Short stories are used as a medium to reflect on social anxieties that takes place in the community. This article titled ‘Themes highlighted in Malaysia and Singapore short stories from the year 2000 - 2009: A Review’ aims to clearly explained on the themes used in the short stories written by the authors from both countries. This article aims to highlights on the themes used by the Malaysia and Singapore authors and lead as an initiative to encourage the upcoming young authors. Therefore, this study aims to look into the short stories produced within these ten years of the time frame which is from the year 2000 till 2009. Other objective of this article is to create an opportunity for the upcoming young authors to identify the themes that have not be underlined previously in the short stories as aninitiative to be taken. This will be a testament to the visible personalities in the work of the authors from the two countries.  ..

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The main purpose of this study is to study the day to day agriculture of the people in Kanyakumari district and the terminology they used. The study is structured in a practical and descriptive approach. Two approaches have been handled in this study, namely, field research and forensics. The study is an opportunity for the younger generation to learn and learn about the professionalism of the people here and the jargon used in agriculture. In this review, the researcher confirms that this is the first article to study the agricultural practices and customs of the day in Kanyakumari district.  ..

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Malaysian Tamils originated from South India, being a minority group faces a lot of challenges in preserving and maintaining their identity, culture, language and literature. Both printed and electronic mass media had played an important role in maintaining Tamil language and literature in Malaysia, a multilingual and multi-cultural nation. Thirukkural is an ancient scripture in Tamil literature, was written by Thiruvalluvar is the only Tamil literary work which has gained so much importance and has seen many translations and commentaries into almost all major languages of the world (Bharathi, Sridevi, & Varshitha, , 2017). Thirukkural also is beacon and guide to life, though written millenniums ago its principles are still relevant in present day contexts and stand as an embodiment of human life (Madhusudanan & Nalini, 2015). Therefore, it is imperative that Thirukkkural need to be reinforced into the society especially among the diaspora community. Generally, diaspora countries such .....

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The objective of the research work is to propose a quantum linguistic based discourse analysis of Bharathiar Tamil poems. The syntactical and semantic strategies of the poet through his words and sentences and discourse are analysed using quantum science and quantum information approach. The usage of simple poetic terms with proper and suitable musical components encapsulated as vibrant linguistic entities are identified in his poems. These linguistic poetic entities are treated as subatomic particles and their inter-relationships in the semantic space are discussed. The need of such a quantum approach is established with entanglements of linguistic particles in terms of words and phrases that can be seen in most of his poems through his specific living style and simple sense. The quantum physics with vector mathematics and calculus are applied to the Tamil poems by the world poet, Bharathiar. It is identified that quantum principles like spin, processing and linguistic quantum superpo.....

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The aim of this study is to correlate the scientific traditional knowledge of Tamil people especially in the field of Universe in Sangam Literature. Tamil language is one of the oldest languages, the ancient people depicted very accurately about seasonal change, planetary motion, rainfall pattern etc., they had scientific knowledge which are evidenced from the Sangam Literature. The Science is rational Knowledge. The science of physics that explores the order in which objects exist. Everything that is intellectual, structured, researched and discovered is the content of Science. In that sense, the field of science today is evolving into a variety of disciplines and the roots of scientificthought are the ancient Tamil literature. The Sangam literature attests to the fact that the ancient Tamils developed the fields of science into separate arts and acquired scientific knowledge. The purpose of this article is to explore ideas such a planetary motion and the ability to perceive climate c.....

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Objektif kajian ini untuk mengkaji penggabungjalinan Pendidikan STEM dan Pendidikan Seni Visual (PSV) melalui sebuah modul pembelajaran di sekolah rendah. Pengajaran dan pembelajaran PSV secara konvensional menggambarkan permasalahan guru yang kekurangan sumber rujukan dan pengetahuan serta tidak berkemahiran dalam menjalankan pendekatan gabung jalin terutamanya STEM yang menjadi keperluan sebagai sebuah negara maju. Kajian ini meneroka kefahaman dan pengetahuan guru terhadap gabung jalin STEM dengan isi kandungan PSV, di samping mengenal pasti potensi pendidikan STEM terhadap peningkatan pengetahuan pedagogi guru dan kemahiran STEM dalam kalangan murid. Kajian kualitatif ini melibatkan partisipan kajian yang terdiri daripada 3 orang guru dan 30 orang murid dari tiga buah sekolah rendah di bawah Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia. Kesahan dan kebolehpercayaan modul diperoleh melalui Teknik Delphi dari lapan orang pakar dan modul telah dirintis selama seminggu. Analisis data di.....

