Essays Tagged: "partition"

India and Pakistan: a modern history of the antagonistic relationship between nuclear neighbors and what it could mean for the future of the free world.

The conflict between India and Pakistan has been going on since their partition in 1947. With the recent developments in both countries' nuclear arsenals as well as the i ...

(13 pages) 277 2 4.4 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

The Jammu & Kashmir Dispute

This dispute dates back to the partition of the British Indian Empire, in August 1947, into two independent states, Pakistan and In ...

(9 pages) 150 2 3.3 Apr/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

"The Ulster Unionist Party was primarily responsible for the development of sectarian politics in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972". Do you agree?

n Ireland between 1921 and 1972". Do you agree?The Government of Ireland Act 1920 paved way for the partition of Ireland. Partition of Ireland would in view of the Westminster government prevent civil ... he more backward agricultural south. A united Ireland could harm Protestant interests and therefore partition would be a means of appeasing both sides. After much disagreement and talks Ireland was fi ...

(11 pages) 80 1 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Comparative Politics of India and Pakistan Economy

Difference in Planning Between India and Pakistan?s EconomyIndia and Pakistan were split up in the partition of British India in 1947. Pakistan was created in order to establish a separate homeland f ... orter of food. Virtually all manufactured goods in Pakistan were imported (Lewis 2).Right after the partition of India and Pakistan, the economy was controlled by elites who had migrated from India. T ...

(9 pages) 161 1 4.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Examine the importance of colonial rivalries in affecting the relations among the European powers in the period 1870-1914

The period 1870-1914 saw a remarkable upsurge of imperial activity, including the partition of Africa and the scramble for concessions in China. The Great Powers competed with each o ... in and France had no major quarrels and usually cooperated in international relations. However, the partition of Africa led to continual friction, which brought them to the verge of war. Rivalry in th ...

(4 pages) 29 0 0.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

I found timelessness

ase - the instant the leaf actually disconnected from the branch. It was the brevity of perfection. Partition in sunderance, an umbilicus severed, a future unlatched; an end and a beginning. There was ...

(1 pages) 16 0 2.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

The four major functions of an operating system are

ory. The operating system gives each individual program a certain amount of memory this is called a partition. If the memory becomes full then the operating system starts storing copies of the pages i ...

(2 pages) 42 0 4.3 Oct/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

My response to the question of borders

A Season Outside' looks at the concept of non-violence through the prism of the story of the Indian Partition and the Tibetan Freedom Struggle. On one hand we have a country where Lord Buddha enunciat ... seeing each other across the border and yet in our eyes the hatred is there for all to see.The Partition was the manifestation of religious extremism, of mutual demonizing and and dehumanizing ...

(3 pages) 21 0 4.3 Nov/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Film Review of ' a saeson outside'

: How can it prevail, in the face of history's atrocities? Through the painful memories of Indo-Pak partition during 1947, a trauma and heartache for many families in the subcontinent, through governm ... ich once exceeded, becomes a "fury of resistance".Finally, set against the backdrop of the Indo-Pak partition and the resulting violence, the statement "When there is violence in your own home, where ...

(4 pages) 25 0 3.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

King Lear: Critical Study of Text (a feminist reading)

re of the characters. The scene opens with Gloucester and Kent discussing Lear's plan to retire and partition his kingdom amongst his daughters. The king's public drama of the love test denotes the in ...

(6 pages) 51 0 3.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Northern Ireland GCSE coursework, Question 1.

er David Lloyd George was desperate to find an end to the Irish conflict. He therefore imposed the 'partition' in 1922. Ulster was split into six counties: Fermanagh, Tyrone, Armagh, Down, Antrim and ...

(4 pages) 17 0 0.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Road to Bangladesh: Analysis of the major event that led up to the formation of Bangladesh. Interpreter of the Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri.

rdu but East Pakistanis spoke Bengali. Nevertheless, they were lumped together as one country after Partition. As Lord Mountbatten prophesized, that within twenty-five years, these two regions would w ... East Pakistan grew poorer. All the foreign aid that Pakistan received from the United States after Partition for allying with them went to West Pakistan as did all of the profits that East Pakistan a ...

(3 pages) 51 0 5.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

With reference to Bharati Mukherjee's "Jasmine", write on the following topic: Violence and Transformation

ceiver. Also, there is the violence that results from political disputes in South Asia, such at the Partition Riots and the rebel movements which affects Jasmine's family. Jasmine herself is also an a ...

(8 pages) 18 0 0.0 Feb/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

File Systems That Are Used With Windows NT.

tem is used in almost all computer operating systems. The Fat file system keeps track of files in a partition using a file allocation table, hence the FAT acronym, stored on the first few clusters of ... le allocation table, hence the FAT acronym, stored on the first few clusters of the partition. Each partition on the disk has an entry in the FAT that indicates whether the cluster is in use. In the F ...

(2 pages) 38 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

India and China: A Comparison of Economic Growth and Development

not easy for India or China. "The present governments in both countries inherited economies torn by partition in the case of India and civil strife in China and exploited by foreign colonial interests ...

(9 pages) 98 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies

How effective were Mahatma Gandhi's actions in encouraging non-violence in India?

ernment to pay a sum of 550 million rupees to Pakistan. Some blamed Gandhi for causing India’s partition, which caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.Mahatma Gandhi’s fight for India’s ...

(5 pages) 14 0 3.5 Feb/2010

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Thoreau as a Model for "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (Melville)

manner in which they are secluded is very similar. Both are separated by "screens": Bartleby's is a partition screen in the office so the narrator can call to him but not see him if he doesn't want to ...

(2 pages) 42 0 5.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American