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The third verse shows, that these boys were strong, agile boys, who would lie in wait for him to pass by. They hid behind hedges, and as he drew near they leapt out at him, “barking like dogs” or shouting roughly. They threw mud at him, and he could not retaliate, but had to keep walking, and pretend it was funny. But actually, it was frightening and hurtful. He really wanted to be friends with them, and play their rough games, but they never invited him, he was just the object of their scorn. The contrasts again between weak and strong, lithe, sprang, barked. Those are all strong words suggesting that he was bullied by the local ‘gang’ of street children. He was excluded from their community because of his class and his lisp. He seems to be envious of their freedom, the freedom that “rough kids” take for granted.
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There seems to be two existing worlds, one of the lower class, and the other the middle class, this seems to create an invisible barrier between the two worlds. The children and the boy are all jealous, jealousy works both ways. The middle class boy wants to change his life, he see’s the bully’s to be free, though he is not, and they see him to have everything he’s ever wanted, but either way no ones happy, he wants to spend a day in their shoes.
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Objects have survived which have been made out of terracotta are expected to be around 3000 years old. These were made in the Mediterranean and the Near East, and were models of animals and some pull along toys on wheels. It has been proven that Egyptians, Romans and Greeks have mad toy for children these include dolls, terracotta animals with moving parts or wheels, Egyptian wooden figure of a man games with dice, marbles and counters, hoops, yo-yos kneading dough and knucklebones.
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Toys such as animal figures, balls, spinning tops and toys with simple mechanisms are found in most cultures in the world. Many toys have a simple movement within the toy. Among them are jointed figures sent into acrobatic antics by pressure or torsion, devices activated by swinging weights, balancing or falling toys motivated by gravity and toys that have a wheel that turns which moves something else. These are all toys I am considering to make, hopefully entertaining the child whilst educating.
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My toy will be aimed for children aged from 4-7 years of age so the size of it is important: it must not be too big for then it will be too large for the child to pick up, but if it is too small it may be too delicate for the child’s hand or possible for the child to swallow some of the parts. If it has any educational aid then it should not be too hard for the user because then he or she will become bored and give up with the toy. Children aged 4-7 prefer brighter colours than darker ones because they find them more interesting so my toy will be painted in bright colours.
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The purpose of a toy is not only for the user to get enjoyment out of it, although this is the main aim. Toys are also important for preschool and during school education. Playing is the most effective way of getting a child to learn. Small children learn by doing, seeing, hearing and talking ive found that out by a book for Childs needs. One of the things a child does whilst playing is testing their ideas about the world. Because there is so much to learn in such a short space of time the learning has to be fun, as long as the child is having fun he or she will go on learning and finding pleasure in his or her knowledge.
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There are many things to be learning when you are a child including physical skills (such as eye to hand co-ordination and balance), academic skills (reading, maths), social skills and emotional. Repetition is important, interesting and fun for children: it leads to learning, mastery and success. As well as education a toy has to be able to occupy the user. This will benefit the child because it will give the child something to do and will also benefit the parent because it is occupying the child.
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Factors that keep the child entertained are toys that give the child a sense of achievement and an open-ended toy that can be used in many different ways. A toy like the gameboy scores high on the occupying factor and provides mental education to get the childs mind thinking. On the other hand sorting blocks give a lot of education but are not so entertaining. To create the ideal toy it should have the entertainment value of the gameboy and is as educational as toys such as sorting blocks. Brief I intend to design and make a marketable toy for 4-7 year old children and possibly above, I have design it so it can because within their own home.
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The toy should provide entertainment and mental education for the child. The product could be made in batch production and be available in toy stores if it went on the market. And if I have time I will also create a packaging to promote my board game for this I will be needing a original cover so I can trace it out and cut the out line myself it will also include barcode, initials, manufacture, pricing and logo. . Points to consider What dimensions the toy should be? What materials the game should be made out of?  What sort of paint, varnish or material should be used?  Are there any small parts which could cause choking hazards?
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Are all the surfaces smooth and and well-finished making it look attractive? Does the product scratch or damage when the toy is played on?  Does the toy have any sharp edges making that will be un-safe for a child?  Is the child’s toy pleasing for children?  What colour should each part be, either coordinated or different?  Should the toy be decorated with a pattern or design?  Is the toy sturdy and stable when being used by a child? Is the product durable and able to withstand weekly uses?  Is it safe to use and does it meet the terms with health and safety regulations?
