IMPACT : International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Literature

1-6

Authors: LINA R. THATTE & H. A. CHANDE

The world is currently exploring the concept of sustainable development. This can be attained by making a paradigm shift in the process of planning and implementing of various development projects. Accommodative and inclusive growth is to be attained for development to be socially sustainable. The planning authority for the city of Thane in Maharashtra state, India, is the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) being established in 1982. Paper attempts to outline selective measures taken by TMC to ensure sustainable development for the city and also to study the social impact of these measures. TMC’s proactive measures in areas of slum improvement, health, education and its cost effectiveness by emerging partnerships with other stakeholders are discussed and the social impact of these measures is assessed through level of resident’s awareness and the level of satisfaction derived by them from TMC’s projects and services obtaining primary data from residents. The Social impact evaluation of TMC’s measures for sustainable development is found to be participative and also proactive. Analysis of satisfaction score and awareness score from primary data collected however, shows that these scores are lower. Effective governance on part of TMC and participatory approach however are recommended to ensure sustainable development for the city.

13-18

Authors: MEDHA. J. GUPTE

China and India, the two Asian giants are looked upon as being superpowers, particularly in the realm of trade. The two countries have been adopting different paths, in their gaining consideration as the two fastest growing economies in the Post Reform period. Immediately after independence India was one of the most tightly controlled economies. But with the opening of the economy in the eighties and more specifically after 1991 and the abolition of Licensing Raj and policy of intense protectionism, Indian economy has made rapid strides in certain crucial sectors. Several problems such as Poverty, Population explosion, illiteracy and absence of basic infrastructure, seem to be plaguing our economy. No doubt she has her areas of strength. But on comparison with her Chinese counterpart, there are bitter lessons that she has to learn from her neighbor. Indian economy, though at present on an economic decline, hopefully on a temporary basis, has to gear up all her reserves, if she has to continue her upward march towards being a global superpower.

25-36

Authors: ANTHONY AKWESI OWUSU & MAGDALENE BROWN

Quality assurance in teacher training is significant to the overall attainment of teacher quality at the pre-tertiary level of any educational system. Despite institutional efforts being put into teaching practice, coupled with the immeasurable investments trainees are making, quality appears to be an elusive goal. This paper therefore examined teaching practice (TP) in the context of preparing quality teachers for actual field service. As a case study, the study documented evidence on teaching practice as laid down by the university of Cape Coast using questionnaires on 125 trainee teachers in the faculty of education. The study found that TP was beneficial to pre-service teachers in diverse ways even though trainees had some concerns which tended to water down quality of the exercise. As a result, novel recommendations were made to teacher training institutions to possibly look at innovative ways of streamlining activities to improve TP supervision and assessment in Ghana.

47-56

Authors: HUMAYUN RASHEED KHAN

Most of the time people look to the law for justice. The demand for justice is made in the form of a legal or moral claim. A person accused of a crime claims the right to fair trial or procedural justice. People’s demand for punishment of a criminal act is a demand for justice. A citizen’s claim to equality before the law is a claim of justice. Justice is not exclusively a jurist’s concern. It is at the center of moral and social philosophy. Justice has been termed as the highest virtue. It has also been equated with fairness. The concept of just entitlement is also central to the theme of justice. A person who is fair, generous and helpful engages in the virtue of beneficence. Sympathy is the origin of the ideas of beneficence and of justice. The most recent idea of justice puts emphasis on the role of public reason in establishing what can make societies less unjust. The aim of this paper is to evaluate various paradigms of the concept of justice and to highlight how the ideal of justice may be achieved by moving on the path to prevent prevalent injustices in varied forms in our societies.

73-88

Authors: EKHAESE EGHOSA NOEL & ADEBOYE ALBERT BABAJIDE

The domestic architecture of a traditional settlement is greatly influenced by the socio-economic and socio-cultural characteristics of its residents. Benin City which is the focus of the paper is a case of a traditional settlement undergoing domestic architectural evolution with the changing times influenced by factors of growth and development. The paper has examined the effect of socio-economic and socio-cultural characteristics as factors that partly determine the design, style, pattern, space use, organization, location and meaning as well as land use of the domestic architecture of Benin. The study employed the use of questionnaire administered to residents across the cross-section of the city. In the end, descriptive frequency tables were used to analyse the data collected from the residential zones in Benin. The research has been able to corroborate the theory that socio-economic and socio-cultural factors are some of the determinants/elements of domestic architecture of a place.

