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My name is Khan Khan as Rizwan Khan is gullible, lovable and careful to be not irritable. He makes the audience empathise with him as an Asperger Syndrome patient, and does not look for pity.He rotates stones obsessively and can barely bring himself to hug someone. Rizwan is far from crazy but he definitely moves to the beat of a different drummer. Despite this he finds love and a family with Mandira. But post 9/11, their happy home falls apart and Rizwan embark on a grand odyssey across America so that he can tell the American president that his name is Khan but he is not a terrorist. What he did for all Mama Jane is a good person who has responsibility, conscience. His actions prove that he is not a terrorist.

A Shameful Pain of History: Racism  Racism is one of the most devastating factors associated with modern society which has echoed through all the history of the United States it still can be heard even now. The American Civil War was a sectional conflict in the United States that declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America, led by President Jefferson Davis. (2000) "Racism can be defined as racial discrimination about peoples' skin, race or religion. In The United States the Civil War changed black people's destiny." The Union, led by President Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party, which opposed the expansion of slavery, rejected all rights of the succeeding states.  Some southerners thought the institution of slavery was helpful because slaves could be used to mine and work in farms. The first African slaves have been in America since 1615 and did not gain their freedom until 1863 when the Civil War ended. African Americans had been en slaved for more than two hundred years. Many slaves had tried to revolt or purchase their freedom but their plans failed because they lacked money and food necessary to survival. At that time, black people had no right to talk to whites like they were equals. Education was also illegal for the slaves because they were not allowed to learn how to write or how to read.  In today's society racism still exists. Many black people do not have enough health insurance, good high school education, and found it difficult to get a job. In the United States, many African Americans become victims of hate crimes. Most of them are related to racial prejudice, and most of the perpetrations are white. Also color people have higher chance of being arrested and receive the death penalty. The main starters of racism are white supremacists who advocate that whites are a superior race. This mind set has always existed among the white population.  Another example of racism is that in the elections of 1868, the Democrats who openly advocated prejudice against the blacks, used violence, corruption and intimidation to stop African American from voting.  After the Civil War, the United States created laws to protect African Americans from racism, but decision makers focused on changing the majority of black culture, behavior, and morality rather than to eliminate racism. This means, the United States government thought black peoples' culture, behavior, and morality were completely negative, which made the U.S. government decide that it could not get rid of the racism. According to Nicholas mirzoeff,(2009) "After Civil War, American has started a new reconstruction. But racism has been decreased is a truth. African Americans feel racism has diminished."  I think the greatest achievement in the history of the African American reaper sanitation was the rise of Barack Obama, the first black presidential nominee, of the Democratic Party. He went on to become the first African American man to win the most coveted office in the world; the presidency. The tears that trickled down the faces of many African Americans at his swearing-in ceremony perhaps signifies the joy of victory against racism which will hopefully ended once and for all. But racists and white supremacists are posting increasingly and even threatening remarks on the internet. The most heated anti-Obama talk appears to be in internet sites that allow people to post messages anonymously. Many of whites said they have been victims of discrimination, and the country isn't ready to elect a black president. You may agree or not agree with Obama's policy prescriptions, but they are, by and large, serious attemptes to deal with the biggest issues we face: a failing health care system, iol dependencym income stagnation, and climate change. Zhongpeng Wu EN 1313 Iyengar 3/3/2011

