Transcending Sociolinguistics: Language‚ Caste and Power in India Sociolinguistics and the Language Problem in India Though there has been a long tradition of studying and interpreting language in India‚ most of these studies are in descriptive‚ technical or structural mode. For long‚ language has been seen as a non-political or apolitical phenomenon and its study has remained restricted to its structure. India also has a long tradition in the study of language
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Involvement Of India in Afghanistan Due to its geo-strategic location between the Central Asian‚ South Asian‚ and Middle Eastern security complexes‚ Afghanistan is often defined as an insulator state‚ and sometimes also as a connector. This in-between position has led to constant instability: ever since the creation of the Durrani Empire‚ the country has suffered from internal power struggles as well as outside interference. External attempts to control Afghanistan have nonetheless proven extremely
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Investment Is Good in Afghanistan In fact‚ business investment in Afghanistan has begun a very short time ago. The reason that businessmen did not invest in that time was because they did not have enough opportunities. Also‚ the businessmen and investors were not seeing any income in Afghanistan. Besides‚ there were many other reasons which were avoiding investors to invest in this devastated country. However‚ some Afghan and foreigner businessmen became interested to invest in Afghanistan since the new
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Trade Center had collapsed by forceful means. This was the ignition to why Canada had to fight alongside the United States of America under NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and other countries in the otherwise “pointless” war known as the Afghanistan war. In other words‚ the involvement
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Women’s Rights Violations in Afghanistan Martin Luther King Jr. once said‚ "True peace is not merely the absence of tension‚ it is the presence of justice.” It means that without equality‚ there is no real end to a conflict. Equality is one of the many human rights every person is entitled to. It is never acceptable to deny people their basic human rights; however‚ this has occurred frequently throughout history. A wide variety of groups have been discriminated against through violations of human
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How the Taliban Changed Afghanistan Khaled Hosseini’s novel‚ The Kite Runner‚ follows the life of a young boy living in Afghanistan; a very different Afghanistan than the one we know today. Through his eyes we see the country he loves‚ his home‚ torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union‚ then a civil war‚ before finally being taken over by an extremely strict religious group called the Taliban. This series of horrible events destroys everything he loved about Afghanistan; it claims the lives of
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what women’s rights in Afghanistan have always been like. Before the conflict in the 1970s began‚ the future looked bright for Afghan women. They were given the right to vote in 1919‚ gender separation was abolished in the 1950s‚ and a new constitution promised more equality for women in the 1960s. Contrary to photographs the Western world sees of Afghan women dressed in burqas from head-to-toe‚ Horia Mosadiq‚ who was just a young girl when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979‚ recalls a very
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1. What problems can you see in the way project managers were assigned in the past? In the past there was not given enough emphasis on project management. a. Project managers were only involved insufficiently because they were only involved after the sales department had signed the contract. b. Anyone can be assigned as a project leader. Therefore‚ not everybody of the company has proper knowledge or enough experience‚ which leads to wrong decisions. c. Also trainees could perform as project
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Women in Afghanistan expected to be self-discipline. Mariam is understanding and kind-hearted person. She has a great respect to her mother nana. Even though‚ Mariam sometimes will not listen to her‚ she always loves and obeys her mother Nana. After Jahil’s visits‚ Nana was frustrated with Mariam’s behavior‚ she said‚ "Learn this now and learn this well‚ my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north‚ a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that Mariam"(Hosseini 7)
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Steve McCurry took this image of “The Afghan Girl” in 1989‚ it’s one of the most powerful portraits to ever courtesy the National Geographic Magazine’s cover to this day. This image has become a prized possession along with a global symbol‚ and for a photographer‚ that’s like winning the Nobel Prize. Since the late 1800’s National Geographic Magazine has had their readers on the edge of their seats with spectacular stories and photos from around the globe. The overpowering “images leave lasting imprints
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