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” and “Blackberry-Picking” are similar in the sense of description of the blackberries. Both Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney present this fruit in a positive light, using thorough detail and both displaying their love for the blackberries with admiration. They are very similar in using strong and powerful language creating illusions and vivid images, almost making us feel as if we were experiencing this ourselves. Both of these poems start off describing Plath and Heaney’s lust for the blackberries and how much satisfaction the fruit gives them, but then both writers display their feelings about how everything changes and how this temporary happiness doesn’t last suggesting that life is not all pleasant.
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She does this using the word “blackberries” a number of times. This repetition is powerful as it stresses her enjoyment. She uses “dumb” and “thumb” as rhyming, to create a bigger visual image of the blackberries, representing the way they are viewed by her. She makes these blackberries sound sumptuous, luscious and juicy, making us crave them and making them sound mouth-wateringly tasty, by saying “Fat with blue-red juices”
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“They must love me could be could be telling us how the blackberries show their love to her by leaving their juice on her fingers, being all that loves her maybe. This personifies nature as a female force, acting as her companion. In the second stanza, negative repetition us used, suggesting Plath is crying out for help, such as “nothing, nothing” and “protesting, protesting”. This stanza gets ready for the third, telling us that something unpleasant has come about, which is the flies, a visual image of them. They have become drunk on the juice of the berries.
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The flies are made to sound light, delicate, and beautiful, as “they believe in heaven.”, suggesting Plath does not. The last stanza of the poem represents finality, which we presume Plath may be talking about ending her life, when she says “The only thing to come now is the sea.” Plath uses onomatopoeia with “slapping its phantom laundry in my face.” It is effective as it shows the wind as harsh and abrupt. The poem is about nature at the start, and its is warm and loving toward the blackberries, but in the end, she uses the phrase “beating and beating at an intractable metal” as a sign of death, and being trapped in her life. The berries and juice are compliant
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In the poem “Blackberry-Picking” by Seamus Heaney, a descriptive and detailed account of picking blackberries is given. He uses many adjectives to do with colour to make the picture seam more real, tasty and ready to eat, such as “glossy purple clot”, and “red, green, hard as a knot.” This appeals to the reader in a sense that we want to read on and we are amazed at the language. This poem is contrasting, as in the first part, Heaney uses words such as “glossy” and “sweet flesh”, and the second part uses “fur” and “rat grey fungus” which sounds ugly and uninviting. The poem is really telling us about life in general. The feeling of getting our hopes up, and the disappointment that we experience in our daily lives. Being so joyful and enthusiastic about something one moment, and distraught and unhappy the next.
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The first stanza describes the sumptuous berries, and the second is describing how he plans to keep them, and the third leads to the disappointment that is faced. Heany transforms a normal fruit into a magical delectable act of nature, using the word “lust” which displays a strong desire for the fruit. He demonstrates this enthusiasm by naming all the different containers in the sense that they were picked out carelessly and without any thought absent mindedly in a very eager state. The ending of the poem shows us that there are always disappointments in our lives, and things that we have to be aware of, and that life isn’t all sweet. The phrase “Each year, I hoped they would keep, but knew they would not,” is telling us that Heaney got his hopes up, but a small part of him knew that in the end he would be let down.
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The play follows two twins that were separated at birth. It follows them growing up as they become closer together as “blood brothers”. Gradually they grow apart and envy leads to death. The scenes were slickly changed as props were brought on by characters e. g. desks or washing lines. Most of the backdrops were lowered onto the stage but other scenery was pushed on using grooves in the flats on the stage. It helped the show as you were always focused on the play and not waiting in the dark for the SM to change the scenery.
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She is a commoner and this is conveyed through her pure Liverpudlian accent. Her husband left her, as he couldn’t cope with all the children and a wife “twice the size of Marilyn Monroe”. She wears very simple clothes and is very superstitious. As she already has social services after her she worked it out that she can just cope with one more child but finds out that she is having twins so agrees to hand over one of them to Mrs Lyons as he would lead a proper life with a full time education. As Mickey is her eighth child she is very relaxed to where he goes, what he does and whom he hangs around with.
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Although she always has the superstition in the back of her mind that if they ever find out that they are twins both of them will die. It seems ironic that although the Johnstone family live on the breadline they start off cheerfully, compared to the Lyons who never seem content with what they’ve got. Edward is a very sophisticated child and has a very cushioned life from all worries harms and the naughty things in life that children do like calling each other names and playing in the mud. This is conveyed through the fact that he is oblivious to any swear words and by the preppy clothes that he wears.
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When he does swear it sounds totally out of place with his surroundings, which is what makes the audience laugh, as it is completely unexpected. Mickey on the other hand has a very relaxed childhood but as he is the youngest he has less attention and is “juggling with knifes” so is used to throwing stones at windows and getting involved with the police. They first meet when Edward is eating a bag of sweets and Mickey finds it strange that when he asks for a sweet he gets one straight away without having to do anything.
