tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50242914861132262822024-03-19T15:05:16.704+05:30My own spaceThe space I create to express myselfDiwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-28299505049030352222014-11-18T19:04:00.000+05:302014-11-18T19:04:07.972+05:30Globalisation beyond West and America
Courtesy: The Economist
Globalisation,
etymologically, can be understood as the process by which something hitherto
belonging to a particular place, community or culture expands itself to the
world. Also, it is a result of such process. Though the word, thus, carries a
neutral meaning and concept primarily without discriminating between places and
cultures from different parts of the world, Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-38230853375398842162014-11-18T18:50:00.000+05:302014-11-18T18:51:56.199+05:30War of Power
Critical Discourse Analysis of a
Section from Rookmangud Katawal's Autobiography
Critical
Discourse Analysis (CDA) is an act of explaining and interpreting any kind of
text – both written and oral – and similar discourses, in order to understand
what meaning is created in the text, how and by whom. In a CDA activity, the
researcher analyses how the text means what it means in the given social
Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-77789871134021965882014-11-18T18:43:00.001+05:302014-11-18T18:43:36.956+05:30Critical Discourse Analysis: A Multidimensional Perspective
Defining at the simplest level, Critical
Discourse Analysis (CDA) is an act of explaining and interpreting any kind of
text – both written and oral – and similar discourses that carry a certain
message. It is a study of the ways in which language is used in various texts
and contexts. In analysing discourses, the discipline pursues to incorporate
various perspectives in order to get the richestDiwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-9617834105741931492014-11-18T17:48:00.001+05:302014-11-18T17:48:47.773+05:30Racist Media in Native Son
A scene from Pierre Chenal's 1950 film Native Son. Courtesy: http://filmcomment.com/
Native Son, a novel by Richard Wright, is often named as one
of the greatest pieces of literature in showing experiences of the African-American
people. There are many issues that the novel raises regarding racial
segregation and torture. The novel exposes how black men and women had to live
during the Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-80418314213374740232014-11-18T17:33:00.003+05:302014-11-18T17:35:26.868+05:30What if Stronger Women: Retelling The Winter's Tale
A scene from the Utah Shakespeare Festival's 2004 production of The Winter's Tale. (Copyright Utah Shakespeare Festival. Photo by Karl Hugh.) Courtesy: http://www.bard.org/
In The
Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare, Queen Hermione is one of the most
important characters. Her importance is not only limited to the context of this
play in particular; rather Hermione is perhaps Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-13043909593011392442014-11-18T17:26:00.000+05:302014-11-18T17:35:58.864+05:30Decision Making Right of Women in Pericles
The eight-member cast of California Shakespeare Theater’s Pericles puts on a jousting pageant on stage at the Bruns Memorial Amphitheater in Orinda. Photo by Kevin Berne. Courtesy: http://www.theaterdogs.net/
Pericles, Prince of
Tyre,
a romantic play by William Shakespeare revolves around various women characters
from diverse family backgrounds. These women have Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-32971883248588302902014-11-18T17:20:00.000+05:302014-11-18T17:20:09.493+05:30Dewey and Tagore: Together despite Differences
John Dewey
(1859-1952) from the United States and Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) from
then India can be positioned as two among some most important and influential
philosophers of education in the twentieth century. The two scholars have
written extensively about what purposes education should serve and how a good
education should be. Dewey's Democracy
and Education (1916) is a book that Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-14349256964634620152014-11-18T17:13:00.001+05:302014-11-18T17:26:29.594+05:30Augustine on Role of Signs in Learning
A Caravaggio painting of Saint Augustine. Courtesy: The Guardian
In his dialogue with his son Adeodatus, recorded as
'On the Teacher' (389 AD), Saint Augustine has put forward his views on how one
can learn, more specifically what agent can help one learn. In this context, he
has also discussed roles of signs, words in particular, in the
teaching-learning process. Though the father and son Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-31160464881104675062014-11-18T17:06:00.003+05:302014-11-18T17:14:13.263+05:30Aristotelian Definition of Phronesis: Clear and Convincing
