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Women in Manu Smriti

Women in Manu Smriti http://www.bharatadesam.com/spiritual/manu_smriti/manu_smriti_5.php Manu Smriti : Chapter 5 146. Thus the rules of personal purification for men of all castes, and those for cleaning (inanimate) things, have been fully declared to you: hear now the duties of women. 147. By a girl, by a young woman, or even by an aged one, nothing must be done independently,

The Propaganda Model Revisited

Source: http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/199607--.htm The Propaganda Model Revisited Edward S. Herman Monthly Review, July, 1996 In Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Pantheon, 1988) Noam Chomsky and I put forward a "propaganda model" as a framework for analyzing and understanding how the mainstream U.S. media work and why they perform as they do. We had

Cognitivism and Behaviourism

Link: http://nishancperera.com/2011/01/31/cognitivist-vs-behaviourist-paradigms-points-of-convergence-and-divergence-by-nishan-perera/ Is cognitivism and behaviourism two different world views or do they explain the same phenomena from different lenses? Introduction This paper attempts to highlight points where the cognitivist and behaviouristic paradigms converge and diverge from a

PARADISE LOST BOOK I - COMPLETE TEXT

PARADISE LOST BY MILTON BOOK I (Complete Text) 1. Invocation and Introduction of Theme 1. Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit 2. Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste 3. Brought death into the world, and all our woe, 4. With loss of Eden, till one greater man 5. Restore us , and regain the blissful seat, 6. Sing heavenly muse, that on the secret top 7. Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire 8. That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, 9. In the beginning how the heaven and earth 10. Rose out of chaos: Or if Sion hill 11. Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed 12. Fast by the oracle of God; I thence 13. Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, 14. That with no middle flight intends to soar 15. Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues 16. Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. 17. And chiefly thou Oh spirit, that dost prefer 18. Before all temples the upright heart and pure, 19. Instruct me, for thou knowest; thou from the first 20. Wast present, and wi