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This shows that Edward has had a proper upbringing and has learnt to share but Mickey is more independent and shows he has to stick up for himself. This is shown when Mickey explains to Edward that he has to do something like lick his eldest brother’s shoes just to get one sweet let alone the whole bag. The pair of them try to impress each other when sitting down. First Mickey pulls his jumper over his knees and then so does Edward. This is showing that they are starting to form a friendship by mirroring each other’s actions. This also reinforces the ages of the boys as they have grown up.
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Gibson and Walk set up an experiment that followed a repeated measures design. They created a contraption to simulate a cliff that could be easily manipulated to investigate different aspects of perception. They suspended a heavy and stable sheet of glass several feet above the floor. On one side of the glass, a checked fabric was attached flush to the underside of the glass, giving that half of the platform the appearance of solidity. On the floor, directly beneath the other side of the glass, the same cloth is placed, creating the illusion that the solid surface drops several feet to the level of the floor below.
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Gibson and Walk used 36 participants all between the ages of 6 and 14 months, all of whom were able to crawl. The infants were placed, one at a time, in the centre of the glass on a board. Their mothers stood at one side of the platform, and attempted to coax the child towards them. If the child moved off the centre of the platform onto the “deep” side, this would suggest that the infant had no depth perception and if they appeared to prefer the “shallow side”, refusing to cross onto the “deep” side, this would suggest that the infant had developed depth perception.
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When one both sides were lowered, the rats refused to move off the centre board. However, human infants cannot be tested on the Visual Cliff until at least 6 months (when most babies acquire mobility) and it is argued that in this time the infants have a chance to develop depth perception. Gibson and Walk found a way to overcome this problem however; they tested on a range of animals, some of which were mobile within 24 hours of birth. They also tested the animals by placing them on the “deep” side of the platform, and observing their reaction.
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This allowed Gibson and Walk to investigate whether any of the animals would be calm, and be able to move on the deep side if they realised it was safe. The use of animals gave insight into perception further as they were able to compare the reactions of animals that are more visual (such as cats, which rely on vision greatly to hunt) and animals that rely more on other senses (such as rats, which are mainly nocturnal and rely more on tactical cues from their vibrissae.
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Ritual is very important within the Hindu religion. If ritual is performed correctly, good karma will follow and if not, the opposite will occur. There are whole books dedicated to ritual such as the Veda, the oldest scripture in the world. Key factors in making the right match include the partner being Hindu, also preferably from the same caste and compatible horoscopically. Also, the horoscopes show what the best date for the wedding to take place is.
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She is wearing a red sari, the colour of happiness, with gold jewellery, the best she can afford and black paint around her eyes called kajal. The groom gives her a ring that she wears on her toe. The groom will wear a kurta-pajana; a lose fitting top and trousers and a veil of beads. The bride and groom’s parents will worship Ganesh and the family deities asking them to be present at the wedding and make sure everything goes to plan.
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He also throws rice and spices into the fire symbolising fertility. The bride offers puja to the deities and then goes into a separate room to offer private worship to Parvati and Shiva asking for a long marriage and children, preferably sons. When the groom arrives at the place of the wedding, the bride’s mother and the priest meet him at the entrance with a ‘sacred light’ to ward off any evil spirits. The priest prays to Vishnu and Lakshmi and together, the priest and bride’s mother lead the groom into the place of the wedding. The bride’s dad then gives him honey symbolising a sweet welcome and the priest recites a mantra from the Yajur-Veda. The bride’s family ‘give her away’ to the groom’s family.
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This can be compared to the Christian Wedding in which the bride’s father gives her way to the groom, the difference being, Hindu weddings are not just about the people getting married, but also each of their families who are as much involved. The bride and groom stand facing each other while the priest ties cloth around groom’s neck and attaches it to bride’s sari representing unity. Then blessings are sung and the guests shower rice over the couple. The father of the bride then places her right hand into the palm of the groom. The father then asks the groom to follow his dharma -religious duty, artha -earning money in an honest manner and karma -the enjoyment of pleasures, with moderation. The groom says to the bride ‘I hold your hand in the spirit of the dharma we are both husband and wife’.
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The wife then steps onto a stone. This symbolises her decision to try to get though all problems they may come across throughout their marriage. Then the couple takes seven steps around the sacred fire (saptapadi); this is essential according to the Law Code of Manu. Each step represents a different thing: food, power, prosperity, wisdom, children, health and friendship. While taking these steps the husband says to the wife ‘With utmost love to each other may we walk together…May we make our minds united, of the same vows and of the same thoughts. I am the wind and you are the melody. I am the melody and you are the words’ and on the last step the couple say in unison ‘Into my will I take thy heart. Thy heart shall follow mine. And the heart of mine be yours’.
