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Calcutta, 1995.
Examines the Indian city's history and development, poverty and homelessness, caste system and overpopulation.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 9 sources, $ 87.95
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"Since the end of the Middle Ages, there is no place on the world map for Hell anymore. That is an error of the modern mind, for, to the poor of India, Hell exists: it is called Calcutta. One would like to begin a geographic discussion of squatter settlements in Calcutta from something of an objective point of view, but that is impossible. Every record of the situation, every photograph, journalistic report, anecdote and discussion of the "experience" leads to the same dead end. To be poor in Calcutta, to be a Dalit - "Untouchable" - in that city, is to be consigned to an existence of wretched being. It is such a place that Mother Teresa won her Nobel Peace in 1979 for organizing the simple, terrifying act of gathering the near-dead from the streets and giving them a place to die in their last hours of life - 54,000 in the single decade of the 1980s (Desmond 11)."
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?The City of Joy? by Dominique Lapierre, 2002.
This paper discusses the book, "The City of Joy," by Dominique Lapierre, which projects the underlying message that despite the devastating life of the slum dwellers in Calcutta they have hope and love.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper explains that author Dominique Lapierre researched this book by living with the people of India and the people who try to help them for three years. The author states that critics have called "A City of Joy" one of the most important books on the culture and sociology of India. The paper points out that the author does not look at the topic through rose-colored glasses; he shows the abject poverty in enormous and memorable detail.
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"This is a story of people who are used to hardships and have learned how to deal with them through courage and good humor. Rather than bemoan the loss of everything he had worked so hard to obtain, Prodip Pal revels in the joy of his sons. "What a blessing those sons were" (Lapierre 7)! This is the central conception to the book, and one from which everyone can learn important lessons. These people do not feel sorry for themselves ? rather they revel in the joys they can find, because they "shared in a communal world and respected its social and religious values, maintaining the ancestral traditions and beliefs" (Lapierre 45). This is why the decrepit slum is called "The City of Joy." It is more than clear they are poor, but they are happy, and it becomes a joy to read about it, even though many of their experiences are quite simply unspeakable."
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William Carey: The Father of Modern Missions, 2006.
An analysis of the life of William and Dorothy Carey and the missionary work that they achieved.
2,863 words (approx. 11.5 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 85.95
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This paper discusses the life and work of William Carey, the father of modern missions. It begins with a background of Carey's life and the life of his wife, Dorothy Carey. It then describes the original opposition that he experienced towards missions and how he began a mission in Calcutta. The paper also discusses how the Carey's wound up moving to Serampore and joining the other missionaries there and the work that they did in the area.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Early Years
Dorothy Carey
The Preacher
Baptist Missionary Society
India
Serampore
Later Life
Conclusion
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"In November of 1800, while Dr. John Thomas was visiting the Serampore Mission, a man named Krishna Pal broke his arm. Thomas went to fix it and was able to share the gospel with him. Some time later, Krishna Pal ran into him on the street and informed him that he believed in Jesus. Thomas invited him to come home and eat with them. Eating with a foreign family was a sign of breaking caste, it was one of the ways that the Serampore Trio had devised to test a convert to see if their faith was sincere. He joined them and became the first official convert from Carey's work in India. By 1821, fourteen hundred new Christians had been baptized, more than half of them Indians."
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The Exploration of the Indian Subcontinent, 2004.
This paper reviews writings by travelers in the 15th century, the Age of Exploration, to the Indian subcontinent.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper explains that the first European explorer to reach India was Vasco da Gama of Portugal, who arrived in what is today Calcutta in 1498, giving the Portuguese control over Goa and other areas on the western coast of India. The author points out the writing of Ralph Fitch, who, in 1588, traveled to the Malay Peninsula and visited Malacca, now in Malaysia, where he learned much about trade with China and the Spice Islands, now the Moluccas. The paper presents the writings of traveler Edward Terry, who promoted the Christian morality to the English merchants in the East Indies, and of Ivo Kamps and Jyotsna Singh, who included a wide range of observations of the types of foods grown, the appearances of the various landscapes and cultural.
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"By the 1350s, the whole imperial colossus of India was beginning to unravel. In 1398, it received a death blow from an invasion by Tamerlane, the great conqueror of central Asia. Tamerlane's incursion was brief, but it shattered India's central authority, laying waste to Punjab and leaving the Delhi Sultanate clinging to a small area around its pillaged capital. In time, the sultanate recovered some of its earlier power, but it never again approached all-Indian dominion. However, its rule had a lasting impact by bringing about an intermingling of Muslim and Hindu peoples and ideas, mostly because of the policy of religious tolerance that circumstances required. It also brought about the use of Persian as the official language in place of the ancient Sanskrit."
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Richard Sennett's "The Fall of Public Man", 2006.
This paper discusses professor and author Richard Sennett's views and book "The Fall of Public Man", along with the writings of scholars, authors and critics associated with urban-themed literature.
3,370 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 95.95
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This paper explains that Richard Sennett's observations of people in the 18th Century, which he considers the Gold Age of urban life, are that people reflective all economic levels of society, lived their lives in almost continuous performance and paraded themselves about publicly in wildly expressive costumes. The author points out that there are powerful similarities between Sennett's themes of real time play-acting drama, in which 18th Century Parisians are viewed as characters in an ongoing interactive theatrical environment, and Levi-Strauss' anthropological narrative as he leaves the Calcutta Hotel and becomes "the center of a ballet". The paper concludes that, if Sennett were to describe the frustration urban Americans experience in bumper-to-bumper rush-hour traffic, he would likely allude to narcissism.
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"Sennett's book "The Fall of Public Man", which, in brief summary, is an attempt to create and justify a theory that has to do with how people, social relations, and the drama of intimacy are going through - and have gone through - dramatic changes in American urban society. His theory, Sennett explains, is one that attempts to explain the "confusion" that has "arisen between public and intimate life." Masses of people are concerned with "their single life histories and particular emotions as never before," he writes; but in the process of people being concerned they are falling into a "trap" rather than being "liberated."
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