The Untouchable

The caste system goes by five individual tiers: Brahmin (priests), Kshatriya (warriors), Vaishya (merchants), Sudra (peasants), and Untouchables (street sweepers). The caste system shows the importance of the roles in the occurrence of many events that Gandhi has created and also shows how each group should be trained as a way of knowing their social lives. Gandhi struggled on managing…

Throughout history, laws have been implemented to prevent wrongdoings; however, mankind has always found ways to disrupt these laws. The phrase “All men are created equal” is used by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence to impose that as humans, we have the same rights. However, his definition differed from the one we think of today, the owning of slaves clouded Jefferson’s thoughts on this phrase. In the novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, the notion of justice and…

Hinduism is the leading religion, or way of life, particularly in India. Although Hinduism contains an overall variety of philosophies, it is a family of connected religious cultures by shared concepts, rituals, cosmology, and shared textual means. What does it mean to be Hindu? Hinduism recommends the eternal duties, such as honesty, refraining from harming living beings, patience, mercy, self-restraint, compassion, among others. When people refer to being Hindu they refer to a certain god or…

a) A mission statement is defined as a formal summary either a short sentence or paragraph that explains an individual’s, corporation’s or organisation’s aims and values in concise terms. A mission statement describes how the party will go about achieving its goals and includes its strengths. I would agree that source A and B are examples of personal mission statements. In source A, Mahatma Gandhi uses active statements such as “I shall” and “I will” to describe his aims and goals, such as “I…

Hinduism has gone through numerous shifts and constant growth during its lengthy existence. It is one of the oldest and most adaptable religious traditions known to man. From 2500-400 B.C.E., Hinduism’s growth from a religion of oral tradition, continued its shift into one attentive on the sacred texts known as the Vedas, which stipulated ritual action, to the Upanishads, sometimes referred to as Vedanta ("Last part of Veda") (Radhakrishnan, 1956), which then focused more on questioning…

to the restoration of peace within India in regard to Hindu-Muslim relations. After supporting and then only attending intercaste marriages, the rest of India followed suite. He transformed their rigid caste system into a system that treated the untouchables with…

In his essay “The Loser Edit”, Colson Whitehead explores the idea of a “loser edit”, which he defines as a narrative that strives to capture someone’s life to fit a certain edit. The edit puts a spotlight on our flaws through reality tv, social media, and real life situations. Whitehead explains that the loser and winner edit “clasp meaning onto experience”, through its control over our actions or reactions in everyday life. In this essay, Whitehead argues about the harm that the loser edit…

privileged society that eerily parallels the caste system of India? Our American society claims racial equality when in actuality it has merely rendered the racial lines invisible. In many ways, this society has created its own version of the ex-untouchables which Soares-Prabhu tries to liberate through the apodictic Decalogue. From a privileged status, are we able to understand that we are not above the Ten Commandments? Finally, we need to abandon the “false gods” of wealth that we are warned…

has been so famous for so long that it is almost impossible to come to it with a fresh eye. It is one of the fundamental landmarks of cinema. Its famous massacre on the Odessa Steps has been quoted so many times in other films (notably in ``The Untouchables'') that it's likely many viewers will have seen the parody before they see the original. The film once had such power that it was banned in many nations, including its native Soviet Union. Governments actually believed it could incite…

Friedman mentions several notions on building success for the future. His primary suggestions revolve around enhancing education and training. Within chapter six, Friedman mentions that one should discern themselves in the workforce by becoming an “untouchable” to ensure future job security. He makes this claim in regards to the popular question, “What should parents tell their kids?”. Chapter six then transitions smoothly into chapter seven, where the discussion of the “right stuff” occurs.…