Annie Besant

Pingxuan Cao Instructor: Rebecca Levy ENWR 1510-005 21 October 2016 Family Support vs. Psychiatric Care Under the widespread influence of fraudulent advertisements and deceptive suggestions from specialists permeated in society, many people incorrectly attribute the recovery of many geniuses from madness to professional psychiatric care while overlooking the silent support they receive from their family members, which counts for the happiness and physical well-being of those gifted people. If we…

Adam Smith was a man of numerous accomplishments and goals highly influenced by his mother. When Smith graduated he took on a position at Edinburgh to deliver a series of public lectures. While doing so, it led him to work together with a philosopher named David Hume during the Scottish Enlightenment around 1750 (Enlightenment PowerPoint, Slide 12). After a year passed, his accomplishments led him to a new position at the University of Glasgow. He became a professor of moral philosophy and wrote…

tooth pain, festering sores, swollen cheeks and gums, and could even lead to death 20% of the time. As a result of these conditions and the insane number of fines that were assessed over the most ridiculous reasons, the women, with support from Annie Besant, led a strike on July 5, 1888. During this time, strikes usually did not work and resulted in no change for those involved. However, this strike, was significant to labor rights history in Britain and it led to the establishment of the…

Women In The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution began in mid 1700s in England, thanks to inventions such as the spinning jenny and the spinning mule, which allowed for farmers to produce objects at a faster rate. Although the Industrial Revolution seems to be an incredible era, there were many issues, especially issues that involved with women. For example, women had to deal with issues such as the extremely difficult workload, which was a regular occurrence before the Industrial…

When you turn on the television today what do we see? We see war, Famine, and chaos in the world that is shared by almost 7 billion people. We hear cries of warriors, of victims, and of those who struggle to make a place for themselves in the world. We hear slandering whether it be politically, or religiously. In the media today one of the most slandered of religions in the world is Islam. Since the events of 9/11 the media constantly reinstates Islam as hateful, evil, dangerous religion . When…

Annie Besant once said, “socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.” This quote illustrates that an ideal society can never be achieved if each individual begin to focus on themselves. Similarly, the narrator of JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, feels society has become dysfunctional due to self-absorbance. Holden believes the majority of people around him are “phonies”, which means they are engulfed in society’s cruel ways. Throughout…

The Bhagavad-Gita is a rather small section in the overall massive text of the Mahabharata. However, the size of this passage had no effect on its ability to influence. The likes of Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Annie Besant, and Mohandas K. Gandhi were all inspired or influenced by this text. The Bhagavad-Gita wouldn’t be the inspiring text is it today if it hadn’t been influenced by many other religious texts that came before it. The Bhagavad-Gita takes ideas from other religious…

The Manusmrti remains one of the finest embodiments of Classical Hindu law and of fundamental importance in any study on law in India. Buhler designates Manusmrti as 'Bhrigu's version of the Institutes of Sacred law proclaimed by Manu".14 Its opening verses describe how Manu, the descendent of the self¬ existent Brahmana was approached by the great sages to explain the sacred law. Buhler further explains that if the versions given by commentators like Govihdraja, Narayana and Raghavananda as…

Annie Besant as its president. One of the proudest moments of Indian womanhood was when Mrs. Vijay Lakshmi Pandit was elected as the president of the U.N. General Assembly in 1953. In the National movement, hundreds and thousands of women shed their veils and…

Hindu Rashtra is one of the most complex and misunderstood concepts of modern India. Intellectuals and opinion makers had divergent beliefs on this issue. There has been a historical significance as well as modern understanding of this concept that makes it a very widely debated issue on various print and visual media. The concept of Hindu rashtra can be understood by understanding the meaning of the two words ‘Hindu’ and ‘rashtra’ separately. The term Hindu connotes not a particular religion,…