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The bride’s bothers pour barley into the couples’ hands that are then poured into the scared fire symbolising the fact that they will work together for the benefit of society. The husband then marks his wife’s parting with red kum-kum powder. -This is the sign of a married woman. The groom places a black necklace called a mangalsutra around the bride’s neck representing the union between the two families. Also, black beads are used to ward off evil spirits. If the wedding is in daytime the couple will look at the sun to be blessed, if it is night-time they will look at the Polestar, asking that their love will shine as bright and last as long. Elders and the priest ending the ceremony then bless the couple and the guests then take part in a huge feast.
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According to Hindu scriptures, basically, you must not search for your own partner, and when you do want a partner it must be the one your family arranges for you to marry. Therefore strictly speaking courtship is not to be done. In the past, matches have been made between two people before they were even born. Child marriage would often take place, and still does although it has been made illegal. The legal age of marriage in India is 18 for girls and 21 for boys. Because of this law being passed, the people in question now have more choice in their partner.
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If a match is decided, a dowry must be agreed. -This is an illegal practice, but is still sometimes done. A dowry is a payment given to the groom’s family by the bride’s family because the groom’s family now has to look after and pay for the bride. Because of the wedding’s expense, the bride may find it quite difficult to get together enough money to pay what the groom has asked for and the marriage may therefore be called off. Some Hindu families now demand dowry free weddings.
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The Hindu marriage, as shown in question one, is full of symbolism and if this ritual is formed correctly good karma will follow. In fact large parts of Hinduism itself are all about ritual and tradition. So if you do not marry a Hindu, all this will be lost, bad Karma will follow and you will never be released from samara, the series of births, deaths and re-births and atman will never be rejoined with Brahmin. -This is a Hindu’s main goal and therefore it is essential to marry a Hindu.
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For instance, once an arranged marriage has been agreed to and the couple are engaged they can announce it and can therefore openly walk in the street holding hands and go to the cinema or such like unaccompanied without being gossiped about by Hindu society. They may not sleep together or mover in together before marriage though. This is because according to the Varna-ashrama-dharma sex is restricted to the householder stage of life and must not be performed in any of the other three stages of life.
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I feel a very important aspect of a relationship is trust. A problem that may arise when marring someone that you do not know all that well is that the two of you will probably not immediately trust each other and the relationship will suffer because of it. Also, sexually, you do not know each other yet are expected to immediately have a healthy sex life as oppose to gently easing into these things. You may feel awkward in being physical with someone you do not have solid trust in.
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On the other hand a Hindu marriage is full of symbolism and if this ritual is formed correctly good karma will follow. In fact large parts of Hinduism itself are all about ritual and tradition. So if you do not marry in the correct manner, all this will be lost, bad Karma will follow and you will never be released from samara, the series of births, deaths and re-births and atman will never be rejoined with Brahmin. -This is a Hindu’s main goal and therefore it is essential to have an arranged marriage.
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After weighing up the points for and against marriage, although I can see from a Hindu’s point of view why arranged marriages are a good thing, I have one major disagreement. A Hindu’s main argument for arranged marriages is that it is a religious stage of life and not a lifestyle choice. As I am not Hindu, I do not believe this or other Hindu beliefs to be true. Therefore I personally disagree with arranged marriages. I feel that to marry, you must first be in a loving, longstanding relationship with a strong bond of trust and love. Marriage, to me, is something that shows commitment and love between two people and I find the concept of arranged marriages quite absurd. If to me, marriage is a gesture showing a couple’s love and therefore surely the couple must be in love before taking vows of their love to one another?
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Poverty, health and nutrition, and the lack of access to education are the challenges that are linked each other, facing us and become horrible nightmares for the government, and of course children at this time. And nowadays, those nightmares haunt Indonesia, Jakarta – the capital city – for exact. The challenges are come up by the poverty. Within the poverty, malnutrition and the lack of access to education happened badly. Children, as the innocent parties, also have to feel the impacts. Poor children will become the poverty conservationists.
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Poor conditions in childhood will only lead to a slower cognitive growth, stunted physical and limited access. Jobs that can be achieved with low education is also very limited. Therefore reduction of poverty might be large and long-term impact when the roots of the problems of poverty such as poor nutrition, education, improved quality of life can be made since the early. No matter how many individual and anecdotal exceptions there may be, the fact remains that the children of the poor simply do not have the same opportunities as the children of non-poor.
