Human beings attempt to gain insights into something new and unfamiliar by making comparisons with already known concepts. The book “Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History” offers thoughts about the Chinese art through the lens of Western art. Such an approach damages both the Western and Chinese art. Elkins conducted a qualitative study on a large number of publications authored by leading Western art […]

The impact of rape and/or sexual assault crimes can be seen in the very way we live our lives and raise our children because it affects the overall sense of safety. We see rape as a constant barrage of sex and violence in media; only needs to watch the media or read the internet/newspaper to be informed on such an act. Media coverage of sex […]

The term “soap” was adapted from American radio shows; the term “soap” was taken from the soap and detergent commercials that were broadcasted during those shows. The main targets were the women who watched those shows while doing their household chores. And the word “opera” denoted the melodramatic character of the shows. Soaps in general have mainly a dominant female audience, according to studies only […]

The Marketing Mix includes 4 words all starting with ‘p’. These words are Price, Product, Place, and Promotion. Firstly we will be talking about how Cadbury’s uses Price and what pricing strategies they use to sell their products, the Double Decker. Firstly, they may use price skimming to set their prices at similar ones as their competitors; this would be because most customers would choose […]

I want to further my studies by taking a course in psychology as this will allow me to gain in-depth knowledge about the complexity behind a humans mind and the way their thinking and behaviour has an effect on their daily life. Through the TED talk ‘How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime’ and the documentary ‘Aftermath: the legacy of suicide’ showed how life […]

How does one grow healthy in an era of size zero, corsets, slimming oils and anonymity on social media? For girls the most significant social pressure they face today is to conform to conventional notions of beauty. Eshaa, a second year student at Delhi University, studying philosophy stays with her mom, her elder brother and her dog in Gurugram. As early as first grade, she […]

Abstract Social media moves fast, but nowhere is it faster than on Twitter. Tweets may be short,but the Twitter community is large the platform has 320 million monthly active users. De-tecting which tweets are related to events and classifying them into categories is a challengingtask due to the peculiarities of Twitter language and to the lack of contextual information. Thecapability to understand and analyze the […]

The painting The Bay of Marseilles, Seen from L’Estaque (1885), by Paul Cezanne is displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago Illinois. This two dimensional, oil on canvas is measured at 80. 2 X 100. 6cm. It is apart of a series of paintings that depict a bay in Marseille, a small village in the south of France. Using a high vantage point Cezanne positions […]

Politics, Philosophy and Economics intertwine to act as major global driving forces. Due to the interactions between the three, exemplified in tax cuts leading to greater inequality in the US, I am deeply interested in studying these combined disciplines at a higher level. Inequality was an issue I encountered when visiting India and witnessing its devastating effects. To begin to understand its economic underpinnings, I […]

The uses of psychometric assessments have grown rapidly over the last 15 years, with great focus on employee selection and development. However, the scientist-practitioner divide had raised different perspectives on the usefulness of such assessments in employee development. The scientists proposed that psychological constructs are unquantifiable and any attempt to measure them is fraught. On the contrary, the practitioner suggests that anything that adds value […]