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Critical Thinking (The Miniature Guide)

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  The main purpose of this guide is to make/help students or whoever reads it to understand how as an individual to critically think in any situation. A person must follow a process to critically think and analyse situations. When one reads this guide s/he understands how to examine a situation. This guide is a basic book to help layout the foundation to become a rich intellectual thinker. It helps break down various steps to simpler ones. There are certain terms which sound similar but hold a different meaning towards it. The key question that the author is addressing is “Why Critical Thinking?”. In a person’s life why is it important to think in depth and reason out every situation. An individual’s life can be remarkably simple and sober but when a person starts to analyse it helps him/her to have a  clear picture and not be in any doubt.  For this there are certain steps which are: there is a checklist, problem of egocentric thinking , universal intellectual standards,...

Story

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 STORY WITH THREE PICTURES                                                                                     Light, light and light. As light is bright in nature, bright just as my future…… ha-ha very funny and not even in my dreams would this sentence be worth it. But keeping and talking negatively is not good so let us consider it. The first image depicts how high I can go in my life with roads that are up and down just like the chandelier but without the limits (in the pic the ceiling). The second picture shows us the color orange and yellow wherein yellow is considered to depict positivity, creativity which mostly I think I possess (again what a joke!!!), orange which depicts excitement, enthusiasm, and warm all of which I possess (this time not joking for real!!!!). No...

Meme

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Limerick

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  1. On someone I know: (Friendship)      A friend is someone who is there always      They are like the second family      Their trust do not break      At midnight on your birthday, they knock at your door with a cake      Do not lose them or you will regret 2.  On online classes:      Eight in the morning boring lectures start      In the mood for sleep, everyone would moan      Everyone would recite Good morning in the same tone      Like an alarm, a question would pop, and silence spread      Online classes are not favorites

Laura Mulvey's Essay and Bechdel Test

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VISUAL PLEASURE AND NARRATIVE CINEMA Laura Mulvey’s essay is about Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema and how it is showcased in the film industry. The essay comprises a few key points which basically explain it in detail. The keywords are: Male Gaze, phallocentric, Scopophilia, Voyeurism, Manhood, and the active male and passive female. So, we will now be analyzing how certain films have shown these in their film MOVIE (HINDI): The psychoanalytic background of the pleasure principle is brought into light through the film ‘Pink’. The movie ‘Pink’ starring Tapsee Pannu and Amitabh Bacchan can be considered as an example of the essay written by ‘Laura Mulvey’. As decades have shown us the patriarchal society wherein the women have no say in anything is screened in one scene wherein Meenal takes a stand for herself and tries to voice out but is attacked with a glass bottle. As mentioned, sexual harassment can take place from the known and not only the unknown as the neighbor is ...

Driver's License

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  A different perspective of the song ‘Driver’s License’: I got my driver's license last week Just like we always talked about Cause you were so excited for me To finally drive up to your house But today I drove through the suburbs Crying cause you weren't around And you're probably with that blonde girl Who always made me doubt She's so much older than me She's everything I'm insecure about Yeah, today I drove through the suburbs Cause how could I ever love someone else?   Based upon the first two paragraphs of the song: A teenager’s parents were happy that their child got his/her driver’s license and could finally drive without relying on them. On a weekend the teenager was driving with a group of friends around the suburbs of the house and the parents had full confidence on the teenager. But the scene turned towards another side when a delivery truck rammed into the car killing the teenager and injuring the friends. The parents get a phone...

Ease of Living Index

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  EASE OF LIVING INDEX   The Ease of living Index released by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs provides a holistic assessment of cities based in India  on their efforts to make a better environment for people to live under, provide better infrastructure and also addresses challenges of urbanization. A revised edition of Ease of Living Index was published in 2019, February.   When interviewed a few citizens of Bangalore they had to say that the Ease of Living Index has been beneficial in some ways such as working area is better, in certain areas the roads are better, but some did not feel that this Index had been beneficial since town planning is not efficient and the roads is in an uneven condition.  Also people had to quote that "in order of doing the city better it is causing a lot of damage in return to the citizens. Such as these days there is metro coming up and flyovers are being built which is causing pollution and reducing the number of tree...