YOU KIDNAP YOUR OWN BRIDE?

have you heard it is ok to kidnap a girl or woman who you love
and want her to become your bride and wife?



what will happen, if you as a girl had been kidnap by some guy
who fall in love with you but you did not know he has a feeling to you
and when you parents knew that you had being kidnapped and they
did not worried at all about you missing from your house
because of being kidnapped? I am sure if this happen to you
your parents will quickly make a police report and advertise
about your missing in newspaper and television and find
you wherever you are......



but this bride kidnapping cases are accepted in some culture
this culture somehow cannot be against



this situation called as bride kidnapping



 what is that means?

Bride Kidnapping is known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, is a practice throughout history and around the world in which a man abducts the woman he wishes to marry. Bride kidnapping still occurs in countries spanning Central Asia, the Caucasus region, and parts of Africa, and among peoples as diverse as the Hmong in Southeast Asia, the Tzeltal in Mexico, and the Romani in Europe.

bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan called

ALA KACHU

what is Ala Kachu?

Ala kachuu (Kyrgyz ала качуу) is a form of bride kidnapping still practised in Kyrgyzstan. The term can apply to a variety of actions, ranging from a consensual elopement to a non-consensual kidnapping and to what extent it actually happens is controversial. Some sources suggest that currently at least a third of Kyrgyzstan's brides are taken against their will.

"Kyz ala kachuu" (кыз ала качуу) 

means
"to take a young woman and run away"

Some say it means to take a young woman who does not belong to you and run away.

A typical kidnapping is often conducted by a group of males who take the bride to their home. The bride is often isolated and kept under the charge of the kidnapper’s female relatives, chiefly the groom’s mother or grandmother. 

They take her to his family home, where she is kept in a room until the man's female relatives convince her to put on the scarf of a married woman as a sign of acceptance. Sometimes, if the woman resists the persuasion and maintains her wish to return home, her relatives try to convince her to agree to the marriage.

The white veil is known to mark when the wedding occurs and it is at this point that the brides can no longer go back to their families. Even when sex does not take place, once a woman has been kept overnight – even for a single night – her virginity is put in doubt.

There are many misconceptions about the tradition of bride kidnapping, from a belief that it is an Islamic practice, to the belief that it only occurs in the most rural parts of Kyrgyzstan. In fact, it takes place in all parts of Kyrgyzstan; both rural and urban areas, remote villages and bustling cities, and it can find no premise in the Islamic religion. Studies have shown that forms of bride kidnapping are also prevalent in neighbouring countries such as Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Chechnya and the Caucus.

There are many reasons that women stay with their new husbands and accept the ‘marriage’. In some cases, the kidnappings are so violent and brutal that the women believe they are going to be killed; when faced with marriage, they see it as a better option. Facing ostracisation from their society is often also reason enough to accept. 

Young women who refuse to accept the wedding usually face this situation:

1. No one either family speaks about the attempt so that neither family is shamed

2. The woman returns to her family and lives as though nothing happened

3. The woman is rejected by her shamed family and moves to another place

4. The women is convinced by her family to return to the abductor's family and accept the marriage

Once a kidnapping takes place, the young woman is admonished to stay. However, there is no cultural requirement that men must kidnap. Young men are frequently pressured by family or friends to kidnap wives to show their manly site of their generation. Able and succeed kidnapped their waves means they are hero in their village but if they refuse the pressure, they just do not kidnap anyone. While the expectation is that young men and women will marry, if they marry by the approved of prior parental approval/arrangement, there is no criticism.

According to Islamic Sharia Law, any marriage that is forced in any way is null and void. The Islamic marriage contract consists of an offer (ijab) and acceptance (qabul) that occur at the same meeting. In order for the contract to be valid, the man and woman must both hear and understand the offer and acceptance. This fact is not widely known in Kyrgyzstan, but as more Imams are being educated outside the country, and as more people are drawing attention to the fact that kidnapped woman are being kept overnight and not giving their prior consent, some Imams preach against the practice and threaten to refuse to bless kidnap marriages. Most Kyrgyz are only nominally Muslim, but this is one factor that is part of the education movement against kidnapping that is emerging around the country.

