...politician, diplomat, statesman, writer, scientist, intellectual, and philosopher. There was no other founding father that had the comprehensive knowledge and extensive intelligence than Jefferson. Even with all his education and knowledge, Jefferson believed Republicanism required a homogeneous population. Even though he believed the blacks and the Indians would be the downfall of Republican society due to slavery. In Jeffersons view, slavery violated blacks right to liberty and undermined the white man’s self-control. By 1822 Jefferson owned 267 slaves and was worried about losing any of the newborn slaves which was known as “profits”. For Jefferson, slaves provided the means for him to live a life of leisure and to follow the Enlightenment and Republican ideals....
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...is a citizen of India (NRI) can acquire by way of purchase, any immovable property in India other than agricultural land/plantation property/farm house. He can transfer any immovable property other than agricultural or plantation property or farm house to: a) A person resident outside India who is a citizen of India or b) A person of Indian origin resident outside India or c) A person resident in India. He may transfer agricultural land/ plantation property / farm house acquired by way of inheritance, only to Indian citizens permanently residing in India. Payment for acquisition of property can be made out of: i. Funds received in India through normal banking channels by way of inward remittance from any place of India or ii. Funds held in any non-resident account maintained in accordance with the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 and the regulations made by Reserve Bank Of India from time to time. Such payment can not be made either by traveller’s cheque or by foreign currency notes or by other mode than those specially mentioned above. A person resident outside India who is a person of Indian Origin (PIO) can acquire any immovable property in India other than agricultural land / farm house / plantation property:i. By way of purchase out of funds received by way of inward remittance through normal banking channels or by debit to his NRE/ FCNR(B)/ NRO account. ii. By way of gift from a person resident in India or a NRI or...
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...Narisha Reddy Professor Gohar Siddiqui English 2250 - 01 Intertextuality in Slumdog Millionaire Scenes: First question and back-story Slumdog Millionaire is a film adapted by the novel, Q&A (2005) written by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup. The film tells a story of a young boy named Jamal Malik who lived in the slums of Mumbai, India. While he was a tea server at a call center, he ended up on the Indian TV show version of a British TV show called Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? On the show he is asked a series of questions in which he correctly answers all of them. Because he gets so many questions right the police are suspicious that he is cheating. As a result, Jamal is taken to the police office and tortured into telling how he cheated. However, when the police officers replay each question, Jamal explains to them how he knew the answers with flashbacks that end up being linked to different key events in his life. Throughout this film there are many examples of intertextuality. Intertextuality is when some text makes a reference to another text. In the movie Slumdog Millionaire, intertextuality is used to reference Hindi Cinema and the original TV show, Kaun Banega Cororepati. The scene that I will analyze in this paper is the scene where Jamal is in the hot seat of the TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and he is asked his first question. The scene then goes onto a flashback to his childhood and unreels how he knows the answer to the question “Who was...
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...addresses some technological and economic problems and well as explaining empires and republics on the rise during the following decade. The Next Decade is a comprehensive and remarkable analysis that encompasses the issues and benefits for being a super power. The United States has unintentionally become a global empire, and the role of the United States President is to serve as the world’s most important political diplomat. It is noted that the President must be able to at least promote the quintessential virtues, ethics, and tradition of the one of the greatest countries in the world. The greatest battle of the decade is predicted to be how the United States will react to leadership that will be interested in the economic dealings rather than serving the American people. Friedman made a bold and unshakable declaration: America is an imperial empire. He gives the overview of what America will be facing in the upcoming years which includes balance of power. Also America could lose itself as a Republic. The book starts with a summarized historical background and explains current political situations that are happening globally. It then analyzes each geographical region and assessment plans. The Next Decade is a comprehensive and remarkable analysis that encompasses the issues and benefits for being a super power. A main theme of the book is how the American administrations of the next ten years will need to create global power balances. Friedman describes America's success with global...
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...The United States victory over the British in the American Revolution stated with the idea to stand up for the rights of man, and to voice their opinions to the monarchy that ruled the colonist from across the sea. Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine wrote about independence from British, and diplomats such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson helped the Continental Congress start to challenge the oppressive British rule. The great leader of the Continental Army George Washington was the man who was responsible for leading the army to victory. The political challenges in the revolutionary war political, British government raised revenue to help cover the cost of the French and Indian war by taxing the colonies with the Stamp Act of 1765. The British thought it was fair to issue the tax on the people it spent all the money to protect. However, the speech in March of 1775 by Patrick Henry who said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" encouraged the colonist to stand up for their rights. The British later repealed the acts, to try and appease the unrest in the colony. However, the British still needed money to pay their war debt, so the Townshend Tariffs of 1767 placed a tax on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. Again, the colonist were unhappy, so in...
