It took me along time and most of the world to realize that home is where you feel most safe at night and comfortable in the morning. ... We camp for the night, im about to dose of before I am deprived of this pleasure by my brother who wants comfort. ... Before my parents left I was a happy child, I used to love playing in the park with dad, hitting cricket balls all-day and laughing all night. ...
We spent the night in one of the motels to get some sleep because we knew that the next day we had to do a lot of traveling and mostly on foot. ... But according to Locals, it was very dangerous and unadvisable to stay there for the night as there were plenty of wild animals and specially deadly snakes . ... Secondly, never to camp out in the night at a place like that where there Is nobody else to help or protect because some serious incidents may occur which fortunately didn't happened to us . ...
Imperialism occurs when a strong nation takes over a weaker nation or region and dominates its economic, political, or cultural life. There are several reasons why countries compete with each other when concerning imperialism. They all want to gain power and prestige. The more territory a country i...
'Oh, the roaring and singing and dancing and yelling of those black creatures in the night, which made the place a lively resemblance of hell. ' From her narrative, the Indians obviously have a completely different belief. ... Strangers in the company gave Mary Rowlandson food for numerous time and offered her warm and dry places to sleep in the night although she was just a captive. ...
Human error has always been a plague to our world, resulting in endless disasters. We tend to improve our products without referring to the reasons or causes of a previous failure. In Socrates" famous analogy of The Cave he explains how man tends to reach new levels of understanding by "coming into...
How do upper-class citizens sleep at night knowing that they are weakening and forcing lower-caste individuals to their graves. ... Many lower-castes children work all day and all night not knowing what's like to go to school and soon have a place in the world. ...
Hinduism Hinduism does not have a starting point in history, it is not mentioned in any of the old texts, it is thought to be derived from a name that was used to refer to the inhabitants of the region based along the Indus river. The term Hinduism was only introduced in the nineteenth century...
In 1757 England began a conquest to rule India. Their dream was not totally complete, but they had ruled much of the country. There were many attempts to regain India's independence but none were successful. But everything changed when Gandhi began his campaign. Mahatma Gandhi was born in India...
Reminiscences from the past year Hushed, unsuspecting and cold we bustled through the Changi arrival gates. We had no friends nor mentors - Yet ! In step representatives of SOIS. The new batch of students of Indian origin is received at the gates of Changi Airport. We get a survival guide, some s...
The sofa reminded me of how I use to fight for the remote on the sofa, the refrigerator reminded me of late night snacks/meals, the dining table reminded me of food fights, and the wall reminded me of all the "million dollar paintings" that I used to make with a pencil when I was a kid. ...
Artifacts and material objects do not require effort to be looked after and material objects are always at your disposable, but there is no authentic relationship with a material object, yet it seems our society would rather take comfort that we have our computers, televisions, pagers, and cells to go sleep at night instead of the love of fellow human beings. ...
A ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetallic solid prepared by the action of heat and its subsequent cooling. Ceramic materials may have a crystalline or partly crystalline structure, or may be amorphous (e.g., a glass). Because most common ceramics are crystalline, the definition of ceramic is often restricted to inorganic crystalline materials, as opposed to the non-crystalline glasses. The word "ceramic" comes from the Greek "keramikos" (of pottery), and from "keramos" (to burn). Hence, the word "keramos" was to infer a burned substance or burned earth. ...
This novel is divided into two broad sections: "The Ebb:Bhata" and "The Tide:Jowar." The Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans, an archipelago of hundreds of scattered islands, some densely populated while others completely uninhabited, at the mohona of several rivers in the Bay of Bengal. Here there are no borders to divide fresh water from salt, river from sea, even land from water. For hundreds of years, only the truly dispossessed braved the man-eating tigers, snakes and the crocodiles who rule these fragmented islands. Often whole islands are washed away by the cycl...
Child abuse is a global problem that is deeply rooted in cultural, economic and social practices. It is a state of emotional, physical, economic and sexual maltreatment meted out to a person below the age of eighteen and is a globally prevalent phenomenon. However, in India, as in many other countries, there has been no understanding of the extent, magnitude and trends of the problem. The growing complexities of life and the dramatic changes brought about by socio-economic transitions in India have played a major role in increasing the vulnerability of children to various and newer forms of a...
V P Menon was the Constitutional Adviser to the last three Viceroys during British rule in India. He was the only Indian in Mountbatten's inner team. Menon's plan for the partition of India into two Dominions was the one which was eventually adopted. It was Menon who realised the need to get the Princely States to accede to India before the date of independence and that Mountbatten was the ideal person to facilitate this. When the communal violence began following independence, Menon asked Mountbatten to take charge. ...
