1 Re-covering Women: Reading Two Partition Stories. Priyadarshini Dasgupta Coordinator‚ Senior Section‚ Shree Bharati School‚ Kolkata. Dibyabibha Roy Assistant Professor in English‚ Maheshtala College‚ Kolkata. “Playing British Gods under the ceiling fans of the Faletlis Hotel – behind Queen Victoria’s gardened skirt – the Radcliffe Commission deals out Indian cities like a pack of cards …… A new nation is born. India has been divided after all.” (Sidhwa 140) The available histories
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Githens 1 Kathryn Githens Patricia Nommenson English 1302/ Period 4 3 April 2012 Critical Analysis of “Can Patriotism Be Compassionate?” by Martha Nussbaum Martha Nussbaum in her essay‚ “Can Patriotism Be Compassionate?” (2001)‚ asserts that America has become a cold and selfish nation that has no interest in the well being of others around the world. Nussbaum supports this assertion with examples of the war in Iraq and other crises’ around the world. Her purpose is to change the way
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ethnocultural nationalism is defined as a community united by their ancestral routes. Thus‚ whereas civic nationalism portrays the image of a welcome home‚ ethnocultural nationalism portrays a biological family (p35‚ Brown‚ 2000). In Britain there has been a tendency to separate nationality as citizenship from nationality as culture‚ by which they claim it is possible to hold dual nationality such as Scottish and British or Welsh and British. (Breuilly‚ 1993). Civic nationalism reflects the multi-faceted
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Development and Social Welfare Programmes in Nigeria****** National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Historical Background The National Youth Service Corps is a scheme set up by the Nigerian government to involve the country ’s graduate – youth‚ in the development of the country. It is an organization that was established to ensure improved ties among the Nigerian people through her beloved youth‚ following the unfortunate event of the Civil War (July 1967 – 15 January 1970). General Yakubu Gowon’s administration
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but in different incarnations. This essay will look at the way African Americans have either negotiated‚ broken-through or redefined this line and by doing so‚ have trampled fixed and absolute notions of blackness and black identity. Black nationalism/seperation came about as a belief that blacks would never be accepted as anything other than second class citizens and destined to remain under the exploitation of white power structure. In order for blacks to attain complete freedom in a society
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Liberation Is Motivation The Selfishness Of The United States In The 19th and 20th Century Moses Abraham Humanities 3 Sullivan 12/2/14 Benchmark Paper The United States feigns concern for the liberation of enslaved nations ‚ while the true motivation behind aiding countries in need is rooted in greed and selfishness . Liberation from Great Britain was fought for by the United States during the American Revolution ‚ but now the United States fail
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PART B HISTORY COURSEWORK “Assess the significance of Indian Nationalism in the period 1845-1947 in changing Britain’s relationship with its Empire in India”. It is possible to say that it was a rising feeling of nationalism that led to the change in relations between Britain and India which is what led to the ultimate end of the British Empire since it came to a point where India was ungovernable. John Keay states that “India was convulsed by a crescendo of satyagrahas‚ swadeshi boycotts; strikes
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surface) issues such as environmental issues and morality‚ more of co-operation rather than blatant dominance. There is a strong sentiment over the use of force in the global scene‚ as seen in the situation with North Korea. All this leads to a general negative impression of “big” countries‚ such as US (for the mess they made on their own economy that also affects the global economy) and China (who is one of the main culprit of environmental pollution as well as the main player in the Spratly Island conflict
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Contributions to Black Nationalism in the United States Critically discuss the contributions of both Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois to the idea of Black nationalism in the United States. What were the major obstacles they faced in their articulation of the black Nationalist ideology? Booker T. Washington “was an American political leader‚ educator and author” who proved to be one of the most dominate figures in African American history in the United States (Booker‚ par. 1). William
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concept of state and citizenship has suddenly emerged as a central theme in social science literature both as a normative concept and a social phenomenon. The idea of the state and citizenship has undergone numerous changes‚ some positive and some negative also‚ since its conception. The concept of state and citizenship has emerged in the 7th and 8th century B.C. and then the idea of nation state came into existence in the 19th and 20th century. The state and the citizenship is a social human need
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