faith was greatly shaken, this time by the terrorist bombing on New York’s Twin …show more content…
Blanton (1997) agreed, “but also served to shift the emphasis in travel writing from descriptions of people and places to accounts of the effects of people and places on the narrator”. For instance, in this male-dominated society, Sarah felt terribly grossed out by the male preference in India and awful treatment towards women when she first encountered ‘dowry burning’. Not to mention the lack of respect to their women, even foreigners. Sarah was a living testament herself, getting touched and harassed during solo trips. The turning point came her willingness to give the Indian males a chance, treat them without prejudice and discrimination after partaking in the Darshan ceremony with Hugging Amma. She even felt that she harbored a harsh judgement towards them and could do better without that. This is definitely a personal touch on her experience in
She was helping with student testing at Jackson Middle School located in Jackson, South Carolina when she first heard of the attacks on the Twin Towers. Her first reaction was disbelief. She said "she had never seen such horrible acts against our country in her lifetime." She did not know anyone personally that died or was injured on 9/11. She said, "you didn't have to know a person to feel the same sadness and loss that everyone else in our country felt on that day." She has since forgiven the terrorist that attacked our country and feels that the events of 9/11 have made us all more aware of what terrorist are and what terrorism is. She turns to her bible to find comfort in dealing with the events of
In Reading Tim Wintons hopeful saga, Cloudstreet, you are immersed in Australia; it is an important story in showing the change in values that urbanisation brought to Perth in the late 1950’s such as confidence and pride. But it was also a very anxious and fearful time period in terms of the Nedlands Monster and his impact in changing the current comfortable, breezy system Perth lived in. The role of women changed significantly with more women adopting more ambitious ideologies and engaging in the workforce something never seen before. But most of all it was important because it changed Australia’s priorities as a nation, it shaped the identity of individuals that we now see today, and it created a very unique Australian identity.
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The name of this essay is “In Praise of the F Word” by Mary Sherry. It’s about how the education system has failed. How it just pushes students through to graduation, without them actually learning the material. This is an argumentative essay. The purpose is for Mary to explain to her audience; of teachers, parents, and students, that “We must review the threat of flunking and see it as it really is- a positive teaching tool” (560). The context of this essay is “Tens of thousands of eighteen-year-olds will graduate this year and be handed meaningless diplomas” (559).This essay is a successful argumentative essay Because of her appeal to reason threw the examples form her sons’ story, her students’ stories, and how the education system fails in general.
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Many high school students do not want to hear the words, “you are going to fail”, but as will be seen that is exactly what they need to hear. In the article, “In Praise of the ‘F’ Word”, Mary Sherry states that students are not getting a good education and teachers should enforce the “F” word, meaning flunk. Sherry argues that students, especially high school seniors, are not getting the proper education they need to succeed, as many do not have the basic academic skills and are not well informed about those skills needed for their lives after high school. Furthermore, teachers should introduce the “F” word to their students and give them the realization of their future being in their hands.
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The book Mary Reilly is the sequel to the famous The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a stark, ingeniously woven, engaging novel. That tells the disturbing tale of the dual personality of Dr. Jekyll, a physician. A generous and philanthropic man, his is preoccupied with the problems of good and evil and with the possibility of separating them into two distinct personalities. He develops a drug that transforms him into the demonic Mr. Hyde, in whose person he exhausts all the latent evil in his nature. He also creates an antidote that will restore him into his respectable existence as Dr. Jekyll. Gradually, however, the unmitigated evil of his darker self predominates, until finally he performs an atrocious murder. His saner self determines to curtail those alternations of personality, but he discovers that he is losing control over his transformations, that he slips with increasing frequency into the world of evil. Finally, unable to procure one of the ingredients for the mixture of redemption, and on the verge of being discovered, he commits suicide.
When Sripathi and his family receive the news of Maya’s and her husband’s fatal road accident, they experience a dramatic up heaval. For Sripathi, this event functioned as the distressed that inaugurated his cultural and personal process of transformation and was played out on different levels. First, his daughter’s death required him to travel to Canada to arrange for his granddaughter’s reverse journey to India, a move that marked her as doubly diasporic sensibility. Sripathi called his “foreign trip” to Vancouver turned out to be an experience of deep psychic and cultural dislocation, for it completely “unmoors him from the earth after fifty-seven years of being tied to it” (140). Sripathi’s own emerging diasporic sensibility condition. Not only must he faced his own fear of a world that is no longer knowable to him, but, more importantly, he must face his granddaughter. Nandana has been literally silenced by the pain of her parent’s death, and her relocation from Canada to Tamil Nadu initially irritated her psychological condition. To Sripathi, however, Nandana’s presence actsed as a constant reminder of his regret of not having “known his daughter’s inner life” (147) as well as her life in Canada. He now recognizeed that in the past he denied his daughter his love in order to support his
Kothari employs a mixture of narrative and description in her work to garner the reader’s emotional investment. The essay is presented in seventeen vignettes of differing lengths, a unique presentation that makes the reader feel like they are reading directly from Kothari’s journal. The writer places emphasis on both her description of food and resulting reaction as she describes her experiences visiting India with her parents: “Someone hands me a plate of aloo tikki, fried potato patties filled with mashed channa dal and served with a sweet and a sour chutney. The channa, mixed with hot chilies and spices, burns my tongue and throat” (Kothari). She also uses precise descriptions of herself: “I have inherited brown eyes, black hair, a long nose with a crooked bridge, and soft teeth
In India there are many religious rituals. Some are the same as in the United States of America. They have Muslim and Christian rituals. Some of these rituals the Muslim and Christians of the United States of America participate in. Religious rituals make a huge impact on India’s culture. India’s culture would not be the same without these religious rituals. (“Indian Culture”)
Gail Godwin's short story "A Sorrowful Woman" revolves around a wife and mother who becomes overwhelmed with her husband and child and withdraws from them, gradually shutting them completely out of her life. Unsatisfied with her role as dutiful mother and wife, she tries on other roles, but finds that none of them satisfy her either. She is accustomed to a specific role, and has a difficult time coping when a more extensive array of choices is presented to her. This is made clear in this section of the story.