95-102

Authors: ZAURE BADANBEKKYZY & ZABIRA B. YESHIMBETOVA

Nowadays the humanizing of the science, deep changes took place in the society, the innovation of public mind ascertained the language as a priceless value. The place of Kazakh Republic as the subject of international relations, getting the state status of Kazakh language considers representatives of linguistic associations to learn the state language. Also, Kazakh language is taught as an obligation subject in genera and higher education.

107-128

Authors: MOHAMED EL SEBAEI

A lot of poets entered the prison in the history of the Arab and Persian literature; for various reasons, including political, ideological, religious and other, and tasted imprisonment and captivity. They registered, by their expressive abilities, their painful and difficult moments they have experienced. Because the Persian and Arabic Alhabsiaat have its special nature of the various aspects such as contents, descriptions, fictional images, literary elements and others, they need research with the utmost precision. This paper presents the virtual conditions of the prison and its Interior conditions in the Persian and Arab Habsiaat literature; such as (shackles, prisoners, the warden and others). The poet in the Persian and Arabic Alhabsiaat includes verses expressing his inner feelings talking about his innocence, freedom, sorrow and grief, and so on. This paper examines the descriptive implications in the Persian and Arabic Alhabsaat, which could be considered both (virtual description of the prison and the description of the inner feelings) in order to clarify the literary side of the prison poems in Persian and Arabic literature.

141-146

Authors: ODOK, E. A, EKURI, P. K & EDIM, M. E

This paper seeks to highlight on the need for healthful school environment as a remedy for the attainment of school goals in developing countries. To a reasonable extent, the characteristics of healthful school environment, factors that influences healthful school environment, school goals as well as problems associated with unhealthful school environment were considered. Hence, conclusion was drawn and recommendations made such as: provision of basic necessities of life such as shelter, food and warms and protection from biological threats; safe water or sufficient water; vector borne free disease environment.

163-168

Authors: ARUNA CHAUBEY & R. D. HELODE

The sex differences are natural differences which include the visual, biological and physical. Each female and male member of society behaves with regard to the social responses but the sex is the important basic differences which may give differences exist we assumed there may be a considerable differences in male and female personalities. Our aim is to know the SEX DIFFERECE IN THE PERSONALITY PROFILES OF COLLEGE MALE AND FEMALE COLLEGE STUDENTS. A sample of 480 college/university male and female students was selected in an incidental-cum random basis. The age of the sample was 17 to 22 years from different colleges situated at Raipur and Bhilai. Cattell’s Sixteen P F test (Hindi from A) by kapoor (1972) was used to assess the magnitude of sixteen different personality factors as these are existing in the case of so selected sample. The raw scores obtained by each sex group on each personality factor were put to ‘t’ test so as to know the extent and level of sex difference on 16 personality traits. The obtained results are reported. Using factor wise raw score/group mean as the base, the mean, scores were further converted into stens score to draw the sex wise personality profile of the college students. The obtained profiles are depicted.

