Partha Singh
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Revisiting the "Pale Blue Dot"
Carl Sagan was a historic American scientist, Pulitzer winning novelist and a popular TV show host, who coined the term ‘Big questions’. This term refers to the questions that would potentially explain the origin of our universe and life as we know it. These questions are generally on the lines of “How did our universe come into existence?” Sagan, in his award winning book and show, ‘The Cosmos’ talks about the vastness of our entire universe. He tells us how the urge to answer these questions about the beginning of our lives is almost a primal need that has driven us to major scientific discoveries and theories, like The String Theory. A recurring theme in Sagan’s ‘Cosmos’ is the insignificance of the human race in our infinite universe. He often talks about how the seven billion people on this planet do not even make up for a percent of our universe, and our minds still comprehend ‘trivial’ issues in our daily lives to be significant. Sagan urges our minds to stretch beyond their limits and find an answer to these ‘Big Questions’, as it is important that there should be an answer to the mystery of our existence.
By Partha Singh4 years ago in Earth
Analyzing Racial, Sexual and Gender based Stereotypes in western media culture.
Firmin Didot was a French printer, engraver and type founder born in Paris, France. Didot was born in a family of printers, in France, and he later on in life he chose to follow the legacy of printing that was started by his grandfather, Francios Didot. Firmin, in 1798 recorded the first usage of the term “Stereotype”. In his printing business, Firmin referred to any plate that would facilitate copying or duplicating a pre-existing typing pattern, as a Stereotype. In the printing business today, the use of a “Stereotype plate”, or a duplicate plate is still prevalent. Even today, it is generally used to replicate an original piece of printing, or print an existing pattern multiple times. Although, in 1850, the word “Stereotype” was used for the first time in a non-printing context. In the spoken word then, Stereotype was used as a noun to define an image, or an idea, that could or had continued for a long time, without change. The Etymological roots of Stereotype originates from two different Greek words, stereos; meaning firm or solid, and typos; meaning an impression. Hence, for the larger part of human knowledge, Stereotypes have always been used to define a solid impression of anything. Today, the word stereotypes has the same literal meaning, but a very social connotation.
By Partha Singh4 years ago in Geeks
Victimology and Sexual Abuse
Introduction This post analyses the process of Victimology in criminal law cases and takes rape as an extreme example to highlight legal and societal sway in delivering criminal justice. Victimology in essence underlines the consequences of being a victim of a particular criminal act. These consequences in rape at least are impregnated with irreversible damages to the social standing of the victim which makes Victimology a necessary study to evaluate the nature of damages that arise from such crimes (Weis & Borges, 1973). This field of study emerged sometime towards the middle of the twentieth century, right near the end of the second World War. Some criminologists, like Benjamin Mendelsohn, a French-Israeli advocate and academic, brought this under their field of study and hence worked on it to establish a better understanding of the origins of crimes and its implications on the victims/violators and the society and general which eventually helped create a wave of awareness for victim’s rights, which was later recognized by the United Nations’ act for victim’s rights, submitted by the honorable Secretary General, in 1984, which then gave birth to the United Nations' Charter for Human rights (Citizens for Peace and Justice). Victimology has since then emerged as a significant field of study under criminology as it helps us understand the victim’s relationship with the violator and their experience with the criminal justice system. In the legal profession, Victimology has repeatedly proven to be an important subject as it helps experts understand Sociology, Criminology and Psychology in depth (Pathlegal.in). Victimology is considered to be a subset of all these subjects. Although, in its simplest form, Victimology helps in studying victims of heinous crimes (in this case sexual assault/rape) and analyze patterns and trends that display how factors like gender, race and sexual orientation affect the perception of the victim and their stories by different constituents/entities like the public, media and our legal system.
By Partha Singh4 years ago in Education
