Indian Economy and the curse of Gold The Indian economy grew at around 5% for the fiscal year ending March 31‚ 2013‚ down from 6.2% the previous year. With economic growth slowing for nearly three years now and the economy expected to grow at around 4.8% this year‚ the slump is attributed to several persistent structural issues – prominent amongst which a widening Current Account Deficit (CAD). To quote the RBI governor‚ "The biggest risk to the economy stems from the CAD." CAD represents
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Carl Sagan asked‚ based on his cosmic calendar‚ “Where would you place your own life on this timeline? Where would you place the life of one of your grandparents? What is the major disadvantage of a time line drawn to this scale? What is its advantage?” To answer his questions about where your life or the life of your loved ones would fall‚ signifies a miniscule amount of time relative to the time line of human history. You simply couldn’t place the life of any single human on this cosmic calendar
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Deviance: A necessary curse in society Deviance in the larger sense refers to the diverging from usual or acceptable standards‚ especially in social or sexual behaviour‚ as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary. But for our purpose of study we shall define deviance as any action by an individual (deviant) which is considered unacceptable in society. Kai Erikson’s “On the Sociology of Deviance” throws light upon the deviation seen in human society and how deviant behaviour might be necessary to
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1 Mobile phones: Blessing or Curse A person is in an unhealthy phase of obsessive and constant cell phone use. This may be caused by the newness of the device or by an emotional problem that makes them use the cell phone to isolate from others who surround them. Or‚ it might be that the increasing use of the cell phone by everyone else causes the person to get one of their own."[1] More often than not; people use cellphones to pull themselves away from a crowd or ring themselves to get out of
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Doux-commerce; A Blessing or a Curse?! Commerce educates people ethically chiefly through its communicative aspects‚ and it encourages conversations among equals and exchange between strangers. Commerce was supposed to civilize humans‚ to make them more sociable and to lead them to collaborate. However‚ their collision and lack of social skills and the strife to gain and excel held them back from exchanging and possessing wealth‚ as it is set in market society. Increase in commerce and growth of
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The Curse of The Opal Stone The superstition that Opal stones are evil originates from the novel ‘Anne of Geierstein’ written by Sir Walter Scott. In the novel Lady Hermione was falsely accused of being a demon‚ after holy water falls onto her opal jewelry and it changes its colour. This book effected the general public’s view of the Opal stone so much so that the Opal market completely went to shreds and Opal prices dropped by 50%. If this seems completely ludicrous‚ Google it. As time progressed
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Is cricket a curse for the other games in India? Cricket! Cricket! Cricket! Cricket has become the religion of India and the national anthem of the country‚ so much so that the word “sports” has become synonymous with cricket. Cricket runs as the life flowing blood through the veins of the multitude. The madness with which it has gripped the ignoramus masses of our country is evident from their complete capitulation to its god-like worship. Yes‚ cricket is the “god of sports” in India. I
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Mobile phones have become ubiquitous in our society. In fact‚ telephones have been around for several decades in some form or another tracing back to the invention of telephone way back in 1870s by Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander Graham Bell’s success with the design of telephone came as a direct result of his attempts to improve the telegraph which was the most widely used electronic communication device. The technology began to take shape in the late 1940s‚ when the idea of a mobile phone was
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College of Technology London NAME: Navneet Kaur Dhatt STUDENT ID: 099646-84 GROUP: 1 MODULE CODE: BRM (MEP/MBA) SUBJECT: BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS LECTURER: Jaishree Chaturvedi SUBMITTED ON: 22/08/2010 Table of Content |Sr. No. |Contents |Page No. | |1 | Proposed Working Title |3
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civilization‚ there have been many prominent advances in the field of science. However‚ as explored by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein‚ or the Modern Prometheus‚ is there ever a point or line when new discoveries made by science are not a blessing anymore‚ but a curse? Frankenstein is a novel about a brilliant young scientist named Frankenstein who discovers the ultimate secret: how to infuse life into a dead body. But his attempt at thwarting nature causes massive destruction as the monster he creates kills humans
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