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Thinking activity on sense of an ending

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes About Writer: Julian Barnes     Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending (2011), and three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005). The novel is divided into two parts The first part biggins in the 1960s. It begins with four intellectually arrogant school friends. we are told about two friends out of four. The first one is Tony the narrator and the second one is a Adrain the most preciously intelligent of the four. When they were in the last year of the school, a boy who killed himself after getting a girl pregnant. The four friends discuss the death philosophically, they wanted to know what exactly happened. Then Adrain joins Cambridge University. Whereas Tony takes admission in Bristol university. Tony had a girlf...

Thinking activity : the Da vinci code

About Author: Dân Brown Daniel Gerhard Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author best known for his thriller novels, including the Robert Langdon novels Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013) and Origin (2017). His novels are treasure hunts that usually take place over a period of 24 hours. They feature recurring themes of cryptography, art, and conspiracy theories. His books have been translated into 57 languages and, as of 2012, have sold over 200 million copies. Three of them, Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, and Inferno, have been adapted into films. Post viewing Task : ★ Brown states on his website that his books are not anti-Christian, though he is on a 'constant spiritual journey' himself, and says that his book The Da Vinci Code is simply "an entertaining story that promotes spiritual discussion and debate" and suggests that the book may be used "as a positive catalyst for...

Thinking activity : The white tiger

The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga Arvind Adiga's novel The White Tiger marks the arrival of a storyteller who strikes a fine balance between sociology and humanism of his homeland. He tries to make heard the many unheard voices of so many alternative Indians, which exist and are being acknowledged globally through movies, fiction, and media. The multitiered realities, presented by this young journalist turned writer, who is trying to pull down the patronizing edifice, was applauded with the 2008 Man Booker Prize. How far do you agree with India represented in the novel The White Tiger? Arvind Adiga won the Man Booker prize for Fiction 2008 for his novel The White Tiger and emerged significantly on the Indian literary scene. Though The White Tiger was praised for highlighting the injustices and poverty present in the rapidly changing India when it won the Man Booker Prize, then many Indians critics expressed outrage at the judges' decision.  Do you believe that Balram's...

How Literature shaped me?

what is Literature from my point of view? Literature is not a word, but it covers whole thing happened around us, society, people's life, world. Literature changes people's thinking, after studying it. After studying it, we realise something different. Literature affects people's mind. I mostly like novels, because it's affects on my mind deeply. And my favourite play is 'Othello' by William Shakespeare. After studying Othello in B.A , my interest in literature more and more raised. In B.A this play very much affected in me. I like tragic love story. Tragedy is more effective than comedy. Because tragedy affects on human emotions deeply. After studying literature I found different myself, different thinker. When I was in B.A. I wasn't showing my thoughts in front of everyone. I didn't put my points in front of everyone that raised in my mind. Because I was afraid to say my thoughts. Then I came in M.A. , there I realised that there was no need to be...

Expert Lectures On ELT : Prof. Atanu Bhattacharya

This task is a part of my academic thinking activity task on lecture: Prof.Atanu Bhattacharya On 25th, 26th and 27th January, 2020 prof. Atanu Bhattacharya came in my department. He taught us on the subject ELT-2. He discussed various concepts. e,s... 1}  History of English language Teaching - 2 2}  ELT : Principles and Concepts 3}  Language Teaching : In Indian perspective 4}  Historical Perspective in English Teaching :      Western Perspective 5}  The audio - Lingual Method or Audio - Visual       Method 6}  Communicative Language Teaching : (CLT) 7}  Task- Based Teaching 8}  Computer Assisted Language Teaching 9}  Doing teaching Task in class 10} Rubric Evaluation through watching the videos 11} Future of English Studies On the  1st Day, Sir talked about ELT Subject then he talked about history of ELT-2 .H talked about how English language emerged in India.  he talked about Eng...