Head of the Commonwealth

It was Gayatri Spivak who first used the term Post-colonial in the collection of interviews and recollections published in 1990 called The Post-Colonial Critic. This was part of an attempt to politicize and focus the concerns of fields such as Commonwealth literature and the study of the so-called New Literatures in English which…

At the moment the financial instruments are not as tightly regulated as insurance products securities or futures. The current consensus is that the CDS market will be subject to tighter regulation but is this really a good thing necessarily? The right wing conservative general public feel that these products have caused enough harm to the global economy and should be completely banned and suspended the market from trading anymore. This is a view also shared by the European authorities as they…

Amos website is that each trader has to want what the other traders has (Amosweb, 2012). Without this the economy becomes inefficient. Traders spend more time seeking trades and less time producing goods. If we take an example: Suppose Jessica Hall heads into town with a basket full of hand-crafted hats which she hope to trade for a pair of Levi pants. If the local Levi tailor needs a hat than there would be a double coincidence of want and they are ready to trade, however if the tailor has no…

Many countries at this time were in the need of men during World War 2. Many of them had colonies, and in these colonies, many men were willing to lay down their lives in the name of the Queen. My research question is, To what extent did the Indian Military contribute to Allied victories in World War 2 from 1939-1945? Indian soldiers were selected from many different castes, and religions, including Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs. Many, many soldiers were used extensively during the…

Why? | Natasha Wylie | 5/13/2012 6:05:23 PM | | I'm on the fence about whether there is too much government intervention in the administering of employee benefits. I'm sure that both sides could argue where oversight is needed and where there is too much involvement. Whether the oversight is handled by the government or another agency, I do believe that someone should look out for the best interest of employees, and ensure things related to benefits are handled in a proper manner. |…

Among the prolific women novelists in English in India, like Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal,Anita Desai,Shashi Deshpande,Jumpa Lahiri, Manju Kapur is a distinguished novelist, who deals with women and their problems and love ,marriage and sex in all her novels. Manju Kapur a well known name in modern Anglo-Indian literature is widely known as the Jane Austen of India. Her novels deal with everything that is related to the modern family and the patriarchal society. Her novels present the…

In a fairly short duration Bharati Mukherjee has received a respectable attention from the critics around the world. She is described as a ‘voice’ of expatriate- immigrant sensibility. She has stayed in different places, and lived through various cultures. In her journey as a writer her creative sensibility has undergone many changes, a continuous quest from ‘expatriation to immigration’. As a writer her concern can be seen in the lives of South- Asian immigrants in the USA and Canada and the…

signers of the Compact stated that the authority to make laws in the colony was also based on the fact that the inhabitants consented to be subject to those laws. The Plymouth Colony became the most democratic colony at that time, since every adult male head of household was a shareholder in the company and had the right to vote for governor of the colony. 6. (1620-1640) Puritans migrate to Massachusetts Bay colony: They were much more focused on religion rather than money. They were much…

2 The term ‘life course’ means the developments and changes in people’s lives over a period of time. 3 One reason why there is a high rate of lone parent families among Black Caribbean and Black African families in Britain might be that because of high rates of unemployment or other reasons, males from these ethnic groups find it difficult to carry out the traditional breadwinner role. A second reason that has been suggested is that they follow a different family type, which has been…

All praise to Allah for His guidance towards straight path. He is the only One who gives protection and guides to the believers. Peace and blessing to Prophet Muhammad as a Messenger of Allah, a compassionate, saviour and guider to right path. He is an icon for human race to emulate. Ever since the advent of Islam to this world, Islam faced many challenges from its foes, that is, the disbelievers. The disbelievers want to extinguish Islam and its foundation from this world. However, Allah will…