Raj Patel

alone over $10 billion dollars a year is spent marketing fast-food products to children. At school our children are being introduced to sugary snacks and drinks in addition to being force fed educational activities like reading programs and challenges from companies like McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Coca Cola, and more. At home children are bombarded with an endless barrage of ads, toys, contests, and marketing gimmicks that have fueled fast food sales. Families in which both parents work outside the home often don’t have the time to prepare meals from scratch, between working all day to children’s extracurricular activities meals are often purchased at the nearest drive through and eaten on the way to little Johnny's soccer game. Furthermore, Patel points out that the nations poor and persons of color live in environments that unlike their whiter richer counterparts, are less likely to have inexpensive, healthy, fresh food easily accessible. The fact that there are food deserts, or lack of supermarkets in neighborhoods where the population is predominantly African American, Latino, or poor is not a coincidence, and because of that you will find that this neighborhoods boast the highest concentrations of fast food…

Slumdog Millionaire, a movie by Danny Boyle, set in Mumbai, tells the story of Jamal Malik, a contestant on India’s version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’. Jamal was born in the slums of Mumbai with little education and was on his way to win the grand prize on the game show. Whilst on the show, he is suspected of cheating but little do his accusers know that Jamal’s life experience provides him with essential clues to answer each question. The movie alternates between flashbacks from Jamal’s…

film industry, but their talent and hard work paid off and the film won an Oscar. The young kids who played Jamal, Salim, and Latika were picked from the slums of Mumbai. It was for the first time they saw a real camera and heard about Hollywood. The role of 18-year-old Jamal Malik was played by a British born, Indian origin actor, Dev Patel. It was Patel’s first film debut. Despite being born and raised in London, Patel did a tremendous job in acting like a street boy in India. “Patel's…

planted by the extremists, detonated prematurely. The assassination attempt failed and one member of the gang was captured. Gandhi had witnessed six know attempts upon his life and the 30th of January 1948 finally saw to the success of Gandhi’s assassination. On his way to a prayer meeting in Birla House, Godse succeeded to shoot him three times from the cover of the crowd. Consequently, when the British planned to create Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India from the division of the British-ruled…

Currently, more than a billion people are liberally occupying India because of the courageous actions one man took against the British Raj (or British Rule). Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, born on October 2, 1869, grew up in the small town of Porbandar and became a world-renowned political and spiritual leader who would be valued by many people under the British rule ("Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948)"). There are a limited amount of people in history who have accomplished what Gandhi did…

Very few people have changed the course of history. Even less have helped to create a country, yet Muhammad Ali Jinnah has done both. He was a lawyer, a politician, and he was the man who led the act of creating Pakistan, a country in South Asia. This astonishing performance happened in 1947, years after Jinnah wanted it to be reality. Jinnah had a large role in the creation of Pakistan and left a questionable legacy in the process. Years before, and during the creation of Pakistan, India was…

Throughout history, humans have constantly held the desire to achieve more, to find more, to be more. Greed sparked this desire in humans and as a result humans have achieved amazing feats. Greed contributed heavily to the idea of the caste system; greed began exploration, exchange, and encounters between societies and new land. Along those lines, greed was the catalyst that set off the rule of the British Raj, the fleet from Great Britain sent to colonize India in 1857. The greedy British Raj…

1 Imperialism: this one word is used to represent a complicated concept. Imperialism is defined by Dictionary.com as “the extension of an empire over a nation”, essentially one nation taking over another and proceeding to control it. Imperialism has been evident throughout history, and one of the most prominent examples is the British takeover of India. Indian civilization dates back more than five-thousand years (Culture Grams Online Addition Web) and has a history of oligarchies, split…

and proves that while a nation may appear wealthy, the standard of living for the majority may be insufficient. While India’s economy may have shown signs of improvement after the fall of the British Raj, there will prove to still be a great deal of income disparity today as a result of government corruption, a lack of education in specific regions, and…

Decolonization is a goal with a never-ending journey; the world is continuously changing and adapting daily that there is no finality. The process of decolonization and nation building is derived from the civil wars, wars of independence, negotiated independence, and incomplete decolonization (Pollard et al, 2015 pg.734). In the end, decolonization had an impact on all nations socially, economically, and politically. Its factor refers to finance and trade, global migration, new technologies, and…