scholarly journals Challenging Life of Women in Namita Gokhale's the Book of Shadows

Today the world is running after the money and the people are thinking that money makes everything. Comparing to men, women are giving extra important for money more than men and not only for the purpose of spending money for charity, but also for luxurious life. In their daily life money and luxurious life are valuable for them. In Namita Gokhale’s “The Book of Shadows” shows the importance of human life and also shows the needs of the women in their day-to-day life. Rachita is the main character, she is a good-looking woman and also a lecturer and earning more money. But unfortunately, she meets an accident and lost her beauty. So she is not ready to face the people, in the college and also the society. And then Rachita’s life is totally changed, and started to live with what she is having. She does not expect anything more in her life.

Author(s):  
Steve Zeitlin

This book explores the poetry of everyday life and relates it to folklore, with the objective of helping the reader to maximize their capacity for artistic expression. It asks how we can tap into the poetics of things we often take for granted, from the stories we tell to the people we love, or the sports and games we play. It considers how poems serve us in daily life, as well as the ways poems are used in crisis situations: to serve people with AIDS, or as a form of healing and remembrance after 9/11. The book also looks at the tales and metaphors of scientists as a kind of poetry that enables us to better understand the universe around us. It includes a section dedicated to art in the human life cycle and explains the author's own conception of “the human unit of time.” Lastly, the book suggests ways to tap in to the artfulness and artistry of our own lives and how to find audiences for your work, to share your vision with the world.


Author(s):  
Оlena Fedorіvna Caracasidi

The article deals with the fundamental, inherent in most of the countries of the world transformation of state power, its formation, functioning and division between the main branches as a result of the decentralization of such power, its subsidiarity. Attention is drawn to the specifics of state power, its func- tional features in the conditions of sovereignty of the states, their interconnec- tion. It is emphasized that the nature of the state power is connected with the nature of the political system of the state, with the form of government and many other aspects of a fundamental nature.It is analyzed that in the middle of national states the questions of legitima- cy, sovereignty of transparency of state power, its formation are acutely raised. Concerning the practical functioning of state power, a deeper study now needs a problem of separation of powers and the distribution of power. The use of this principle, which ensures the real subsidiarity of the authorities, the formation of more effective, responsible democratic relations between state power and civil society, is the first priority of the transformation of state power in the conditions of modern transformations of countries and societies. It is substantiated that the research of these problems will open up much wider opportunities for the provi- sion of state power not as a center authority, but also as a leading political structure but as a power of the people and the community. In the context of global democratization processes, such processes are crucial for a more humanistic and civilized arrangement of human life. It is noted that local self-government, as a specific form of public power, is also characterized by an expressive feature of a special subject of power (territorial community) as a set of large numbers of people; joint communal property; tax system, etc.


2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 722-756
Author(s):  
Jon Adams ◽  
Edmund Ramsden

Nestled among E. M. Forster's careful studies of Edwardian social mores is a short story called “The Machine Stops.” Set many years in the future, it is a work of science fiction that imagines all humanity housed in giant high-density cities buried deep below a lifeless surface. With each citizen cocooned in an identical private chamber, all interaction is mediated through the workings of “the Machine,” a totalizing social system that controls every aspect of human life. Cultural variety has ceded to rigorous organization: everywhere is the same, everyone lives the same life. So hopelessly reliant is humanity upon the efficient operation of the Machine, that when the system begins to fail there is little the people can do, and so tightly ordered is the system that the failure spreads. At the story's conclusion, the collapse is total, and Forster's closing image offers a condemnation of the world they had built, and a hopeful glimpse of the world that might, in their absence, return: “The whole city was broken like a honeycomb. […] For a moment they saw the nations of the dead, and, before they joined them, scraps of the untainted sky” (2001: 123). In physically breaking apart the city, there is an extent to which Forster is literalizing the device of the broken society, but it is also the case that the infrastructure of the Machine is so inseparable from its social structure that the failure of one causes the failure of the other. The city has—in the vocabulary of present-day engineers—“failed badly.”


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (S-1) ◽  
pp. 183-187
Author(s):  
Kalaiselvan P

Different beliefs and practices are found in human life from birth to death. These beliefs are created by the people and are followed and protected by the mother’s community. Man has been living with nature since ancient times. Beliefs appeared in natural human life. Hope can be traced back to ancient Tamils and still prevails in Tamil Nadu today. The hope of seeing the omen in it is found all over the world. Proverbs show that people have faith in omens. Our ancestors wrote the book 'Gauli Shastri' because the lizard omen is very important in our society. The word lizard played a major role in Tamil life during the Sangam period. It is possible to know that people have lived by the benefit of the lizard. There is hope from the public that the sound of the lizard will predict what will happen next. The purpose of this article is to illustrate the lizard word that has been around for a long time in folklore.


