IMPACT : International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Literature

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Authors: DEEPA SARABHAI

Jhumpa Lahiri, the eminent lexicographer preserves her image as a wonderful story teller. She is a celebrated name in contemporary Indo-American Diasporic Literature. All her four works are awash with immigrant characters and the struggle of their lives. Scholars have shown an intense interest in exploring the linguistic and thematic aspects of her writings. Lahiri has always been critically acclaimed for her art of story-telling, thus a Narratological study of her two story collections ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ and ‘Unaccustomed Earth’ becomes necessary. Narratology discusses the narration of any work in the language of literary terms. Their availbaility attribute compliment to the author’s writing style.

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Authors: AKABOGU JOSEPHINE UZOAMAKA & J. A. AJIWOJU

This study examined the effects of gender and school location on students’ achievement in English vocabulary in junior secondary schools in Akoko South Education Zone, Ondo State. Two research questions were posed and two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The design of the study was non-equivalent pretest, post-test control group quasi-experimental research design. Purposive random sampling was used to select two schools for the study. The two intact classes (rural and urban schools) randomly selected were subject to treatment. The urban schools comprised 86 male and female students while the rural schools comprised 74 male and female students. The instrument was face validated by three experts the from department of Arts Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The data collected were analyzed using mean, standard deviation and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The results of the study showed that: Gender had significant effect on students’ achievement in English vocabulary. Also, school location had significant effect on students’ achievement in English language vocabulary. Based on these findings, it was concluded that the study provided empirical evidence of the effects of gender and school location in enhancing students’ achievement in English language vocabulary. It was therefore, recommended amongst others that teachers, school administrators and stakeholders should make learning environment conducive and give equal learning opportunities to both male and female students.

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Authors: HOSSEIN OMIDI

In this article I would like to indicate that many poets have written about wars of which they have had no direct experience. However, the poet fighters Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (1886-1967) and Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (1893-1918) have the firsthand experience and actual knowledge of what war can do, both to the body and to the psyche. In the First World War people in the UK considered a part of a spiritual war or even as a holy war. Understandably Owen and Sassoon’s opinions and their succeeding war poems were distinguished among other contemporary poets for being much more realistic, objective and truthful since their concerns were not ethnic, religious, sectarian, and sociopolitical, in fact it was universal and human. As thoughtful individuals and nationality bound citizens Sassoon and Owen were not happy with the religious and the motive of war. The experiences they earned in the frontlines made them realise that an individual’s personal and social life should not be destroyed by the war and any such incident that gets ground of religious callings and promises made for the uncertain and unseen future. They felt that if there is an urge for religion in the world then it should be natural religion, and that must be based on superb metaphysics and respectable epistemology with logical antecedents and ingredients of the concepts related with the divine and sacred elements or form of religion and spiritualism.

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Authors: MILDRED F. ACCAD, AMIR KHALID A. NOR & ABRAHAM S. ACCAD

Flags are part of ornamental accents in tourist spots, important events and festivities. The need to study their structures is deemed necessary to establish their significant implications to culture. Descriptive qualitative methods of research design were employed utilizing keen observation on actual festivities held from June 2013 to August 2014 in the City of Cotabato and Maguindanao, Philippines. Interviews with key informants and gatekeepers were employed, and triangulated with the prominent tribal leaders and councils of elders. Pandal-+a in Mguindanaon term is the flag usually erected in conspicuous places for festivals, burials, wedding, Eidl Fitr and the welcoming of Haj. The major flag is called Pasandalan while the minor sizes of flags are called Pamanay and those finger-like ones are called Sambulayan. These original flags are diagonally cut against their fiber to produce raffled and swaying effect in a combination of Green, Red and Yellow. The modified ones use violet, blue, and pink color. Red flags are decorated and used for ordinary occasions with common tao while royal people use Golden Yellow. Flags, to the Maguindanaon, reveal the happiness and sadness, richness and poorness of one’s family and culture. Understanding these culture and traditions are simple yet complicated, but it is the key to peace and harmony, thus, cultural education is very important

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Authors: MAHIMA SINGH

This research concerns itself with the process of translation .If the act of reading and writing is a political act than translation is also a literary process which cannot sustain itself in vaccum . Translation is a process which is beyond verbatim understanding of a foreign language text . It is also about understanding the nuances of the culture to which a text belongs .This paper is an inquiry into such modes of translation where the translated text has emerged as something completely different giving new insight to its readers