------------------------------------------------- Independence Day (India) From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia "Fifteenth of August" redirects here. For other uses‚ see August 15. Independence Day | The national flag of India‚ on the Red fort in New Delhi; a common sight on public and private buildings on national holidays like the 15th of August. | Also called | The Fifteenth of August स्वतंत्रता दिवस (Hindi) १५ (पन्द्रह) अगस्त(Hindi) | Observed by | India | Type | National | Significance | The day India became independent
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Earth Day April 22 is celebrated as Earth Day each year. more than a million people across the globe‚ including individuals‚ communities‚ organisations governments acknowledge the beauty of this amazing planet we call home and pledge to protect and conserve the wealth of natural heritage for the generations to come. Good morning everyone and welcome to the earth day celebrations 2013. A warm welcome t May I now invite our Thank You sir. The Western Music choir will now present a song
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celebrate our Annual Sports Day every year in the month of January. Preparations for the celebration of the sports day are made much in advance. There is a big gathering on that day in our school. The students who excel in games are given prizes by the chief guest. The parents of the students are also invited to attend the sports.This year our annual sports day was celebrated on the 10th of January. The Director of Educaion had kindly agreed to preside over the function. The sports day started at 9:00 a.m
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Earth Day is an annual event‚ celebrated on April 22‚ on which day events worldwide are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970‚ and is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network and celebrated in more than 192 countries each year. In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco‚ peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace‚ to first be celebrated on March 21‚ 1970‚ the first day of spring in the
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On Thursday‚ October 11th‚ 1492‚ after Christopher Columbus interacted with the American people‚ he recommended that they should be converted to his holy faith by love rather than force‚ so that they could be freed from their error. Subsequently in aspiration converting the multitude to their holy faith would acquire large dominions and great riches and all of their peoples for Spain. Moreover‚ he believed that the American people could easily be converted to Christianity‚ due to the reason that
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had me fascinated because it revealed the true past that happened when Columbus‚ Cortes and Pizarro’s colonized their part of the New World and how it should be time to rewrite history. In Matthew Restall’s chapter 1‚ A Handful of Adventurers‚ he explains that these three men are portrayed as larger than life as opposed to greedy humans. In Howard Zinn’s chapter 1‚ Columbus‚ The Indians‚ And Human Progress‚ which focus on Columbus also states that by portraying him as a hero and a great explorer‚ his
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1451-1506) Christopher Columbus is one of the best-known of all explorers. He is famous for his voyage in 1492‚ when he "discovered" America while he was looking for a way to sail to Asia. Columbus was probably born in Genoa‚ Italy‚ around 1451. His real name was Christoforo Columbo. His wife‚ a Portuguese women who he married around 1480‚ was Felipa Perestrello e Moniz. They had one son named Diego. He made several voyages to the New World‚ which he thought was Asia
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3. Controversy of Kartini Day and Malala Day on Media 3.1 Considering the Heroism of Kartini Instead of the followers of the blind conspiracy theory‚ there is nobody else arguing that the moral message carried by Kartini and Malala in raising the issues of education and emancipation of women is right. The groups acknowledging that the struggle of Kartini and Malala is true have two tendencies‚ namely (1) not questioning the Western influence and (2) questioning Western influence. The group that
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After reading Howard Zinn’s viewpoint on Columbus‚ the Indians‚ and the human progress I can now confirm/characterize that Columbus is‚ as historical figure‚ not a hero‚ but somewhere in between being a hero and a villain (being more towards a villain). Throughout the whole reading the reader can notice how Colombus’ mistake of finding a new route to Asia and mistakenly discovering an unknown land to the Europeans caused great pain for the natives who were forced into labor/made into slaves to go
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them all I have taken possession for their Highnesses.…” Columbus never stopped to consider that these islands were not his to take‚ nor were the people that inhabited them. He simply took over these lands‚ even going so far as to rename them all. His first sight of what he termed “Indians” was of a group of attractive‚ unclothed people. Speculation is that‚ to him‚ their nakedness represented a lack of culture‚ customs‚ and religion. Columbus saw this as an opportunity to spread the word of God‚ while
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