2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-74
Author(s):  
Munirah Abd Razzak ◽  
Rusni Mohamad ◽  
Nik Mohd Zaim Ab Rahim ◽  
Khadher Ahmad ◽  
Fauzi Deraman

Color does play important roles in human daily life. Its roles and functions cover various aspects of lives such as clothing, food, color of skin, animal, personality, environment like trees and plants, buildings and so on. This article aims to collect many narrations that describe black color and their relationship to the genetic and social status of the people in the hadith of the Prophet saw. The analysis was done through deductive analysis methodology for the conclusion that shows the relationship between color with genetic and human life status. The study found that there are twelve hadith in al-Kutub al-Sittah without repetition which signify the discussion on black color effects on human genetic and their lives status.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 1243-1251
Author(s):  
Amalia Eka

ABSTRAK Saat ini masyarakat sedang menghadapi wabah Virus Corona (Covid-19) yang sangat spesifik namun mempunyai efek kompleksitas yang tinggi, bahkan luar biasa, karena ekspektasinya tidak hanya di dunia kesehatan saja namun merambah semua sendi kehidupan manusia. Desa Kunir termasuk desa yang juga mengalami wabah Covid-19, Hal yang dapat masyarakat lakukan untuk memutus rantai penyebaran virus Covid-19 adalah dengan rajin mencuci tangan dengan sabun dan air bersih, serta menggunakan hand sanitizer secara berkala. Lidah buaya memiliki kandungan saponin yang mempunyai kemampuan untuk membersihkan dan bersifat antiseptik. Tujuan setelah pemberdayaan masyarakat desa kunir, diharapkan dapat meningkatkan pengetahuan dan kemampuan dalam memanfaatkan lidah buaya yang ada disekitar tempat tinggal untuk digunakan sebagai sabun cuci tangan. Adapun kegiatan yang dilakukan berupa sosialisasi dan pemberdayaan masyarakat desa kunir dalam pembuatan dan pengaplikasian sabun cuci tangan dari lidah buaya. Terdapat peningkatan pengetahuan dan kemampuan tentang lidah buaya sebagai sabun cuci tangan yaitu 70 % diperoleh dari kuisioner sebelum dan sesudah dilaksanakan pembelajaran Kata Kunci : sabun cuci tangan, lidah buaya, desa kunir ABSTRACTCurrently, the community is facing a very specific Corona Virus (Covid-19) outbreak but has a high, even extraordinary complexity effect because the expectations are not only in the world of health but also penetrate all aspects of human life. Kunir Village is one of the villages that have also experienced the Covid-19 outbreak. What people can do to break the chain of spreading the Covid-19 virus is to diligently wash their hands with soap and clean water, and use hand sanitizers regularly. Aloe vera contains saponins which have the ability to clean and are antiseptic. The goal after empowering the people of turmeric village is expected to increase their knowledge and ability to use aloe vera around the residence to be used as hand washing soap. The activities carried out are in the form of socialization and empowerment of the village community in turmeric in the manufacture and application of handwashing soap from aloe vera. There is an increase in knowledge and abilities about aloe vera as hand washing soap, which is 70% obtained from questionnaires before and after the learning is carried out. Keywords: hand washing soap, aloe vera, kunir village


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 244
Author(s):  
Abuddin Nata