How to make dumplings

Dumplings are a traditional Chinese food. On the Lunar New Year's Day, most families make a lot of delicious dumplings. To make them, follow this easy process. In China, there are many types of dumplings. We also have rice dumplings which are eaten on the Dragon Festival. Rice dumplings are the most popular food in China, especially in Jiaxing.Jiaxing is held in Jiaxing every year at the beginning of summer, The first step is to mix the four and half cup of flour with one cup of water. Pour some flour on a clean table and pour some water on the flour. Then use your hand to pat it quickly till all the water is absorbed. When the dough is ready, we can begin to make dumplings' wrappers. We use a rolling pin to roll the dough into small, thin and round pieces, called wrapper so that they will be easy to cook. When the wrappers are done, it's time to prepare the filling. Usually, we use meat such as beef or mutton, and some vegetables such as cabbage or carrots for filling. You can make whatever type of filling you like. We must chop the filling into small pieces. Then put some salt, oil and other ingredients into a bowl and stir the filling quickly. When all these preparations are done, we can start making dumplings. First, put a teaspoon of filling in the center of the wrapper. Then stick the two opposite sides together and then pinch the rest closed. Don’t just cover the filling with the wrappers. The best shape of dumplings is that of a ship, because when they are boiling in the pan, they look like ships sailing in the sea. Now I will show you how to cook rice dumplings <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">First, we will prepare the ingredients for rice dumplings. We need dried chestnut, green beans, polished glutinous rice, meat, bamboo leaves. The green beans need to be soaked a whole day, and mixed with salt, and peanut oil and a little baking soda. The polished glutinous rice needs to be soaked three or four hours and mixed with salt, peanut oil and a little baking soda. You'd better use belly pork and it must have lean meat which is preserved in salt, sugar, and five spices, powder and soy. Also bamboo leaves need to be boiled one day before we make rice dumplings. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Second, take two bamboos leaves, fold them together down the middle and make a pouch. If the bamboo leaves are too narrow you can fold two pieces and put some polished glutinous rice, green beans, meat, and dried chestnut on the leaf, and package it in special way. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Third, close the leaves and tie them with a string, make sure your rice dumplings are tied securely or they may come apart. There is only one more step to do. Put rice the dumplings in the steamer for one hour. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Finally you can enjoy them. By the way, rice dumplings are made many different ways. The way which I wrote is a regular way to make. The other types are jujube rice dumplings and yolk rice dumplings. Jujube dumplings calls for jujube inside, and yolk rice dumplings need to have cooked egg yolk in side. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Zhongpeng Wu <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">EN 1313 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Iyengar <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">3/22/2011 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Different Types of Ancient Buildings in China <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Ancient Chinese buildings such as palaces, temples, government offices, residential buildings, memorial gateways, and parks are unique structurals, and architectural styles. Examples of these structural systems are ancient framed wood buildings and ancient masonry. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The first type of wood building is a single-story framed wood building. This kind of building mainly include palaces and temples. The main structure is composed of wood columns, beams, bracket sets, gable-and-hip roofs or overhanging gable roofs. Damage to the wooden frame of these buildings was not serious even in the epicentral areas of Tangshan city. The earthquake resistance for this type of buildings is relatively good. In addition, the materials used in construction of these buildings are high quality, so little damage to these buildings occurred during the earthquake. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The second type of ancient framed wood building is a multi-story framed wood building. This kind of building mainly consists of pavilions and wall-gate towers. The main structure is composed of columns, longitudinal and transversal beams, bracket sets or protruding small eaves and gable-and -hip roofs or pyramidal roofs. This type of ancient building is characterized by lots of beams and columns and good integrity. They are taller than single-story framed wood buildings and they vibrated strongly in the earthquake.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">An ancient masonry buildings. All types of ancient masonry buildings were laid with lime mortar and the quality of the masonry was poor so earthquake damage to these buildings was far more serious than to the framed wood buildings. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Arched brick halls without beams had the poorest earthquake resistance of masonary buildings. An example of the damage was the Bell Tower in Beijing, built of bricks and stones, the tops of the arches cracked and loosened, the corner of the end section of the protruding stone girder fell down and the stone enclosing beam at the waist of the hall cracked at the corner. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The next kind of buildings are glazed brick veneers; this type of building was constructed mainly in Beijing. Due to inhomogeneity between the glazed veneer and matrix materials and poor quality of the adhesive material. Most of these building's glazed brick veneers on the walls fell down or collapsed in the earthquake. For example, a lot of glazed veneers fell down at the Shan Yin Hall in Bei Hai Park; the veneers of the eight pavilions at the Pule Temple, Chengde city collapsed completely. Moreover, enclosing walls and city walls built with stone and brick generally had no expansion joints generally. Some of them lacked maintenance and cracking had occurred prior to the earthquake. A lot of these walls collapsed in the earthquake such as those in the Forbidden City, Yong HeTemple, Guang Ji Temple, Huang Temple and Summer Palace in Beijing, Summer Resort Park,Fu Shou Temple, Pu Tuo Temple and Pule Temple in Chengde, etc. The walls partly collapsedalthough the intensity of the areas where they were located was not high. zhongpeng wu (the font size must be 12) 1/22/11 EN 1313 A Iyengar 1/20/11 The Story of Stuff (center the title) The story of stuff, it's about that all the product in our life. There are five steps to product a production. First one is extraction; people cut down the tree, explore the mountain, extract water and kill the animals. One third of natural resources space has been consumed. People cutting and mining and hunting and trashing the place so fast. People only have less than 4% forest in US. Much of water is undrinkable. (comma splice) Second is production, people use energy to run the machines, and add toxic chemicals to the products. We lived in toxic's environment. There are 100,000 synthetic chemicals are used in the many different products. The third one is distribution, it is involves transporting and selling all the stuff quickly and cheaply. United States let other country product the stuff and doesn't pay the consequences. The forth is consumption. The government encourages people to shop, people made 99% trash. The people who are really rich, their enormously productive economy… demands that they make consumption their way of life, that they convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that they seek their spiritual satisfaction, our EGO satisfaction, in consumption… they need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-acceleration rate. The fifth is disposal. Each of Americans makes 4.5 labs/day. It's twice of 30 years ago. It's keeping polluting the land, water and air. In conclusion we need to stop pollution. We need think more about our future. We only have one earth if we used all the consumption then we has to find another earth to live. But we do only have one earth, so save earth save us.


