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    certain basic rights of a human being ‚ particularly the other gender-Female. PROBLEMS FACED BY WOMEN IN INDIA: FEMALE FOETICIDE and FEMALE INFANTICIDE NEGLECT DURING CHILDHOOD EARLY MARRIAGE DOWRY ATROCITIES ON WOMEN- PROSTITUTION‚ RAPE‚ SATI‚ WIDOWS FEMALE INFANTICIDE and FEMALE FOETICIDE: Both are acts of Gendercide‚ which is the deliberate and usually brutal killing of a person or persons based solely on their gender‚ Female in this case. FEMALE INFANTICIDE: It is a deliberate

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    Michael Dennedy - Word Count : 1944 How do Dickens and Hosseini present the influence of childhood experiences in their novels ‘Great Expectations’ and ‘The Kite Runner’? The influence of childhood experience is at the core of these novels as both of the main protagonists go through a rite of passage and change of character which is influenced by their contrasting childhood experiences. In Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations’‚ the main character Pip grew up in southeast England with his harsh and

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    Women Empowerment in Bangladesh Women empowerment in Bangladesh means giving women of the country the power to rule and govern their own lives‚ away from traditional and social constraints. The women empowerment movement in Bangladesh focuses on giving women the power and authority they need to be men’s equals. The structures of sub ordinance that have keep women in the dark for so long must be eliminated. Women must have intellectual resources that can be acquired through good education and material

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    with the mending of a broken set of iron handcuffs since they hope to catch two convicts. Joe mends the cuffs and Pip joins them as track throughout the quagmire searching for the convicts‚ both of which they find. A few weeks later‚ Pip is sent to Satis house where he meets a sharp‚ yet beautiful girl named Estella and a heartbroken old woman whose only request is for Pip to play in front of her. As time goes by Pip falls deeper‚ and deeper in love with Estella and he starts to feel shame for his

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    Income Poverty and Human Development Poverty Around the world‚ whether in a ‘developed’ or an ‘under-developed’ nation‚ today there exist a group of people who are unable to afford the basic goods and services of human survival needs. They are unable to do so because of their inability to be employed or their inability to generate sufficient‚ or any income to afford the basic goods and services. The households belonging to these groups are said to be trapped in the ‘vicious circle of poverty

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    Paula’s voice‚ in which the entire novel is related‚ combines convincing staccato storytelling‚ slangy working-class diction‚ frank revelations‚ and agonized reconstruction of the past in sometimes profane and often touching tones. Here Paula remembers her teenaged self‚ both attracted and repelled by the man she will so disastrously marry:   He was a ride. It was the best way to describe him‚ from the first time I heard of him to the last time I saw him. He wasn’t‚t gorgeous. There was never anything

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    the majority of high positions in India’s government and lack of experience in politics and administration left Indians without knowledge or practice of governing their own country. The British outlawed certain social and religious practices such as ‘sati’ and imposed oppressive administrative laws. The main aim of the government was to collect taxes thus‚ the British were able to maintain

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    studied Science. He took his degree in Law and joined the bar of the Calcutta High Court. When Patna High Court was established (1917)‚ he shifted his practice to that Court. Meanwhile‚ from his student-day in Calcutta‚ he came under the influence of Satis Mukherjee’s ’Dawn Society’. He also acted as a volunteer at the Calcutta session of the Congress in 1906 and heard the speeches of the leaders of the time‚ Surendranath Banerjee‚ Gokhale and others. In 1917‚ his fateful meeting with Gandhiji took place

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    throughout the book can be said to be ambition and self-improvement. Pip at heart is an idealist; whenever he is convinced that something is superior to what he has‚ he immediately desires to obtain that improvement. This is best illustrated when he sees Satis house‚ which puts him into a state of mind of desiring to be a wealthy gentleman. In this novel‚ Pip’s ambition and self-improvement takes three forms: moral‚ social‚ and educational. Firstly‚ he desires moral self-improvement and is very hard on himself

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    men. In India‚ women at first had some property rights and some families were even matrilineal. However‚ Hindu laws set more restrictions on women‚ especially on those in upper classes. For example‚ a wealthy woman would have to conduct the ritual of sati and cremate herself at her husband’s funeral. Indian women‚ similar to Chinese women‚ were confined to their homes‚ and they were forced to cover themselves from head to toe when they came out. The only exceptions to restrictions on women of the classical

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