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CORRUPTION THROUGH AGES Hamlet: What news? Rosencrantz: None, my lord but that the world has grown honest. Hamlet: Then is doomsday near…. 1. The Problem of Definition Everyone knows what corruption is; but it is difficult to define it in exact terms. According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English, the word ‘corrupt’ means “influenced by bribery especially at the time of elections”. Encyclopedia Britannica says: a corrupt practice “includes bribery; but has reference to the electoral…

The Japanese company manufactured the longest bra in September, 1990. The bra has an under-burst measurement of 24m (78ft 8 in) and 28m (91ft 10in) for its bust measurement. Tunnel Image source The Seikan Tunnel (as shown above) between Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido Islands is currently considered as the world’s longest tunnel with its measurement of 53, 850m in length. However, by 2010, with the opening of the tunnel called Gotthard Base in Switzerland, Seikan Tunnel will be placed the second…

You must purge the evil from Israel. In the Quran the Islamic holy book, Bukhari 83:37 “Adultery is one of three justifications for killing a person, according to Muhammad”, in the Hindu religious texts the major religion of India, Vishnu Purana 3:11 “… He who commits adultery is punished both here and hereafter; for his day in this life are cut short, and when dead he will fall into hell”. In the states of Michigan, Minnesota and South Carolina adultery can land you a few years in…

Within Western religions, it is common that people who practice these religions believe in God and are able to be saved from the sins that they harbor. However, not all religions view gods in the same way. As opposed to the Christian belief that there is only one God, some religions believe in the existence of numerous gods and goddesses, while others believe there is no God. In Hinduism and Buddhism, the concept of gods and similar supernatural beings can be alike and differ between the two…

He had left the Big House turning his back to it, walking away with his lady love. When he had settled in his new home, he made a prayer room for the household deity, switching over to Lord Shiva from Lord Vishnu. Here, Malgonkar points out to the swinging of belief that prevailed in Hindu society, the constant moving from one form of worship to another, aiming at some form of appeasement. Most effectively does he bring to the readers’ mind, the length to…

Have you ever thought about how symbols got their meaning? Why do doves represent purity and love? Why does the color black represent death? Why do bald eagles represent freedom? No matter if the symbol has different colors of a flag or a national animal, there is a is a deeper meaning behind the symbols. And within this meaning, there are groups that use this symbol to represent themselves and their beliefs. Some symbol’s meanings changed over time. For example, the swastika was used to…

Though a story of family conflict, The Bhagavad Gita presents a cosmic struggle between desire and duty. Arjuna, the central character, is justly tasked with a leading war against a branch of his family that has usurped the throne, but struggles with fulfilling his role because of his close ties to the perpetrators. The god Krishna, presenting himself as Arjuna’s charioteer, advises Arjuna. In the eleventh discourse, Krishna chooses to reveal his divine form to Arjuna, encompassing his roles as…

Hinduism is most likely the oldest and most complex religion in the entire world. Traces of the religion go back as far as the third millennium B.C.E. The possible religious views of Hinduism are effectively infinite due to the number of gods both major and minor, priests and temples. Nearly 80 percent of the India population consider themselves Hindu and there are at least 30 million practitioners outside of India making this religion the third largest after Christianity and Islam. The word…

Most of humanity is provided with simple everyday items to aid them throughout the day. Humanity has evolved to be more dependent on others to survive however in Yann Martel’s award winning novel “Life of Pi”, Pascine has to endure and overcome very horrible and gruesome horrors. Pi manages to survive on a life boat and uses many survival tactics to keep him alive such as having strong hope and faith in his religion. The first and last thing Pi does is pray and doing so it keeps his hopes up.…

Gandhi's father was the dewan (chief minister) of Porbandar; his deeply religious mother was a devoted practitioner of Vaishnavism (worship of the Hindu god Vishnu), influenced by Jainism, an ascetic religion governed by tenets of self-discipline and nonviolence. Because of this Gandhi became the person we all know him to be.(History.com staff) Gandhi was disgusted by the harsh treatment of people he saw as…