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What is novel? Novel is one of the four literary genres. It though the shaping the character, storytelling, description of the environment to reflect life and express ideas.

Name game I interviewed a person who works in the registrar office. Her name is Jo Ann. She said she don’t like her name, because she her name can go with her last name and her last name is Spanish. But she doesn't have choice, her mother, father and everybody wanted her name started with J. many people want call children's name in English way. Her last name Reyes, her last name means king in spanish.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">1 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Kim is an orphaned who lived in India, and he was thirteen years old. He is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier. Kim's fortune was foretold by his father:" The third [document left at Kim's father's death]was Kim's birth-certificate.….. If they had not forgotten O'Hara - poor O'Hara that was gang-foreman on the Ferozepore line." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Kim meets a Tibetan lama and becomes his disciple which called Chela. Kim combines this with an errand he agreed to perform. The lama is looking for a holy river. This river is legend which have related to gods. Lama was trying to find out it. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The lama lost his disciple so Kim can have this chance to do it. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">2 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Kim was on the way to Umballa. Kim and Lama meet a farmer and some other peoples all from Indian. Kim he made friend with them, and get free tickets. Kim he has a good people skill, he went to the Englishman's Place to send Ali's documents, and these documents had a lot trouble. Englishman who was a colonel in the army. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">3 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">When Kim and lama continue to find holy river, they go to a farmer's garden. Kim tried to pull them till he knew that lama is a holy man. Kim likes to play jokes. He dress up to be a far seer and said there will have a great war with eight thousand troops. An old Indian soldier calls Kim's claims to question until Kim makes an accurate description of the colonel. Next morning the old soldier go with Kim to find river. The lama preaches to the soldier the virtues of maintaining detachment from worldly items, emotions, and actions. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">4. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Even though the lama absolves Kim from distracting him, the lama includes a pretty damning barb at Kim’s additional tasks. An additional interesting pairing is the Catholic priest and the Church of England chaplain, one stern and authoritative while the other is much more concerned with Kim’s well-being. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">In this chapter, kim used his cunning to get aid of a rich old widow from Kulu. She was traveling in a royal procession from the northern lands to her daughter in the south. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">5. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The rich woman that Kim and the lama travel with meets a police constable, who treats the lady to high praise. The woman’s response after the constable leaves echoes Kipling’s approach in the previous short stories mentioned: “These be the sort to oversee justice. They know the land and the customs of the land. The others, all new from Europe, suckled by white women and learning our tongues from books, are worse than the pestilence. They do harm to Kings.” In other words, those that show conscientiousness first to India are living up to their moral responsibilities. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">6-10 <span style="display: block; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">The middle third of the book covers Kim’s formal education as well as his extended informal learning. The book can be read solely as an adventure story, but some of the themes in the book add substantial depth. Kim’s reflection upon entering the school is worth noting: <span style="display: block; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">’I am Kim. This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The bleakness of the quote stands in marked contrast to Kim’s behavior: half happy-go-lucky, half measured actions. But in uttering “Who is Kim,” he captures the question of where he resides in British-controlled India—an Irishman’s son or just another English gone native? One other contrast in this section is the apparent change in the lama’s approach toward Kim. While obviously still caring deeply for him, he acts much more detached toward his //chela//. Some of the change is in order to keep Kim in school, while he also confesses that he has to avoid becoming too attached to Kim <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">We meet several additional father figures and guides to Kim in this section—Colonel Creighton, Mr. Lurgan, and Hurree Babu. Add these to the lama and Mahbub Ali from the first few chapters and you have many men looking after young Kim. //Kim// is very much a male novel, with the only significant female so far in the book is Huneefa, disguising and casting spells over Kim to protect him.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I find the whole premise of The Great Game tiresome and manufactured, unfortunately. Yes, I know there was some struggle between Russia and England, but the drama invoked almost seems like a cartoon. The adults repeatedly mention that one wrong word or misplaced tic could get you killed, in addition to how long someone would live after divulging secrets. Some of the examples of information gathered are laughable today, but in an age where facts were harder to gather and in a location that was massive and possibly hostile it makes more sense. Sill, instead of romanticizing and building the premise of The Great Game, the entire conceit just feels fabricated and straining credibility. On a related note, the way the adults all instantly recognize and value Kim’s potential gradually annoys me. Maybe if it wasn’t hammered home as often, this wouldn’t irritate me as much. Overall these are minor irritants, but grating nonetheless.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Since this section is mostly laying the groundwork for the last section, these items probably bother me more. However, I’m positive about the overall feel of the book so far. I hope that the final section lives up to the foundation to date