“APING THE WEST” Of late the trend has been to follow whatever is done in the west and it is becoming a sort of in-thing to be doing it. Is it due to liberalization of economy that we are also attempting to liberalize our life style. Indians have started aping the west completely and the western influences can be clearly seen in our behavior‚ culture‚ attire and even language. Though to say‚ we are an independent nation but instead of promoting our culture‚ we are aping the west and one would
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Some areas of knowledge are defined by their methodologies‚ others by their content. Discuss. To what extent is an area of knowledge defined by their methodology? To understand this question‚ we will first have to understand what methodologies mean in this context. According to my own understanding‚ methodology is the application of a particular procedure in an area of study. It is essentially the path taken to pursue knowledge. Although methodology and content seems to be two separate
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Central Mississippi River Valley I chose to write my paper based off of the article “Geologic history of the central Mississippi River Valley area in a nutshell” written by Dr. Roy Van Arsdale. Dr. Van Arsdale starts his book off by saying that we often associate the Mississippi River Valley with the adventures of Lewis and Clark‚ through Mark Twain‚ and finally to where it is now‚ expansive farming. He goes on to explain that in order to really understand and grasp all that the Mississippi River
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INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE NIGERIAN ENVIRONMENT: PARADOX AND REALITY[1] BY AbbasBashir Department of Geography‚ School of Envirinmental sciences‚ Modibbo Adama University of Technology‚Yola‚ Nigeria Email: bashirmafindi@yahoo.com Introduction The Nigerian nation like most other developing countries have shown high regards for‚ and indeed embarked on different schemes and policies of industrial development because it is generally believed that industrialization
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Literature 2009‚ 47:4‚ 1029–1075 http:www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jel.47.4.1029 Beyond GDP: The Quest for a Measure of Social Welfare Marc Fleurbaey* This paper critically examines the various approaches to the measurement of individual well-being and social welfare that have been considered for the construction of alternatives to GDP. Special attention is devoted to recent developments in the analysis of sustainability‚ in the study of happiness‚ in the theory of social choice and
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the world in the political and technological fields. This can be attributed to specific choices and attitudes western nations took in three key points of world history: the fifteenth‚ nineteenth and twentieth century. One reason I believe that the West came to predominate over the rest of the world in the fifteenth century is the stagnation of innovative ideas in eastern countries due to isolation. In the early 15th century China‚ with its massive ships called junks‚ dwarfed the power of any western
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Environmental protection 1 Environmental protection Environmental protection is a practice of protecting the natural environment on individual‚ organizational or governmental levels‚ for the benefit of the natural environment and humans. Due to the pressures of population and technology‚ the biophysical environment is being degraded‚ sometimes permanently. This has been recognized‚ and governments have begun placing restraints on activities that cause environmental degradation. Since the 1960’s
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Black people homes looked more like shacks‚ but for white people houses were better‚ but don’t look like our homes today. The climate is warm‚ summers are hot and winters cool. My opinion on the adults in Prom Night in Mississippi‚ the white parents like to stick to tradition‚ if they ever saw a coloured person with their child or near their property‚ they would be in big danger. Jessica’s friend who was black dropped her home in the same car as her. But‚ when her step-dad
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Throughout the course of the first half of the semester we have taken a broad scope of the major aspects of the phenomena that has been the recent history of China. When studying Modern China a common thread of ethical‚ cultural‚ religious‚ political‚ social‚ and economic aspects can be analyzed in relationship to Confucianism and its affect on international relations. These aspects show that historically (particularly the nineteenth century) China initially resisted the acceptance of Western influence
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CHAPTER NATURAL VEGETATION H ave you ever been to a forest for a picnic? You might have surely gone to a park if you live in a city or to a mango‚ guava or coconut orchard‚ if you live in a village. How do you differentiate between the natural vegetation and the planted vegetation? The same variety may be found growing wild in the forest under natural conditions and the same tree may be the planted one in your garden under human supervision. Natural vegetation refers to a plant community
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