Material on the illegality and negative effects of kidnapping are also being planned for the civic education curriculum for secondary schools. This will probably have more influence than the teaching of the Islamic leaders, but it is important to have the anti-kidnapping message come from all institutions in the society.

‘’Forcing a woman to marry, to continue a marriage or kidnapping her in order to marry without her consent, is a violation of Kygyz criminal law, Islamic Sharia Law, Kyrgyz tradition (adat), and of her fundamental human rights of security, freedom and equality.’’

-Dr Russell Kleinbach, Kys Korgan Institute-

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TRANSGENDERS ARE ACCCEPTED IN INDIA?

 

Is it true that transgenders are being accepted in India?

yup it is true, transgenders in India are being called as Hijra

In the culture of South Asia, hijras are physiological males who have feminine gender identity, women's clothing and other feminine gender roles.

In our beliefs, there are only 2 kind of different sex genders being born on the earth, male and female and   each sex has its own particular role in society. On the other hand, anthropologists have had noticed that several societies around the world have supernumerary (e.g. more than two) sexes.  Appropriate behavior for these “third-sex” groups is defined by a third gender role, which is distinct from traditional masculine and feminine identities

Hijra is define as a girl soul who had been trapped in male body.  Most of the Hijra do not change their gender or even go for plastic surgery. They keep their sex gender as a male but dressing like a woman by wearing sari and jewelry such as bracelets, rings and necklace.

In India, hijras are viewed as an institutionalized “third sex” that has always existed. They are particularly associated with the worship of Bahuchara Mata, a version of the Mother Goddess, for whose sake they undergo emasculation. In return, the Goddess gives them the power to bless people with fertility (Nanda ix).



Their presence in society is justified by many Hindu myths. For example, one of the forms of the god Shiva is that of Ardhanarisvara, half man, half woman, who represents Shiva united with his shakti, or female creative power (Nanda 20). Another mythological reference, often pointed to by hijras as the story of their origin, is contained in the epic Mahabharata. While in exile, the main character Arjun disguises himself as a eunuch and serves the ladies of the court. During this time, he participates in weddings and births, thus legitimizing the roles hijras play in ritual contexts (Nanda 30-31).

In South Asia, many hijras live in well-defined, organized, all-hijra communities, led by a guru. These communities have sustained themselves over generations by "adopting" young boys who are rejected by, or flee their family of origin.Many work as prostitutes for survival

Most hijras live at the margins of society with very low status, the very word "hijra" is sometimes used in a derogatory manner. Few employment opportunities are available to hijras. Many get their income from performing at ceremonies by dancing, begging, or sex work—an occupation of eunuchs also recorded in premodern times.

Hijras have an ambivalent place in Indian society. Because they undergo emasculation as part of the worship of the Mother Goddess. 

Hijras also perform religious ceremonies at weddings and at the birth of male babies, involving music, singing, and sexually suggestive dancing. These are intended to bring good luck and fertility. Although hijras are most often uninvited, the host usually pays the hijras a fee. Many fear the hijras' curse if they are not appeased or  bringing bad luck or infertility, but for the fee they receive, they can bless goodwill and fortune on to the newly born. Hijras are said to be able to do this because, since they do not engage in sexual activities, they accumulate their sexual energy which they can use to either bestow a boon or a bane.

Although there is no official statistics on Hijra in India, their population is said to be half to one million. However, recently, the number of such opportunities of cerebration by Hijra is rapidly decreasing. As Many Indian couple hold their marriage cerebration in hotels, Hijras are not asked for their participation.

a group Hijra performing their dancing

With the reduction of job opportunity, Hijras regularly go out to town to earn by blessing the prosperity of stores and families by visiting shops and common houses. Nowadays, some Hijras even beg for money or engage in prostitution in some urban areas.This vicious cycle is current situation for them. It seems to be inevitable for Hijras to change their lifestyle when the Indian society changes.

 

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SHERLOCK HOLMES IS NOT REAL?

