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" The Sense of an Ending" "The Sense of an Ending" is a 2011 novel written by an English writer Julian Patrick Barnes, widely known as Julian Barners.  This blog is response to the questions asked by professor, Click Here to know more about it... 1)  "History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." How far can you agree with this definition of Adrian? Justify you answer with reference to your reading of ‘The Sense of an Ending’. "History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.” This is a famous quote from Lagrange which Adrian referred to in Old Joe Hunt’s class. In Julian Barne’s “The Sense of an Ending” history, memory and responsibility stay at the centre of the novel these also contribute in bringing clarity into Adrian’s death as well. To the greater extend I can be a...

Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 Tools Though everyone have their own different experience of using technology, when it comes to integration of technology for academia, it seems always helpful and something new to learn. This course explores strategies and approaches to effectively integrate Web 2.0 tools in learning process as well as it helps us in learn some valuable skills which we can immediately in our class to make learning environment live and lovely. Nowadays there are many tools available but this course helps in choosing tools for learning and teaching perspectives. What is Web 2.0? Before to know Web 2.0, it is necessary to have a some knowledge about Web 1.0. In comparison to web 1.0, Web 2.0 is dynamic as well as is allow anyone with having internet connection to create and upload content at very low cost or some times at free of cost. Blogger, wikies and podcast are well known examples of web template of content creation tools. Which al...

How Literature shaped me? Have you ever got bored from your day to day life? Would you like to live another fantastic life? If your answer is yes, I am sure you would like to be a student of Literature, you would like to live, to be with fictional characters. Literature is an ocean, it depends on you how well you diving in it. I am a student of literature, since the five years I am diving up in the ocean of literature, through these years I came across many novels, short stories, plays, poems and so on. Now finally at the end of MA, having a sense of an ending I am going to share my views on how literature helps me in shaping myself, in shaping my thoughts, in shaping my vision. Literature, the word itself says a lot, it is mirror of the society, it is an ex-ray image and so on. But for me literature seems honey coated pill (here I am using honey coated instead sugar coated), it may cure all mental pains, sugar may have harmful effect on one’s body but honey may have...

"Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats Ode to a nightingale john keats from MinkalItaliya

"The Soldier" If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam; A body of England’s, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. "The Soldier" is a well known poem written in 1914 by English poet Rupert Brooke which an insighful exame of the dangers of romanticizing World War I. This poem has two titles: i) "The Soldier" ii) "Nineteen Fourteen: The Soldier" Ropert Brooke is known for his series of War ...

"Othello" "Othello" is a tragedy, believed to be written in 1603 and based on the story of Un Capitano Moro by Cinthio, first published in 1565. The play is divided into V acts and took place on a street in Venice and further plot spins around two characters named as Othello and Iago. In the play we could find that Iago wanted to get promotion, but it didn't happen to him as he was being overlooked for promotion; he started to plot against his General;Othello, the Moor of Venice. Iago conspired against Othello by using Desdemona-Othello's wife as a tool to take revenge. In the play racism and inferiority complex governs the plot. Main Characters: Othello Desdemona Barbantio Iago Emilia Casio Bianca Roderigo Lodovico and Gratiano Plot of the Play As I above mentioned, the play takes place in a street in Venice. The scene oepns with Roderigo who loved Desdemona and wanted to marry with h...

"The Bluest Eye" "The Bluest Eye" is first novel written by an American-African novelist Toni Morrison and published inn1970. The novel is tragic study of black girl named Pecola and her desire to acheive blue eyes in order to get beautiful but consequencly her desire lead her towards madness. Along with this story line, the novel deals with rascism in American society and how it brings out inferiority complex among black people living in American society. The point of view of the novel switches between various perspectives of Claudia MacTeer, the daughter of Pecola's foster mother. It is the story of Pecola, who is rejected by white American society as being ugly, as a result she desires for blue eyes to be equated with whiteness. Main Characters Pecola Breedlove Claudia Mac Teer Frieda Mac Teer Cholly Breedlove Pauline Breedlove Sam Breedlove The novel opens after the Great Depression, in the fall of 1941,in Lorain, Ohio. Nine year old Cla...