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    India has a glorious history of drama from the ancient times. Drama begins its journey in India with the Sanskrit plays. Indian drama is characterized with the rituals, folks, cultural heritage etc. But the major concern of contemporary Indian drama is the representation of socio-political scenario, marginalization, gender discrimination, oppression, poverty and hunger. A general consensus seems to have emerged that though the social criticism, corruption, oppression, gender discrimination can be found in drama in earlier times, these specific features of drama appear in a pronounced manner in the works of the contemporary dramatists. Nowadays Indian plays highlight on some current social issues and the problems of everyday life. Vijay Tendulkar (1928-2008) also manifests the concurrent social issues and the problems in his plays. He is also a movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist and social commentator primarily in Marathi. Tendulkar is basically famous for his plays Silence! The Court is in Session, Constable Ghasiram, Sakharam the Binder. “Silence! The Court is in Session” received the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya award. He always tries to represent the social issues through his writings. As his plays focus on the real life problems, he is considered as social critic. He has given the Marathi drama a global fame. His plays are about the social norms, gender issues, man-woman relationship, domestic problems, political issues, norms of morality…

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    Hinduism and Zoroastrianism emerged from the Silk Road and would continue to develop throughout history. The role of sacrifice greatly impacted such development amongst these two religions. However, over time sacrifice would cease to exist for the most part. In conducting research, my focus is spent by tracing the origins of sacrifice as well as these two religions from the Silk Road and ancient civilizations/cultures; the application and role of sacrifice in both Hinduism and Zoroastrianism; as…

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    The need for understanding plagues humanity. Our brains work tirelessly categorizing identifying, and creating patterns, relentlessly translating and processing the world around us. This is even the case while we slumber. According to the Activation Synthesis Theory of dreaming even when we are asleep we are trying to make sense of the haphazard cues, details and various stimuli festering in our subconscious. Burdened with the constant desire to understand and make sense of our environment,…

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    Kali Those Jaiminya Brahmana dated around those 8th century bc recounts those story about one Dirgha-jihvi. Dirgha-jihvi or ‘the long-tongued one’ used to lick dependent upon those divine drink, Soma, handled Throughout the yagna that might have been a significant part cherished eventually Tom's perusing those gods. Exasperated by her actions, Indra, ruler from those gods, needed with grab her, Anyhow he Might not get hold of her. Something like that he said, ‘Let nobody perform at whatever…

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    The Vedas are ancient scripts from an unknown religion in India, first recorded in about 1500 BCE. The four sacred text collections that compromise the Vedas are: Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda, and Atharva Veda. The first, Rig Veda means hymn knowledge and describes how the universe was created from a being that existed before existence, and created the universe by his sacrificing himself. From this being its pieces constructed everything known, while specific pieces were used to refer to the…

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    During the Vedic Age (1500 – 1000 BCE), the Indo-Aryans, a group of nomadic people, were able to bring their many traditions and practices into the Northern region of India. This migration was done willingly and played a substantial role in the development of the Indian language “Sanskrit”. This language is used today by religions such as Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism. Within the languages the Indo-Aryans brought forth to Northern India were “poetry, hymns, prayers, and heavily allegorical…

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    Hinduism Research Paper

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    The Vedas are known to be supreme in Hinduism. The following information is culled from the Vedas and mainly from the interpretations of the hymns from Rig Veda which is regarded as the mother of the other three Vedas. The hymns are dedicated to rigvedic deities. The vedas hold a very important place in a typical Hindu household, i grew up listening to my grandmother chanting these hymns and she always explained me the significance of the hymns. The major chunk of what survived of the Vedic…

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    Race Relations Sociology

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    Lastly, race relations continue to reflect the incredibly important social implications of racism in current events. Examples such as the brutality faced by young Black men by the cops demonstrates the assumption that African-Americans are brutish and violent, characteristics given to them by scientists during the slave trade. One example of on going racism that goes unnoticed is the high rate of violence against women of color, specifically sexual violence. As mentioned before, the sexual…

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    Belief systems in Ancient India and Greece have affected each government in different ways. In India their religion was the basis for creating a strict social structure and determining who was in charge, while in Greece, philosophy and humanism were widely popular and this lead to a looser, more people driven government and social structure. India created their social structure and government around their religion. The caste system, their social structure, was completely based off of their…

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    After a long hard day of working as an alpha a break is well deserved and well needed, after all it is perfect to be an alpha and your part in society is no greater or less than a beta or epsilon. we created soma to give you time to collect oneself and improvident time, for what is time but to waste. After soma enters your body it travels to your Hypothalamus to give yourself a sense of peace. Another perk of soma is that it can increase productivity, in this case the soma releases…

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