Prachi_Sociology

Despite Modernism's seriousness, one person was able to get the modern world to laugh at its new technological self and subtly query whether this new modern reality was a good thing. Charlie Chaplin arrived in Hollywood at a crucial juncture in the development of cinema. Chaplin's down-to-earth and offbeat cinema performances provided sanity to modern culture and humanized the trials of modern existence. The Little Tramp, who had won Charles Chaplin worldwide recognition and who is still the most globally recognized fictional image of a human being in the history of art, made his final film appearance in Modern Times. The world into which the Tramp said his goodbyes was substantially different from the one into which he had been born two decades before the First World War. Then he had shared and symbolized the tribulations of all the poor in a world that had only recently emerged from the nineteenth century. In the aftermath of America's Great Depression, when vast unemploy...

The Meena is an Indian tribe that lives primarily in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. It's also known as Meenanda or Mina in other languages. The Meenas claim a link to Vishnu's Matsya avatar and the Matsya Kingdom of the past. Meena or Mina comes from the Sanskrit word Meen, which means "fish." Originally, the Meenas were a nomadic people. They were described as a hill tribe comparable to the Bhils, who were semi-wild. However, during the British Raj, they were classified as a criminal tribe and added to the Criminal Tribes Act in order for the British Government to achieve its objectives. The Indian Government currently classifies them as a Scheduled Tribe. The Meenas are a patrilocal, patrilineal, and kin-based society in the traditional sense. They divide their lands into twelve geographical divisions known as 'Pals,' and they dwell in tight villages or isolated hamlets known as 'dhanis,' all of which are unclean in origin. In most cases, individu...