Indian Constitution and Secularism: Scholar Opinions

PSIR Scholars.

INM

Scholar name

  • Edward Said – Orientalism. Myth of white man’s burden.
  • Bipin Chandra – INM -warmth- present times
  • Francis Hutchins – Gandhi- politician Non-violence -bring people in
  • Immanuel Wallerstein – Colonialism concept by Marxists, Core and peripheries
  • Rabindranath Tagore – When the British will leave,they will leave filth
  • Tirthankar Roy – Deindustrialization is a myth, Real problem is lack of public investment
  • economist John Hurd – railway network lead to a rise in income levels
  • Jawaharlal
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Struggle of the Miners in Bizkaia: A Call to Mobilization

INTRODUCTION

  • TYPE OF TEXT: Primary source. As regards the form, it is an article, a propaganda text, narrative; in the content, it is a social-political text.
  • AUTHOR: Socialists, Socialist Bulletin "La Lucha de Clases", published by the socialist committees of Bilbao, Gallarta and La Arboleda (inspired by Facundo Perezagua and founded by Tomás Meabe in 1894).
ADDRESSEE: Workers of Bizkaia (miners), but also the Government, therefore it is a public text.
  • OBJECTIVE: Denounce the working conditions of 
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Understanding Language: Compositionality and Discourse Processing

CHAPTER 6: Compositionality:

The concept that there are fixed rules for combining units of language in terms of their form that result in fixed meaning relationships between the words that are joined together.

Constituent:

A syntactic category consisting of a word or (more often) a group of words (e.g., noun phrase, prepositional phrase) that clump together and function as a single unit within a sentence.

Intransitive Verbs:

Verbs that take a subject but no object, such as (Joe) sneezes or (Keesha) laughs.

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Labor Movement and Basque Nationalism in Spain

Indalecio Prieto and the Spanish Socialist Party

In the first decade of the 20th century, Indalecio Prieto became a leading figure of socialism in the Basque provinces. He became an important Spanish politician during the “Pereagua´s downfall (1910-1914)”. In that period, Perezagua was charged with the failure of the 1910 strike (he accepted the 9.5 hour workday, whereas worked demanded 8); also, Pablo Iglesisa gave him two commands  Perezagua did not agree with: to prioritize the political

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Impact of Feminism on Gender Representation in Media

A collective identity is the shared sense of belonging to a group. The collective identities are also genders like women. Women are a collective that have suffered a lot through media representation like how they are represented in films, adverts and also in music videos that represent this group like objects with no intelligence and sometimes as servers for a man. Before people behaviors were to reinforce their masculinity or femininity these now have disappeared and as Stryker says every gender

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Evolution of Industrial Systems in the United States

Second Industrial System

  • Who: United States
  • What: Massive phase of rapid production of basic goods and goods for industry – especially steel
  • When: 1870-1914
  • Where: United States

Third Industrial System

  • Who: U.S.
  • What: Mass production of basic goods and goods for industry and unnecessary consumer goods
  • When: 1920s
  • Where: U.S.

Post-Industrial System

  • Who: United States
  • What: Period of globalization – having stuff made in places outside the U.S. – beginning of transnational companies
  • When: After Vietnam
  • Where:
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