1947

The play A Streetcar Named Desire explores brutality vs. tenderness displayed through the personalities of Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois. Marlon Brando's charismatic portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in Elia Kazan's film version of A Streetcar Named Desire undermines the validity of Blanche's struggle. The contrast between Vivien Leigh's Blanche and Brando's Stanley emphasizes the most negative aspects of Blanche's character while supporting and validating the most positive of Stanley's,…

emphasis on the cultural and social importance of goods and commodities (Dunn 2008:47), and how individuals’ thoughts and behaviour are influenced by ideas through entertainment and media to produce consent for a capitalist system (Adorno and Horkheimer 1947:35). These inquiries into materialism and capitalism took prominence during the rise of industrialization and technological…

people but slowly politics became a much wider concept than ever before. It started gaining national importance at that point of time. The national movements for freedom struggle made people politically sound. After the exit of British from India in 1947, India embraced the parliamentary form of government. The people started looking up to the Indian political culture. Though our political culture has gone through many notable changes from time to time, its…

Studies have highlighted that poor state of oral health in hospitalised patients is due to low priority given to oral care provision, poor knowledge of oral procedures by healthcare professional, lack of protocols assessment tool, lack of implementation of oral care regimes and lack of staff training. There are guidelines for the provision of high quality care for oral hygiene in hospital settings, but as the research points out, there is inadequate details for family carers. The help of…

On the 12th February 1947 Christian Dior revolutionised fashion with his ‘La Corolle’ line, and brought back style, after the calamity fashion faced during Second World War. Style, perfectly summed up by Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins is “an advanced form of fashion, a consent, a rightness about cloths that distinguishes the would be chic from the real elite.” Style, a fashion paradox, a heightened awareness of decorating the body, as the ultimate expression of oneself, it is about “surviving,…

of history. Even less have helped to create a country, yet Muhammad Ali Jinnah has done both. He was a lawyer, a politician, and he was the man who led the act of creating Pakistan, a country in South Asia. This astonishing performance happened in 1947, years after Jinnah wanted it to be reality. Jinnah had a large role in the creation of Pakistan and left a questionable legacy in the process. Years before, and during the creation of Pakistan, India was ruled by the British and Indians hated…

‘territorial-dispute,’ but looks at it through a broader lens, taking into account the complexity of society and politics in the region. The book tries to shift the focus of the discussion from 1947, to the events leading up to the watershed elections held in Kashmir in 1987. He argued that the roots of the Kashmir crisis may be traced to 1947 but the continuing conflict ‘has much to do with the events that have unfolded in the…

1938 until 1947 Joy Hester was part of a colloquial group known as the ‘Angry Penguins’. She was the only women artist in the group of 4 others named, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, John Perceval and Albert Tucker. Hester would use mostly brush and…

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a well-known archaeological finding of manuscripts that recorded biblical documents and religious history, copied in the second century. The scrolls were discovered in the years 1947-1956, at Khirbet Qumran, a large area of the Dead Sea’s northwestern shore. These scrolls were retrieved from eleven different caves and are classified in three categories: Jewish literature (400 manuscripts), biblical books (200, manuscripts) and Sectarian compositions (200 manuscripts).…

Since Pakistan’s creation in 1947, the Pakistani National Assembly was located in West Pakistan, and because of this, the people of East Pakistan did not have representation in their nation’s government. The Western Pakistani’s feared that the larger population in Bengali East Pakistan…