Nirav Amreliya - MKBU

Introduction : This blog is written as a response to the Thinking Activity assigned by Megha madam with regards to the Documentation of Resources in Researc Project Writing. In this blog, we are going to do it practically by writing a book review wherein we will cite few resources concerning our book review. Book Review : The Great Gatsby Novel by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald The novel 'The Great Gatsby' is a key to understand the very idea of 'American Dream' in its human relativity in terms of dreams, aspirations, goals, objectives, and pursuits. The novel bears within its plot the modernist elements reflected in its themes through characters and their responses in events of the course of the storyline. Nick Carraway as Unreliable Narrator : The novel being written in the early twentieth century has the experimentative touches in it amongst from which the author tried to portray Nick Carraway's character as having dubiousness in his narration of people which als...

Introduction : This blog is written as a part of the Thinking Activity assigned by Megha Madam regarding Research Methodology. In this blog, we will discuss two questions that are related to academic Research Project Writing. 1. Why Academic Integrity is necessary? Write your views. Answer : In the age of rapidly growing internet and technology, especially its effect upon the academic dynamics, the necessity of academic integrity is what makes a researcher authentic and trustworthy in his/her professional as well as personal life. As many of the world religions feared people to be morally upright, so has come the need for the research scholars to be morally and ethically straightforward when it comes to their research project writing. Academic Integrity has its own crucial and unique place in the area of research as it bases its fundamentals on the ethical identity of researcher, supervisor, committee, and the institute.  ChatGPT Activity :  When prompted on the needs of Ac...

Introduction : This blog is written as a response to the Thematic Study of the poems from the African Literature. In this blog the central theme of the poem 'Live Burial' by Wole Soyinka is discussed. The Poem : Live Burial :   Live Burial   Sixteen paces By twenty-three. They hold Siege against humanity And Truth Employing time to drill through to his sanity  Schismatic Lover of Antigone ! You will? You will unearth Corpses of yester- Year? Expose manure of present birth?  Seal him live In that same necropolis. May his ghost mistress Point the classic Route to Outsiders' Stygian Mysteries.  Bulletin: He sleeps well, eats Well. His doctors note No damage Our plastic surgeons tend his public image.   Confession Fiction ? Is truth not essence Of Art, and fiction Art?  Lest it rust We kindly borrowed his poetic licence.  Galileo We hoped he'd prove - age Or genius may recant - our butchers Tired of waiting Ordered; take the scapegoat, drop the sage....

Introduction : This blog is written as a response to the Thinking Activity assigned by Dr Dilip Barad regarding Arundhati Roy's novel 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' (2017) with few novel-related activities done in the blog. Here one of the characters from the novel S. Tilottama's book titled as ' The Reader’s Digest Book of English Grammar and Comprehension for Very Young Children' is referred to for discussing any three of the stories given within the book. 1. THE OLD MAN & HIS SON When Manzoor Ahmed Ganai became a militant, soldiers went to his home and picked up his father, the handsome, always dapper Aziz Ganai. He was kept in the Haider Baig Interrogation Centre. Manzoor Ahmed Ganai worked as a militant for one and a half years. His father remained imprisoned for one and a half years. On the day Manzoor Ahmed Ganai was killed, smiling soldiers opened the door of his father’s cell. ‘Jenaab, you wanted Azadi? Mubarak ho aapko. Congratulations! Toda...

Introduction : This blog is written as a response to the thinking activity assigned by Dr Dilip Barad with regards to Amitav Ghosh's Climate Fiction 'Gun Island' (2019) with a discussion on few questions. 1. How does this novel develop your understanding of a rather new genre known as 'cli-fi'?  Answer : Climate Fiction as literary genre is Post-Modernist invention invented to meet the crucial need of cautioning by narrating the rapidly changing climate, and atmospheric dynamics which is grave concern for the earth and thus to all the life living on it.  Concerning the novel 'Gun Island,' being climate fiction, we find several references apertaining to climate change and its impact on aquatic animals like beaching of dolphins, immigration of bark-beetles, gradual land-grabbing by the rising level of sea. Let us have a look at some references that have the theme of climate change in the novel :  In the ninth chapter 'Los Angeles' from the first part...

• Name : Nirav Lalitbhai Amreliya • Batch : M.A. Sem. 4 (2021-2023) • Enrollment N/o. : 4069206420210002 • Roll N/o. : 18 • Subject Code & Paper N/o. : 22417 – Paper 210A : Research Project Writing : Dissertation Writing • Email Address : niramreliyaunofficial@gmail.com • Submitted to : Smt. S. B. Gardi Department of English – Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University – Bhavnagar – 364001 • Date of Submission : 30th March, 2023 Critique of Socio-Economic and Religious Relationship to Individual Freedom in George Orwell's Novels 'A Clergyman's Daughter' and 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying.' Chapter 5 : Conclusion Now gradually bringing discussion to an open-ended end we find the dealings of critical reception of both the selected novels have highlighted the startling need of regurgitating and ruminating the problems like poverty, dilapidated individual liberty - of mind, thoughts, and physique, religious strictures and its hazardous impact ...