Abstract: This thesis examines Deepa Mehta’s trilogy—Water‚ Earth‚ Fire—and the trilogy’s exploration and contestation of colonial‚ anti-colonial nationalist‚ and religious ideologies as intersecting with patriarchal norms to enact symbolic and actual violence on the bodies of women. I argue that Mehta’s trilogy foregrounds the ways in which patriarchal nationalism legitimizes violence against women’s bodies and sexualities through different social and cultural practices and discourses which are
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Social Inequality and Stratification Question: What are the three main forms of inequality in diverse societies? Social Inequality happens when an individual or a group within a society has unequal rights to social commodities such as power‚ wealth‚ education and opportunity. The book defines Inequality as "the degree to which culturally valued material and social rewards are given disproportionately to individuals‚ families and other kinds of groups". Each culture has a different expression
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he began to sometimes rediscovered known theorems in addition to producing new work. Ramanujan was a natural genius by the English mathematician G.H. Hardy he unforchantly died. * Ramanujan was born in erode in a very poor family from Hindu Brahmin‚ he’s mathematics began at the age of 10. He’s natural ability stared to show so there for they was giving him books on advanced trigonometry written by S.L.‚ he achieve by the age of 12 he also discovered theorems of his own as well he re-discovered
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How did Hinduism influence Indian society? What similarities do they have with these religions? Although Hinduism has no central doctrine‚ the beliefs have spread throughout the Indian society; the country in which its main effect is. These beliefs include the concept of karma‚ reincarnation‚ respect for all forms of life‚ and respect for other religions. The largest effect however‚ is the caste system that is placed on society. The belief is that each person’s life has Ashramas‚ four life stages
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Throughout the world and recorded history‚ it can be witnessed that there has always been structured civilization with accumulated power found in the hands of few sovereigns. In Asia‚ distinguished styles of governing have arisen. This essay will examine three distinctive cases of authoritarian leaders. Each case study will include a breakdown of how each authoritarian ruler perpetuated their rule with distinctive and exceptional strategies. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea regime will be
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Foundations: c. 8000 B.C.E.–600 C.E. Major Developments 1. Locating world history in the environment and time 1. Environment 1. Geography and climate: Interaction of geography and climate with the development of human society a. Five Themes of Geography – consider these 1. Relative location – location compared to others 2. Physical characteristics – climate‚ vegetation and human characteristics
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Mauryan Empire The Mauryan Empire was a geographically extensive and powerful empire in Ancient India. The Mauryan Dynasty from 321 to 185 BC ruled this powerful empire. It was one of the world’s largest empires in its time. At it’s greatest extent‚ the empire stretched to the north along the natural boundaries of the Himalayas‚ and to the eat stretching into what is now Assam (South of the eastern Himalayas). To the west‚ it most likely reached beyond modern Pakistan‚ and joining into what
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person who bought the land would become their peasant and wouldn’t have to listen to the first lord. (Page. 401) This social structure of medieval Europe can compare to the early caste system. The caste system has four levels to their structure: Brahmin‚ Kshatriya‚ Vaishya‚ and then Shudra. The medieval structure is: King‚ Lord‚ Knight‚ and then Peasants. Both of the systems they person has to be born into. The caste system and medieval social structure both have a person or representative in the
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society in a framework that defined their occupation and status within the community (pg.45). Based on these classifications there were five main Indian classes‚ called varna. These classes consisted of‚ from highest to lowest social class‚ the Brahmins‚ Kshatriyas‚ Vaisyas‚ Sudras and Pariahs (pg.45/46). Each of these social classes had a connection with the land; whether they slaved over the land‚ worked the land‚ owned the land or worshipped the land‚ each individual was associated with the land
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Foundations: c. 8000 B.C.E.–600 C.E. Major Developments 1. Locating world history in the environment and time A. Environment 1. Geography and climate: Interaction of geography and climate with the development of human society a. Five Themes of Geography – consider these 1. Relative location – location compared to others 2. Physical characteristics – climate‚ vegetation and human characteristics 3. Human/environment interaction – how do humans interact/alter environ a. Leads to
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