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v. t. e. De la démocratie en Amérique ( French pronunciation: [dəla demɔkʁasi ɑ̃n‿ameˈʁik]; published in two volumes, the first in 1835 [1] and the second in 1840) [2] is a classic French work by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title can be translated literally as Of Democracy in America. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic ...
In the years, 2006, 2009, and 2013, a 3-volume Burushaski-Urdu Dictionary was compiled in a collaboration between the "Burushaski Research Academy" and the University of Karachi, under the auspices of Prof. Allamah Nasiruddin Nasir Hunzai and published by the university's "Bureau of Composition, Compilation & Translation". [30] This dictionary ...
Cover of the Penguin edition. " Politics and the English Language " (1946) is an essay by George Orwell that criticised the "ugly and inaccurate" written English of his time and examined the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language. The essay focused on political language, which, according to Orwell, "is designed ...
Chutzpah ( Yiddish: חוצפה - / ˈxʊtspə, ˈhʊt -/) [ 1][ 2] is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad. A close English equivalent is sometimes "hubris". The word derives from the Hebrew ḥuṣpāh ( חֻצְפָּה ), meaning "insolence", "cheek" or "audacity". Thus, the original Yiddish word has a strongly negative connotation ...
The term jihad is derived from the Arabic root jahada, meaning "to exert strength and effort, to use all means in order to accomplish a task". In its expanded sense, it can be fighting the enemies of Islam, as well as adhering to religious teachings, enjoining good and forbidding evil. [ 22]
In political and sociological theory, the elite ( French: élite, from Latin: eligere, to select or to sort out) are a small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in a group. Defined by the Cambridge Dictionary, the "elite" are "the richest, most powerful, best-educated, or ...
Iranian protesters burning the flag of the United States along with a US Dollar in Tehran, November 2018. Death to America [a] is an anti-American and anti-terrorist political slogan widely used in North Korea (as Death to the United States imperialists [b]), [1] [2] Iran, [3] Afghanistan, [4] Lebanon, [5] Yemen, [6] Iraq, [7] [8] and Pakistan.
A German translation of Anquetil-Duperron's work led to the introduction of the term Arier in 1776. [18] The Sanskrit word ā́rya is rendered as 'noble' in William Jones ' 1794 translation of the Indian Laws of Manu , [ 18 ] and the English Aryan (originally spelt Arian ) appeared a few decades later, first as an adjective in 1839, then as a ...