The Great Migration is without a doubt one of the most spectacular wildlife shows on earth. It is a hair raising, breath taking and exhilarating battle of survival taking place between the Masai Mara in Kenya and the Serengeti in Tanzania. Here, an estimated two million wildebeest in search of water and pasture make this extra ordinary, dangerous journey. Extra ordinary as survival depends on reaching the other side and dangerous because every (more…)

How long should your dissertation take? The answer: not as long as you think. Most of the time academics confuse time with quality. When a project takes a long time, it’s almost always believed to be more valuable than one completed more quickly.

This belief becomes very obvious in the dissertation process. It is widely accepted that it might take one, two, (or more) years to craft, execute, and analyze a dissertation worth (more…)

Beliefs and Practices in Women Health

• Ramaiah Bheenaveni *

Rural women’s health is an infinitely broad topic. Many Indian women have come from circumstances in which women have limited access to healthcare. Traditionally, there has been discrimination towards women in decision-making; access to resources such as food, education and health care; job opportunities; and in child-rearing and parenting. However, (more…)

Someone said that feedback is the breakfast of a champion. However, in today’s turbulent marketplace, surviving on breakfast alone is insufficient. You need three meals a day to keep the doctor away.

In the corporate dietary system, you need vision for breakfast, feedback for lunch and action for dinner. Vision is a clear and precise mental portrait of a preferred future. Feedback is the return of a portion of the output to the (more…)

Some of us have the good fortune of taking a research paper class in high school—preparing us for the inevitable assignment in college. But if you are not so fortunate, here are a few suggestions and guidelines to use for writing your first research paper:

UNDERSTAND THE ASSIGNMENT

Read it through a couple of times. Highlight key words—any main prompting words and any action words.

CHO (more…)