41 research outputs found
The desirable sister
No full textPublished work by a Douglas College Student Alumni. Gia and Serena Pirji are sisters, but as the first-generation born in Canada to immigrant parents, their lives play out in different ways because of their skin tone. Gia's fair skin grants her membership to cliques of white kids as a teen, while Serena's dark skin means she is labelled as Indian and treated as inferior. This superficial difference, imposed by a society obsessed with skin colour and hierarchy, sets the sisters into a dynamic that plays out throughout their lives. In a world where white skin is preferable, the sisters are pitted against each other through acts of revenge and competition as they experience adultery, ruined friendships, domestic abuse, infertility and motherhood. Taslim Burkowicz's vivid, sensory-rich writing style brings readers to the party scene in Goa, suburban supermarkets in Vancouver and a safari in Africa, where Gia and Serena navigate through the highs and lows of a tumultuous, loving relationship. The Desirable Sister reveals the bitter games of treachery women are forced to play to achieve the ranks of beauty and success, and ultimately shows the strength of love between sisters. --From publisher description.boo
Effect of agitation on methanogenesis stage of two-stage anaerobic digestion of palm oil mill effluent (POME) into biogas
No full textBrief review: Preparation techniques of biomass based activated carbon monolith electrode for supercapacitor applications
No full textThe making of the medieval malay hero Hang Tuah: stories behind the epic scene
No full textThe essay attempts to look at the scene behind the making of a hero in Malay medieval society. Such attempt is vital in order to understand not only the rise of a legendary hero, Hang Tuah, from his ordinary status in Sejarah Melayu (The Malay Annal) to his supra-human figure in the epic Hikayat Hang Tuah but also to gauge the social, political and psychological milieu behind the epic composition. The premise of the argument in this essay is that a hero is built and not born. Pushing it from there, the essay endeavours to prove the point by extensively reading on the milieu and time behind the emergence of Hikayat Hang Tuah. While exploring these, the essay also looks at the process of inventing the epic, which include identifying sources and materials borrowed, distorted, inverted and appropriated by the author to bring forth this traditional but unique literary creation
Effect of filler loading of characteristic natural rubber latex (NRL) film filled with nanocrystal cellulose (NCC) and dipersion agent polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP)
No full textParticle size analysis on density, surface morphology and specific capacitance of carbon electrode from rubber wood sawdust
No full textComparative study of CO2 and H2O activation in the synthesis of carbon electrode for supercapacitors
No full textThe synthesis of carbon electrode supercapacitor from durian shell based on variations in the activation time
No full textBiodiesel production from ethanolysis of DPO using deep eutectic solvent (DES) based choline chloride – ethylene glycol as co-solvent
No full textThe effect of CO2 activation temperature on the physical and electrochemical properties of activated carbon monolith from banana stem waste
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