Essays about: "india essay"

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1. 11. Perceptions of a Conflict : A qualitative analysis of Indian and Pakistani mass media

   University essay from Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Sunniva Lagnestål Melhuus; [2013]
   Keywords : International relations; international conflict; India and Pakistan; social constructivism; social psychology conflict theory; mass media;

   Abstract : C-essay in Political Science by Sunniva Lagnestål Melhuus, Spring 2013, Political Science III at Karlstad University, Supervisor: Hans Lödén, “Perceptions of a Conflict – A qualitative analysis of Indian and Pakistani mass media” In this essay the aim is to study the current situation and recent development of an international conflict from a social constructivist perspective, with an emphasis on the conflicting parties’ mutual perceptions. The long conflict between India and Pakistan is here chosen as an example. READ MORE

3. 12. Characters' Views and Perception : Hybridity and the Westerners in Two Indian Novels by Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie

   University essay from Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Pernilla Petersson; [2013]
   Keywords : Hybridity; adaptation; imitation; Indian views; alienating hybridity; half-breed; the West;

   Abstract : In the two novels, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, characters show that their preconceptions and encounter with the Westerners play a big role in how they view Westerners and/or Indians who have adapted to or grown up with the Western lifestyle. Due to Roy’s family being a group of “Anglophiles” and liking the British, they see Sophie Mol being half-Indian as positive. READ MORE

4. 13. Why people with HIV are let to die - Analysing medical ethics, drug patents and activism

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Viktor Östlund; [2012]
   Keywords : politics; economists; bio technicians; hippocratic oath; geneva; udhr; human rights; bureaucracy; genocide; holocaust; economic theory; business; pharmaceutical; patents; fda; arv; azt; antiretroviral; medicine; drugs; generic; thailand; india; south africa; usa; hiv; aids; clinton; anthrax; trips; third world; developing countries; rich countries; mänskliga rättigheter; bush; mbeki; homocide; nelson mandela; conspiracies; Science General;

   Abstract : In this essay it will be analysed why people in need of HIV-medicine do not get access to them, which has so far resulted in millions of seemingly unnecessary deaths. It will be discussed what responsibilities scientists have and what people can or should do to claim rights to medicine. READ MORE

5. 14. "Let Only Your Corpse Come Out of that House" : an Analysis of Contemporary Dowry Discourses in Indian Newspapers

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Harpreet Singh; [2011]
   Keywords : Human Rights; Dowry; Dowry deaths; Domestic violence; Marriage; Frames; Journalists’ frames; Media content; Dowry suicides; Women; Modernization; India; mänskliga rättigheter; Philosophy and Religion;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to examine the complex social and cultural practice of dowry, and violence related to dowry, in India. The dowry system may at first appear to be an old-fashioned and traditional institution that in face of modernization would slowly fade away. READ MORE

6. 15. Arundhati Roy : Reclaiming Voices on the Margin in The God of Small Things

   University essay from Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Angelika Olsson; [2011]
   Keywords : Arundhati Roy; The God of Small Things; subaltern; postcolonial feminism; Third World women; Spivak; Can the Subaltern Speak; marginalization; Bhubaneswari; Kerala;

   Abstract : The aim of this essay is to critically consider Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things from a postcolonial feminist perspective, with a special focus on how she models different representations of women, taking as a background the discussions within postcolonial feminism about subalternity and the representations of women from the so-called Third World in theory and literature, as well as the concept of agency from Cultural Studies. This purpose is reached by studying and comparing three main female characters in the novel: Mammachi, Baby Kochamma and Ammu, centering on their different ways of relating to the male hero of the novel, Velutha, an Untouchable in the lingering caste system of India. READ MORE