Secularism

On an asphalt baseball field in Brooklyn, two teams from local Yeshivah schools meet. At first, it just seems like a baseball game between two Jewish high school teams. But the game quickly turns into a holy war when the caftan and ear lock wearing Hasidic team begins to taunt and bully the less conservative “hell-bound sinners” on the other team. Hate boils as Danny Saunders, the leader of the Hasidic team, purposely hits a pitch right back at the pitcher, crushing his glasses and landing him…

I have written a portfolio on Robert Owen the philanthropist, I believe Robert Owen to be one of the most influential social reformers and thinkers from his time during the industrial revolution. I believe Owen to be an educational pioneer because of the contribution to the advancement of educational thought and practice he offered. Owen is widely acknowledged and appreciated throughout educational, historical literature, and this is because he established dramatic changes and offered an…

The Ethics of Translation Douglas Robinson criticizes the traditional definition of professional ethics, which is restricted to preserving the meaning and avoiding distortion: it is unethical for the translator to distort the meaning of the source text (Becoming a Translator 25-26). For Robinson, this definition “is far too narrow even from the user’s point of view” (26). Robinson differentiates between professional and personal ethics (i.e., internal point of view) in which the latter is more…

The great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said it best in his speech, "I Have a Dream." He quoted," I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." He made this statement in 1963, but in America of the 21st century, are we still being judged by the color of our skin and not the content of our character? I believe that among the African American community, there has been multiple…

Final Essay Have you ever imagined what would happen if the ozone layer was utterly destroyed and the amount of sun rays reaching the earth dramatically increased? In Naomi’s Klein book, This Changes Everything, the author elucidates how the increasing awareness of the adverse effects of extractive processes on the environment has triggered the formation of many environmental movements. Blockadia is one of the most recent movements that has adopted a different strategy compared to earlier ones.…

Parallel to those of the Iranian revolution, this group of people was driven by political concerns of the society and eventually turned their political problems to religion. This movement was initiated by Hassan al-Banna, an ordinary religious scholar whose foundation of political activism was rooted in Islamic values. It was also Egyptian youths, who continued to take a critical role in the Muslim Brotherhood movement in Egypt through the 1970s. When President Sadat was becoming a target of…

In 1991 India adopted a pro market strategy that liberalised its internal regulatory framework, reduced tariffs, adopted appropriate exchange rate policies, and allowed foreign investors to play a significant role in the economy (kohli, 2006). Atul Kohli argues that the growth witnessed in 1990s is due to the reforms and policies taken in the 1980s and cannot be solely attributed to the 1991 reforms. Thus the neo liberal cum pro market interpretation of the growth in 1990s clearly ignores the…

4. Representations of Gandhi For nearly six decades, Gandhi has been a recurring figure in diverse mediums all over the world. Whether it’s a new biography or a modern take on Gandhi’s philosophies, the Gandhian tradition has been kept alive in not just literature, but in almost all art forms. However, it creates an interesting but a paradoxical situation; during his lifetime Gandhi was likened to other eminent figures like Lenin, Tolstoy and even Jesus Christ. Soon after his death a discourse…

at night, some people staged a procession in Ramu in protest of the perceived blasphemous image uploaded to a Facebook account. Newspaper reports stated that local Awami League leaders were initially seen mobilising the mob and emphasising the sentimental religious issue to counter the opposition. The Daily Star, a widely circulated national daily, reported that a motley group comprising local leaders of pro-Awami League organisations, BNP men, madrasa students and common people were allegedly…