SEPTEMBER 2008 IPCS Research Papers Naxal Movement in India: A Profile Rajat Kujur Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies 1 New Delhi‚ INDIA © 2008‚ Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies is not responsible for the facts‚ views or opinion expressed by the author. The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS)‚ established in August 1996‚ is an independent think tank devoted to research on peace and security from a South Asian
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Ronald W. Reagan‚ who was our 40th president in the United States‚ helped the government find a better purpose and forced the Soviet Union to end the Cold War. Ronald Reagan was also known for having the largest number in guilty criminal offenses of administration officials‚ indictment‚ and/or investigations which were a result due to his multiple scandals. Two of some of the biggest scandals that I will discuss are his illegal scandals such as selling illegal arms to Iran and his ethical lapse in
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The Progressive Era reformers and the federal government did bring about many reforms at the national level. The Progressive reformers were able to bring issues such as women suffrage‚ and black rights into the consciousness of Americans‚ but these two reforms were forgotten by President Woodrow Wilson. The reformers were more successful with improving working conditions in the meat packing industry. The more successful reforms by the federal government were trust busting and the passage of child
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On September 14‚ 1986‚ President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan delivered their “Just Say No” address to the nation. Reagan warned parents against drug dealers who were “plot[ting]...to steal our children’s lives.” This speech came after several years of President Reagan’s administration’s War on Drugs that utilized the media and congressional and military action to reduce drug use. His administration created a “national crusade” that treated drug use as an attack on society that required
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The British romantic era starts from the 1700’s to the 1800’s‚ Romanticism‚ a philosophical‚ literary‚ artistic and cultural period which initiated as a result prevailing Enlightenment ideals of the day. This romantic period in the history of British poetry was right in the middle of a time when the society was going through tremendous reforms. It is characterized by a shift from the structured‚ intellectual‚ reasoned approach of the 1700’s to use of the imagination‚ freedom of thought and expression
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Thesis: Jocelyn Olcott argues that the woman suffrage movement in Mexico failed because the FUPDM‚ which by 1937 was the focal point of suffragist activism‚ “had relinquished the leverage of a dissenting organization and because‚ particularly after the ruling party’s restructuring along corporatists lines‚ individual voting rights seemed irrelevant to women’s most pressing concerns. There were three factors that contributed to the activist decision to form the FUPDM. The first‚ Olcott states‚ is
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The Progressive Era (1900-1917) Who were the progressives and what reforms did they pursue? * To answer this question‚ we must analyze the causes of progressivism * General causes: The 1890s – the 1890s were a cause of Progressivism‚ mainly b/c they sucked. In the 1890s‚ all the tensions built up during industrialization broke loose in the Panic of 1893‚ labor problems‚ political issues‚ and foreign entanglements. * Capitalism out of control – Partially b/c of the depression‚ many
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Scientific Management Era and the Human Relations Era it is quite clear that there were completely different focuses‚ views and indeed goals at the time of writing for each. The Scientific Management Era was developed solely as a means to increase productivity and maximise the work potential of an employee. Frederick Winslow Taylor is massively credited as the father of Scientific Management (Rosen‚ 1993) and he believed in the organization of the workplace as a whole. The Human Relations Era focused solely
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The status of women in the Victorian era is often seen as an illustration of the striking discrepancy between the United Kingdom’s national power and wealth and what many‚ then and now‚ consider its appalling social conditions. During the era symbolized by the reign of British monarch Queen Victoria‚ women did not have suffrage rights‚ the right to sue‚ or the right to own property. At the same time‚ women participated in the paid workforce in increasing numbers following the Industrial Revolution
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Women fought a lot to gain full equality during the Progressive era. The perfection of the American Revolution increased women’s suppositions‚ encourage some of the first straight forward requirements for impartiality and observed the formation of female institutions to enhance women’s education. According to http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=11(by the early 19th century‚ American women had the highest female literacy rate in the world). The American government’s expanded suffrage to
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