<p class="15bIsiAbstractBInggris"><em>Ideality, Islamic Religious Education must have a good function according to develop religious people in the world. Namely, the people that just have not only depth understanding of Islamic teaching, but they also have good affection and implementation of their religion in daily life. The character of people that want to produce by Islamic Religious Education, besides the people that have good believing, piety, good character, but also the people that have a good balance between individual piety and social piety. Besides that, they also develop a prophetic mission. Namely in producing peace, harmony, humanity, and welfare for all people in the world. But in the reality, the ideality of Islamic Religious Education was not yet could be implemented in their daily life. There are still a distinction and gap between individual piety and social piety. Besides that, sometimes they used religion as a tool in according to get some contradiction goals with the mission of religion its self. Namely, sometimes they used a radical approach based on Islamic Religion according to achieve their aims. By refer to many authoritative references, this article, besides want to describe the vision, mission, and goal of Islamic Religious Education, but also wants to identify some factors that influenced it and the method to solve it, through Islamic Religious Education.</em></p><p class="15cKeywordsBInggris"> </p><p class="16aJudulAbstrak"><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p class="16bIsiAbstrak">Idealnya, Pendidikan Agama Islam berfungsi dengan baik sesuai dengan perkembangan umat beragama di dunia. Yakni, orang-orang yang tidak hanya memahami ajaran Islam secara mendalam, tetapi juga memiliki akhlak yang baik dan menerapkan agamanya dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Karakter orang yang ingin dihasilkan dari Pendidikan Agama Islam, selain orang yang beriman, takwa, budi pekerti, juga orang yang memiliki keseimbangan yang baik antara kesalehan individu dan kesalehan sosial. Selain itu, mereka juga mengembangkan misi profetik. Yakni dalam menghasilkan perdamaian, keharmonisan, kemanusiaan, dan kesejahteraan bagi seluruh manusia di dunia. Namun pada kenyataannya cita-cita Pendidikan Agama Islam masih belum bisa diimplementasikan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Masih ada perbedaan dan kesenjangan antara kesalehan individu dan kesalehan sosial. Selain itu terkadang mereka menggunakan agama sebagai alat untuk mendapatkan tujuan yang bertentangan dengan misi agama itu sendiri. Yakni, terkadang mereka menggunakan pendekatan radikal berdasarkan Agama Islam sesuai dengan tujuannya. Dengan mengacu pada banyak referensi yang otoritatif, artikel ini selain ingin mendeskripsikan visi, misi, dan tujuan Pendidikan Agama Islam, tetapi juga ingin mengidentifikasi faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhinya dan cara menyelesaikannya, melalui Pendidikan Agama Islam.</p>


2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Budiono Kusumohamidjojo

<p><em>This paper is based on a two decade observation on the dilemma of order and justice, leading to an attempt to analyze the social-economic factors underlying the historical roots of injustice. On its course it attempted to take lessons from historically proven axioms provided by certain heavy weight thinkers. While trying to make the best out of those axioms, the analysis could not ignore the hard facts of the daily life of the billions of people suffering from unending injustice in most parts of the world, in the rich and let alone in the poor parts of it. Neither could it escape from criticizing the ubiquitous mess in the justice system, almost universally. Although the overall problem of injustice does not seem to provide much hope for a better life of the people at large, the conclusion of this paper tried to distant away from a pessimistic stance and instead proposed an agenda for those who may concern to be carried out. This paper contains forethoughts of a book in the making regarding basically the same problem.  </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p align="right"><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><em>:</em></p><em>history, authority, rationality, law, order, equality, justice</em>


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-55
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shahid ◽  
◽  
Muhammad Yaseen

One of the biggest challenges that the world is currently facing is that of environmental pollution, which is causing grave and irreparable harm to the natural world and human civilization. Worldwide innumerable deaths are being caused by water, air and soil pollution. Every nation is finding its permanent solution. The permanent solution is present in Islam which is a religion of purity and likes purification. It declares purification as half of Faith. It demands purification in every aspect related to human life. This article will highlight all the fields which require purification and the methods of implementation in daily life. If these teachings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) are applied the whole world can easily get rid of environment pollution.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
I Gusti Ayu Oka Silantari ◽  
I Ketut Mardika

<p><em>In human nature, apart from being individual beings as well as social beings who have their own culture. Culture arises in humans due to reason and thought in the human being itself. Humans will be able to live perfectly when they live together with other humans, in relation to other humans, certain norms or rules are needed. In the regulation, one of them was written about the procedure for honoring guests called Athiti Krama. Athiti Krama gives motivation in human life because through this human being can foster good relations between humans one with other human beings in harmony. The implementation of Athiti Krama can be found in societies everywhere in the world, both in the advanced society and the people who are still modest in their civilization.<br /> In social life, everyone should behave well so as to create happiness for themselves and the community, because in the teachings of Hinduism, Athiti Krama teachings are basically contained which can bring people to achieve harmony in social order in society. The basis of Athiti Krama's teachings is the ethics or morality that many of the Vedic scriptures have mentioned, one of which is Tri Kaya Parisudha. Considering the importance of Athiti Krama as a social guide in people's lives. So it should be known to be applied in the learning process in Pasraman Dharma Bhakti.</em><strong><em></em></strong></p>


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