Ajaz Ahmed Bhatt

Faerie Queene Summary. BOOK 1,2 and 3 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is a sixteenth-century English epic poem. Spenser originally intended the poem to be a series of twelve books, each devoted to one of twelve moral virtues as exemplified by the characters of twelve knights. In an introduction addressed to Sir Walter Raleigh, Spenser explains that the Faerie Queene, Gloriana, represents both Queen Elizabeth and the abstract idea of Glory. King Arthur, whom Spenser portrays as the epitome of all twelve virtues, experiences a vision of Gloriana and finds her in “Faeryland,” where she is hosting her twelve-day feast. Each day, a different emblematic knight undertakes a quest, with Arthur often joining the escapades. Book 1 begins not at the Queene’s feast, but with the in-progress adventure of the Redcrosse Knight, who represents “Holiness.” When Lady Una requests a warrior to free her parents’ kingdom from a rampaging dragon, Gloriana dispatches Redcrosse on the mission. Traveling w

The kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini  The story begins in media res (starts randomly and run both forwards and backwards) when Amir recalls an event that happened twenty-six years before, when he was still a boy in Afghanistan, and says that that made him who he is. Before the event, he lives in a nice home in Kabul, Afghanistan, with Baba, his father. They have two servants, Ali and his son, Hassan, who are Hazaras, an ethnic minority. Baba’s close friend, Rahim Khan, is also around often. When Afghanistan’s king is overthrown, things begin to change. One day, Amir and Hassan are playing when they run into three boys, Assef, Wali, and Kamal. Assef threatens to beat up Amir for hanging around with a Hazara, but Hassan uses his slingshot to stop Assef. The story skips to winter, when the kite-fighting tournament occurs. Boys cover their kite strings in glass and battle to see who can sever the string of the opposing kite. When a kite loses, boys chase and retrieve it, called k

In her sophomore romance One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston has managed to do what no one else has: Make the New York City subway sexy and magical — and make readers feel so five minutes ago for not having our own public transit meet-cutes. Even during rush hour, with cars brimming with jostling bodies, McQuiston's characters seem to find defining moments of intimacy on the Q line. When August moves to New York for college, the last thing she expects is to become best friends with her roommates, find a community with the drag queen crowd in NYC, become a waitress at a pancake diner despite zero experience, and fall for Jane, a time-traveling, leather jacket-wearing, kissable punk rocker from the 1970s who's stuck on the Q train for all of eternity. Sparks fly from the moment August locks eyes with Jane, by which I mean actual electrical impulses caused by the chemistry that August's friend Myla surmises has tethered them to each other. Jane has no idea why or how sh

This is what Upsc Air rank holder have to share... ideas from these suggestions, despite how pushy some parts of this article might seem for now :) #Disclaimer2 : So much of this is borrowed from my mentors Prof. KG Radhakrishnan Sir, Mahesh Sir and previous toppers and close friends like Hamna and Shafeeq, that I hardly claim any ownership on these ideas. What I am trying to do here, is to bring all those million pieces that has made the whole portrait under a single post. Kindly treat them as an individual reply to all those who have been contacting me regarding the optional. #Disclaimer3: I am engineer from NIT-Calicut, working at Deloitte, who has absolutely no academic background of English Literature who chose it out of a passion for the subject. Hence, these methods may seem unconventional for mastering the subject. I also had to prepare along with my career for the longest part, hence the help I took for mastering the content from Prof. K.G. Radhakrishnan Sir at Trivandrum, was

I know this topic may cause some angst, but while most submissions I receive from new writers are drafted in first person, the majority of published novels are written in third. So authors should try dragging out those pesky narrators, even if they leave kicking and screaming. From the writer’s standpoint, first person is so popular because it’s a storyteller’s natural point of view, baked into our genes from prehistory when we huddled around fires recounting how we killed that giant woolly mammoth or escaped that hungry cave bear. So that’s simply the way many of us start writing. But natural doesn’t necessarily mean easier. A successful first-person narrative is actually harder to pull off. From a purely mechanical standpoint, for instance, agents have seen hundreds of submissions in which almost every paragraph, and sometimes half the sentences, start with the words I, me, or my. And since everything in the story is filtered through the perception of the narrator, they darn well be

What is a literature review? Students are often unsure of how to write a literature review. This is usually because, unlike other stages of a thesis such as Methods and Results, they have never written a literature review before. FAQs about literature reviews In the table below, you will find some of the questions that students ask, and some suggested answers. Questions and sample Answers What is it?   An evaluation of previous research on your topic What is its purpose?   1: "provides background information needed to understand your study 2: assures your readers that you are familiar with the important research that has been carried out in your area 3: establishes your study as one link in a chain of research that is developing and enlarging knowledge in your field"  (Weissberg & Buker 1990, p.41) What do I need to include? Minimum: well-established research in the field; most recent relevant research. How do I organise it? Some POSSIBLE approaches, which can be comb

Do you want to make a good first impression? What is the first part of your thesis that most people will read? The abstract. And if you want to make sure that it's not the last thing they read, your abstract needs to be well-written. On this page, you'll find some hints and suggestions about how to improve your abstract, including some ideas about what to include, and some tips on how to make your writing more concise. You can also look at some sample abstracts from past theses. What is an abstract? It is a stand-alone text, approximately 200-300 words, that provides a snapshot of your whole thesis.  Developing the abstract for the thesis If you are having difficulty in developing your abstract, the following suggestions might be useful. Suggestions : Make sure that your abstract answers the questions listed above Concentrate on communicating the facts Try not to make any general statements. The Abstract should be the essence of your thesis Try not to include any in-text refere