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The Curriculum Vitae and the Job Application Letter

A curriculum viate (pronounced kari-kyu-lam-veetai) or a CV, also known as a resume (pronounced re-zyu-may) in American English, is a brief written account of your personal details, such as full name, address and telephone number, educational qualifications, previous work experience, languages spoken, and sometimes also your intests, that you send with a short letter of application when you are trying to get a job or admission to a course of study. A bio-data or a curriculum vitac (usually referred to simply as a c v) presents information about a person lo an employer. However, bare facts about a potential employee are often not enough. I hey need to be organized in a way that will make them stand out and attract attention. The facts have to persuade the employer and show him/her that the applicant has the qualities the employer is looking for. When in use a Curriculum Vitae Use a curriculum vitae only when the employer specifically asks for one in the position advertised. If i...

GROWTH OF COMMUNALISM IN INDIA

Communalism is a modern phenomenon. It had its roots in the modern colonial socio-economic political structure. Communalism emerged as a result of the emergence of new, modern politics based on the people and on popular participation and mobilisation. It made it necessary to have wider links and loyalties among the people and to form new identities. This process was bound to be difficult, gradual and complex. This process required the birth and spread of modern ideas of nation, class and cultural-linguistic identity. These identities, being new and unfamiliar, arose and grew slowly and in a zig-zag fashion. Quite often people used the old, familiar pre-modern identity of caste, locality, sect and religion to grasp the new reality, to make wider connections and to evolve new entities. This has happened all over the world. But gradually the modern and historically-necessary identities of nation, nationality and class have prevailed. Unfortunately, in India this process has remain...

Declining Standard of Newspaper and Magazines.

I suggested earlier that it would he a mistake to regard the cultural struggle now going on as a straight fight between, say, what The ‘limes and the picture-dailies represent. To wish that a majority of the population will ever read The times is to wish that the human beings were constitutionally different, and is to fall into an intellectual snobbery. The ahihiy to read the decent weeklies is not a sine qua non of the the good life. It seems unlikely it any tune, and is certainly not likely in any period which those of us now alive are likely to know dial a majority in any class will have strongly intellectual pursuits. There are other ways of being in the truth. The strongest objection to the more trivial popular extcriainrnenls is not that they prevent their readers from becoming highbrow, hut ihat they make it harder for people without an intellectual bent to become wise in their own way. The fact that changes in English society over the last fifty years have greatly increase...

PROSTITUTION

Prostitution has been an institution which has made women a commodity throughout the social evolution of humanity around the world. The practice has been reported in virtually every culture and described throughout recorded history. As a form of deviance, prostitution has been of interest to sociologists as a reflection of various social processes and phenomena. Sociologists have studied prostitution as a form of sexual deviance and a reflection of the basic values, norms, and institutions within a society. Sociological studies of prostitution have been concerned with the function it serves in a society, the gender inequality and double standard implicit in the practice, and the social dynamics involved in becoming a prostitute. Prostitution represents a form of sexual deviance in that it is a sexual practice which is widely viewed as socially undesirable and degrading. Colloquial terms used to refer to prostitutes, such as hooker, hustler, and whore, carry negative connotations. ...

TERRORISM IN INDIA

The emergence of terrorism in India has been an unfortunate and most harmful development of our times. It has been a sad reality of Indian politics for the last two decades. J & K, Assam other north-eastern states Andhra, Bihar and even some of the southern states now stand gravely affected by terrorism. In one form or another, terrorism continues to be present in several parts of India. Terrorism has been a standard weapon of the secessionists, sub-nationalists and revolutionaries, who have been advocating either the creation of independent homelands out of India or the transformation of India into a new state or the securing a particular bigotic advantage or interest. In J & K, the secessionist groups have adopted terrorism as a weapon. Pakistan has been sponsoring the terrorists of all shades in securing their evil designs which appear to favour Pakistan. Terrorism in its several forms—narco-terrorism, fundamentalist terrorism, cross-border Terrorism ideological terrori...

Cyber Crime

Cyber crime is a global problem today that affects computer users and others in all developed and developing countries that rely heavily on computing and communications technologies. The need to respond effectively has, therefore, been a common theme throughout the networked world, although the level of concern and the impetus for reform have been closely correlated with the degree of usage and hence the risk of victimisation. Those countries with the highest usage levels tend to have taken greater steps with respect to regulation and law reform. ‘Cyber crime’ has, however, taken on a life of its own to some extent, and entered popular discourse today. Although cyber crime overlaps with a number of other areas of economic crime and white-collar crime, there are some aspects that are unique. Some forms of illegality simply could not have been committed prior to the introduction of computers and so, in this sense, cyber crimes (or at least elements of them) are dissimilar from convent...

Individual and Society

When we survey our lives and endeavours, we soon observe that almost the whole of our actions and desires is bound up with the existence of other human beings. We notice that our whole nature resembles that of the social animals. We eat food that others have produced, wear clothes that others have made, live in houses that others have built. The greater part of our knowledge and belief has been communicated to us by other people through the medium of a language which others have created. Without language our mental capacity would be poor indeed, comparable to those of the higher animals; we have therefore, to admit that we owe our principal advantage over the beasts to the fact of living in human society. The individual, if left alone from birth, would remain primitive and beastlike in his thoughts and feelings to a degree that we can hardly conceive. The individual is what he is, and has the significance that he has, not so much by virtue of his individuality but rather as a member...