173-178

Authors: UDAI NARAIN SINHA

As per Panin, Amarakosha and Patanjali, The word Laxmi is a derivation from the Sanskrit lakshi (Denotative of feminine gender) Lakshi +echa mutt, whose etymological meaning is one who looks upon the prosperity of mankind and helps for the aims and objects of all the Creatures in Universe. She looks upon the industry of every person. [Panin: “Ashtadhyayi” padac chedavritti vartika tippani sahit” parishkarta Shastri gopaldutta pandeya evam prlhaad-giri, (in two volumes), 1981 Chaukhamba Varanasi (Surbharti Granthamala no. 119), 3.16 6. Amar koshah” Svargavargah, line 54, Braille edition by Dr. Tej Singh hand written Braille copy: December 3, 1973 in two volumes, volume 1, Kashi Hindu Vishva Vidyalaya, Varanasi Amarakosha Ink Print edition Compiled by B.L. Rice edited by N. Balasubramanya, 1970. Delhi verses IBID, Puri B.N. “India in the Time of Patanjali” Page 181 and n.11. First edition: Bhartiya Vidyabhavan, Mumbai. According to mythological details Laxmi are very commonly Shri, is the wife of Lord Vishnu and appears in various names in the various form taken by the great Lord himself. The philosophy attached to her worship indicates that Goddess Laxmi is the Goddess of prosperity, purity, chastity and generosity to all. Her form as “Chanchalla” represents the fickleness of the mind of human being. Her four hands represent four spiritual virtues. They are in existence to all the four directions of the Universe and embodies her willingness to help and assist to all the Creatures to every direction in space, signifying The boons she bestows upon - the four ends of human life; dharma, wealth or Artha, pleasure and moksham. She sits on a fully blossomed lotus a seat of divine truth. Her personal charm is considered par excellence. An aura of divine happiness, mental and spiritual satisfaction, and prosperity always exist around her as depicted in Indian and foreign art. Aparna chattarji holds “Goddess Laxmi has no favouritism. She does not discriminate on the basis of cast, creed, gender or social status. The same bowl of rice can satisfy the hunger of a king or a beggar, the same blanket will provide warmth to a man or a eunuch, the same roof will shelter equally the judge and the criminal. Laxmi will go to anyone who seeks her and make himself worthy of her. She even makes know moral judgments to a poor and a judge. Wealth and Power are essentially impersonal to her. They come with a position and not with the person. Thus we wood safely say that people bow not to the man under the crown but to the king bearing the crown and sitting on the thrown.” She is incorrectly connected only with money and popularly accepted as its goddess by general masses but in fact, the Holy goddess is also the goddess of prosperity, chastity, luck, divinity and purity. She is also the goddess of Bramha-vidya and one of her name is’ vidya’ which literally means knowledge. She is the goddess on whom we ask for happiness in family, friends, marriage, children, food and wealth, beauty and health to all over Nations. Hence she is very popular goddess worshipped everywhere since ancient time. She is also attached to prosperity and Operator of the Universe Shri Vishnu and Ganesh, she is known as Haripriya, Shri, Padmalay, Kamala, Lokemata, Padmpriya, Padmamaladhar, Devi, Padmamukhim, Padmakeshi, Padhastam, Padmasundari, Bhargavi, Daridranashini and the daridradhvamshini in different literature of India.

183-194

Authors: SARIT PRAVA DAS, PREETI NARENDRA & PARNA MISHRA

The Small and Medium Scale Enterprises being very volatile in nature are always exposed to high degree of risk. It is therefore imperative for them to address the uncertainty in their environment with the help of the workforce around them. Due to a leaner work force structure, it is easier for HR to implement change management programs in SMEs. The HR faces the challenge to adhere to the agreed policy norms in SMES. HR also faces the problems to synchronize the goals of the promoter and the individual employee goals. This paper analyses the various issues faced by SMEs and various strategies which would help the SMES to be more resilient.

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Authors: OLUWASUJI C. OLAWOLE, ESAN VINCENT A & AFOLABI, MUYIWA BAMIDELE

The third estate of the realm are the three organs of government namely; legislature, executive and judiciary while the fourth estate is the mass media which serves as watchdog over three principal of government. The anti-press rule which operates prior to the rebirth of democracy in May 29, 1999 seems to repeal the freedom of unhindered flow of information in Nigeria. This study therefore examines the relationship between democracy and fourth estate. The study adopts libertarian theory of the press as framework of analysis and secondary data was mostly used due to the nature of the study. The study argues that efficiency of fourth estate of the realm is necessary for survival of democracy of any country. It equally identifies some positive development that took place within the period of the study. In spite of the feat of fourth estate and democracy in Nigeria, some challenges were identified. The study recommends the effective implementation of the Freedom of Information law which is capable of addressing the major lacuna between democracy and fourth estate of the realm.