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Ganesh Chaturthi
No full textGanesh Chaturthi is a fall holiday that is typically celebrated early in the season. Specifically, it is a Hindu holiday celebrating the birth of Ganesh, the highly worshiped god. Let me back up—Shiva (who Nikhil is named after) and Parvati gave birth to Ganesh and his head was replaced with the head of an elephant [gestures with hands]. This is what represents my religion, and specifically the Indian god in pop culture. To celebrate, my mom and dad throw a large party and perform Puja, a [uh um…] prayer ritual. Generally, the Puja takes about 30 minutes, but depending on the company and what is included or not, it can literally take forever [clasps his hands]. During this time the selected priest conducts the prayer while others listen and ring small hand bells. [I asked him who the priest typically was]. Well, usually my dad does it, but typically the host family is involved. At the end of the Puja, the whole group starts to chant directly to Ganesh. Respectfully, the group chants all 100 names of Ganesh, placing a flower on his shrine in-between names. Since my family is the host family each year, my responsibility in the puja is to place the flower on Ganesh’s shrine. You would like this part [nudges me] there tends to be a lot of different colored flowers. Afterwards, each participant prays to the shine of Ganesh. Subsequently, everyone eats prasāda. [I asked him what it was made out of]. Well, it’s a combination of all of the different dishes brought that night. It’s usually like fruits with rice milk. It is essentially “blessed” food [nods his head]. The evening ends when everyone has danced, partied and had a good time
"More Societal than Generational": Examining the Construction and Resistance of Generational Messages in the Workplace
No full textAuthor email: [email protected] Millennial generation, those born between 1980-2000, have drawn vast, sometimes fanatical, criticism in popular media. Slated as narcissistic praise hounds, they are cast as demanding graduate divas who are about to attack the workplace and everything ‘you hold sacred’ (Clark, 2008; Safer, 2007). The abundance of such messages about this generation in formats ‘tailored, targeted, and consumed’ by the public is problematic given that generational constructs are by many perceived as sacrosanct (Myers et al, 2010).
The proliferation of such criticism is by no means innocuous given the very likely impact that they will have on Millennial work opportunities. For many scholars the field of Millennial research suffers from a lack of empirical and cross sectional data to establish more calculated and careful generational constructs, – instead relying on or reacting to popular negative stereotypes. While some Millennial scholarship has begun to move beyond criticisms of popular media, Millennial research is by many considered contradictory at best and confusing at worst (Kowske et al, 2010). Additional difficulties arise when the scramble to publish more research-based work has led to methodologies which are inherently flawed because they reinforce the very same monolithic generational categories they are supposed to assess.
This study, undertaken in New Zealand, explores critical approaches as a means of examining the construction of generational messages and the establishment of generational difference. As a starting point, this small-scale examination analyses the very way in which generational messages are constructed and resisted within the workplace through an analysis of interviews undertaken with 26 employees of a Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) in the information technology sector.
Unlike many generational studies, this project did not seek to draw conclusions by framing differences and measuring responses across generational lines, but rather took a bottom-up approach to understand how participants themselves constructed and resisted messages about generational difference. The project asked two research questions: First, how are generational messages constructed in the context of the workplace? And second, how are generational messages resisted in the workplace? Through axial coding this research categorized five themes under which participants constructed generational difference. These five themes are Technology, Voice, Fairness, Informality, and Stimulus. Broadly speaking, these themes were underpinned by a belief that Millennials have a great demand for respect, democratic process, and the reduction of power distances.
Given the critical approach, the study also observed resistance as a component of the discursive process. As such this research outlines the partiality of resistance and outlines strategies of resistance employed by employees. In line with the idea that construction and resistance are mutually implicated as negotiation, participants were frequently observed simultaneously constructing and resisting generational difference, both synchronically and diachronically. Through axial coding this study also categorized three strategies of resistance. These three strategies are established as Dismissal, the Third Person Effect, and the Decline Metaphor.
This research highlights the usefulness of adopting critical approaches by illustrating the way in which generational meaning is perpetually produced, reproduced, negotiated, and resisted by participants (Murphy, 1998). While there are several factors which are indicative of the Millennial generation, this thesis establishes the hegemonic character of most constructions of generational difference. Given the fragmented and complex state of society, this thesis posits that the usefulness of the monolithic birth-cohort generation has long since passed and we should instead look to understanding generations in terms of their consumption of similar cultural capital
Sales Promotion Activities During Ganesh Festival: An Empirical Study with Reference to Pune City.
