Measuring human and societal development

Please receive below the instruction for your final assignment. Pick a topic that you have been wanting to know, and use this paper as an official pretext to dive into that topic. Style Requirement? 1) Chicago Style for Bibliography. 2) Use footnote instead of parenthesis for indicating the author and the page number). 3) 1500-2000 words (though it is even better to go beyond).

 

4) Give a title to your essay. 5) Correct spacing between paragraph. What are the Questions: 1. Himalaya is a zone of conflicts. Choose one conflict (Tibet, Kashmir, or Sino-Indian rivalry) and analyze its causes and discuss its history and the current situation. 2. Himalaya has an incredible linguistic diversity.

How diverse? Is this diversity being preserved? Do you think linguistic diversity is an obstacle to development? Cue 1: Even though there are a series of questions in this one question, feel free to answer them in a style/structure that you wish. Cue 2: Linguistic diversity and its disappearance is a common challenge in many parts of the world.

You could generalize/theorize this issue and compare it with other regions/languages [e.g. English as a dominant global language; Mandarin in China]. 3. Bhutan measures its national achievement not by GDP but by the so-called “Gross National Happiness”(GNH). What is GNH? Does GNH provide a genuine alternative model for measuring human and societal development?

4. When George Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb the Everest, he replied “Because it’s there. Why Himalayas exerts such allure on mountaineers all over the world? Analyze the factors that create this allure (and include a short history of mountaineering in Himalayas). What are the impacts (e.g. on people, economy, environment, policy)? Preferred language style Simple (Easy vocabulary, simple grammar constructions)