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This paper looks at the emergence of Hindu/Indian identity in Caribbean countries particularly Trinidad and Guyana
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“Freedom of Expression” is one of the major fundamental rights for the every human being. Without ensuring the “freedom of Expression” other rights cannot be flourished properly.” Democratic atmosphere is necessary for ensuring “freedom of Expression”. Singapore is a small island-state with a huge economic development. While the economy of Singapore flourishes hugely, the “freedom of Expression” shattered on the other hand under the The Government monitoring. The Singaporean The Government gives an explanation of restraining the “freedom of Expression” as cultural demand named “Asian Approaches” or “Asian Values” of human rights. This paper shows that the claim of cultural aspect of the Singaporean The Government is much more political than cultural. The Violation of “Freedom of Expression” is not only the violation of democracy but also the violation of International bills of human rights such as Universal declaration of Human Rights. Singaporean The Government tries to emphasize the cultural relativity approach of the human rights rather than Universal approach. But in this paper I will try to show the politics of the “Authoritarian” The Government to evolve their power and supremacy. This paper will show that the The Government steps toward the rights on “Freedom of Expression” are much more contradictory even with the Constitutional framework which is the strait proof of the political interest of the The Government for sustaining their power. Attempt is made to clarify the obstacles from the The Government on the issue of ensuring “freedom of expression “and human rights situation in Singapore and finally strategy suggestions are made in light of the results of the study. Key Words: Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, Universal declaration of Human Rights, Asian Approaches, Singapore,
Finding how you are related to your friends can be a very difficult task. In an effort to provide an easy solution, I have created the Relative Finder Facebook Application which uses pedigree information from New Family Search and logic from the Relative Finder website. It allows users to discover their familial relationship to Facebook friends, easily share results, and invite others to participate. By finding users’ familial relationships, more genuine interest in genealogy may be generated.
Canlas is an independent consultant with more than twenty five years of development work experience in the Philippines and South East Asian countries in government, NGO͛s and working with donors. She has undertaken sector and organization reviews in the fields of natural resource management, community-based development, and agrarian, agriculture and fisheries sectors. As an institutional advisor, she provides strategic organizational development support in a collaborative framework among multi-stakeholders partnerships. She has knowledge and practical experience in the integration of cross-cutting themes such as gender and development and skills on cross-cultural engagement and communications.
This research paper attempts to comprehensively examine juvenile delinquency in a sample of ten U.S. states from a structural functionalist perspective by comparing the rates of juvenile delinquency in these states to the relative amount of school funding that these areas receive. The sates that comprise the sample are Illinois, Louisiana, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, South Dakota, and West Virginia. These states were chosen for their relative polarity regarding rates of juvenile arrests, thus allowing school funding to be easily cross compared at the state level. This research is deductive in nature and draws heavily on existing sociological research and classical social theory in an attempt to examine whether or not a causal relationship exists between the rates of Juvenile delinquency and school funding among the sample states. The findings affirm that where children go to school, how much funding their schools receive, and in what form is strongly correlated to their socialization and the frequency of their contacts with the criminal justice system.
Among the surprising things we hear from these young ignoramuses is the following: µAhmad b. Hanbal is not a jurisconsult but a scholar of Traditions ¶. Now, that is the utmost limit of ignorance! For on his authority there were collected juridical preferences founded on the Prophetic Traditions such as to exceed the competence of the majority among them. On his authority also were collected fine points of law such as cannot be found in the work of a single one among them. Such criticism could be considered only by a heretical innovator, whose heart is split asunder, because of the obscurity of his doctrine and the wide diffusion of the religious knowledge of Ahmad; so that most of the religious scholars say, µMy fundamental principles in the roots of the law are those of Ahmad. 1 For Hanbalites, their school ¶s source preferences for apostolic traditions (hadith pl.
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The study identifies European colonialism and the historical context of Indian indentureship as key factors. Hindu practices remained largely exclusive to Indian origin due to the interconnectedness of identity, faith, and social structures.
