health and poor nutrition. These girls grow up to be women who are given no respect‚ no opportunity; they are not given half the things they deserve. Our country has always been an active participant in evil practices against women‚ whether it was sati‚ parda system or the devadasis who were sexually exploited and if these practices have stopped the problem of rape‚ acid throwing‚ dowry system‚ Female infanticide and sex-selective abortion ‚ human trafficking‚ forced prostitution etc. etc. This list
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human rights to India (Singh). These new ideas resulted in three specific changes towards the conditions of Indian women‚ education‚ and reform movements. After the introduction of British ideas‚ Indian women’s status began to improve; bans were put on sati‚ permitted widows to remarriage‚ and child marriages were prevented. Progress were also observed on education as some English schools and colleges were being opened. This helped in transforming India towards a more modern‚ liberal‚ and democratic country
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Imperialism of Britain and the United States: Empire by Obligation When one hears the term imperialism‚ the first thing that usually comes to mind is the vast British Empire‚ expanding all around the world‚ spreading culture‚ beliefs and ideas. Or perhaps the United States of America‚ plunging ever deeper into the vast continent‚ opening up land for settlement by its people. England is known for its military involvement in the countries it colonized; openly using military force on all those
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feels embarrassed to know that a lower class convict guilty of who knows what crimes is his real benefactor. Pip then regrets being ashamed of Joe for all those years‚ “Miss Havisham’s intentions towards me‚ all a mere dream; … I only suffered in Satis House as a convenience…but‚ [the] sharpest and deepest pain of all – it was for the convict… that I had deserted Joe” (166). Pip is living in confusion and cannot accept the fact that a convict is his benefactor‚ in the other hand; this makes Pip
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Women Empowerment was felt in India long back. Raja Rammohan Roy‚ the religious‚ social‚ and educational reformer and ‘the maker of Modern India’‚ demanded inheritance property rights for Women‚ gave tremendous effort to abolish the defunct custom ‘Sati’‚ the Hindu funeral practice. Key figure of Bengali Renaissance‚ Iswarchandra Vidyasagar ‚ championed the uplift of the status of women in India. Jyotirao Phule‚ Pearicharan Sarkar etc. also fought for uplift of women. Later‚ Mahatma Gandhi had announced
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As mindfulness is adopted by Western psychotherapy and migrates away from its ancient roots‚ its meaning is expanding. Most notably‚ mental qualities beyond sati (awareness‚ attention‚ and remembering) are being included in “mindfulness” as we adapt it to alleviate clinical conditions. These qualities include non-judgment‚ acceptance‚ and compassion. Mindfulness has been popularized in the West by Jon Kabat-Zinn with his Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program. Mindfulness is also an attribute
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disturbances and people protest. Politics also plays its role and government representatives never raise voice against such incidences for the fear of losing its vote bank. How to stop violence committed in forms of customs like "Sati" and "Devdasi"? Incidences like “Sati” have considerable reduced due to public awareness but more action is needed in form of public protest against the "Devdasi" custom. This form of violence may be stopped by exposing the truth behind this custom. Laws need to be formulated
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Literature often deals with the human drive for wealth and material success. The love of money often exercises a harmful power over individuals‚ causing a conflict both within themselves and with others. Although the characters in A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations assess the value of people only in terms of their financial contributions to society‚ they learn that self respect and dignity can be derived from means other than the possession of money and prestige. Through Scrooge and Pip
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Before a distinction can be made between Personal troubles’ and Social issues’ it is important to determine exactly what the Sociological Imagination is. The Sociological Imagination was introduced by C. Wright Mills in 1959. Sociological imagination refers to the relationship between individual troubles and the large social forces that are the driving forces behind them. The intent of the sociological imagination is to see the bigger picture within which individuals live their lives; to recognize
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Chapter 26 VOCAB 1. Ottomans: Turkic people who advanced from strongholds in Asia Minor during 1350s; conquered large part of Balkans; unified under Mehmed I; captured Constantinople in 1453; established empire from Balkans that included most of Arab world. 2. Mehmed II: Ottoman sultan called the "Conqueror"; responsible for conquest of Constantinople in 1453; destroyed what remained of Byzantine Empire. 3. Janissaries: Ottoman infantry divisions that dominated Ottoman armies; forcibly conscripted
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