Category: Us people
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International Nurses Day
May12th is the birthday of Florence Nightingale who gave dignity to the nursing profession. This is commemorated as the international nurse’s day to mark the contributions nurses make to the society. In 1953 Dorothy Sutherland an official in the department of health, education and welfare proposed this, and the then president Dwight Eisenhower did not…
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Who Empowers?
Merriam-Webster says to empower is to give official authority or legal power to act on ones behalf. It could also mean to enable It could also be to promote the self-actualization or to influence. Do we need someone to really empower us? Doesn’t the constitution already empower every citizen of the country immaterial of the…
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Honoring the Victims and Preventing the Future
Honoring the past victims and preventing the future, Is what the international day against chemical war fare is there to remind us. Serious efforts towards preventing chemical warfare were launched a century ago. When the world first witnessed the disaster of chemical warfare. France was the first country to use chemicals in warfare, ethylmoboacetate and…
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Earth Day
April 22nd it is Earth day again. Each Earth Day we faithfully put out the power for an hour, I really wonder who we do this farce for. Anyway let’s get back to the “celebration of the day” I was looking up the events, it is an absolutely America oriented climate law. The theme for…
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World Gypsy day
One of the dance forms we learnt in our Bharatnatyam curriculum was the gypsy dance, the costume would vivid, with gold spangles, and colourful hair tassels’, a tambourine in the hand and quick beats. Most of us loved it for the sheer energy it created. Gypsies seemed exotic. Gypsies the Nomads.. Travelling in caravans, in…