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...Abstract The Iroquois Indians are regarded as the original inhabitants of New York State and Ontario. Prior to being colonized by the Europeans, mainly the British and French, there were five sub-tribes in the Iroquois nation. The Iroquois Indian has existed in North America for the last 4000years. The tribe consists of a well structured social, political, cultural and economic set up. Iroquois confederacy served the purpose of uniting the Indian tribes. The confederacy consisted of six Indian nations. This union provided the Indian tribes with an upper hand when negotiating with Europeans. The Iroquois Indians also had a council known as Onondaga that formed the purpose of serving the entire Indian tribes. The tribe was able to protect its farmland as a result of establishing strong military and efficient governance. Their association with the Dutch enabled the tribe to conquer the neighboring tribes. The union, that brought five tribes together and later joined by the Tuscarora in 1712, provided the native tribes of North America authority in terms of fighting for their rights in the mainstream society. The Iroquois Indians The Iroquois are part of the Indian tribes considered in history as the original occupants of Northern America. They are believed to originate from the soil just like trees that grow in the forest. This Indian tribe lived in settlements surrounded by lakes, hills, and forests. The Iroquois Indians believe they originated near Oswego...
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...Foreign policy of india. When India became independent on August 15, 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became her first Prime Minister. For long seventeen years (1947-1964), he remained in power and during this long period he was the central figure of India’s foreign policy making. It was Nehruji who framed and guided the Foreign Policy of India. To Pandit Nehru non-alignment was the corner stone of India’s foreign policy. He adopted this policy for various reasons, which may be divided into material and immaterial or spiritual reasons. The geographical and economic condition of India just after independence served as the material reasons for his favoring the policy of non-alignment. India’s next door neighbour on one side is People’s Republic of China and on the other is Pakistan, the arch enemy of India since her very emancipation from the British yoke. Nehru could easily realize that if India joins any of these two blocks, she would bring the rage of the other on her. It was indeed a crucial problem for the newly independent India and so he had chosen the path of non-alignment. Moreover, in order to guard her saturated post-independent economic condition India seriously needed the co-operation of both the big powers, U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. and their satellites the developed countries of Europe. Her entry into one bloc would not only make the members of the other bloc hostile to her interest but also might jeopardize her very independence. For this economic consideration India...
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...The Founding Father The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Socrates once said “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings.” This is exactly what the men known as the wisest American achieved: self-betterment through readings and writings of other authors. In his Autobiography Benjamin Franklin takes us not only into a tour of his life but also in the journey he traveled in the 18th century, which allowed him to become the person we know of today. Franklin’s determination to persevere and learn from writings of other authors is the key points of the Autobiography that help make it an inspirational self-empowered autobiography. Unlike many other autobiographies Franklin starts this one as a letter to his son and governor of New Jersey in 1771, William Franklin. He writes in an attempt to inform his son of the life he once traveled. In this part of the Autobiography we are introduced to his family genealogy. Through this we find out that he is the youngest of the youngest son, Josiah, who though he made and sold candles and soap was a well-respected man. His mother Abiah, being a woman, had only one choice and that was to be a stay at home mom and take care of their children. Though at the time most men were put into trades and molded into being apprentices, Josiah saw something unique in Franklin and decided to enroll him into grammar school, marking the beginning of Franklin’s lifelong and impressive career. At age twelve Franklins...
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...16th century, it went through the process of colonization, on April 1500 by a Portuguese diplomat on their way to India for goods. Brazil first colonizers were the Native Indians in the country, at first the Indians and Portuguese worked together during harvest but later on the Portuguese decided to enslave them. Since the enslavement of Indians did not work out they turned to the African slave trade for their workforce. For the next two centuries after the discovery of Brazil, it had to deal periodically with foreign powers on the hunt for Brazil’s resources. Such countries as England, France, and Spain sought out to fight the...
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...compromises over divisive identity politics. It was a speech that again underscored just how different Trudeau’s tone would be from his conservative predecessor Stephen Harper, who historian Robert Bothwell said “probably was the most cynical prime minister in Canadian history.” Differences are already being felt. After a divisive campaign where identity issues featured prominently, Trudeau’s...