Sherlock Holmes is investigating the big gigantic footprint

Is it true that Sherlock Holmes is not ever exist and not real at all?

Yup it is true my dear friends, he is only the fictional character

created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take on almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases.

An estimate of Holmes's age in the story "His Last Bow" places his birth in 1854; the story is set in August 1914 and he is described as being 60 years of age. Commonly, the date is cited as 6 January

His earliest cases, which he pursued as an amateur, came from fellow university students. According to Holmes, it was an encounter with the father of one of his classmates that led him to take up detection as a profession and he spent the six years following university working as a consulting detective, before financial difficulties led him to take Watson as a roommate, at which point the narrative of the stories begins.

Almost all of what we know of Sherlock Holmes comes from a series of sixty memoirs, most of which were from the pen of his friend Dr. Watson. The first of these, published in 1887 in a magazine called Beeton's Christmas Annual, was A Study in Scarlet.

 

These chronicles of Holmes suddenly came to an abrupt end in 1893 when "The Final Problem" reported Holmes's death at Reichenbach Falls. 

 

One of his famous quotation from his story is:

"Elementary, my dear Watson"

But some other information had stated that Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson" in any of the stories by Conan Doyle. However, that phrase has been used frequently in the movies and was even mistakenly cited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations for 1937 and 1948. The actual quotation is as follows:

"I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson," said he. "When your round is a    short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a hansom. As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom."
    

      "Excellent!" I cried.
     "Elementary," said he. 

It is one of those instances where the reasoner can produce an effect which seems remarkable to his neighbour, because the latter has missed the one little point which is the basis of the deduction. The same may be said, my dear fellow, for the effect of some of these little sketches of yours, which is entirely meretricious, depending as it does upon your retaining in your own hands some factors in the problem which are never imparted to the reader. 

Sherlock Holmes was inspired from?

Doyle said that the character of Sherlock Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations. Sir Henry Littlejohn, Lecturer on Forensic Medicine and Public Health at the Royal College of Surgeons, is also cited as a source for Holmes. Littlejohn served as Police Surgeon and Medical Officer of Health of Edinburgh, providing for Doyle a link between medical investigation and the detection of crime

Sherlock Holmes Outfit

A Laid Back Fashion Sense

If James Bond and the other super spies are known for their flashy suits and perpetually fixed hairdos, Sherlock Holmes rocks the crime-fighting world with his laid back fashion sense. He wears a long trench coat, brown slacks, an old style detective’s hat (sometimes called Holmes’ thinking cap), a wooden pipe and a pair of shiny brown leather shoes. Clearly, being a class act among detectives has a set of old semi-formal clothes as its prerequisites.

The Trench Coat

Given the time when the fictional hero was created, Holmes must be one of the initial figures who attached the word “cool” to the trench coat. His coat looks used yet trendy.

The Thinking Cap/Deerstalker hat

A deerstalker is a type of hat that is typically worn in rural areas, often for hunting, especially deer stalking. Because of the hat's popular association with Sherlock Holmes, it is also a stereotypical hat of a detective

The Brown or Gray Slacks

 

Sherlock Holmes, based on his outfit, is not your average formal guy. If he wore the default black pants, he would have looked more like a business mogul than a detective, which is a no-no for our beloved crime fighter.

The Wooden Pipe

Sherlock Holmes without his trusty pipe is much like Superman taking the subway around Metropolis. The pipe is the most prominent symbol in the novel

 

 

Shiny Brown Leather Shoes

Walking in Sherlock Holmes shoes is not an easy feat, but pretty manageable.  All he really cares about is the intimidating gleam that his footwear emits, even when fighting crime. 

 

 

 

Other Sherlock Accessories

Every detective has loads of tricks under his sleeve. In Sherlock Holmes’ case, he has his magnifying glass and his signature catch phrases. Holmes won’t chide since he relies more on his deductive reasoning for solving crimes. As for his catch phrases, better perfect each and every one of them. Remember, Holmes is a do-gooder, not a serial killer.