Aristotle. Courtesy: www.britannica.com
AC MacIntyre, in his After Virtue: a Study in Moral Theory
(1981), has interpreted the concept of "phronesis" developed by
Aristotle. Defining Aristotelian concept of phronesis in his own words,
MacIntyre says that phronesis is "a moral and intellectual virtue rooted
in a natural human capacity to do the right thing in the right place at the
right timeDiwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-2997994008272428872014-11-18T17:01:00.001+05:302014-11-18T17:01:44.686+05:30Censure against Certitude: Lyotard and Derrida
Postmodernism
and poststructuralism can be taken as the theories that question modernism and
structuralism respectively. Developed in the twentieth century, both of the
theories try to undermine authority of what were considered central (establishment)
before them. Postmodernism challenges modernism – search for purposes in
whatever human beings do – and poststructuralism in the similar Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-9993659806169916952014-11-18T16:46:00.000+05:302014-11-18T16:46:07.739+05:30Constitution of Human Beings and Behaviours for Marx, Freud and Lacan
Karl
Marx, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, all three are among few most important
scholars of the modern era who delved into what constitutes beings and
behaviours of human race. The essays "Preface (to a Contribution to the
Critique of Political Economy)" by Marx, "A Note on the Unconscious
in Psychoanalysis" by Freud and "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the
Function of the I as Revealed in Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-24369228352192934832014-11-16T07:16:00.001+05:302014-11-16T07:16:58.662+05:30BOOK REVIEW: Voices of the Century
Speeches
That Changed the World is a collection of some important
speeches made by significant players of the twentieth-century world politics
(though few speakers don't belong to the political domain). Compiled and edited
by an Australian history teacher Alan J Whiticker and published by Jaico Publishing
House in India in 2010, the book has 43 speeches covering a span of 104 years
(1901-2004Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-89800502177525242302014-11-16T07:07:00.001+05:302014-11-16T07:11:13.087+05:30Why Ban on Smoking in Public?
By now, after much research is done to
study effects of smoking in human health, perhaps
Courtesy: http://www.calvinshub.com/
there is no any debate on
whether smoking is unhealthy. But the debate whether people should be allowed
to smoke at public places is still a debate in national and international
forums. In 2011 April, Nepal also introduced a law called Tobacco Product (Control Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-63734221391861368982013-07-28T14:31:00.001+05:302013-07-28T14:31:46.593+05:30Value Judgement of Literatures under Questions
Literary studies in almost all parts of
the world involve a system of valuation of literary texts and authors.
Consequently, some texts and authors are canonised and established as
"standards" in every literature on suppression of rest of
"non-standard" texts.
Traditionally, some qualities like test of time, aesthetic standard and
representation of real life are regarded as benchmarks Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-4026612624413131772013-06-06T12:11:00.002+05:302013-06-06T12:11:42.253+05:30The Erasers: A Narrative Rewriting of Oedipus Rex
Photo: http://ecx.images-amazon.com
The Erasers is a detective novel by
Alain Robbe-Grillet, originally published in French as Les Gommes in 1953. The novel deals with attempts to find the assassin
of a professor named Daniel Dupont who was supposed to be killed in the night
before the novel's setting. The novel is Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-25476265639581463342013-05-30T12:14:00.003+05:302013-05-30T12:14:30.259+05:30English Medium Education: An Individual and National Need
From www.ekantipur.com
On a day in my twelfth grade, my English teacher was marking my test papers in front of me. Suddenly he asked me if I
came from a government school. I said, "Yes, I am from Nepali
medium." Then he commented, "If your parents had enrolled you in an
English medium school…" He didn't complete the sentence, but looked at my
face directly and seriously. My face turned Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-81505488406345777252013-05-28T18:02:00.002+05:302013-05-28T18:02:58.713+05:30Metaphors in "To a Skylark"
Photo from http://www.charliesbirdblog.com/
"To a Skylark" is a lyrical
poem written by one of the best known Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792-1822). In this poem, the poet has elevated