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Whether measured by physical and mental development, health and survival rates, educational achievement or jobs, prospects, incomes or life expectancies, those who spend their childhood in poverty of income and expectation are at a marked and measurable disadvantage. Economic and political conditions often make getting an education ‘impossible’ for children. Families may require their kids to work so that they have enough money to survive or even sell their children for labor, sex, or adoption because money is too tight.
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According to the definition of the UNICEF, a street child is someone from whom the street has become his or her home and source of living; and who isn’t protected by responsible adults. Thus, the term “street children” refers to children who work and live on their own on the street. Because it is difficult to obtain precise statistics about street children, information about their number and ages is approximate. It is estimated that at least 10 million street children live in India, and most of them are between 6 and 12 years old. The majority of them are boys, with little or no education. Indeed, a 2004 study in Mumbai revealed that 60% of street children had never attended school and were illiterate.
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They often choose to leave their families and homes for strategic reasons. In a study of 1,000 street children living in Mumbai conducted in 1990, 40% of them said they left home because of problems and fights with family, 20% said they left because of family poverty, and 4% said that they wanted to see the city. This study illustrates the trend found by many researchers: most of street children leave because of family problems, such as death of a parent, alcoholism of father, violence, abuse and extreme poverty. Most children who leave their home come from slums and low cost housings, both areas of high illiteracy, drug use and unemployment.
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As they must provide for themselves, they have to work. They have no choice but working in the informal sector, so they suffer from harsh working conditions and low wages. In Mumbai, 50 000 children are illegally employed in 12 000 hotels, restaurants… Because of their lack of protection from a family and the law, employers often exploit them, making them their virtual prisoners, sometimes withholding pays, mistreating and abusing them. Because of all these reasons, street children often choose to be self-employed. Jobs include cleaning cars, selling in the streets, shining shoes, prostitution, pick-pocketing, begging… They often have to work from 8 to 13 hours each day. Money that is not spent on food is usually quickly spent on other things because older children and police often steal their money. Thus, they aren’t able to save their money and are forced to live from hand to mouth.
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As they have to face harsh living conditions, they develop a tough exterior and strong independence to hide their vulnerability. They often use violence to survive, and some consume drugs, alcohol or visit prostitutes. However, street children aren’t entirely on their own, they may be part of a group of other children. Though these groups bring safety to most, younger children are sometimes used by the leader to steal or do other illegal activities. Moreover, they face additional vulnerability because of their lack of access to nutritious food, sanitation and medical care. A study conducted in 2002 in Kolkata found that 6 in every 550 street children from 5 to 14 were HIV positive.
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To conclude, despite India’s rapidly growing economy, widespread poverty and violence remain deeply rooted across the country, and especially in rural areas. The Indian government has set in place various policy concerning the issues we’ve just discussed, but they appear to have been quite ineffective. However, the lack of supporting actions toward women, working poor and street children is a growing concern for the authorities and public opinion, so it seems many efforts will be made in the right way. First, the Indian government and other institutions have launched various social security programs for the working poor, such as the Social Assistance Programs (which provides food and allowances). But initiatives don’t only come from the government: Milaap, an online fun-raising platform created by entrepreneurs, enables people around the world to help the Indians. Second of all, the Indian government proposed a bill totally banning child labour last year, but it wasn’t debated in the parliament. The most important thing to do, is to enable these children to have an education, and thus, escaping from poverty.
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As the government’s policies seem inefficient for the moment, many NGOs and private organizations conduct projects to provide street children with a decent home, clothes, food, medical care and good education. Even children themselves begin to act for a change: Children’s Voice newspaper is the only paper wrote for and by street children. Finally, on December 2011, the government set up the Justice Verma Committee to propose amendments to criminal law dealing with sexual offences. In response, the Parliament passed several acts to recognize acid attacks, sexual harassment and stalking as criminal acts. Unfortunately, these laws aren’t enough to stop harassment, women discrimination and, especially, rapes. Good solutions would be: more women police officers, real involvement from the police in general, proper sex education at school, more welfare and health spending for the poorest girls, changing of attitudes, focusing more on the attackers and less on the victims’ shaming… But pushing for change demands political leadership. Indeed, laws on paper give little protection, if they are not enforced effectively.
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The working poor in India live in the same conditions as the non-working poor. Informal jobs: no taxes, no contract, no social security, no retirement pension, no employment security. Some people create their own school within the slum (informal school, because they don’t have a license). And the results are better than the results in a state school. License Raj: during British domination, if people wanted to do something, they had to get a license.