Sir Arthur Canon Doyle the writer of Sherlock Holmes

As a conclusion, Sherlock Holmes made Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who popularized the detective and his adventures, a very wealthy man. 

There are a movie that related to the Sherlock Holmes story, I recommended and suggest you to watch this movie and enjoy this movie as Sherlock Holmes is really a mysterious man who full with intelligent thoughts.

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ARISTOTLE THE GREAT PHILOSOPHER

Mr Mark like to mention Aristotle name in our class

during Critical Literacy Subject, so I wonder who is Aristotle actually

as Mr Mark really look very interested in him because he always 

mention Aristotle name in during his class, so I made some research 

about him through the internet, Thanks a lot to Mr Google because 

it help me so much regarding to find some information and background of Aristotle

p/s : Please forgive me Mr Mark if this doodle do not as handsome as you are now :D

ok back to out topic about Aristotle

yup as Mr Mark had mentioned before in our class, Aristotle is a philosopher
 Lets go through to his bibliography :D


 Aristotle

Aristotle, whose name means "the best purpose was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC, about 55 km (34 mi) east of modern-day Thessaloniki is one of Plato's students. His father Nicomachus was the personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon. 

When Aristotle was 10 years old, Nichomachus died. His death prevented Aristotle from following in his father's footsteps as a physician. His mother also died when he was young, and he was brought up by an uncle or friend of the family, Proxenus. Aristotle was trained and educated as a member of the aristocracy. 

Aristotle married Hermias's adoptive daughter (or niece) Pythias. She bore him a daughter, whom they named Pythias. Soon after Hermias' death, Aristotle was invited by Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor to his son Alexander the Great in 343 BC

Aristotle was a brilliant pupil and was soon called on to teach other students, primarily in the subjects of rhetoric and dialectic (the art of conversation). Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics. 

It was Aristotle, more than any teacher, who taught Alexander The Great  in a school at Mieza. Alexander being taught about how to greatly respect the Greek way of life. Alexander The Great had received a classical Greek education, which covered a wide range of topics including history, logic, psychology, political theory, and ethics. More specifically, Alexander the Great had a great passion for Homer's works, which was instilled in him by Aristotle. Supposedly, Alexander the Great slept with a dagger and a copy of the Iliad under his pillow. 

Aristotle also teach Alexander the art of persuasion by teaching him Rhetoric Function, Discourse Analysis and Elementary Process. Aristotle relied on logic, so Alexander often gathered a lot of evidence and information before he made major decisions. Those educations will be useful to him when he become a king and a leader one day

Alexander being taught by Aristotle

After Alexander conquered Athens, Aristotle returned to the city where he was educated. Although Alexander wished the Academy to continue, he encouraged Aristotle to start a rival school. In 335, at the age of 49, Aristotle started his own school called the Lyceum. His school had a broad range of subject, but showed emphasis on the study of nature.

When Aristotle taught his students, he would restlessly walk back and forth among them. People made jokes of this method of teaching, although his followers did not seem to mind. He gave two forms of lectures. One consisted of detailed discussions for his advanced students. Then in the evenings, he would give talks for those in the general public who were simply lovers of knowledge.

To teach his students, Aristotle wrote out prodigious lecture notes, as well as the textbooks for the students. These writings represented an enormous output of virtually every field of knowledge, including logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, rhetoric, poetry, biology, zoology, physics, and psychology.

Alexander the Great died in 323 BC. Immediately afterward, the people of Athens rebelled against Macedonian rule. The great political orator, Demosthenes, led the rebellion. Since Aristotle was associated with Alexander, his political situation became precarious. To avoid being put to death, Aristotle fled to the island of Euboea, where he died soon after. Aristotle named chief executor his student Antipater and left a will in which he asked to be buried next to his wife

Summary

Aristotle was a great thinker of all times. He used his powers of observation and analysis to document concepts in many fields of science, as well as to develop a lasting philosophy concerning life. His life and death were intertwined with the politics of the day.

I would like to suggest and recommended that you must watch the movie Alexander, it has info on Alexander The Great early life to include Aristotle, his father Phillip of Macedonia. It only gives one of the stories that Alexander may have heard from Aristotle.

