Swastika

SWASTIKA

This is an ancient sign which was being used to represent the German Nazi party but it has been used for over 3,000 years. Thousands years ago this symbol was used in China, India, Japan etc. Peoples of the world are divided about the meaning of this sign. It is taken as a sign of good luck by the people of eastern countries, especially Hindus and Buddhists. But this sign is being hated by the people of western countries as it was being used by German Nazi party up to Second World War. But swastika is differtiated by it’s direction by some people. According to their speech, the clockwise direction of it means hate and death, wherever the reveres direction means life and good luck.

In our Bangali culture swastika is used for special reason, the Hindus of our country use it when they open a new halkhata (new calculating book) in the fast of the New Year. Swastika is drawn on fast page of the halkhata as a gooluck.

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Preview of Wag the Dog

PREVIEW OF WAG THE DOG


Let me start by saying that this was a very good movie. Now, much has been made of its classification as a 'comedy'. It may not be a laugh out loud type of film but it is witty, fun, and satirical. Wag the Dog was produced and directed by Barry Levinson. Hilary Henkin and David Mamet co-wrote the screenplay. The film is based on the novel American Hero by Larry Beinhart Levinson has made some great films in his career. "Wag the Dog" is one of his most charismatic and energetic. The movie was written by David Mamet and Hilary Hen ken. This movie was made in 1997, but it is so unbelievably relevant today that it almost makes you feel these producers could see the future.
This is how the story goes: The president of the United States is caught up in a sex scandal two weeks before the election .At this situation Winifred Ames (Anne Heche), one of the topmost official aided by the precedent, hired Conard Bream (Robert De Niro) to solve this problem as soon as possible. For that very reason he decided to produce a war. A war against terrorism in Albania. The need help,so they go to bigtime Hollywood producer Stanley (Dustin Hoffman). He has never won an Academy Awardwar.So they made a film, slogans, a song etc.
In the mean time a TV channel broadcast that there was no war in Albania. But ultimately president and Conard were successful to their target.
Now Conard asked the president not for money but for credit of his great job. But president did not give him credit rather his people sent Conard a long long away from this dramatic world..
As usual, there are various interpretations as to what it means. 1,that the dog symbolises public opinion, and that the tail represents the media; 2,that the dog is the media, and the tail is political campaigns. But the most opinion is that the dog is the people and that the tail is the government. In short, the expression “the tail wagging the dog” refers to any case where something of greater significance (such as a war) is driven by something less (such as a sex scandal).

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SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY

Art, literature, history, music, philosophy, and science of what was then still usually called the Renaissance. Renaissance means, time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.

He was Italian essayist, dramatist, historian, sketch writer, biographer, dialogist, writer of novellas, and poet. Nicola was born 3May of 1469, in Florence in Italy. Nicola Studied Latin under various tutors. He appointed to the second chancery of the republic, beginning in 1498; Ten of Liberty and Peace (government agency), chancellor and secretary; removed from office, jailed, and tortured by the Medici family when Spanish forces invaded Italy in 1512; appointed official historian of Florence, 1520.

He died of illness; June 21, 1527, in Florence in Italy.
Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke was one of the foremost political thinkers of 18th century. He was born in Dublin 12 January of 1729. His Vindication of Natural Society was published in 1756.From 1761 to 1783 he was back in Dublin as private secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham, at that time premier, and entered Parliament for the pocket borough of Wend over. In 1782, the best of Burke's writings and speeches belong to this period. An observation on the Present State of the Nation (1769) was a reply to George Grenville. Burke had vast knowledge of political affairs, a glowing imagination, passionate. Burke died July 9 in 1797, and was buried in a little church at Beaconsfield.

Doctrinaire means traditional and the term "radical" means its original signification and "ism" or creature that ought to be put out of the way by any.
A priori means that it exists in a given way independent of human perception of item short. A priori, that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preexisted in order to make experience possible. --Coleridge. Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, in order to make experience rational or possible.

Reference: Oxford Dictionary, Historyguide.com & self.