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and her parents. The story is set in a London suburban area. Jesminder Bhamra (Parminder Nagra), known as “Jess” comes from a traditional Indian family. Her parents are Sikhs and they fled from Uganda to London. They reside in a London suburb. In her family’s living room, there is a large portrait of a spiritual leader of Sikh whereas Jess has a portrait of David Beckham…

Indira Nehru, also known as Indira Gandhi, was one of the most controversial prime ministers of India who led from 1966 to 1980. Gandhi came to power after the death of her father and India’s leader of the Indian National Congress at the time, Jawaharlal Nehru. She started Indian feminism and increased the potential power of women in the world, but she committed many crimes that prove that she was a bad leader for India. She did everything she could to keep herself in power even though she was…

Human rights are something that each and every person has, but what are human rights? Human rights are a set of rights that are inherited by individuals to protect them in society and it helps society give everyone an equal status of worth. Human rights have many traits including universality and incontrovertibility. Whether or not human rights are universal and incontrovertible is one of the most argued and most discussed issue in human rights. But what does it mean for human rights to be…

that there is only one God. We are expected to go to a Gurdwara, which is a Sikh temple that practices the religion in order to cope with life problems. The religion emphasizes that we should undertake good actions, rather than conducting rituals. It is a rule to remove our shoes, and cover our heads with a cloth or turban before we go 3inside the temple. This is a form of showing respect before entering God’s place. Sikhs are known to reject the caste system. This is because they believe…

This paper will prove that the film “Heaven on Earth” by Oliver Stone and “Hawayein” by Ammtoje Mann, have many similarities and difference both convey the audience through emotionally connecting them with the main characters grief and misery in life, making the film a more powerful film. Initially proving that the movie “Hawayein”by Ammtoje Mann does this much more prominently and is “good history” through showing the suffering of the main character and the overall visuals costume presentation…

people were a mixed race. The Cherokee tried to protect their bloodlines by banning intermarriages with African Americans, and were unsuccessful. In the early twentieth century Sikhs from Punjabi immigrated to be laborers in California, where interracial marriages were prohibited at the time. By the end of World War I some Sikhs had discovered they could marry people of other races if their skin color was similar, like the Mexicans for example. In all actuality, there was not that many…

roots. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), or the Indian’s People Party, identified the nationalist movement as “not just a religion, but a way of life.” While this idea sounds welcoming for many in the Hindu community, Indians who identify themselves as Sikh, Christian, or Muslim, have found this notion…

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 First World War. Lots of them sacrificed their lives for a less purposeful war. A lot of Indian soldiers also had no choice to fight. This subject has greatly interested me because I was…

Throughout much of my life, I was afraid of the homeless and thought they were disgusting. I constantly avoided them, acting like they didn’t exist. Until one day, I was forced to interact with a homeless person while waiting to be picked up from the gym. At first I was terrified, but I quickly realized that he held no ill intentions. He was in his late twenties, and we began talking about sports. Soon after, he told me about how he ended up homeless. He had lost all of his money on sports…

“children are a map of their parents,” meaning that the pressure for children to represent the family coincides with the pressure of parents and mothers to raise proper, traditional children. However, this expectation is somewhat lifted in the film. Jess’ Sikh mother urged her daughter to be a woman who cooks, marries an Indian, and becomes a solicitor. Jess’ mother showed a disdain towards women wearing shorts and being sporty, proclaiming that she had never seen an Indian woman play soccer.…