Phenomenon of Post Mortem Photography Abigail Altman WRT 202-108 Introduction: Victorian post mortem photography was a custom prevalent in Europe and‚ to some lesser extent‚ the United States. It was a culture where people used to pose for photographs with their deceased loved ones for memory purposes. This was a way through which families could mourn and accept the loss of their loved ones. Remembrance encouraged the practice of post mortem photography since
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Post colonialism should be referred to as the legacies of colonialism and not the end of colonialism. British interests in Indian languages arose from the necessity to cultivate the medium of intercourse between the government and its subjects. Lord Macaulay minute on Education 1835 very clearly signifies his agenda that is the Dissemination of the English language and English culture. The Englishmen wanted a class of persons who can act as interpreters between them and their subjects. People
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Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (former NYSE ticker symbol LEH) /ˈliːmən/ was a global financial services firm. Before declaring bankruptcy in 2008‚ Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the US (behind Goldman Sachs‚ Morgan Stanley‚ and Merrill Lynch)‚ doing business in investment banking‚ equity and fixed-income sales and trading (especially U.S. Treasury securities)‚ research‚ investment management‚ private equity‚ and private banking. At 1:45AM on September 15‚ 2008‚ the firm filed for Chapter
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MA in Sociology Paper II Perspectives of Indian Society-I DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE & CONTINUING EDUCATION UTKAL UNIVERSITY‚ Vani Vihar Bhubaneswar‚ India 1 UNIT-I INDOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE 1.1. Indology: Meaning and Definition Indology is known as the science of Indian Society. The Indological perspective claims to understand Indian Society through the concepts‚ theories and frameworks that are closely associated with Indian Civilization. It made a claim that Indian Society is unique in structure
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Post Modernism (1965-present): 1. responses to modernism‚ especially refusals of some of its totalizing premises and effects‚ and of its implicit or explicit distinction between ’high’ culture and commonly lived life 2. responses to such things as a world lived under nuclear threat and threat to the geosphere‚ to a world of faster communication‚ mass mediated reality‚ greater diversity of cultures and mores and a consequent pluralism 3. acknowledgments of and in some senses struggles
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Geoffrey Bawa was born in Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka)‚ the younger son of a wealthy Muslim lawyer and his Dutch Burger wife. After graduating‚ he studied English at Cambridge and Law in London. He had always preferred to be treated as a Ceylon-born European instead of a Ceylonese who had some European blood in his veins. Perhaps he came to the conclusion that he was more Asian than European‚ Bawa decided to return to Colombo in 1948. “Soon after he returned‚ he bought an abandoned rubber estate
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Inspired by the article “How social networks can destroy your social life” by John Naughton ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Komal Prakash Friday 8 November 2012 A collage of posts posted on 3 different
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Post-Colonial Literature Not losing one’s sense of identification/culture with the colonizer’s culture Language itself engages in the creation of an ‘other’ with inferior connotations/associations; terms like “vernacular” or “native”. Travel histories/writing creates notions and myths about other cultures and civilization. History and a sense of civilization comes in only with the influence of the colonizers. Justification of the empire brought forth as a civilizing mission – a creation of
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NAME____________________________________CLASS:______________________DATE: MIDTERM MAS 580‚ WINTER 2012 Multiple Choice: 1.) The value‚ skills‚ and capabilities that have a tremendous impact on an organization’s performance but does not show up on its balance sheet are known as: a. Intellectual capital b. Human capital c. Core competencies d. Employee capital 2.) To manager employees in a manner that allows human capital to develop as a source of competitive
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A PEST Analysis Report of HSBC Introduction HSBC holding plc is a global banking and financial services company headquartered in London‚ United Kingdom. The business of HSBC includes personal financial services (retail banking)‚ commercial banking‚ global banking and markets (investment banking)‚ and private banking. HSBC holding was founded in 1991 by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. The bank’s first branches were original opened in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 1865. HSBC lists
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