... an atmosphere whereby women, empowered by the times, could take a stand for their equality. The 1970's saw the beginning of a highly organized modern women's movement in India. Violence against women was one of the main focuses of the movement. Harassment, wife-beating, rape, and dowry deaths ... women toiling on the land found themselves worse off than ever before. There were also severe environmental implications of the sudden and extensive use of technology. In response a number of movements emerged. Within these movements (such as the Marxist, the Farmers, and the Environmental mov...

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... the 1800's of plantations and people being forced to work the land. Although technology has replaced much of this physical labor, has slavery really ceased to exist? Many people do not realize it but indeed we do have modern-day slavery. This problem that is often over looked in today's society. It ... two-thirds of the world's captive labors - 15 to 20 million people- are debt slaves in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. This type of modern day slavery is happening right under our noses and nothing it seems is been done to stop it. While the age range varies from as young as ... se...

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... the stake, cancel each other out? If we still had the restriction of the norm of society believing in sin then the advancement of our culture and technology would have been so hindered that we would not have achieved our present state. Personally I cannot be sure of this, but it seems like the Holy ... or caste. I believe sin is more than a Godly creation; it is a human invention that was created to keep the human species in line previous to modern law. Hypothetically speaking if cows were holy in our society as well as in Hindu societies if you were to kill one you would get arrested a...

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... or money from both families for the services they provide (69). Newspapers, the Internet, television ads, and social conventions are used with the modern nayan (Prakasa 22). The term arranged marriage is thought of being an image of two people meeting for the first time, on the ... family background and especially social class. If the future mate does not meet the families requirements then he or she is rejected. The modern system of arranged marriage is somewhat similar to blind dating in the United States. The attraction between the couple is immediate. Part of ... a doll with a supe...

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... the train can provide ideal environment to rats, rodents and cockroaches. So the government for Indian railways has to take necessary precautions by taking pest control measures, design of modern toilets, providing adequate dust collecting bins at stations from which the discharge of human waste can be avoided. It is estimated that more than 4 million government employees and students ... Indian Industries (CII), Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Society for Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), FORD Motors and also with academic institutions like the Ind...

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... of social classes still exists. However, we are more generally grouped into four social classes: the upper class, the working class, the middle class, and the lower class. In the modern civilization social classes are based on wealth occupation rather than traditional ranking as during the Neolithic period. The most significant change introduced during the Neolithic period was the shift from ... , though agriculture still exists, there are a very low percentage of farmers in the work force. Today our ways of living have very much evolved from the Neolithic period. Due to technology, the ...

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... birth of Mesopotamian civilization occurred when the hunting-gathering nomadic groups banded together to farm and to seek comfort and convenience in the valleys of Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in modern Iraq within the single millennium, from 3500 to 2334 B.C. Little after the Mesopotamian civilization had been established the Harappan culture, Indus Valley Civilization, was established in the northwestern India and ... become more prevalent merchants begin to trade on land as well as on the sea. It seems as though that commerce has a great deal to do with the advent of technology and ex...

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... fuel. It will not be wrong to say that today the earth 'runs' on petroleum. Like Hercules of yore, it carries the world on its back. Yet the lifeblood of modern economy, is drying up. By 2,200 a.d all the recoverable petroleum will be used up. Two hundred years might seem like a long time, but its economic consequences are already being felt ... impact on the petroleum industry. Petroleum conservation is intricately linked with the technological improvements. In India, one of the major reason of large petroleum consumption is the use of obsolete technology. One of the major challenge be...

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