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Bienvenue au Bihar, l’état le plus pauvre, le plus corrompu et le plus criminalisé de l’Union Indienne. Cette région est le symbole de l’Inde qui ne marche pas. Il n’y a aucun développement, juste des guerres de castes et des politiques qui ne s’intéressent au pouvoir que pour l’argent. Peuplé de 86 millions d’habitants, cet état est souvent décrit comme le Far-West du pays, une zone où la police et la justice ne sont là que pour faire de la figuration, et où la population continue de vivre dans des conditions moyenâgeuses, otages d’un système politique mafieux.
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Welcome to Bihar, the poorest and most corrupt state with the highest crime rate in the Indian Union. This region is the symbol of inefficient/deficient/dysfunctional India. There is no progress, only cast wars and politicians who seek power only for the sake of money. With 86 million inhabitants, this state is often described as India’s Far-West, where the police and justice are useless, where people are still living under medieval circumstances, victims of a corrupt political system.
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Nevertheless to accuse a person of falsity one must not only look at world’s Herodotus has perhaps created but his time in the one he actually lived in. Although little is known about Herodotus life other the fact he was born in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor and that must have been from the upper class since he had the financial capability to travel, many things can be inferred about his personality and therefore the credibility of his writing.
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Herodotus begins with a monumental phrase of his pure intentions “so that human achievement’s may not become forgotten in time and some great and marvelous deeds-some displayed by Greeks, some by barbarians-may not be without their glory; “and to discover some reasoning on the origins of why battles began “show why two people fought with each other”. He initially presented his work in oral theatrical manner to an audience of Greeks in Greece. Presented to an audience who is much unlike a reader preferences in the sense that all an audiences wishes is to be entertained rather than informed and educated.
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Herodotus toured Greek cities mainly during festivals, and gave personal performances to Greek audiences then got payed in return. Thefore some over dramatic elements of his writing can only be due to his attempt to captivate his audience. After Herodotus passed away editors separated his life’s work Histories into nine books. The first five books look into the past to try to explain the rise and fall of the Persian Empire. They describe the geographical elements of each state the Persians conquered and gives us insight on their customs.
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Herodotus uses phrases such as “according to the Persian account” to show that the Greeks probably had a different way of viewing the same event (in this case on how Io came to Egypt in Book One). The following four books is the story of the war itself, consisting of the invasions of Greece by Persian emperors Darius and Xerxes to the Greek victories at Salamis, Plataea and Mycale in 480 and 479 B. C. Herodotus work parallels mythology, and at numerous times gives mythological accounts.
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Mythology basically are stories based on an altered version of truth and accompanied by a vast development in imagination and creatitivy. Most of Herodotus narratives are identified as mythological which is problematic in essence. A prime example is Herodotus in his first passage in The Histories where he narrates a century old tale of Lydian Royalty and how it came to be that Lydian monarchy changed from the family of the reigning king Candaules and fell into the hands of his servant Gyges.
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The story has a natural appeal to any audience due to one of Herodotus’s main theme revenge and other factors such as his use of violence “one of you must die; either my husband, the author of the wicked plot; or you, who have outraged propriety by seeing me naked” , whether this story has any truth in it, it will be definitely be disregarded due to the tale being as old as it is and even if it had not been subject to neighborhood gossip, whatever source had told him the story must have been extremely well informed to know the specific details on what happened in exclusive parts of society.
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Thucydides who relied mainly only factual evidence and criticized Herodotus for just this greatly and for his aimless storytelling and insertion of fables in his narratives. Another landmark in Herodotus narratives is his use of oracles and their pivotal determining role not only to influence decisions but also to instill fear into obedience “not even the terrifying warnings of the oracle at Delphi” and the focus on the significance to powerful individuals for instance, according to Herodotus, one of the oracles given to the Athenians during the Persian invasion of 480 B.C. was “the wooden wall only shall not fall, but help you and your children).
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It was interpreted that if the Athenians were to engage the Persians in a naval battle, they were destined to lose. Despite this unfavorable omen, an Athenian commander called Themistocles decided to dismiss the oracle by arguing that if the Athenians were doomed, the tone of the oracle would have “not have been expressed in such mild language”. The Athenians were convinced, perhaps not by Themistocles’ interpretation, but by the fact that it would be better to fight the Persians, rather than not do anything, as seemingly suggested by the Oracle.
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The Athenians gained a decisive victory over the Persians, and was the turning point of the second Persian invasion of Greece. However After one Xerxes has a “terrifying” Dream Artabanus is portrayed to give revolutionary advice to Xerxes that “dreams do not come from god” but rather “what we have been thinking about during the day” even if ultimately it was decided that vision seen in Xerxes dream was godsent.
