The Cold War: Origins, Phases, and End
The Cold War
The Cold War was the struggle for world dominance between the capitalist countries led by the USA & formed mainly by Western Europe, Australia & Japan, & the socialists’ countries led by the USSR & formed mainly by Eastern Europe, China & Cuba. The Cold War was an indirect conflict because a war between the 2 superpowers (the USA & USSR) would have led to MAD.
MAD
Mad It is a military concept which appeared after the development of the thermonuclear fusion weapons
Read MoreIndia-Bangladesh Relations: Cooperation and Conflict
Q1. Mention one area each of cooperation and disagreement between India and Bangladesh?
Ans One area of cooperation between India and Bangladesh is in the field of trade and economic relations, where both countries have been working to enhance bilateral trade and investment.
One area of disagreement between India and Bangladesh has been regarding the sharing of river waters, particularly the Teesta River, which has been a point of contention due to differing water usage needs and concerns about equitable
Read MoreMedia Influence in Conflict Reporting
Event Driven News
News stories created due to dramatic events. Told by different perspective than official stand. Sometimes the media can’t rely on its real sources (journalists let other voices be heard)
Rally Around the Flag
Phenomenon when public’s and media’s reactions include patriotic emotions and tend to support the government’s action during the first stages of a conflict. Government’s ability to mobilize the media in times of conflict affects the way the public perceives the events.
Spiral
Read MoreIndian 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
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
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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