Essays

Both men and woman have intentions and act, so both are capable of virtue. Virtue ethics as a theory of morality has existed, most notably, since Aristotle. Courage is one such virtue and to display this, persons need to experience fear and perceive danger. The circumstances surrounding an act of courage need to be proportionate to perceived risk to avoid the activity becoming an enterprise of foolishness. Also the potential costs associated with the risk must be proportionate to the ends concerning the bravery. These elements associated with courage are undoubtedly equally available to both sexes and in the  sense of equality feminism woman can and have been courageous. However, in light of difference feminism, another facet may need to be added to the modem meaning of courage, as an acknowledgement that virtues are characterised with respect to attitudes held within the context of definition. A virtue is a prescription more...

The worth of a civilization can be judged by the place given to women in the society. One of several factors that justify the greatness. Of India’s ancient culture is the honourable place granted to women. The Muslim influence on India caused considerable deterioration in the status of women. They were deprived of their rights of equality with men. Raja Ram Mohan Roy started a movement against this inequality and subjugation. The contact of Indian culture with that of the British also brought improvement in the status of women. The third factor in the revival of women's position was the influence of Mahatma Gandhi who induced women to participate in the Freedom Movement. As a result of this retrieval of freedom, women in Indian have distinguished themselves as teachers, nurses, air-hostesses, booking clerks, receptionists, and doctors. They are also participating in politics and administration. But in spite of this amelioration more...

Shri Vajpayee was Prime Minister of India from May 16-31,1996 and a second time from March 19, 1998 to May 13, 2004. With his swearing-in as Prime Minister, he has been the only Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to occupy the office of the Prime Minister of India through three successive mandates. Shri Vajpayee has also been the first Prime Minister since Smt. Indira Gandhi to lead his party to victory in successive elections. Born on December 25,1924 at Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh to Shri Krishna Bihari Vajpayee and Smt. Krishna Devi, Shri Vajpayee brings with him a long parliamentary experience spanning over four decades. He has been a Member of Parliament since 1957. He was elected to the 5th, 6th and 7th Lok Sabha and again to the 10th, 11th 12th and 13th Lok Sabha and to Rajya Sabha in 1962 and 1986. He has again been elected to Parliament more...

My favourite pasttime is to spend time on the computer, even at a tender age I liked computer systems. to have a computer was a dream, an almost impossible dream. I had a friend named Akash at that time, we were in the same school, same grade and we had a very good relationship. At that time he had a computer system and we used to spend our free time playing games, printing greeting cards, banners, we also did our school home work. It was very nice and playful. Even then I yearned to own my own computer, so I could spend more time learning how to use the computer. One day my parents went to market without me because I was in school at that time so I stayed back till evening with my grandmother until my parents came back. "When my parents returned home they arrived with a more...

Indian economy in the early period was a self-sufficient economy Comprising of several villages. Indian villages produced and met their requirement according to division of labour and their economic activity was restricted to village economy. Barter system prevailed as an exchange mechanism. Basically, the primary activity was agriculture. Other services like carpentry, weaving, hair dressing, etc. were offered by labourers who extended their services based on heredity. They received their wages as food products. In short, Indian villages functioned as independent republics and the only interference was from the King to whom they paid taxes in kind. Thus, India had happy villages. Prior to the British rule, religion, system of the society and king's law influenced the economy to a great extent. There prevailed caste system which decided the division of labour for the benefit of the society's economy. Further, the prevalence of joint-family system helped them to pool their more...

The world is in a sorry and sad state as we pass from the festivities of the holidays to the hard realities of our working and daily lives. We find divisions and strife - between continents, between countries, between cultures, and between different ethnic or racial groups. There is separation and conflict between the rich and the poor, between the powerful and the powerless, between religions, between ideologies, between classes, between families and even between members of the same family or group. Perhaps it was ever thus' or perhaps it is, as it appears, even more dire and dreadful than ever before. What is certainly true is that what applies to continents, and countries, and groups, and families, also applies within the individual's own self. So many people feel tom and divided within. they are not at peace with themselves or with their surroundings. They feel anxiety, stress and strain. more...

With increasing intrusion of aliens in their lives, it was natural that nationalist feelings began to be articulated by an increasing number of Indians. A group of middle class Indians formed the Indian National Congress (1885) - a society of English – educated affluent professionals - to seek reforms from the British. The British did not respond adequately to the legitimate demands of the Indians and this resulted in growing resentment against them. By the last decade of the 19th Century a younger, more militant generation of Indians had begun to assert their birthright to independence. The Indian National Congress inevitably changed under the constant pressure exerted by men like Bal Gangadhar Tilak from Maharashtra. In Bengal too, there was a fiery group of revolutionaries who maintained that violence was the only language the foreigners understood. The partition of Bengal, announced by Lord Curzon in 1905, triggered a political earthquake more...

Indian society is multifaceted to an extent perhaps unknown in any other of the world's great civilisations. Virtually no generalisation made about Indian society is valid for all of the nation's multifarious groups. Comprehending the complexities of Indian social structure has challenged scholars and other observers over many decades. The ethnic and linguistic diversity of Indian civilisation is more like the diversity of an area as variable as Europe than like that of any other single nation-state. Living within the embrace of the Indian nation are vast numbers of different regional, social, and economic groups, each with different cultural practices. Particularly noteworthy are differences between social structures in the north and the south, especially in the realm of kinship systems. Throughout the country, religious differences can be significant, especially between the Hindu majority and the large Muslim minority; and other Indian groups— Buddhists, Christians, Jains, Jews, Parsis, Sikhs, and practitioners more...

Advertising is the communication link between the seller Hid the buyer or the consumer. It does not simply provide information about the products and services but is an active attempt at influencing people to action by an overt appeal to reason or emotion. Advertising may be in any form of presentation. It may be a sign, a symbol, an illustration, an ltd message in a magazine or a newspaper, a commercial on the radio or television, a circular dispatched through the mail or a pamphlet - handed out at a street corner, a sketch or a message on a billboard or a poster. Any form of presentation which an advertiser wants to make. Advertising is communication with many consumers of products and services. To communicate with a large group, we put the advertising message through mass media like the press, magazine and TV Ethics in advertising is concerned with good more...

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. It is God taking thought for oxen. It moves matter after the laws of matter. It is content to seek health of body by complying with physical conditions, and health of mind by the laws of the intellect. The world of the senses is a world of shows; it does not exist for itself, but has a symbolic character; and a true prudence or law of shows recognises the co- presence of other laws, and knows that its own office is subaltern; knows that it is surface and not center where it works. Prudence is false when detached. It is legitimate when it is the Natural History of the soul incarnate; when it unfolds the beauty of laws within the narrow scope of the senses. There are all more...