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Naturally along with his ability to dramatize and over emphasize Herodotus also has a Proathenian Bias and presents a less laudable side of Sparta and their imperialist inclinations such as Sparta’s early attempts to conquer Tegea and Cleomenes I attacking Argos where Herodotus reports that a large proportion of Argive infantry (6000 men) were killed in the conflict although the city itself was not taken and Argos who was once a worthy opponent of Sparta now “was left so short of men, that the management of town affairs fell into the hands of the slaves”.
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To answer the question whether Herodotus is The father of Histories or the father of lies one must first understand the significance of Herodotus work and not dismiss any accuracy, we do know exists such as how many Persians and Athenians where killed in the battle of Marathon. Even If the facts are hidden beneath layers of captivating storytelling and gossip this does not give reason for Herodotus to be a fabricator of events . His technique in collecting and examining evidence is primitive and thus his title of Father of History is not one that should be altered.
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Romeo and Juliet have a relationship between them, loving relationship. But they both are not the same tribe one is a Montague and one is a Capulet, the two do not match as they have a rivalry between them for decades. They saw each other at first sight at a Capulet party. After the party Juliet went to the nurse to ask her who he is and the nurse said “his name is Montague” and she really did not because she loved him.
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We can see that the relationship with her father and mother is also not so good. The father wants Juliet to marry no one apart from Paris, and her mother does not really care whom she is married to. Her mother also thinks it is the right age for Juliet to get married. But after seeing Capulet rustiness she decides to go with Capulet decision. “Hang thee, young baggage! Disobidient whelen! I tell thee what, get thee to church O `Thursday` Or never look me in the face.
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“(Act 3 Scene 5) Act four scene one shows us Juliet is refusing to get married to Paris, as she wants to get married to Romeo a Montague. She pays a visit to friar Lawrence for help because she is getting forced to marry Paris. Friar Lawrence offers her his researches into medicinal qualities of herbs of having enabled him to concoct a “distilled liquor” which Juliet must drink. When she drinks this solution she will fall in coma, and her body will have an appearance of death. Friar Lawrence does not want anyone to find out about the plan, not even the nurse. The relationship is expressed more clearly between the daughter and her parents by the fact she asked friar Lawrence for help and again forgets her parents in the conversation. This shows that her parents are very strict about her relationship. “O, shut the door! And when thou hast done so, Come weep with me. Past hope, past came, past help! Juliet does not get along with her parents easily, could it be the fact that she does not understand her parent’s feelings. She does obey her parents but betrays them behind their backs i. e. she marries Romeo without her parents permission when they are not supposed to become of the rivalry.
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At the start of Juliet and lady capulets conversation, lady capulet calls to Juliet as ho, daughter, are you up?’ this shows that her mother doesn’t usually see her or comes to her bedroom so its surprising, this backs up the point that it’s unfamiliar because Juliet’s replies who is ‘t that calls?’ this shows that she doesn’t even recognize her own mother by her voice. This suggest that they are used to being around each other and they don’t talk as much. Because, if they did Juliet would have noticed at once it was her mother calling her.
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Shakespeare wrote the play Romeo and Juliet in the 16th century, a time in which the role of women was not to be a person in their own rights, but to be a wife to their husband and a mother to their children. Women had a specific place in society, and they were expected to conform to expectations of their positions. Women were owned by their husbands, and had little to no freedom from their spouses or parents. In the play, Shakespeare depicts this situation through the character Juliet and her relationships and role in society, a young girl growing into the expectations of women at that time.
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This meant that Juliet had a stronger bond with her Nurse than with her biological mother, a customary situation in the Elizabethan era. However, this did not mean that the Nurse would have had any more say in Juliet’s upbringing than Capulet and Lady Capulet. Parents have a duty to make certain decisions for their children, as they did in the 16th century, however at that time a girl or women would barely ever make her own decisions, these would be made by her parents.
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In the play, Shakespeare places the character Juliet into a situation typical of the era: arranged marriage. At that time parents always chose a suitor for their daughter, regardless of her age or class. At this part in the play, Juliet’s mother enquires on her daughter’s “disposition to be married”. Here, Juliet behaves very uncharacteristically of the Elizabethan era, saying “It is an honour that I dream not of”, avoiding the proposal and demonstrating independent thinking. Lady Capulet has already made the decision for her daughter, and expects her to react dutifully as a daughter at that time would.
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Juliet says “.. no more deep will I endart mine eye Than your consent to make it fly. ” Now she appears to be a model daughter, however she still acts uncharacteristically because she has not given her mother a straight answer, again avoiding the subject. Arranged marriage still occurs today, but it is not as common as it was in the Elizabethan era, so although girls are still put into this position they are still expected to conform to tradition and obey their parents’ decision.
