Foot binding

Key to the Cornerstone Gusty winds snaked across the sandy African landscape, bursting drafts of gritty heat upon the cracked ground below. Draughts weaved through the clay houses barren and lifeless with not a soul to be seen. The village had been deserted. Piling in small heaps against the rugged walls of the shacks, the sandstorm collected its silt within crooks and nicks wherever it could find them. Tousled door flaps snapped and wagged in the perturbation. Death rented the air. Although…

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP) is known to be the first “self styled” 21st century trading agreement” (Financial Times, 2013). The twelve-member club comprises of The US, Peru, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Australia, Brunei, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and New Zealand. Its aim is to “deepen trade by addressing matters like government procurement, intellectual property protection and the conduct of state owned enterprises. It is also meant to update trade agreements including post-WTO…

Patriarchy has been defined in a variety of ways, initially set out as a concept by Millett in 1970 (cited in Bryson, 1999), and later fully developed by Walby in Theorizing Patriarchy (1990). However, the concept was widely critiqued, and fell into dis-use, although it has been the subject of attempts to re-position it as an academic concept (e.g. Hunnicutt, 2009). This essay aims to discuss the prevalent accepted definition of patriarchy, and the criticisms made of it, before analysing more…

Not necessarily, I do maintain any order of my reading, neither do I control. There isn’t a clue what factor dominates the list of my readings! Lately, my fiction reading narrowed in a specific area, obviously the criteria of selections indicate my recent reading focal point. It’s Bengali Diaspora literature, not the whole, but a major portion of the chunk, which is available in the open market. I remember the instigation of this diasporas reading. It is Zadie Smith, who I consider the pioneer…

This island has to be saved for its trees, it has to be saved for its animals it is a part of a reserve forest, it belongs to a project to save tigers, which is paid for by people from all around the world….who love animals so much that they are willing to kill us for them…this whole world has become a place for animals, and our fault, our crime was that we were just human beings, trying to live as human beings always have, from the water and the soil. No human being…

Ethical and Legal Issues in Information Security The rapid development and strong China economy have left many technology companies, including Google, have to stoop to set foot on this fertile filled land. Google China was founded in 2005 and Google.cn and went live on Jan. 27, 2006.During four years of operation here, Google has provided services with its version of self-censorship in compliance with the so-call “Internet sovereignty” policy of the China government. Although doing business in…

negotiations to completely refusing to demands she used all skills from power, influence, negotiations to coercion. There are many such examples. In one such instance when the 13th Dalai Lama was coming to meet her she was in dilemma whether he should kowtow in front of her and emperor or not as he was a saint as well as a ruler of Tibet a part of Qing dynasty. She thought from every way and realized if she exempts Dalai Lama from kowtow even though every subject of Qing Dynasty is obligated to,…

Inside the bindings, 143 pieces of jewelry of various kinds were discovered.The body was wrapped in several layers of gold and precious stones. But the naked body decayed, blemished by the ointments which were meant to increase its hopes of survival. In the undergound…

Author John Littel claims the Taiping Rebellion of 1850-1864 to be the most destructive civil war of modern times. The Rebellion, regarded as a fanatical religious outburst, ravaged seventeen provinces, took over twenty thousand lives and irrevocably altered the Qing Dynasty. The Taiping rebels aimed to overthrow the oppressive Qing leaders as well as to change the theology in China at the time. This was done by forcibly spreading their own “Christian Messianic” theology. The Taipings used…

knee-jerk reflex is considered a stretch reflex and is often used by physicians to test how the nervous system is functioning. The knee-jerk reflex is tested by tapping the patellar tendon with the base of a rubber hammer. This results in the leg and foot extending upward in healthy individuals. The reflex is a response to the change in shape of the patellar tendon and quadriceps muscle. It does so to prevent damage to the muscle and ultimately the maintain homeostasis. There are a series of…