Caste in Nepal (and India) Can be Triggering. What And How? Depends

  • Post category:Social Justice
  • Reading time:14 mins read

Nepali society suffers greatly from the legacies of our long casteist history. One of the legacies is that caste can be triggering. What it triggers and how depends on the individual and more importantly on their caste. However, the abysmally poor quality of education system and poor level of education of the population of Nepal means that most don't know much about that, and worse react inappropriately when those who are triggered speak up.

BUT those who don't know, can learn about all that from those small numbers who are speaking up. All that is required of them is to listen! That's it.

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We have a Competition in Nepal…A Competition Among Educators to Give Their Academic Institution The MOST Ridiculous Name

From 1990 onwards, we've has a competition in Nepal...a competition among educators to give their academic institution the MOST ridiculous and/or absurd name. I know because, noticing it, I did a write-up on it and even stalked about it in my FM radio program in 1998. So, after three decades, who is winning? All of them...and naturally education is losing out.

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College Papers: Analysis of “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”

  • Post category:Grinnell College
  • Reading time:8 mins read

Coming across old digital records and documents, I have decided to reproduce many of them in my blog. This is a paper I wrote for my English Literature class as an undergraduate student at Grinnell College from 1990 to 1994. The paper is an analysis of a profound short story by the author Le Guin. The story is about some crucial aspect of the human condition.

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College Papers: Adaptations of Amazon Rainforest Mundurucu Culture to External Influences

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Coming across old digital records and documents, I have decided to reproduce many of them in my blog. This is a paper I wrote for my Introduction to Anthropology class as an undergraduate student at Grinnell College from 1990 to 1994. The paper describe how an ancient culture in the Amazon Rainforest, Munduruc culture, evolved in response to external forces.

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College Papers: On The Existence of God

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Coming across old digital records and documents, I have decided to reproduce many of them in my blog. This is a paper I wrote for my Introduction to Philosophy class as an undergraduate student at Grinnell College from 1990 to 1994. The paper exploring the question of the existence of the God, compares and contrasts the opinions of the philosophers David Hume and Rene Descarte.

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College Papers: On The Existence of Soul

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  • Reading time:7 mins read

Coming across old digital records and documents, I have decided to reproduce many of them in my blog. This is a paper I wrote for my Introduction to Philosophy class as an undergraduate student at Grinnell College from 1990 to 1994. The paper exploring the question of the existence of the soul, compares and contrasts Aristotle and Plato's take on it.

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College Papers: Are foot length and lower arm length equal?

  • Post category:Grinnell College
  • Reading time:6 mins read

Coming across old digital records and documents, I have decided to reproduce many of them in my blog. This one is a report for a simple project I carried out with a classmate as an undergraduate student at Grinnell College from 1990 to 1994. It was a math project conducted for the Statistics class I was taking at the time.

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