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

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Authors: Elsa De Jesús Hernández Fuentes

ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to present some results of the research “Appropriation of the Public Park in Mexicali, Baja California”, consisting in the identification of the use and appropriation of public parks in the city of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico; stressing the importance of these places in life and memory of their inhabitants, as well as in the construction of new memories of their own and of their families, replicated from generation to generation. For this purpose, an inventory and through the direct observation of the public parks of the recently created subdivisions, in the formerly Ejido Puebla area were carried out, as well as semi-structured interviews with residents and park users. As a result of the above, different forms of social appropriation were found and even conflicts between such forms.

19-24

Authors: Srimanta Das

ABSTRACT Ecocriticism, is a relatively new field of literary studies, but its significance is widespread. Where other fields of literary studies mainly focus on man’s relationship with society, ecocriticism has stretched the boundary to include the entire ecosphere in its periphery. With the increase in the number of natural disasters in the last few decades, rethinking man’s relationship with nature has become extremely important. It has also been acknowledged that, man’s exploitation of nature, for his own benefits is to a great extent responsible for such disasters. Jonathan Bate, one of the major voices, when it comes to analyzing and locating ecological concerns in poetry, is of the opinion that, all educated people are or should be aware of the ecological disasters, that mankind is likely to face in the near future, but it has resulted in little effective action. The role of literature in this context is extremely significant, as it does not merely work at the level of awareness, but at the level of consciousness. Ecocriticism, attempts to study literary texts in a way that reveals the ecological concerns of the respective authors and, for obvious reasons, scholars of the field have found rich material in nineteenth century, Romantic poetry. Romantic poets in general, focus on man’s relationship with nature and how by ignoring it, man digs his own grave. This paper traces how S. T. Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, depicts the alienation of man from nature and warns the readers about the drastic consequences that, such alienation can lead to.

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Authors: S. Narasimham & Bhyrava Murthy

ABSTRACT The study has identified the factors, responsible for rural-urban migration, based on 120 sample respondents each of migrants and non-migrants, spread over the district of Mahabubnagar district in Telangana state, by employing the largest model. The study has highlighted the importance of rural development programs like MGNREGA, that are being implemented by the government with a view to provide employment and income for the rural population, in the country. It has also shown that, for both migrant and non-migrant households, agriculture was the major source of income, and their consumption expenditure was more than the production expenditure. It has also been observed that, migration has a positive impact on income, expenditure and net savings of migrant sample households. The regression analysis has shown that, a one unit increase in the age of household-head increases the probability of migration of family members, by 0.81 per cent. The probability of migration of family member decreases by 0.003 percent, with one unit increase in before-migration income of a household. The odds ratio for family size has indicated that, with one unit increase in family-size, the probability of migration of family members’ increases by 8.7 percent. There is a negative relationship between migration of family members and income from agriculture. As off-farm income of a household increases the probability of migration of its family member decreases. The odds ratio for off-farm income implies that, with one unit increase in off-farm income of a household, the probability of migration decreases by 0.018 percent.

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Authors: Rachuri. Prabhavathi, Bandikolla. Vijayasree, Alapati. Padma

ABSTRACT In this article, we review how to improve the colour fastness properties of natural dyes, with 5 dye fixing agents. Eco-friendly mordants, such as alum, stannous chloride and ferrous sulphate are used. Annatto dye is selected because; this source produces fugitive colors on cotton. A pre-treatment with myrobalan has been given, for better dye uptake. After dyeing, the sample is post treated with 5 dye fixing agents such as alum, ammonia, lime juice and calcium chloride, for better colourfastness of natural dyes on cotton

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Authors: Ahmed A. Alnajjar

ABSTRACT This paper investigated the dynamics of test-taking, relative to the extent to which college students in the United Arab Emirates, employed test-taking strategies, before the test; in managing their time for the test; during the test; and after the test. This paper applied the test-taking strategy scale, developed by Dodeen (2008), who called for additional applications, to validate the scale using different samples, from different educational levels. All in all, a total of 549 students from different colleges in the United Arab Emirates University, participated in the survey. The findings showed that, the students employed a wide variety of test-taking strategies and responded to tests, either proactively or reactively, depending on the degree of preparation that they have. It was also evident that, the extent of use of test-taking strategies was crucial to the preparation and actual test action. On the whole, the dynamics of test-taking, among the students can be shaped by the confluence of a number of factors, but having greater control over circumstances generated by the inevitability of test-taking, can likely translate to better performance, when reinforced by proper skills in test taking.

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Authors: Pronab Pathori

ABSTRACT The Misings were earlier known as Miri, as the term was used by non-missing people of Assam, which is a conjunction of two missing words-Mi and RI, where Mi denotes man and I Hill. On the basis of the meaning of the Mi and RI, it can be presumed that, Miri means Hills-Man. But, the plain people used the term Miri, to mean exclusively the people of the Mising tribe, who played the role of mediators between the hill tribes of Arunachal Pradesh and plain people of Assam. But, in the same time, the term Miri was also used to mean other hill tribes like - Abors (Miri), Mishmi (Miri), Ghasi (Miri) and Daphlas (Miri) of present Arunachal Pradesh

97-102

Authors: R.Savitha

ABSTRACT Ernest Hemingway is admittedly, one of the most important writers of American fiction, in the twentieth century. The present work, intends to make a comprehensive study of “The Hemingway Hero”, who resembles each other and share many common traits. Many of his heroes are drawn from his own life experiences, and it was an autobiography. The Hemingway hero is a man who would never completely recover from his sounds, though he may learn to overcome some of his troubles and learn to live with some. The present paper will help us to understand better, about Hemingway’s Heroes.