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Here Juliet seems to feel free to withhold her consent, which is definitely not customary of the 16th century. In the Elizabethan era, men had more power, opportunities and influence on society than women did. Women did not have equal rights and were seen as possessions not people. Just as a girl’s parents controlled her decisions and life, once the girl became and woman and was married, her husband controlled her. Husbands had expectations of their wife as much as parents had of their daughter; women were expected to behave accordingly, obeying their husbands.
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Their role as a wife would be to comply with their husband’s decisions and bear him a family. At this time, women knew no other way of life, and so generally women complied with the traditions, unlike today in which women are seen as equal citizens in society. In the play, Juliet was expected to marry Paris and become his possession, with no love involved. Juliet would have reacted normally to this idea, as many young women dreamed of the idea of love, and when proposed to, would create their own form of love for their husbands, usually respect.
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Many marriages were arranged by parents and were based on suitability, not love. Nowadays marriage is based on love alone, and parents have less influence over choosing a husband for their daughter. Lady Capulet’s role as a woman in the play is exactly what an upper class mother of that time would have been like. Lady Capulet was forced into marriage when still only young “And too soon marred are those so early made. ” After giving birth to Juliet at a very young age, she chose to employ someone else to nurse her child, which was also usual of a woman of that status.
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In the Elizabethan era it was commonplace to have a Nurse bring up the child, as a mother would today. The character of the nurse would have been a recognizable type to Shakespeare’s audience. A woman who had lost her own baby was an ideal source of milk for an upper-class infant whose mother preferred not to be troubled with doing her own nursing. Babies were weaned by having a foul-tasting salve smeared on the nipple “laid wormwood to my dug”. The bodily intimacy between Juliet and the nurse creates a close motherly bond between them.
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The character of Juliet was not a typical 16th century girl, as although she was faced with the same situations as a girl of that time, she reacted differently and did not conform to the traditions and expectations made of her. Shakespeare chose not to make the character Juliet conform because his play was a dramatic tragedy, written to entertain audiences. Juliet would interest an Elizabethan audience to watch as she was uncharacteristic of that time, and she reacted differently to what was expected.
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Friar Lawrence is the local Roman Catholic priest who is also an apothecary. He is the confident of both Romeo and Juliet and plays an important role in the fate of both. He is more than aware of the family’s feuding and seems to be well thought of by everybody. Romeo respects Friar Lawrence very much and sees him as a father figure. When Romeo feels suicidal when he has just been banished from Verona, the Friar tells him to straighten up.
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Romeo doesn’t seem as if he is very close to either of his parents but Juliet usually has her nurse to turn to, but even the nurse, in the end the nurse rejects her too. `I think it best u married with the county. ` So in desperation each one goes to Friar Lawrence for help. Romeo is helped by being giving him a hide out in Mantua until Juliet can meet him. Juliet, being ordered to marry Paris, has gone to Friar Lawrence in desperation and has asked for help.
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First of all the Friar has to help Romeo escape. He allows Romeo to spend one night with Juliet, but before dawn he must leave. It is at this time that Juliet has been told to marry Paris. So she goes to the Friar. Friar Lawrence then devises a plan that will ensure Juliet and Romeo’s happiness. In some ways this shows us the Friars cunning, we are also shown that he is quite a smart man. We know that the friar is also an apothecary, so he gives Juliet a potion, which will make Juliet look as if she is dead.
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When she is taken to the family tomb, the friar will wait until she awakens, and by which time Romeo will hopefully already be there and take Juliet away. While devising this plan he still has the families’ interests at heart. He is only doing this in the hope that the two families, Montague and Capulet will reconcile. Although it could be argued, that he only helped them because he wanted to save himself. I personally don’t think so. I think he would have known that he would have had to `cover his tracks` before he married the couple.
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He seems like a prudent man, one that will think things through; he would never have married them and helped them elope for selfish reasons. But the Friar did deceive both the Capulet and Montague parents. And although this was wrong, it was also, in my opinion justified. I think this because he didn’t really have much choice. If he had wanted to succeed with his plan then they would have had to be kept in the dark, there was no other way round it. If they had been told, neither parent would have agreed to let their child associate with the child of the enemy.
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Priests do have the best interests of their parishes at heart and they do not lie and deceive people needlessly, but I think in this case it was allowed. Even though everything didn’t turn out the way it should have, it achieved the one thing the Friar wanted: peace between the families. And although the price paid was very high, almost too high, the motivation was honourable he genuinely didn’t act selfishly. I think everyone, in the play recognised this including the prince. `We still have known thee for a holy man. ` Friar Lawrence really was a decent man, even if his plans did go slightly wrong.