Sri Lanka

Chandragupta I was the first great ruler of this dynasty who ruled from 320 AD to 335 AD. He expanded the empire by conquering kingdoms of Prayag, Magadha and Nepal. He made use of matrimonial alliances to expand the empire along the Gangetic plain. Samudragupta, the son of Chandragupta I, ascended the throne of the Gupta Empire in 335 AD and ruled till 380 AD. Samudragupta was known for his military prowess and is known as the Napoleon of India. He carried out a series of military conquests…

Chechnya, a small republic tucked away in the south of the Russian Federation, has been out of the international spotlight for the last several years. After the extreme violence experienced during the two Russo-Chechen wars in the 1990s and early 2000s, recent news of increased stability in the North Caucasus are quite welcome. Ethnic conflict in Chechnya goes back much longer than the start of the first Russo-Chechen war in 1994, and tensions in the region were not soothed when the second war…

Questioning Identity: Examining the Historiography of South Asian Immigrants The historiography on South Asian immigration to the United States needs to be further developed because it is extremely under-developed. While the story of their immigration to America does not follow the popular narrative of other American-bound immigrants, in which most came to straight to the United States and settled, there is no excuse for their historiography and all its unique facets remaining unexplored. The…

My motivation for pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at UC San Diego (UCSD) emanates from my lifelong goal to be a leading scholar in the fields of International Relations and Comparative Politics, teaching and conducting research at a major research university. UCSD’s Department of Political Science’s model of cross-disciplinary work, ethos on close mentoring and supervision, emphasis on methodology and multivariate analysis, wealth of world-class faculty across subfields, combined with the…

Advertising and Social Communication. Social Advertising is simply the implementation of promulgating for reshaping public perspectives and behavior towards a social cause or problem. For instance, family planning consortiums in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Mexico and numerous other countries have financed vital promulgation campaigns in the 70’s venturing to vend people the proposition of 3 having fewer children. These type of properly outlined campaigns can sway orientation and behaviors. But…

Bank of Maldives (BML) is the leading financial institution in Maldives. Their vision is “To be the best managed company in the Maldives, with the highest standards of corporate governance and customer satisfaction as well as the best shareholder returns. Their operation mainly depends on three strategic pillars such as Customer Service, Support for Business and Financial Inclusion. Their corporate strategy is focused on being a professionally managed, customer-oriented organization which…

In this essay I will be comparing the political and social structures of the Mesopotamian and the Indus river valley civilizations. To begin I will give you a little back ground about the Mesopotamian civilization and the Indus river valley civilizations. The Mesopotamian civilization began at about 3500 B.C. The Mesopotamian civilization was in between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The Mesopotamian civilization created the first cities known as city-states. The Mesopotamian civilization also…

Some of the top known sources from where the workers are hired include India, Pakistan, Iran, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Egypt and Philippines (Dorsey, 2014). In fact, in the year 2011, Qatar’s GDP crossed United States’ GDP. Being one of the largest suppliers of natural gas and oil, Qatar enjoys its supremacy in this aspect. As a result, Qatar’s economic position…

Canen & Canen, (2008) studied Multicultural leadership: The costs of its absence in organizational conflict management in higher education institutions in Brazil. The researcher did a case study within a unit of an HEI in Brazil. The research discussed in this paper showed that the system of constructing "otherness" and isolating it can actually be characterized as workplace bullying condoned by extremely mono-cultural leaders. Leaders should be ethically and multicultural accountable for…

and sociological development of other countries in the Asia-Pacific region (there are currently twenty seven member countries), this is to be done through aid and supportive measures; the name comes from the location of its headquarters in Colombo Sri Lanka. The Colombo plan works when two or more states to make arrangements pertaining to foreign aid and/ or technical assistance for their economic and social development for the people and land of the region. According to their mantra, the…