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Authors: D. Anita & S. Leela

ABSTRACT Nostalgic childhood days have long been forgotten in the fast tract of materialistic world. Technology occupied minds have started, thronging the Job markets like a tree clouding the wood. They find no time to spare and glance at the beauty of nature, ironically some keep nature wallpapers, to beautify their computers. Mother Earth is confronting the ecological imbalances and few environmentalists are ready to make revolution, against deforestation, pollution and injustices done to nature. This is the present scenario of our cosmos. Few environmentalists are ready to make revolution against deforestation, pollution and injustices done to nature, including literary writers. Literature as a mirror of society, presents the importance of awareness towards the environmental concerns. Love of nature in the literary works, reflects present day issues. The good old games of the neighborhood children were now emerging like a phoenix in the name of summer camps. The habit of using healthy food and the use of mud pot vessels is being excavated, from unforgotten habits of the humans and are being released as new inventions. Ruskin Bond, one of the most prominent writers admires nature and makes his readers to love nature. In the light of ecology, his works can be analyzed, not only from the light of ecologists, but also from the common man point of view.

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Authors: Nity &Gaurav Singh

ABSTRACT Media is the reflection of our society and it depicts what and how society works. Media, either it is printed, electronic or the web is the only medium, which helps in making people informed. It also helps in entertaining the public, educate and make people aware of the current happenings. Media has today become the voice of our society. There is a variety of media platform that has stimulated the thoughts of the young generation and other sections of our society, more eloquently. The research study, aims at analyzing the role of media and its effectiveness at the time of demonetization. The main objectives of the research work are to study the role of media in awarding people about demonetization and its impact. The research will help in studying the nature of media in disseminating information on important issues and how people get informed about issues related to current events. A survey of 300 people was conducted in South City and Eldeco colony, Lucknow. The researchers prepared an interview schedule for the data collection, keeping in mind the role and nature of media, in creating awareness among people. The research study was conducted through convenience sampling. The research work focuses on the behavior and the access pattern of media at the time of demonetization

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Authors: Neha Singh

ABSTRACT Education is a process through which an individual is made capable, to attain the necessary competencies and skills, to face the challenges in life, to survive and to make the struggle for existence. The need for any change in the society is reflected in the educational system, and it is through education, that the societal needs are realized. In India, this need was recognized long back, and the first and foremost education demand after independence, was that of universal elementary education. Thus, the midday meal program was launched as a centrally sponsored program, on 15th August, 1995, by the Government of India. The mid day meal program is an effort to achieve and facilitate all the four objectives of education. The mid day meal program was started with two major objectives: firstly to enhance the child’s nutrition level and secondly to provide the basic education. The present study was conducted in the rural schools of Garag village and the Yettingudda village of Dharwad district in Karnataka state and Simarddha village and Bhojla village of Jhansi district in Uttar Pradesh state. A total of 120 rural school children (30 from each village), 120 parents, 40 school committee members and few teachers (based on availability), were selected randomly. Personal observation method and personal interview method were used for their opinions and to record the strengths of the mid day meal program. To know the strengths of the mid day meal program, the headcount of total children (N=120) present, at the post lunch session was taken and recorded, for assessing to the regularity of attendance. Many strengths of mid day meal program, was observed and recorded such as good quality and quantity of meal, increased attendance, enrollment and retention rate, positive attitude of teachers, parents, children and school committee members, towards mid day meal program, demand for continuation of mid day meal program, reduced stress of working mothers such as farmwomen, timely supply of food grains and cooked food, innovative model public private partnership, for implementing mid day meal programmes and many more. The Mid Day Meal program is a one such innovative program, started by GOI for betterment of the child’s future. As everything have a good or bad impact, the mid day meal program may also have some bad impacts, but positive impacts or its strengths are more important, over bad impact and the weaknesses of the program may convert into strengths, by applying innovative approaches, ideas

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Authors: Awicha Benabdallah

ABSTRACT The current study attempts to help our business learners in the Preparatory School of Economics and Commercial Sciences to act effectively in their target language environment. To meet this end, an action research was conducted in three phases. As the first step, three research tools were submitted to analyse the informants’ needs, identify their learning gaps and expectations, notably a questionnaire, semi- structured interview and a diagnostic test. Second, training courses were mainly intended to enhance their consciousness of some strategies used to improve their comprehension of authentic business texts. Learners were, finally, tested and interviewed. The results revealed the usefulness of those authentic -based language materials in responding positively to our learners’ interests, achievements, cultural awareness, skills and language developments

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Authors: Vikram Singh NAAS Rating:

Indian fictional landscape has witnessed a significant swing in almost all spheres of life especially in the 21st century. In fact, it has been going through a generational change. We have left our borrowed colonial attire far behind and want to read and write more about our own roots, shadows and cultural twigs. By attributing scientific explanations to the conventional cultural ethics, the contemporary writers have recast the indigenous Indian culture with a refreshing perspective which has definitely revived the rich tradition of Indian ‘heroic age’ and revolutionized the Indian Writing in English in order to acquaint the Indian readers with ancient Indian culture and history. The present paper will study the selected texts of contemporary popular fictional writers, which include, Anand Neelkatan’s Asura and Ajaya, Krishna Udayashankar’s Aryavarta Chronicles, Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy, Rajiv G. Menonn’s The Ascendance of Indra,, Sharath Komarraju’s The Winds of Hastinapur, and Shamik Dasgupta’s Ramayan 3392 A.D. Series. The paper focuses on examining how these texts display an array of divergent attitudes towards the characters and incidents in the Indian Epics and Mythology, how these versions of ancient texts reinterpret the mythical past, and how the respective authors utilize myth creatively for coming to terms with the predicament of the present.