The “Climate Change Debate Overheated after Sceptic Grasped ‘Hockey Stick’” article‚ written by Fred Pearce‚ demonstrates how the hockey stick graph constructed by Michael Mann‚ introduced many disagreements. Fred Pearce notes many individuals such as Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick (both referred to as M&M) that believed Michael Mann’s hockey stick graph was created using faulty methods‚ and were considered imprecise. According to Pearce‚ M&M publicized a paper arguing that Mann’s smoothing of
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Islam and the West: Conflict‚ Democracy‚ Identity Akeel Bilgrami‚ Columbia University This short essay analyzes the deception and self-deception in talk of ‘the clash of civilizations’ and proceeds to diagnose what is wrong in the standard understanding of Islam in the Western media today by looking to the abiding history of colonial relations with Islam down to this day and also looking to the relation between ideals of democracy and the formation of religious identities. The essay closes with some
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“APING THE WEST” Of late the trend has been to follow whatever is done in the west and it is becoming a sort of in-thing to be doing it. Is it due to liberalization of economy that we are also attempting to liberalize our life style. Indians have started aping the west completely and the western influences can be clearly seen in our behavior‚ culture‚ attire and even language. Though to say‚ we are an independent nation but instead of promoting our culture‚ we are aping the west and one would
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East and West Rabindranath Tagore I It is not always a profound interest in man that carries travellers nowadays to distant lands. More often it is the facility for rapid movement. For lack of time and for the sake of convenience we generalise and crush our human facts into the packages within the steel trunks that hold our travellers’ reports. Our knowledge of our own countrymen and our feelings about them have slowly and unconsciously grown out of innumerable facts which are full of contradictions
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Pete Rose: The Undeniable Truth Thousands upon thousands of men have been scouted‚ drafted‚ played‚ and even managed in Major League Baseball. Yet‚ a name‚ synonymous with numerous records‚ is mostly associated with controversy. Enter Peter Edward “Pete” Rose Sr. Pete Rose grew up in a middle class family‚ struggled as a student‚ and then eventually excelled as a baseball player/manager. Even though Pete Rose lived for the sport and broke so many records during his professional career‚ it was
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A Rose for Emily By William Faulkner The possible meanings of both the title and the chronology of William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” have been debated for years. What is not under debate is that the chronology deliberately manipulates and delays the reader’s final judgment of Emily Grierson by altering the evidence. In the same way‚ the title reveals as much as the debate over what the rose means. The only rose that Emily actually receives is the rose in the title‚ which the author gives
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202G-02 November 28‚ 2012 During the late nineteenth century‚ the west had become a widely diverse place‚ populated by New Englanders‚ Mormons‚ African Americans‚ Mexicans‚ and Latinos as well as immigrants from Europe‚ Asia‚ and Canada. With so many different racial‚ religious‚ and ethnic backgrounds‚ it was impossible for the Native Americans to be the only group of people who suffered from discrimination and prejudice in the West. All of the groups of people listed above‚ were discriminated against
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Salvador Dali: Meditative Rose Salvador Domingo Dali was a Spanish surrealist painter. He was born in Figueres‚ Spain in the year 1904 and died in 1982. He can be considered to be one of the truly great all-rounders in the arena of Arts as he excelled in an expansive artistic repertoire included film‚ sculpture and photography (“Meditative Rose”). Considered to be highly imaginative‚ he had an eternal urge draw the attention of others to himself. His painting skills are often attributed to the Renaissance
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breathing. Not really. Rose glanced around in a sense of painstaking awe. Breathing appeared so mundane for everyone else. Orange leaves rustled in the brisk autumn air while the sun strained to warm her icy face. As frozen grass crunched beneath her feet‚ her thoughts were brought back to reality. Rose’s eyes connected with those of her friends‚ and her soft lips curved into a broad smile. The success of her façade depended on her mask of superficial happiness. As expected‚ Rose was mercilessly questioned
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The club was originally founded as Thames Ironworks F.C. in 1895 and was later reformed‚ in 1900 as West Ham United. They initially competed in the Southern League and Western League before joining the full Football League in 1919 and enjoyed their first top flight season in 1923‚ featuring in the first FA Cup Final to be held at Wembley that year against Bolton Wanderers. The club have won the FA Cup three times: in 1964‚ 1975 and 1980. They have also been runners-up twice‚ in 1923 and 2006. In
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