The River Ganges
is also known as the River Ganga which serves as the holiest river in any
religion. It’s deemed to be a “holy river” because it is considered as an
important deity in the practice of Hinduism. It is respectfully referred to as “Ganga
Maiya” (Mother Ganga) by its worshippers.
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Hindus believe
the myths that surround the river and sanctify it as a goddess. They viewed the
goddess Ganga as a beautiful woman wearing a white crown with a water lily and
water pot in her hands, and saw her as riding on her pet crocodile. Hindus
generally believed that all prayers offered to the river would multiply because
of the holiness of the “Ganga Maiya.” </span>
A graphical representation of a period of time, on which important events are marked.
The sentence John says to his mother, “I will rake the
leaves this afternoon. Let’s leave soon for the store. We can store the leaves
in the basement.”, is an example of loosening of associations.
The discourse comprising of a sequence of unrelated or only
remotely related ideas is a type of thought disorder called derailment or also
known as loosening of association.
There are three kinds of loosening of associations, namely:
Derailment – comprised of odd tangential associations between
ideas
Talking past the point – the patient skirts
around point of discussion even though he seems close to it
<span>Verbigeration – the senseless repetition of
phrases of sounds in the patient’s speech</span>
Political and ethnic rivalries within the countries emerged after independence.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court Case in which it was ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. It was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movements in the United States.
It overruled a previous Supreme Court decision, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), that stated that racially segregated public facilities were legal as long as their were equal in quality ( the so called 'separate but equal doctrine').
The plaintiff, Oliver Brown, filed a lawsuit against the Board of education of Topeka, Kansas. His daughter, Linda Brown, was denied access to Topeka's white school which was located seven blocks from her home. Instead, she had to walk six blocks to her school bus to ride one mile to her segregated black school. The plaintiff claimed that schools for black children were not equal to the white schools.
Furthermore, Brown claimed that this segregation violated the 'equal protection clause' of the 14th Amendment that guarantees equal protection of the laws to every person.
The Supreme Court did not specify how exactly schools should be integrated but it affirmed that the 'separate but equal doctrine' was not applying as segregated schools were 'inherently unequal".
The ruling of this case raised awareness about racial segregation in the United States and gave way to the civil right movement.
