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abhiyerra
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Seconded.
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The History of Sexuality - Michel Foucault Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America - Daniel J. Boorstin These books make you look at society in a much more critical manner. The firs
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That seems to be a problems with Ferguson. His book, "Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power", was annoying in that he makes quite a few generalizations of more complex phenomenon. In it he c
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This attitude is not even only in India, but also seeps into the Indian culture in America. I dropped out of engineering and pursued History. I really love computers and programming, but I sort of lost interest in studying it at the univers
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I took Lakoff's class on this last semester. It's quite cool stuff as it gives an understanding of how we think. Check out these books if you are interesting. We used the first as our textbook. (His writing is like his teaching.) * Philosop
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Poverty doesn't necessarily have to correlate with happiness (even though the West seems to think so). Sure they can't afford a lot of things and struggle, but some of the happiest people I've seen in India are the poor.
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I found fault in the student protests even though these fees are going to affect me quite a bit next semester. It seems the money being raised is being spent to keep all the engineering, business, economics, and law professors around while