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THE HIDEOUS SOCRATES

did you know who Socrates is he?

I bet some of you said know and some of you said do not know

Lets me introduce you to Socrates, said 'hye' to him hehehe :D

Socrates

Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher possibly the wisest sage of all. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.

As Socrates did not write philosophical texts, the knowledge of the man, his life, and his philosophy is entirely based on writings by his students and contemporaries. Foremost among them is Plato; however, works by Xenophon, Aristotle, and Aristophanes also provide important insights. He is famous for pithy sayings, his method of discussion or dialogue, and "Socratic irony".

Socrates is famous for saying that he knows nothing and that the unexamined life is not worth living. The Socratic method involves asking a series of questions until a contradiction emerges invalidating the initial assumption. Socratic irony is the position that the inquisitor takes that he knows nothing while leading the questioning.

Socrates actively participated in Athenian democracy, including military service during the Peloponnesian War. Following his ideals, he ended his life by ingesting poison hemlock, in fulfillment of his death sentence.

Why Was Socrates Persecuted and Sentenced to Death?

He was accused of failing to honor the official deities and of corrupting the youth. More specifically, Socrates' accusers cited two "impious" acts: "failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges" and "introducing new deities."



A majority of the 501 dikasts (Athenian citizens chosen by lot to serve as jurors) voted to convict him. However, it is commonly known throughout history that people of power seek to discredit and dehumanize people of virtue, and those who stand up for truth and justice are always persecuted.



Primary sources for accounts of the trial are given by two of Socrates’ students, Plato and Xenophon. Socrates fulfilled his sentence by drinking a cup of poison hemlock in front of friends.

According to Xenophon's story, Socrates purposefully gave a defiant defense to the jury because "he believed he would be better off dead". Xenophon goes on to describe a defense by Socrates that explains the rigors of old age, and how Socrates would be glad to circumvent them by being sentenced to death. It is also understood that Socrates also wished to die because he "actually believed the right time had come for him to die."



Xenophon and Plato agree that Socrates had an opportunity to escape, as his followers were able to bribe the prison guards. He chose to stay for several reasons:

1. He believed such a flight would indicate a fear of death, which he believed no true philosopher has.
2. If he fled Athens his teaching would fare no better in another country as he would continue questioning all he met and undoubtedly incur their displeasure.
3. Having knowingly agreed to live under the city's laws, he implicitly subjected himself to the possibility of being accused of crimes by its citizens and judged guilty by its jury. To do otherwise would have caused him to break his "social contract" with the state, and so harm the state, an act contrary to Socratic principle.

SOCRATES IS UGLY

As reported in Xenophon’s Symposium, Socrates and Critobulus engaged in a discussion of beauty. Socrates, quite famously no beauty himself, was described in Plato’s Theaetetus as having “a snub nose and projecting eyes”.



Yet the philosopher did not consider his physical deficiencies a problem; rather, he argued that his flared nostrils enhanced his sense of smell and his bulging eyes gave him enhanced peripheral vision.

Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, Socrates was also well known for his piggish features. Alcibiades, an Athenian general and student of Socrates, compared his appearance to Silenus. Silenus was a legendary follower of Dionysus that was portrayed as morbidly obese, constantly drunk, and balding.

Silenus

Zopyrus, a rival philosopher that believed people should be judged on appearance alone, said that Socrates was “stupid, brutal, sensual, and addicted to drunkenness”, making him an ugly yet sexy drunk. When his followers violently objected, Socrates stepped in and said that the reading was on the mark.

Did you remember this proverb?

"Don't judge a book by its cover"

It show that someone who really hideous face or body did not means that they are useless or an idiot.

Some of them are rich, succeed and intelligent more than us

Remember the fairytale story name 'BEAUTY AND THE BEAST'. A beast who are actually a young handsome prince who had been cursed by the evil witch. This fairytale story actually want to teach us to stop being prejudice to people who are ugly as we did not know they are actually more precious people among us

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