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Leaders and followers The approaches which we discussed before were focusing on a leader who stands out from his colleagues as being special, different and leading the rest of the people. Here we will shift our discussion to other approaches that discuss the importance of the relation between the leader and his followers, in this case the leader will be represented as a team leader not a solo leader, in other word the “Servant”. Servant leadership is defined as a philosophy and set of…

To understand the nature of Lee, you have to take a step back and understand who Lee was before the Marvel phenomenon: a dispirited, middle-aged company stooge working in a dying industry, with no reason to believe anything could change. He was born Stanley Martin Lieber in Manhattan’s Upper West Side on December 28, 1922, the first child of middle-class Jewish parents. Stanley’s father, Jack, had been a dressmaker but suffered from chronic unemployment during the Depression. “Seeing the…

Buddhism is a philosophy in which one gains spiritual enlightenment which can free themselves from the cycle of rebirth, and I believe anyone can attain enlightenment through the power of Nichiren Buddhism. “Many one body, one in mind”. One of the famous quotes president Daisaku Ikeda and the presidents before had said to encourage the people in the organization of SGI. Buddhism began 2,500 years ago in India. Currently there are more than 360 million members worldwide and over a million in…

Male homosexuality has a long tradition in Japan, dating back at least a thousand years with the establishment of homosexual art, poetries, and pieces of literature, such as The Tale of Genji and the Nanshōku ōkagami (The Great Mirror of Male Love) by Saikaku. Regardless of the fact homosexuality practices were largely emphasized in early Japanese literature and promoted within society in the early periods, the notion of the homosexual seems to have declined in current Japanese culture. This…

Avant garde, when used to discuss art practices, generally connotes that which is new, innovative and often at odds with the traditional or pre-prescribed ideas of what art is or should be. Duchamp’s ready-mades with Fountain in particular, is by this (and most) definitions, a piece that comes from the modern, avant garde movement. Much of the work of of the modern, western, avant garde artists attempted to grapple with and break free of the accepted notions of art practice, and as well as…

ABIR LAL BISWAS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MRS. SWETA ANTONY MASTER OF ARTS ENGLISH (PREVIOUS) SEMESTER II 13 APRIL 2015 CULTURE AND ART: A CRITICAL CROSSOVER The origin of the very word “Culture” comes from the world of ‘agriculture’ from which it developed a metaphorical meaning in the eighteenth century for culturing the mind rather than crops. And in this sense gradually it became associated by the early nineteenth century with the knowledge of Greek, Latin and the fine arts. The acquisition…