Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born on 14th April‚ 1891. He was born in Central India as the fourteenth child to parents who belonged to the very lowest caste of Hindu society who are known as the dalits or untouchables. In 1908‚ Ambedkar passed the Matriculation exam from Bombay University. After graduating from Elfinstone College‚ Bombay in 1912‚ he joined Columbia University where he was awarded Ph.D for a thesis which he published in book form as “The Evolution of Provincial Finance in British
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CAUSES OF THE DOWNFALL OF MUSLIM EMPIRE The Mughal Empire reached its greatest extent in the time of Aurangzeb Alamgir‚ but it collapsed with dramatic suddenness within a few decades after his death. The Mughal Empire owes its decline and ultimate downfall to a combination of factors; firstly Aurangzeb’s religious policy is regarded as a cause for the decline of the Mughal Empire as it led to disunity among the people. Although the policy did lead to weakening of the empire but the major cause of decline
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Arthur Dimmesdale‚ Hester Prynne’s minister‚ suffers the greatest burden in the novel. Little does the congregation know that he had an affair with Hester. Instead of admitting his sinful act‚ he keeps it secret. In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ this secretive sin brings Arthur Dimmesdale physical‚ emotional‚ and spiritual burdens. Arthur Dimmesdale inflicts a physical burden upon himself with self-loathing and torture. He takes Puritan fasting to an extreme by starving himself “
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There is one main over-arching purposes of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The purpose being that the “American dream” is unachievable. While Fitzgerald does not directly say the “American dream” cannot be real or cannot be accomplished‚ he uses different characters as well as the plot itself to represent his argument. The “American dream” also known as goals; are standards that people set for themselves to reach success or greatness. Fitzgerald is saying that the people who pursue the “American
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Lady Macbeth was the main reason for the downfall of a born leader and courageous war hero. She was the instigator for Macbeth’s slow downfall from a hero to a murderer to a crazed man full of guilt for what he had done. Macbeth should have not stayed with Lady Macbeth for three reasons. She was power hungry and did not love him. She claimed that he is “too full of the milk of human kindness‚” what she is saying is that Macbeth is afraid to get his hands dirty and is rather feminine. She is contempt
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Purposes of Music of the Global Church. In it Dr. Okpebholo divides the role music plays in the global church into three different categories. The first being music’s function for praise and worship‚ the second its purpose for evangelism‚ and third its ability to serve as a catechetical function. The purpose of this paper is to contribute my own insight and account of how music has served these three purposes in the global church. The first section of Dr. Okpebholo’s paper speaks of music’s function
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the central characters. Medea is tempted to use the supernatural powers she was born with‚ whereas Dr Faustus lets the idea of possessing supernatural powers tempt him to sell his soul to the devil. Both characters are tempted; both use the supernatural‚ but only one character is punished. Through examination of both works ideas of why gender and status in society affect the outcomes in Medea and Dr Faustus. Doctor Faustus’ desire to possess supernatural powers resulted in Doctor Faustus selling
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William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth is an unfortunate one. Although Macbeth does take the actions that lead to his downfall‚ he is not fully responsible for his behavior. After encountering three witches who foretell the future for him‚ he desperately wants to believe what they say since everything they told him is good on his part. It is said that the witches were just figments of his imagination. In either case‚ the prophecies told act as a vehicle to plant ambition in him which then leads him
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"Doctor Zhivago" was directed by British director David Lean in 1965. It was adapted from the novel written by the Russian poet‚ Boris Pasternak. The novel won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The film tells the story about doctor Zhivago’s love for two women. It takes place during World War I‚ the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War. Doctor Zhivago was an orphan. He was raised by his mother’s friend and grew up with her daughter Tonya. After he graduated from college‚ Zhivago became
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Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad was the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia. He held the post for 22 years from 1981 to 2003‚ being Malaysia’s longest-serving Prime Minister and one of the longest-serving leaders in the whole Asia. Mahathir was born on the 10th July 1925 in Alor Setar‚ Kedah. He was the youngest among nine children. His dad‚ Mohamad Iskandar‚ was a schoolteacher whereas his mom‚ Wan Tampawan was a housewife. During the World War II‚ where the Japanese armies conquered the Malaya‚ Mahathir
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