being ‘Indians’ above other ‘fuzzy’ identities based on caste‚ class‚ community but also brought in its wake the catastrophe of Partition that made the exclusionist and territorial aspects of nation-state quite evident. Sudipta Kaviraj in “The Imaginary Institution of India” explicates the idea of territorial demarcation of boundaries of the modern- nation state‚ as an imperative condition for enumerating its subjects in the process of nation formation for the purpose of administration and control
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STRATEGIC ACTIVISM AND NONMARKET STRATEGY David P. Baron and Daniel Diermeier Stanford University and Northwestern University ABSTRACT Activist NGOs have increasingly foregone public politics and turned to private politics to force change in the practices of firms and industries. This paper focuses on private politics‚ activist strategies‚ and nonmarket strategies of targets. A formal theory of an encounter between an activist organization and a target is presented to examine strategies
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David Harvey is a classical marxist concerned with inequality and the theoretical bridge between social theory and geography. Argues from a historical materialist perspective – how the society reproduces itself. Harvey on space: For Harvey‚ social practices and process create spaces and these spaces in turn‚ constrain‚ enable and alter those practices and process – what Ed Soja called a “socio-spatial dialectic”. Constant relationship between society and geography and they both influence eachother
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environment in which one develops is key to studying and comprehending humans overall. However‚ the notion of biology and environment intertwining isn’t always exemplified clearly in various aspects of people’s lives. This was shown in the case of David Reimer‚ the boy who was raised as a girl. In Reimer’s case‚ he was born biologically male‚ but due to an unfortunate circumstance involving
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The story‚ created by David Moody‚ compares to a train moving away from a station platform. At first‚ a person could run alongside the track easily‚ though as the train speeds up‚ there comes a moment that the runner anticipates the futility of persevering‚ and as the cars rush forward‚ the person inevitably slows down‚ or at the last moment a decision emerges to jump on for the ride. I was that runner‚ easily bored at the beginning of the book--my mind outracing the slowness of the words‚ but approaching
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	David Hume‚ a Scottish philosopher and historian who lived from 1711-76‚ carried the empiricism of John Locke and George Berkeley to the logical extreme of radical skepticism. Although his family wanted him to become a lawyer‚ he felt an "insurmountable resistance to everything but philosophy and learning". Mr. Hume attended Edinburgh University where he studied but did not graduate‚ and in 1734 he moved to a French town called La Fleche to pursue philosophy. He later returned to Britain and
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For many individuals‚ philosophy and the discussions regarding the origin of man are puzzling topics. Two of the prominent philosophies regarding this issue are that humans originate from God (Biblical worldview) or humans have no supernatural origins (Naturalistic viewpoint). Logically‚ these viewpoints contradict each other. L. Russ Bush wrote his book‚ “The Advancement‚ Keeping Faith in an Evolutionary World” to help explain why the Biblical viewpoint is correct and the Naturalistic viewpoint
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However‚ some critics will argue that darkness did not wreak chaos onto mankind; rather‚ it is humankind that is responsible for its own destruction. According to David Spitz‚ “If anything were to go wrong‚ as it tragically did‚ it could only come‚ then‚ from within; the only enemy of man was himself” (Spitz 5). In other words‚ Spitz believes that darkness did not inflict chaos or conflict in the novel. The true source of the destruction was no one other than mankind who was responsible. If mankind
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As industries turn increasingly hostile‚ it is clear that strong brand-building skills are needed to survive and prosper. In David Aaker’s pathbreaking book‚ Managing Brand Equity‚ managers discovered the value of a brand as a strategic asset and a company’s primary source of competitive advantage. Now‚ in this compelling new work‚ Aaker uses real brand-building cases from Saturn‚ General Electric‚ Kodak‚ Healthy Choice‚ McDonald’s‚ and others to demonstrate how strong brands have been created and
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Life Is Short - ... For the wise people like the saints who meditate in isolation in the woods or the people who create aims‚ targets they want to fulfill; make a list of to-do-things or the life-is-fun people who just want to have fun all the time thinking when you’re dead‚ you’re dead; when you’re alive‚ you live to the full‚ life is too short‚ time flows at a speed greater than the speed of light. They oppose the centuries old science which tells us that nothing can travel faster than time. They
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