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Hegemony and U.S. Hegemony

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Hegemony is a big term meaning big things with really big influences and its presence can be felt even from a distance. To make the meaning clearer let us think of an example that exist in the world today the U.S. Hegemony Cartoon representation of hegemony Example of hegemony with person Lets talk of an example with a political figure of the great leader of the present day Russia. Mr Putin. He rules Russia for more than two decades without any critical threats of his position. He was the President of Russia then Prime Minister and again become president and re-elect again and again. Mr Putin was seen in his country as the hegemony of power in the Russian politics. He can't be overthrown easily and his tactics to keep himself a leader seems to last forever. In fact no one in his country is even near to compete him for the post of president in Russia. The West accused him of killings and homicides of his rival leaders in order to remain in power. U.S. Hegemony

Honour Killing

Honour killing is the practice of killing one's own family member who is perceived to have done something that cause discredits and affected the name of the family. In India every year scores of young couples who fall in love to each other and got married get killed by the very close relatives of either boy or girl. The reason of murder is always associated to family strict affiliation to culture, caste system, social status and many other countless reasons. This type of killing is called ' Honour Killing '. Most common case of honour killing in marriage in an Indian family culture is the love marriage of a lower caste boy to a higher caste girl. The higher cast family thinks that such marriage would only lead to disgrace to the the family as a whole. To save their family and clan from disgrace they prefer to kill the groom or the bride or both.

Horticulture

Horticulture is a branch of the subject agriculture . Horticulture is the arts and science of cultivating vegetables and fruits . The person who is specialized in horticulture is called a horticulturist .

Hydrosphere

The water part of the earth is called hydrosphere . The oceans, seas, rivers, ponds, lakes, streams and all water bodies constitute the hydrosphere . Above the hydrosphere is the atmosphere and below it is the lithosphere . 

Difference amongst lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere

If the land makes the lithosphere , water makes hydrosphere and open space of gases makes atmosphere then anything possible to see life makes the biosphere . So we can call the lithosphere as the hard bed of biosphere , the hydrosphere as the soft bed of biosphere and the atmosphere as the soft blanket covering biosphere or life from above.

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