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  Thanking Activity: The Black Skin and White Mask   Hello  Readers,  Here I'm write to Blog about The Black Skin and White Mask. This Task given by Dilip Barad sir..      # About  Frantz Fanon #                             Frantz Fanon , in full Frantz Omar Fanon, (born July 20, 1925, Fort-de-France, Martinique—died December 6, 1961, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.), West Indian psychoanalyst and social philosopher known for his theory that some neuroses are socially generated and for his writings on behalf of the national liberation of colonial peoples. His critiques influenced subsequent generations of thinkers and activists.  The Black skin and White Masks seems to have distracted attention from all other aspects of his thinking about race. To be sure, Fanon himself is in part responsible for the relative silence on this subject insofar as he himself left no sustained meditation on race as such, but his caution was appropriate. He knew the danger of appearing to underwrite any of the

  Thanking Activity; Thiong'o, Tharoor and Films on Colonial History.         Here given task by Dilip Barad sir.... Click here     #  About Shashi Tharoor . #                    Shashi Tharoor (born 9 March 1956) is an Indian politician, writer and former international diplomat who has been serving as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He was formerly Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and contested for the post of Secretary-General in 2006.    He also serves as Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology and All India Professionals Congress. He formerly served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs (2014 to 2019). In 2019, Shashi Tharoor received the Sahitya Academy Award for his book An Era of Darkness in a non-fiction category in English language.    " An Era of  Darkness".                      In the An Era of Darkness by Shashi Tharoor most famous an

  Edward Said On Orientalism Thinking Activity on an ORIENTALISM By Edward Said :       Hello  Readers, Here is task given by Prof. Dilip Barad sir,   https://blog.dilipbarad.com/2016/07/edward-said-on-orientalism.html?m=1 Edward Said :                    Edward Wadie Said    was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.[3] A Palestinian American born in Mandatory Palestine, he was a citizen of the United States by way of his father, a U.S. Army veteran.               #   Orientalism #   Orientalism refers to the Orient, in reference and opposition to the Occident; the East and the West, respectively. The word Orient entered the English language as the Middle French orient.            What is Orientalism .?   Orientalism” is a way of seeing that imagines, emphasizes, exaggerates and distorts differences of Arab peoples and cultures as compared to that of Europe and the U.S. It often involves s

 Thanking Activity;  E. A Poe's short stories . "Tell Tale Heart".                    "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is related by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator’s sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed.              The story was first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is often considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and is one of Poe's best known short stories.       The story's title says that the heart is a "tell-tale" sign. It refers to the beating heart that eventually drives the narrator to confess his crime. The reader is led to believe it is the beating of the old man's heart he hears, which is impossible, since he is dead and in pieces.        Guilt: “The Tell-Tale Heart” is conventionally read as a moralizing st

  Thanking Activity ;   Role of Teacher and learnes :      The role of a teacher is to inspire, motivate, encourage and educate learners. Learners can be of any age and from any background. However, for the purposes of this guide, teachers refer to those who educate young people of school age . Teachers serve many roles within a school environment. As learners, students play a crucial and active role in education. They involve and interact with students and teachers, participate in classroom discussions, and act in a receptive manner. With changing times, the role of learners in education has got subverted from a facilitator to a task monitor.         Learning is the process by which one acquires, ingests, and stores or accepts information. The main characteristic of learning that; it is a process of obtaining knowledge to change human behavior through interaction, practice, and experience.     Characteristics of learning are ;   1) Learning involves change. 2) All learning involves ac

 Thanking Activity :  To The lighthouse by Virginia Woolf                    To the Lighthouse, which Virginia Woolf published in 1927, was her fifth novel. In her two previous works, Jacob’s Room (1922) and Mrs Dalloway (1925), she had already tested readers’ expectations about the nature of fiction. In them, as in To the Lighthouse, the centre of consciousness shifts from one character to another, and from their perceptions of the external world at any given moment to their inner life, their associations and memories. As Woolf wrote in her 1921 essay ‘Modern Fiction’, she wanted to show how ‘an ordinary mind on an ordinary day’ receives and organises ‘a myriad impressions’.          1. How can you explain that 'what' Virginia Woolf wanted to say (for example, the complexity of human relationship, the everyday battles that people are at in their relationship with near and dear ones, the struggle of a female artist against the values of middle/upper class society etc) can only

               Thanking Activity : The Role of English in india Unite: 1 1.)What is the role of English Language in India according to you with reference to any one essay discussed in the class?      In this essay Kapil Kapoor is arguing and giving his view on the contemporary teaching style. We Indians by childhood have First Language or Mother tongue, and then Hindi becomes the Second Language, and then comes English. In fact English is our third language not second. So, the teaching style of English should be different.               The significance of English as Second language can only be understood in the larger and in the historical perspective. It is to be noted that English in India is a symbol of linguistic Centolalism whereas the numerous Indian language are seen to represent linguistic regionalism from Macaulay to Murayama Singh, we have seen now in Indian the movement from one to the other. Following the withdrawal of the British from India, the language question naturall

  Thinking Activity on The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.... Fram study  : To the lighthouse This blog is a part of my academic activity, the link of given task is here... To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920.        English author Virginia Woolf wrote modernist classics including 'Mrs. Dalloway' and 'To the Lighthouse,' as well as pioneering feminist texts, 'A Room of One's Own' and 'Three Guineas.' This photo begins the film, It not only toy but a suggests so many things. Sadness,a lonleiness....etc. This image looks like a family talk about the lighthouse. james wants to go see the lighthouse but father doesn't give it. James feels sad and angry at Father. There are many fights for not going to the lighthouse. James thinks of killing his father. In the last part " To The lighthouse". And finally james goes to t

             River and Tides: Documetary. Here  I'm going to write Blog about River and Tides Documetary by Dilip Barad sir..                         Rivers and Tides is a 2001 documentary film directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer about the British artist Andy Goldsworthy, who creates intricate and ephemeral sculptures from natural materials such as rocks, leaves, flowers, and icicles.[1][2][3] The music was composed and performed by Fred Frith and was released on a soundtrack, Rivers and Tides (2003).        The film received a number of awards, including the ‘Best Documentary’ awards of the San Diego Film Critics Society and the San Francisco Film Critics Circle. It is an Anglo-German co-production by Mediopolis Film and the British independent film company Skyline Productions. In 2018, Goldsworthy, Riedelsheimer, and composer Frith released a follow-up documentary, Leaning Into the Wind.       Goldsworthy respects the processes of life and death reflected in nature. As the sun illum