concept of the gender roles of the men and women of the time. We must first understand how the men and women of that time were viewed. Throughout history there is a lot of ways men and women were different. But only a few were the biggest setback for women. Did the Renaissance women have the same life as the Renaissance men? Women of that time were often denounced as Devious‚ Domineering‚ and Demanding. The Renaissance women played several roles in their families. Those roles were based on their marital
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this novel to read‚ remarked that “we don’t learn anything about Mahatma Gandhi from it‚” a view many Indian readers would perhaps readily endorse. For us Indians the mere mention of Gandhi’s name conjures up the vision of a “man of God” who “trod on earth”‚ as Nehru described him in one of his speeches after Gandhi’s death. He was acclaimed a Mahatma and worshipped as an Avatar. Exasperated by Narayan’s handling of Gandhi in WFM my teacher Prof. C. D. Narasimhaiah had even suggested that Narayan would
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friends. When a girl is born her room is often painted in pink and her cloths are the same colour. Pink is the light colour of red‚ the color of blood. This is because women have to reproduce and make children. Red has been a controversial colour during the Communist era because it was the emblem. Women are mothers. They bear there babies in their womb for no more than nine months. A woman can have multiple births and they get Women are equal to men that is one of the basics of human rights. What
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Before the Industrial Revolution‚ families were interdependent on the roles of each other to survive‚ and each family member worked together to ensure the happiness of the family as a whole. Most work occurred at home or on the land belonging to the family and there was very little distinction between the roles of women and men‚ or between work and home. As people moved to the cities‚ work began to be something that was performed away from
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many or simply most of the colonies which due to their service to the Great Britain or due to the fact that they were in German control suddenly found themselves as free nations. So it is eminent that the British would lose more and more colonies during this time and because of that they would tighten
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The Age of Enlightenment was a time period in European countries that lasted from 1550 to 1800. During this time period‚ many French philosophers came forward with new concepts applying to politics‚ science‚ and religion. These new concepts shaped the world into what it is today by inspiring the American‚ and French Revolutions. One philosopher that had a substantial effect on the world with his concepts is Montesquieu. Montesquieu had the idea of different branches of a government sharing powers
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After decades of political turmoil during World War II and the subsequent rise of the Cold War‚ American national security anxieties began to turn inward in the early 1950s. The clash between the United States‚ an international defender of democracy and capitalism‚ and the Soviet Union‚ a rival superpower working tirelessly to prevent the expansion of capitalism into its communist stronghold‚ was more than just an ideological competition – rather‚ the two powers were battling to rid the world of
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one-way event in which the leader only affects the followers. India is the largest democratic country in the world. It has given some great leaders to the world like Mahatma Gandhi‚ J.L.Nehru‚ and Indira Gandhi. But can you imagine a foreign woman can be the main leader of that country. It was not possible before but when Sonia Gandhi took over as the president of the India’s Congress Party in 1999 the whole scenario of the Indian politics changed. At that time‚ the Indian Congress Party was in deep water;
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Most people left their farms because of the enclosure system and moved to the towns the move from countryside to towns is call “urbanization”.Children living in urban areas during the industrial revolution had no option but to become miners‚factory workers or street kids. Most of the children were orphans (the life expectancy was not very high) and had no one to stand up for them. Mines: Around this time the demand for coal was increasing‚ because there was a shortage of flammable sources and
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National Integration Indian civilization has survived-through the ages despite temporary setbacks. Since the earliest times‚ Indian civilization has marched with common objectives of culture and society. In early days‚ great emperors like Ashoka unified the country and its civilization and knit ft round a common culture from one end of the country to the other. During and after the Hindu period and later by the spread of Buddhism in whole of Asia‚ Indian culture and civilization got a further
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