Essays Tagged: "Calcutta"
The economic contributions of Nobel Prize winner, Amartya K. Sen.
8 Nobel Prize in economics for his contributions to welfare economics. Born in 1933, Sen studied in Calcutta and Cambridge (where he received his PhD) and has held teaching positions at Oxford, London ... and Cambridge (where he received his PhD) and has held teaching positions at Oxford, London, Delhi, Calcutta, Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, and Cambridge. He holds honorary doctorates from more th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies
East India Company and its Impact on Bengal
ed from the Mogul empire permission tobuild a settlement on a muddy flatland that eventually became Calcutta. At each of thesethree so-called presidency cities the company erected a fort, known as a f ... overnment control.5The Regulatory Act of 1773 placed Bombay and Madras under thegovernor-general in Calcutta, and the India Act of 1784 set up a government Board ofControl to oversee the company, with ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
"Poverty Anonymous": How the US sould handle foreign aid.
usin also points out that, "Once we discover how easy it is to stare without flinching at famine in Calcutta or Dacca, it should be no trick to be unblinking at disease ridden tenements of Detroit of ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Mother Teresa her life and my feelings
to helping the poor, suffering and dying. She touched the lives of people all over the world, from Calcutta to Rome, and from Ethiopia to Venezuela. Mother Teresa has been a role model to people all ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
A paper on mother teresa for philosophy class.
n she was 18 she joined the Sister of Laredo, and Irish community of nuns with a mission located in Calcutta. After only a few months of training in Dublin she was sent to India where she took her ini ... f Avila. Upon taking her vows she was sent to St. Mary's a high school for girls in the district of Calcutta.Here she started her career teaching history and geography which she throughly enjoyed for ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Mother teresa's vocation.
osary and sing Christmas songs.In the beginning of 1929 they reach Colombo, then Madras and finally Calcutta. The journey continues to Darjeeling, at the feet of the Himalayas, where the young sister ... touched by the endless misery which is there.Back to the beginningSister and teacherShe is send to Calcutta to study to become a teacher. Whenever she can she helps in the care for the sick. When her ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Mother Teresa - Her life and times.
and adopted the name Sister Teresa. On the first of December, 1928, she left the abbey to travel to Calcutta. She travels to Darjeeling, at the feet of the Himalayas, and on May 23, 1929 she is accept ... rstanding of the suffering and poverty in the world.Later, she was then called to teach children in Calcutta. At every spare opportunity, she helped take care of the sick.On the 24th of May, 1937 she ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
The Indian Caste System: A first person narrative.
My name is Amrit Kumar and I live in the city of Calcutta. I live in an apartment with my parents, siblings and their children. Our home is not very ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Mother Teresa (Angel of Mercy)
age 18 to serve god and his will by joining our Sister's of our Lady ofLoreto in India-1928 sent to Calcutta to be trained to be a teacher and given name Sister Teresa-1929 taught secondary school in ... m God "to serve him among the poorest of the poor."-1947: Permitted to leave her order and moves to Calcutta's slums to set up her first school.-March 19, 1949 the first girl joined MT-1950: Founds th ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
City Of Joy: A film analysis. Talks about the relationships in the film.
to leave America and travel to India in the hope of "finding himself." Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.An Indian man nam ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Bikram Yoga
houdhury is the founder of the Yoga College of India and the art of Bikram Yoga. Bikram was born in Calcutta and at the age of four, he was already practicing yoga. He was dedicated and gifted and at ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
Indian Literature
tells of life in present day India.Ashapurna Devi was born on 8 February 1909. Ashapurna grew up in Calcutta, where her father was an artist. She wrote her first stories during 1930's, for adolescents ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Authors
Mrs. Sen's Displacement in America: "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
, tells the experiences of Mrs. Sen, an Indian Bengali housewife, who has unhappily immigrated from Calcutta, India to the United states, due to her husbands profession. She is married to Mr. Sen, who ... India, while she is living in the United States. It also shows how she misses her previous life in Calcutta and reveals her feelings of homesickness for her homeland. The author shows an example of t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa was well known for her work in Calcutta as a missionary.At the age of 12 she believed that her destiny was to go and work as a nun. ... mother Teresa having to disobey her parents but in the end it turned out fine Mother Teresa went to Calcutta and became a nun, one day while she was travelling on a train and she believed she had an " ... nd poor. This work with the poor made her well known in the public and well known as the saint from Calcutta.This relationship with god was important because it led her to do what her destiny was, wit ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet