on social networking sites.Human socialization is fading.There is a constant threat of cyber snooping in people’s personal life.As these mediums have the ability to spread a message at a rocket speed to a very vast audience‚some notorious and fundamentalist groups are using it to spread hatred among different communities.for example the recent unfortunate event of mass exodus of north east people from some southern Indian cities to their respective homes in northeast was triggered by threats spread
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More Than a Veil A Feminist Readings of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis Cultural differences have been on the foreground of the ongoing struggle between the United States and Iran since the 1970’s. Stereotypes are built on misunderstandings which can prove costly in international relationships. Our national media coverage of Iran portrays radical Islamic men oppressing their female counterparts. Many American citizens have narrow opinions on Iranian women‚ most of them dealing with the infamous veil
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personal agenda. She satirizes the political system that uses faith to validate its mandate‚ and justify its more questionable laws. Clearly the use of religion for political purposes is one of the central themes of the novel; Atwood takes a set of fundamentalist religious beliefs followed by certain fringe elements in contemporary society and takes them to their logical end to highlight their true despotic nature. In Gilead‚ politics and religion go hand in hand. The Sons of Jacob use religion
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Christian fundamentalist and the Islam extremist needs to be stepped; their society destroying action could be prevented. Most of the time‚ the leaders of these radical groups have their own hidden agenda‚ they are uneducated ideates‚ or simply lunatics like Hitler driven by their own hatred. And their followers are just line up with their leaders no question asks with a single believe that they are doing God’s work. In South Park episode “passion of the Jew”‚ Cartman play a role as the Christian
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Policy Forum Globalization and Culture C ritics of globalization contend that‚ even if increased trade promotes material prosperity‚ it comes with a high spiritual and cultural cost‚ running roughshod over the world’s distinctive cultures and threatening to turn the globe into one big‚ tawdry strip mall. George Mason University economist and Cato adjunct scholar Tyler Cowen has for years been one of the most insightful and incisive debunkers of that view. At a recent Cato Book Forum‚ Cowen
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Inherit the Wind: historical allusions * *What is a historical allusion – reference to people or events that have historical significance and symbolism * In literature this helps the character become more relatable as well as more easily create a connection with the reader * *Inherit the Wind’s has various historical allusions such as the 3 Kings; Julius Caesar‚ Charlemagne and Richard I * We will discuss how the 3 Kings allow the reader to understand the character and
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South Carolina’s very first openly gay legislature comes from the most improbable of homes‚ where a conservative part of the state has the Christian Fundamentalist School Bob Jones University. The republican representative‚ Jason Elliot‚ the first openly gay divorce attorney in south Carolina says his sexual orientation is unimportant in the role he plays working at the statehouse. He says his focus will be set on improving education‚ increasing jobs‚ and repairing and up keeping the states derelict
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other people must have some hint of truth to it. As Kanazawa says “Many stereotypes are empirical generalizations with a statistical basis and thus on average tends to be true. If they are not true‚ they would not be stereotypes" ("The Scientific Fundamentalist"). Although some people argue that stereotypes are just over generalizations‚ and that people use them to perceive the stereotyped groups’ characteristics‚ most stereotypes are true as what is generally accepted in society must be somehow grounded
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much reason to question certain aspects of the Islamic religion- specifically the violence that it portrayed. I did recall of quite a few civil unrests that broke out back in my younger days‚ and these were mostly attributed to local Islamic fundamentalists who started what they believed in their interpretation was a "Jihad". Today the local news in my country is filled with reporting of daily killings of innocent and unarmed people by the terrorist group known as "Boko-Haram". They have killed
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“Youth” terrorist organization HLSS June 9‚ 2013 The organization Al-Shabaab‚ or "The Youth‚" is an al-Qaeda-linked group and U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization fighting for the creation of a fundamentalist Islamic state in Somalia.i The group‚ also known as Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen‚ and its Islamist affiliates once held sway over Mogadishu and major portions of the Somali countryside‚ but a sustained African Union military campaign in recent
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