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    From the very beginning, two philosophies argued against each other deciding whether or not nonviolence is the right choice, but what is truly the right decision?The power of nonviolence is the answer to freedom. Nonviolence in this situation, is getting your way without any harm going to others. Nonviolence makes the most sense for America because it has more chance of succeeding, many people have used nonviolence, and because we don’t need any more violence than what we had with other…

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    Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela; social activist's leaders of their time all had many things they wanted to accomplish. They were all about equal rights and being very calm and peaceful. They all had similar ways of ideas of protesting during their time. Although, they came at different times; they had the same things in mind. These three leaders followed the same path of principles, goals, and methods to complete their protest. When it came down to principles Gandhi,…

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    rule (Manas). Gandhi spoke to all social groups in India in this speech, however he selectively addressed the Muslims and Hindus. In fact, a large portion of Gandhi’s audience and followers comprised of Muslims and Hindus. At the time the speech was given, there were rising tensions between the two religious groups. The enmity between the two groups grew due to their widely different beliefs…

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    • Child betrothals were also diminished • China’s one child policy made for “missing” girls in the population as they were subject to abortion or female infanticide India • Women were given higher positions in power such as Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) and Benazir Bhuto were leaders in politic of India and Pakistan • Women’s illiteracy was at a peak of 54% in 2001 because women were confined to the household • 25% of women of all ages had jobs and birth rates stayed high, tough contraceptives…

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    Credible Commitment

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    political and economic elites, and the government had a strong anti-business attitude (Kohli 2007). With a change of government in 1980 and the return of Indira Gandhi as Prime Minister, the promotion of economic growth became the focus of the government’s economic policy, leading to a growing alliance between the political and economic elites. Indira Gandhi let it be known that improving production was now her top priority to build the economy of India. Therefore, beginning in the 1980s, the…

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    their being members of prominent families. They are all the daughters, wives, or widows or former government heads or leading oppositionists.It began in India with the passing away of JawaharlalNehru and rise of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, his daughter, then her son Rajib Gandhi to Sonia Gandhi. In Srilanka Bandaranaike dynasty made it known to all chronically for a long. In south-east AsiaAung…

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    Midnight's Children Quotes

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    showing both how they felt trapped and actually were trapped in their home. However, the Widow breaks away from these stereotypes of woman, as “Mrs. Gandhi, the 'Widow' in "Midnight's Children" is a terrifying picture painted in dark colours, ‘no colour except green and black’” (Literary Contexts in Novels: Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children".). Mrs. Gandhi was a political figure of India as she was the only female Prime Minister, and Saleem Sinai associates her as green as symbol of greed…

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    rightfully credits Rao for being the ‘principal architect of India's economic reforms.’ The Congress party, although, has assiduously given credit for the 1991 reforms to Dr. Manmohan Singh, Rao’s finance minister and to Rajiv Gandhi, a former prime minister from the Nehru-Gandhi family. The author provides ‘behind-the-scenes details of how Rao neutralised criticism to the radical economic reforms both from sections of the opposition and from within his own party.’ 21 June to 24 July 1991…

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    Maruti Case Study Notes

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    decision making. This book also illustrates the Organizational behaviour in Maruti ltd., and how it was different from other public sector companies by importing Japanese work culture. The first part of the book briefs about the penchant of Sanjay Gandhi towards the field of automobiles and him being automobiles savvy, his inclination towards setting up a manufacturing plant for producing his dream small car after returning back from Rolls-Royce. But to his at most dismay, it so happened that he…

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    replaces the magic-realist features and incidents of his first novel by tight plot structure and realist narration in The Shadow Lines which is based on his witnessing of the anti-Sikh riot in Delhi following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984. The narrative is based on the memories of the narrator. The Shadow Lines is considered to be Amitav Ghosh’s masterpiece. It is also…

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