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Osmania University Sem 5 CRITICAL READING Unit 2 Ain't I a Woman Sojourner Truth Summary            Ain't I a Woman  was a speech given by Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), an abolitionist,  suffragette,   and women's rights activist. She was an African American emancipated slave, born around  1797,  in Swartekill, New York. She was born  into slavery, and was sold at least four separate times in her childhood and early adulthood.  As a slave she experienced physical abuse, rape and violence. .     She was illiterate.  Her published autobiography was  "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, which she dictated to Olive Gilbert. She was forcibly married to Thomas, a slave, with whom she had five children. July 4, 1827, is generally recognized as the date of final emancipation, making New York the first state to abolish slavery. New York passed the Anti-Slavery Law of 1827 and freed the last enslaved people in ...

  Homi Jehangir Bhabha  by  Enakshi Chatterjee OU Degree English Semester V  Unit 3 New syllabus with effect from 2024-2025  Summary       Enakshi Chatterjee was a prolific author in both Bengali and English in variety of genres, including humour, popular science and poetry. Her notable b ooks include  Paramanu Jignasa and  Masterminds: Profiles of Eleven Indian Scientists.  The government of West Bengal awarded her the  Rabindra Puraskar in 1974 for her book  Paramanu Jignasa, which she co-written with her husband, the nuclear physicist Santimay Chatterjee.  She also received Bidyasagar Award for her children’s literature  and The Kalidas Nag Award for lifetime achievement in literature. Additionally, she  was a prominent translator of English and Bengali books.  She translated Vikram Seth’s ‘Suitable Boy’ into Bengali.     Enakshi Chatterjee’s essay on Homi Jehangir Bhabha is an excerpt...

  Bury me in a free land Frances Harper Osmania University Degree Sem 5 new syllabus 2024-25 onwards Make me a grave where'er you will, In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill;  Make it among earth's humblest graves, But not in a land where men are slaves. I could not rest if around my grave I heard the steps of a trembling slave; His shadow above my silent tomb Would make it a place of fearful gloom. I could not rest if I heard the tread Of a coffle gang to the shambles led, And the mother's shriek of wild despair Rise like a curse on the trembling air. I could not sleep if I saw the lash Drinking her blood at each fearful gash, And I saw her babes torn from her breast, Like trembling doves from their parent nest. I'd shudder and start if I heard the bay Of bloodhounds seizing their human prey, And I heard the captive plead in vain As they bound afresh his galling chain. If I saw young girls from their mother's arms Bartered and sold for their youthful charms, My eye wou...

  The Postmaster Rabindranath Tagore https://youtu.be/xj_AqdcPHGM?si=hgolrVzcTx0g6Bzz Osmania University Degree Sem 5 new syllabus 2024-25 onwards Rabindranath Tagore was born in Kolkata, Bengal on 7th May 1861. He was popularly known as "Vishwa Kavi" or "the universal poet". He was a multifaceted personality- a great writer, music composer, educationist, playwright, essayist and painter. Some of his notable works are Gitanjali, Gora, Ghare-Bhaire and Amar Sonar Bangla.  He wrote and composed the National Anthems of two countries- India and Bangladesh. He received Nobel Prize for literature in the year 1913 ,  the first Asian and the first non-European to receive the award.      The themes of the story are human emotions, loneliness, and the complexities of human relationships. The story revolves around two characters, a postmaster, and Ratan, an orphan girl. The postmaster, a resident of Calcutta city, was posted at the post office in Ulapur, a remote vill...

Osmania Degree Sem 5 from 2024-25 Solitude  by   Henry David Thoreau Unit 1 Prose ABOUT THE AUTHOR Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American essayist, poet, naturalist and philosopher. He was famous for having lived the principles of 'Transcendentalism, as documented in his classic work Walden. Transcendentalism was a nineteenth-century American literary, philosophical, religious and political movement with a fundamental belief in the unity of all creation and the innate goodness of people and nature. It is society and its institutions that corrupt the purity of the individual; humanity's best emerges when they are truly 'self-reliant' and independent. Thoreau was also a great champion of civil liberties as seen in his essay 'Civil Disobedience. ABOUT THE ESSAY In 1854, Thoreau published Walden; or, Life in the Woods. In eighteen chapters, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near W...

TEXT I met a traveller from an antique land,  Who said 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone  Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,  The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;  And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away: GLOSSARY antique /æn'ti:k/ ancient trunkless/traŋklas/ the trunk (torso, or main body) of the statue is missing shattered/Jætəd/ broken into very small pieces visage//vızıdy/ a person's face wrinkled lip/rinkid lip/ 'to wrinkle one's lips' means to frown or pout in anger sneer/snia/ a look, remark or tone that shows a lack of respect sculp...