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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