Archives October 2013

At its simplest, E-learning is using the Web to learn. It is the ability of learners or students to learn what they want, when they warn, in the form that best suits them in the  modules or 'chunks' that they want. By accommodating learner preferences, they want" By accommodating fundamentally enhanced the learning experience is more effective. Trained people are more makes the learning more effective. Trained people are more confident which makes them even more effective and productive preferences. By knowing the student is a sales rep, for example, the highly technical information that is actually targeted for an engineer is not delivered. Further, if a preference for audio has been expressed, the delivered lesson can have more audio segments than text. Another key way to focus on the learner is by providing' prescriptive learning. In my example about the call centre rep, the student started his training efforts more...

Racism is objectively defined as 'any practice of ethnic discrimination or segregation'. Fortunately, racial violence is steadily declining as the turn of the century approaches. Now a new form of racism, covert racism, has recently sprung from the pressures of political correctness. This new form of racism, although slowly declining, still shows signs of strong support. Covert racism assumes a form of civil disobedience against politically correct thought and speech. Essentially, covert racism is a 'hidden' racism, or racism not easily detected. The three different basic forms of racism are open racism, violent racism, and covert racism. All express forms of hatred towards distinct ethnic groups. These basic forms of racism, although different in form, all have the same main purpose, to promote racism. Open racism expresses freedom of racial thought and speech. Open racists promote their views through strictly persuasion tactics. Open racism is currently almost nonexistent and steadily more...

If you ask a rational thinker - what is politics? He will answer - Politics is a dirty game of scoundrels to make money. Well, this answer might create many arguments. But, unfortunately, this seems to be an appropriate definition of 'today's polities'. Today politics has become a profession. People join it not for serving nation but for serving themselves. It is a mere means of earning and more and more money. They are least bothered with the development of nation. All they are concerned with is their power and bank balances. Earlier politics was considered as a 'responsibility' and today it has become just a 'profession'. Earlier people used to join politics so that they could sacrifice their lives in serving the nation. Now-a-days people join politics to earn power to rule people and become strong monetarily. Earlier we were having leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Lal Bahadur more...

India at the time of independence was a country beset with great economic problems. It had suffered colonial exploitation for about two centuries' and was recovering painfully from the blight of a distressing famine. The disruption of life caused by the Second World War had aggravated the crisis. Large parts of the country were under the feudal rule of Indian princes and only a miniscule minority had taken any initiative to modernise their states. In any case, the benefits of industrialisation remained confined to a small privileged section be the society. With freedom from foreign rule also came partition and the government was confronted with the awesome task of rehabilitating millions of refugees. Perhaps the most remarkable achievement of India since independence has been to overcome the trauma of partition and forge a unified modern nation from a bewildering diversity. India today can take pride in its federal form of more...

The status enjoyed by its general masses in general and the citizens, shape the structure of a society, in particular. A citizen is, in contradistinction to the nationals, the one who enjoys all the political rights apart from other forms of rights namely civil and legal rights guaranteed by state so the status of citizens of a country is to be analyzed. Not only from the socio-economic aspect of the country but also from the political structure of the state and the nature of political rights guaranteed to the citizens by the state. For instance, the status of citizens under an authoritarian regime can't be treated at par with the status of citizens of state having democratic set-up, though they are economically well off In modern context, the status of citizens of a state is determined by many factors. One of the major determinants of it is the economic prosperity more...

The issue of brand failures has caught the fancy of both corporate sector as well as academia. In this whole debate of the diminishing value of branding, it is the FMCG industry that has hogged the maximum 'share of noise'. Hence, we shall be focusing on this sector in this essay. Sneaking a glimpse of the performance of some FMCG companies, Anchor toothpaste grew at the rate of21.4% and Haldiram grew at a whopping 26% in 2002. So, there have been impressive performances by some of the brands in these troubled times. To say that the whole exercise of branding has been rendered futile in the Indian market is not correct. We can, at the maximum, say that the ongoing brand war has churned the market shares, but it still remains a war of branding (the key word is branding). At the same time, a purist would hardly reckon these more...

Woman in India has totally changed her image now. She is no more just a housewife now. She is working in every field now. She is a doctor, engineer, pilot, astronaut and what not. Few years back, it was almost impossible to think of such a big change in the image of Indian women. Earlier women were treated no more than a doormat. There were so many restrictions that she had to keep her desires and ambitions inside her heart only. She was not even allowed to study and so the illiteracy rate of women was much higher than the men. She didn't have any identity of herself. She was called just a daughter, wife, sister and mother of so and so. Moreover, there were so many social evils like Dowry that hampered the growth of women as an individual. For several years, a woman was in this sorry condition more...

Sex is one of the most heated issues in our society today. Obviously sex has always been here, but in the past people were at least a little more discreet and respectful, and it was much more common for sex to be honoured in marriages only. Now, sex education is taught to junior high school students, teachers are giving out condoms, and sex is so far from being sacred that it's sad. How did it go from sex representing a bond of love between man and wife, to multiple sex partners, sexually transmitted diseases, and pregnancies that are usually unwanted? Who or what is to blame for the obvious decline in our values? Before fingers are pointed, take a look at a few problems we are having today. There is a lack of communication between parents and children, the media is infested with sex, broadcasting it on television and theatres, more...

Since the effects of the media increased over people, the aim of the media has gone into an alteration. The morals of the media changed and a huge conflict became into existence between the morals in past and now. As all over the world in Turkey, ethics of the media changed after the media bosses have caught it. Media must be objective, impartial and balanced, but because of the media bosses, it changed its ethics. The first purpose of media must be objectivity, but media is rarely objective while reporting or researching for information. Media's objectivity is filtered and censored by the media owners, advertisers, newsmakers, news shapers, and the pressure groups. All of the affect media while its doing its job. Media's job is to inform. Because of the filters of media, it usually uses for propaganda, having profit and power. Many people think media is the most powerful more...

Dolly was a sheep that was the first living clone in its time, not a country music star from Tennessee. This was a magnificent feat but what did it mean? To some it meant a world of possibility, to others it meant havoc. Who is right? Who is wrong? These questions are unanswerable which results in a never-ending controversy. This controversy over the benefits and dangers of genetic engineering in humans, animals and plants will live on forever. There are many benefits of genetic engineering. At the fore front of these benefits is preventing and curing illnesses. Imagine beating chronic, fatal diseases before they strike. Think of the lives, money, suffering and effort that could be saved if doctors could identify individuals that are genetically stricken with heart disease, cancer and many other diseases. Take cancer for example. Scientists are working on a way to alter the processes of the more...