No full textIn today\u27s competitive market, sales promotion activities during the festival comes handy to the traders and corporate organizations to overcome their several sales/marketing issues or problems arise for the short term. In Indian market festivals period are extensively used for sales promotion activities. Through this study, an attempt has been made to understand the major objectives of sales promotion in Ganesh festival its benefits to the Ganesh festival organizers (Ganesh Mandals) and benefits to the traders/corporate organizations. This study also highlights the nature of the sales promotion mix offered by traders/corporate organizations, specifically during the festival period
Entrepreneurial Organization Building in the Emerging Economy
No full text Zensar Technologies is a significant success story of the India software services industry. In this article, Ganesh Natarajan who led the company as it’s Vice Chairman and CEO from 2001 to 2016 presents the exciting journey of the company. The article highlights the inflection points, the hurdles that the management team had to navigate and the unique attributes that made it a global success story. The article is derived from the Sage Publications book written by Ganesh Natarajan band Prameela Kalive titled ‘From Start-up to Global Success—the story of Zensar.’ </jats:p
Mineralogical evaluation of Zinc-lead ore from Ganesh Himal region of central Nepal
No full textThe zinc-lead mineralization in the Ganesh-Himal range is a part of crystalline Kathmandu Nappes of Main Central Thrust Zone, which belongs to the wide schuppen zone between Nawakot metasediments and Ganesh Himal regions. The host rock is crystalline dolomitic limestone in which zinc-lead minerals are mostly disseminated. Microscopic and X-ray mineralogy indicate that the ore minerals are predominantly made up of sphalerite and iron sulfides (pyrite and pyrrhotite) and galena, with minor to traces of chalcopyrite and magnetite. Dolomite is the major gangue mineral in association with amphibole, biotite, calcite and carbonates of lead and zinc. The mineralogical study indicates possibility of preconcentration of values at coarser size (60 mesh) but fine grind at around -100+200 mesh is needed to recover different sulfide minerals
Between Wormholes and Blackholes
No full textThe chapter sets out to explore the question of how the legal claims going by the name of “human rights” in contemporary legal practice can validly be made in war, consistent with the idea that rights are possible—indeed conceivable—only in conditions of peace. Even though war is wrongful in the highest degree, a still deeper wrong obtains if a belligerent does something whose maxim aims at making a future peace impossible. On this basis, Ganesh argues that notwithstanding actual, “empirical” conditions of active conflict, a belligerent must be deemed as sharing a rightful condition with an individual if denying the same would amount to admitting the commission of a war crime. Moreover, Ganesh also demonstrates—contrary to the dominant trend in legal scholarship—that a moral reading of the most relevant caselaw finds human rights obligations to obtain even if the obligor state has little to no capacity to enforce its writ, due either to the territory being embroiled in an active civil war or under the control of another state
What Girls Are Made Of
No full textIntro -- Title Page -- Part I Unconditional -- Part II Eros and Thanatos -- Part III The Dissected Graces -- Part IV Conditions -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Back CoverDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
STUDY OF NOISE POLLUTION IN INDORE CITY IN INDORE CITY DURING GANESH UTSAV – A CASE STUDY
No full text<p>Noise is an unwanted, unpleasant and irritable sound that may cause some psychological and physiological stress to human beings exposed to it. Noise Pollution has now been recognized as one of the type of pollution that affects the quality of life. Man made sound contribute largely to noise pollution. Present study deals with the trend and status of noise generated during an important festival Ganesh Utsav. The results obtained at all the selected study locations were recorded higher sound levels than the prescribed safe limit of Central Pollution Control Board of India.</p>
Veb pristupačnost i elektronskih formati za pristup informacijama za osobe sa invaliditetom
No full textAuthor described the context of the development of technological and social relationships and how they mutually made changes on ways how people interact with information and access to knowledge.
The development of societies changed significantly the role of libraries and posed new technological and other challenges due to the development of information technologies.
Since the development of information technologies caused expansion of production capacities in societies there was additional need to standardize production of formats of access, distribution, archiving of information. Due to democratic character of many developed societies openness of information and human rights emphasized an importance of legal aspects and rights of persons with disabilities. Author mentioned articles of the UN Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities which required that parties which ratified convention should implement accessibility standards for persons with disabilities. Author presented standards and technical specifications that define accessibility of web interface, computer software and file formats. It is especially emphasized that those standards are important in libraries. Modern libraries should adopt and use file formats which are accessible for persons with disabilities in order to avoid risk of increased discrimination against persons with disabilities if inaccessible technologies will be used. Author believes that this would help persons with disability to use library resources and services equally as other users do.
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
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