Strange Ways of Enhancing Body Beauty   To make the body beautiful, alteration and adornment to it is a universal phenomenon. All civilizations have attempted to change their body in order to fulfill their cultural form of beauty, religious and/or social obligations. There are numerous methods for alteration-ranging from ceremonial body paint to the amputation of appendages. In modern society many people today are looking more like tribal warriors of many...

Beliefs and Practices: Judaism, Buddhism And Hinduism   The religions of Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism all have their own beliefs and practices. These beliefs play a major and important role in a person’s everyday life, and influence various aspects of their life. In Judaism, it is believed that the Sabbath day should be kept holy, and that one should follow the Ten Commandments, the laws of God. Their diets comprise kosher...

Automobile Engineer   My long time ambition is to work in the field of automotive engineering and designing. This field is all about framing an automobile idea and designing it on to paper or more sophisticated tools like computer programs. The design so obtained is then tested for different elements like the stress factors, weight, torsion, and make sure this design on paper made physically viable. My interest in this field...

Olympic Games The original Olympic Games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 BC until 393 AD, when Roman emperor Theodosius banned all pagan festivals (the Olympics celebrated the Greek god Zeus). On June 23, 1894, French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin, speaking at the Sorbonne in Paris to a gathering of international sports leaders, proposed that the ancient games be revived on an international scale. The idea was enthusiastically...

National Security   The question who lives if India die is neither hypothetical nor hallucinatory. Economically, the world may have become a ‘global village’ but politically, the world is still dotted with Nation-States demarcated by distinct as well as vague boundaries, giving rise to occasional skirmishes and subtle but sinister moves to alter the balance of power. If, the paradigms of national security are determined by well-defined or natural dividers like...

Suicide Acts   Since the beginning of time, people have been committing suicide. Suicide is a self-inflicted death, or suicide, can be defined as “choosing the mode, time, situation, or occasion for ending one’s life.” In general, the word suicide has a negative connotation and is looked upon unfavourably. Yet in some circumstances, killing oneself can be considered acceptable or even the right thing to do. Since it’s difficult to differentiate...

Uses and Abuses of Censorship   Censorship is the laws concerned with state restrictions on the expression, the publication, and the dissemination of information. In a democracy, freedom from censorship is an important protection of particular freedom, especially freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Censorship and the ideology supporting it go back to ancient times. Every society has had customs, taboos, or laws by which speech, play, dress, religious...

The Institution of Marriage Marriage is the silken tie of love and esteem that two persons usually unrelated by blood. It is the oldest way of getting a man and woman together to live life in a society and have the closest ever relations with each other, bound only by love and confidence which has no limits and cannot be broken unless there is a loss of mutual trust and understanding....