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Dear Nikhil, I am very sorry to hear about your father’s death. Please know that my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family during this difficult time. I hope everything goes well for you and your families, as you fulfill all the rituals back home in India. One thing that has been bothering me a lot lately and I believe it is very important that I share that with you Nikhil. Nikhil as you are aware that you have been occupying my mind and soul at all times and you have taken a special place in my life. Mum and Dad love you a lot and we all consider you as part of my family. However, I was shocked and upset when you left me alone and made plans to travel to India with your sister and mum. I felt that I was not important for you as you did not include me in your travel plan. I do realize it is a family trip to fulfill Ashoke’s death ritual. I don’t know the reason behind your decision but it is very hard for me to accept why I could not travel with you al...

Define History:  History is the record of past events and times, especially in connection with the human race.  AOK in History: The four AOK used in History are Imagination, Reason, Memory, and Language. Imagination is used because it helps to visualize events from the past. The reason because it helps to reason the factors of the events which took place in the past. Memory because to memorize past events, mainly important events that occurred. 

"As she strokes and suckles and studies her son, she can't help but pity him. She has never known of a person entering the world so alone, so deprived." Why does Ashima feel this way following Gogol's birth? To what extent is this a manifestation of her own feelings about living in America? - Throughout her pregnancy, which was difficult, Ashima was afraid about raising "a child in a country where she is related to no one, where she knows so little, where life seems so tentative and spare. Her son will feel at home in the United States in a way that she never does. When Gogol is born, Ashima mourns the fact that he is not surrounded by her close family. It means that his birth, " like most everything else in America, feels somehow haphazard, only half true."  When she arrives home from the hospital, Ashima says to her husband, " I don't want to raise Gogol alone in this country. It's not right. I want to go back."  ...

The first stanza of The Man with a Blue Guitar by Wallace Stevens (1937) The man bent over his guitar, A shearman of sorts. The day was green. ( Green is in contrast to blue, which may mean imagination in the poem) They said, "You have a blue guitar , (Knowledge) You do not play things as they are The man replied, " Things as they are Are changed  upon the blue guitar   (Sense Perception) And they said then, "But play, you must, A tune beyond us, yet ourselves , (your gut) (Intuition/Faith) A tune upon the blue guitar Of things exactly as they are." What are some of the TOK relevant ideas conveyed in the exact? - The first stanza of The Man with a Blue Guitar, "You have a blue guitar" - This quote means that everybody has the knowledge and things are changed upon sense perception. "Things" stated here can be described as knowledge which can be changed to sense perception.  “You have a blue guitar, yo...

My name is Joshy. I am 16 years old and I am from New Zealand. Four years ago, I moved from Auckland to the United Arab Emirates and I started IB at Raha International School.  I am very passionate about the Psychology Field and I aspire to become a psychiatrist. My interests are swimming, photography and I love traveling very much.   My mother tongue is Creole(slang version of French) although I can speak a little bit of Arabic.   I feel that literature helps to understand the purpose of a certain text and literature form and explore imagination within the text and the writer. Literature can often make a personal connection with the reader's life, and relate to the characters from the text. I enjoy reading non-fiction type of books as this form of literature helps me to understand the real world around me, or know about the real world situations. A quote I live by is: 'Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will'.