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The aim of this research paper is to deal with the kizhaars; the factors determining their social status like the relationship with velir and venthar, their occupation, economic condition, dwelling place, valour, charity and reputation. U.Ve.Saminathaiyar has comented kizhar as velaalar and velir as the landlords. But categorizing pidavoor kizhan mahan perunjaaththan as a landlord is questionable. Kaa.Govinthan assigning the status for those who belong to the four varnas and the aayar is yet another problem. Mu.Rahavaiyangaar stating Konkaanak kizhan as a vel needs clarification. All these problems are solved in this article. A socialistic approach is followed. The study reveals that they were the leaders of the farmers who cultivated paddy for the velirs. Their traditional farming included crops of the dry lands. They accepted the headship of either velir or venthar and took part in the wars for them. They excelled the velir in charity though they were economically poorer than them. T.....

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The history of Malaysian Tamil movies began in 1968 with the short movie “Ratta Peei” by Mu. Bahruthin. Then, the first Malaysian full-length Tamil movie, “Naan Oru Malaysia” (I am a Malaysia) under the production and direction of Sugan Panjacharam, was released in 1991. Unfortunately, the film was unsuccessful, and its failure led to 13 years of drought in Malaysian Tamil movies. In the year 2005, the Malaysian Tamil film industry was revived again with the successful production of the movie “Pencil,” which inspired the local movie producers to produce a succession of local Tamil films like “Niiya Nana”, “Ethirkalam”, “Andal”, “Vikranth”, and “Manjari”, which were well-received by the local audience. The key to producing a successful film is to ensure that the film has a storyboard content reflecting society’s contemporary issues, which will make the film a historical and cultural asset of a society. “Ethirkalam” was one such movie that discusses .....

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The word ‘Ritual” means a series of actions and practices traditionally accompanied by relegious rituals. Rituals has become very essential and useful for human society. It is followed in many ways depending on human community. It is evident that religious rituals are siginificant as it is inter connected with human’s life and existence for example: celebrating birth, Baptism, piercing the earlobes, Baby shower, puberly, marriage and funeral customs are associated only with human beings. A part from the above regular rituals, human beings perform many other rituals too. Rituals an essential tool to human being provide as an ongoing way to structure the human life by teaching moral and ethical values. Ritual practices afford a sence of renewal. They also help in flourishing human life, get rid from diseases anger and sorrows. They build strong human relationship by punishing the evel doers It also engenders a sense of hope. Thus, ritual has become or compulsory feeling based on hu.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji kaedah aktiviti seni sebagai intervensi untuk mengurangkan masalah tingkah laku kanak-kanak bermasalah pembelajaran. Objektif kajian adalah untuk mengenal pasti tingkah laku, jenis aktiviti seni yang sesuai dan kesan intervensi terhadap kanak-kanak bermasalah pembelajaran. Pendekatan kualitatif dengan reka bentuk kajian kes telah digunakan dalam kajian ini. Pemilihan responden kajian dijalankan secara persampelan bertujuan melibatkan tiga orang kanak-kanak bermasalah pembelajaran dan dua orang guru pendidikan khas di kelas integrasi pendidikan khas di Sungai Petani. Tiga jenis instrumen kajian digunakan iaitu senarai semak tingkah laku, protokol temubual dan laporan sesi intervensi. Sebanyak enam kali pemerhatian telah dilaksanakan dan melalui kaedah ini di dapati masalah tingkah laku utama antaranya sukar mengekalkan tumpuan, mudah terganggu, sukar memberikan kerjasama, kurang berinteraksi dengan orang lain. Dapatan pemerhatian juga tela.....

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