beauty and sweetness of a skylark and the song it sings. To describe its
virtues, the skylark is compared with various beautiful things of the world. Metaphoric
language has been used inDiwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-54222046053795245132013-05-16T05:11:00.001+05:302013-05-16T05:11:25.397+05:30Quest for 'the First Principle': From Thales to Aristotle
Photo from http://lh6.ggpht.com/
It has been long that the western
philosophy has begun searching "the first principle" – the
fundamental element or principle that caused all the diverse things in the
world. Though many things have been lost by now, traces of philosophical
attempts to define the first principle can be found back from the seventh
century BC. By the time of Aristotle Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-81902158708947834122013-05-13T15:52:00.002+05:302013-05-13T15:52:55.288+05:30Mero Sansar: The Sansar for Millions
I don't remember when I visited Mero Sansar for the first time. But what I remember is after that day, I have been visiting
the blog site everyday whenever I have an access to the Internet. Mero Sansar (to translate literally,
"My World") has been the third site that I visit most nowadays (the
first two being my Facebook and Gmail accounts). Mero
Sansar presents interesting Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-40037364580898324012013-04-27T08:31:00.001+05:302013-04-27T08:31:20.740+05:30Author's Presence in a Text
Though Roland Barthes has already
declared that the author is "dead" in a text, there are many theories
that believe authorship cannot be separated from any writing. Despite many
theoretical attacks on presence of the author in a literary creation in the
modern era, many other theories believe that author cannot help representing
him/herself in his/her Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-8361558361853695052013-04-25T12:18:00.001+05:302013-04-25T12:22:29.974+05:30No Respect for Native Rules
"To write every word in correct rhaswas and dirghas, I'm not a Nepali professor after all", many youths
and adults tell this sentence when someone tries to correct some spellings in
their Nepali writings. So – does one need to be a Nepali professor to write
Nepali correctly? If yes, given that most of us try to make our English
spellings as correct as possible, why have not we been English Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-65853159581333845412013-03-16T10:17:00.000+05:302013-03-16T10:18:34.569+05:30Parody: This is Just to Say
Our poetry teacher Prakash Subedi says one of the best ways to appreciate a good poem is to compose parodies of them. So, he had assigned us to write parodies of the well-known poem 'This Is Just To Say' by William Carlos Williams. Thus, here are a couple of parodies written by me:
First, lets look at the original poem:
This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams
I have Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-56516828707554199582013-03-14T11:07:00.001+05:302014-11-16T06:50:15.760+05:30Rigidity in Old Age: Natural and Human
We demand to our parents that we
need internet access and laptop at our home. "Why?" they ask. We say
we need to research online for our study and assignments. They answer, "We
too studied and were abided with assigned projects in our times. We completed
our bachelors and masters under dim lights of a tuki, when there was no electricity. But we never Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-91914107325285729182013-03-10T18:14:00.000+05:302013-03-10T18:14:31.286+05:30Nora's Final Meeting with Torvald: The Doll's Defiance
Nora Helmer, wife of Torvald Helmer is
the protagonist of the celebrated realistic play 'A Doll House' (1879) by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906). The change in her
personality from a submissive wife to an assertive woman is taken as the most
important move of the plot in this play. In this development, Nora's final
meeting with her husband Helmer (whom she is going to leave) is the climax. Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5024291486113226282.post-73935456422160654072013-03-07T12:20:00.003+05:302013-03-07T12:20:52.191+05:30Role of Family in Personality: A Psychoanalytic Reading of 'I Stand Here Ironing'
'I
Stand Here Ironing' is a short story by American writer
Tillie Olsen. The story is about struggle of a mother – who is also narrator of
the story – to bring up and console her psychologically problematic child,
Emily. Emily is projected as one with various psychological core issues; namely
low self esteem, fear of intimacy, and sibling rivalry. As the story
progresses, she is gradually Diwakarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996243556500459211noreply@blogger.com5