The indenture system facilitated a collapse of caste distinctions as laborers were integrated into cohesive communities. By sharing living spaces under harsh conditions, traditional hierarchies diminished, creating a more unified identity among Indian laborers.
Colonial policies aimed to suppress traditional practices and promote Christianity, yet led to the resilient adaptation of Hindu customs instead. The establishment of mandirs and observance of rituals showcased the successful preservation of Hindu identity despite external pressures.
Mortality rates among indentured laborers during migration averaged a significant 17% per voyage due to disease and neglect. This high death toll created fragmented communities, placing surviving members into a struggle for economic and social stability upon arrival.
Indian women were crucial in sustaining cultural and religious practices amidst adversity, often acting as custodians of traditions. Their roles ranged from managing households under plantation systems to ensuring the continuation of rituals and festivals, pivotal for community identity.
This study is focusing on race and 'urban' music. It is exploring whether black music is akin to Atlantic slavery in terms of representation, political economy and consumption. By comparing and semiotically analysing images of Lil' Kim and 50 Cent with blacks during slavery, longitudinal stereotypical themes were found. Foucault power/knowledge constructs and Said's Orientalism were applied as frameworks within discourse analysis methodologies. The findings suggest that construction of blackness in music, contributes towards systematic exclusion by denying black people equality in everyday life.
Picture this: it is 1945. World War II is finally over. London is in ruins after years of bombing by the Germans. How does a country rebuild after such a tragedy? One of the reactions was a widespread nostalgia that characterized the late1940s and 1950s. Individuals were nostalgic about the world of the early twentieth century, before the horrors technology brought during both World Wars. Some, like post-war British novelists, Angela Thirkell and Evelyn Waugh, created characters profoundly disillusioned by post-war society who wanted to return to a pre-World War II England. Poet Robert Graves, idealized mythology and Goddess worship. Academics, like Mircea Eliade and Joseph Campbell, stressed the importance of returning to a mythological, pre-Industrial lifestyle. And J.R.R. Tolkien completed his fictionalized English mythology. And one man, Gerald Gardner, synthesized a new religion that had over one hundred adherents within five years in England. That religion was Wicca. Why should we, as historians, study Wicca – a non-mainstream religion? On its website, Religious Tolerance states, “Wicca is the fifth largest organized religion in the United States, behind Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism.” The United States Congress officially recognized Wicca as a religion in 1973. Its growth is not stagnant; Wicca continues to gain new adherents every year, the majority of whom are women. Hit television shows, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed, contribute to Wicca’s shift into the mainstream consciousness in the United States over the past decade. Llewllyn Worldwide is the largest publisher of pagan, New Age, and Wicca-themed products in the world. While Wicca is a non-mainstream religion today, its current growth pattern indicates that it may become a world religion during the twenty-first century. I want to know how this religion grew so quickly, in light of the fact that its original adherents insisted upon secrecy. Unfortunately, there continues to be misconceptions about Wicca. There is a perception that adherents engage in Satanic rituals, which often includes violence, Many of these misconception lead to legal challenges. Over the past twenty years, the main challenges have surrounded the ability to worship for incarcerated prisoners and military servicemen / servicewomen. The courts overwhelmingly rule that Wiccans have all the religious privileges as adherents of world religions. Nostalgia motivated the first community of modern Wiccans to create a sacralized world that countermanded their disillusionment. In my project, I will analyze the creation and popularization of early Wicca as a social movement that consciously returned to a pre-Christian, agriculturally based religious experience. Its creation was viable because of the societal changes and widespread disillusionment in Great Britain following the end of World War II. The great myth of Wicca states its founder Gerald Garner was initiated into a British witchcraft coven in 1939. He spent the next decade learning the secrets of a pre-Christian religion. Then, he broke his vow of secrecy with the publication of Witchcraft Today in 1951. However, it is historically doubtful there was a witchcraft tradition that survived from the Renaissance into modern times. According to the research of Ronald Hutton and Philip Heselton, it is more likely that Gardner synthesized philosophical, historical, anthropological, religious, and literary sources into a comprehensive religious system between 1939 and his death in 1964.
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