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...Citizenship Debate Part II Purpose and Audience 2. I do not think Chavez expected her audience to agree with her position as it was posted in the politically conservative section of the Wall Street Journal. Before I read the political background section of Linda Chavez, I had thought the author to be liberal. But after reading the excerpt I the beginning of the publication, I noticed that she was a Hispanic Conservative. I could tell that Linda Chavez did not expect her audience to agree with her when she stated that “Repealing birthright citizenship is a terrible idea.” Most conservatives wish to dismiss birthright citizenship, but in this passage she explains the significance of it, and what it would do to the future of the nation. 4. One example is when she explains the origins of birthright citizenship dating back to 1898 with the Chinese. She also states the first immigration restrictions on the Chinese due to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Another example of Chavez that states upon American History is the Supreme Court Case U.S v. Wong Kim Ark. These statements support her argument by giving actual representation within early American History of a case/example involving birthright citizenship. Through her appeal to logos with these statements of American History it makes the audience evoke a much rational, cognitive response. Therefore her statements made in the story are very convincing due to a real reference from history. Style and Structure 2. I believe that...
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...result of a series of social, political, and intellectual transformations in early American society and government, collectively referred to as the American Enlightenment. Americans rejected the oligarchies common in aristocratic Europe at the time, championing instead the development of republicanism based on the Enlightenment understanding of liberalism. Among the significant results of the revolution was the creation of a democratic elected representative government responsible to the will have of the people. However, sharp political debates erupted over the appropriate level of democracy desirable in the new government, with a number of Founders. Seventeen sixty-three was a year of great celebration; it was the year of the French and Indian War’s end. The British defeated the French and their Native American allies, in North America. The colonists were pleased with the British victory, because they could now live in peace. However, as time passed and the costs of the war were being charged to the colonies, the 13 began to feel enmity toward England. The...
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...Question: 2. What are the key reasons for the continued hostility in Indo-Pak relations? What steps in your opinion can the two countries take to develop and sustain cordial relations in the twenty-first century? Introduction “Indo-Pak rivalry is the uncompromising struggle of two ways of life, two concepts of political organisation, two conflicting ideological foundations, two scales of values, and two spiritual attitudes that find themselves locked in deadly conflict, a conflict in which Kashmir has become both symbol and battleground, making the Indo-Pak rivalry an enduring one (Ashok 2012, 1)”. This essay will argue that the key reasons underlying the continued hostility in Indo-Pak relations are due to an antithetical idea of state identity. This essay will first outline the origins of the Indo-Pak conflict in order to give historical context to the conflict. It will be argued that the predisposing conditions for the conflict are a fundamental ideological difference in state construction which is closely linked to the second condition being the irredentist/anti-irredentist relationship between India and Pakistan. This essay will firstly consider the differences in state identity by outlining the fundamentals of Indo-Pak state construction with particular focus on why India and Pakistan feel their ideological existence is threatened by the other. Subsequently, the irredentist/anti-irredentist relationship will be outlined and considered in the context of the enduring...
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...the Louisiana territory used expansion and exploration as a way to excite Americans and fuel patriotism. Exploration and “The spread of the nation further West would eventually help the country become a world power” (McNeese). Gaining control of the Louisiana purchase allowed for the U.S. to explore and develop the region at its own pace. All in all, the price of the territory made it a vital investment and would later become known as the greatest land purchase in U.S. history (McNeese). The land expansion allowed for the exploration and discovery of new resources, species, and biomes. Next, the Louisiana Purchase gained control of not only the New Orleans port, but also the entirety of the Mississippi River. Robert Livingston, a U.S. diplomat in France, spent nearly 14 months negotiating with French dictator, Napoleon Bonaparte (Zurn 7). Jefferson had sent Livingston to France with the plan to buy New Orleans and the surrounding area Napoleon was willing to sell (Davenport). As stated by John C. Davenport, Jefferson rightfully believed that “Ownership of New Orleans would protect American commerce, promote agricultural development, and ensure progress towards. . . seeding the continent with democratic ideals and institutions.” New Orleans was a crucial seaport needed to obtain complete access along the Mississippi River. The U.S. control over the New Orleans port would be essential for trade both north and south, and throughout the world. Yet, Napoleon declined all of Livingston’s...
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...The Impact of the Franco- Britain Conflict on Subsequent Events “The global struggle between the French and British Empire influenced certain key events in history from 1750 to 1805. These events including the French and Indian war, by the seven year war, the American Revolution, the French Revolution and it's impact on American domestic and foreign policies, and the Louisiana purchase and it's consequences.” Colonial era diplomacy focused on the European balance of power. The competition between the French and the British often influenced the course of events in the North American colonies. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775 For almost three centuries, the European colonial powers of France and Great Britain, maintained...
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