Tata AIG General Insurance Company - Insurer Innovation Award 2024
Georgia
1. Introductions
• Name - Profession/Student. Where?
• A food you like. LIKE = enjoy, have a preference for, am
partial to, find/take pleasure in, appreciate, love, adore,
relish
I adore carrots. - I love eggplant. - I enjoy eating cake.
• A food you dislike. DISLIKE = find distasteful, have an
aversion to, have no liking/taste for, hate, detest, loathe,
abhor, despise, be unable to bear/stand, shrink from,
shudder at, find repellent
I shudder at the notion of eating ketchup. - I loathe mustard.
I find mayonnaise repellent.
• Predict the first snowfall in Kremenchuk. Guess what
day will we have first snow this fall/winter.
2. Swastika
• The swastika is an equilateral cross with its
arms bent at right angles.
– equilateral - having all its sides of the same
length.
• The swastika is still used in Indian Religions,
specifically in Hinduism, Buddhism and
Jainism, as a sacred symbol of good luck.
• Swastikas have also been used in other ancient
civilizations around the world.
3. Swastika
• Earliest archaeological
evidence of swastikas
dates back to the Indus
Valley Civilization in
India.
– Indus - river in southern
Asia, about 1,800 miles
(2,900 km) long, that
flows from Tibet to the
Arabian Sea.
– The Indus Valley
Civilization flourished
from c. 2600 to 1760 bc.
4. Swastika
• The swastika was used as a
symbol of the Nazi Party
of Germany in 1920.
• During the 1930s, a
swastika was incorporated
into the Nazi party flag,
which was made the State
Flag of Germany.
5. Swastika
• Now, the Swastika is associated with Nazism and
White Supremacism since the 1930s in the
western world and is now stigmatized.
– Stigmatize - worthy of disgrace or great
disapproval
• It is outlawed in Germany if used as a symbol of
Nazism.
• Modern political extremists and Neo-Nazi groups
use swastikas or similar symbols.
8. Capital (and largest city)
Tbilisi is the
capital and
largest city in
Georgia.
Kiev is the
capital and
largest city in
Ukraine.
Presidential
Palace
9. Georgian Government
Unitary semi-presidential republic
unitary: country is governed as a single unit
semi-presidential: president and prime minister
“share” power
republic: people retain power over the government -
people elect representatives
Ukraine is a unitary semi-presidential republic.
Most Eureopean governments are unitary semi-
presidential republics.
10. Modern Statehood
- Independence from Russian Empire - May 26, 1918
- Independence from the Soviet Union Finalized -
December 25, 1991
11.
12. Area - 69,700 km2 (120th) - 26,911 sq mi
• Ukraine is 46th largest country. (View of Tbilisi).
13. Population -
~ 4,636,400 (121st).
Ukraine has
~ 45,706,126 and is
the 29th most populas
nation.
Tbilisi after dark.
14. An aside….Population
• China (1st) - 1,339,724,852
• India (2nd) - 1,210,193,422
• USA (3rd) - 312,162,00
• Ukraine (29th) - 45,706,126
• Georgia (121th) - 4,636,400
18. Georgian Christian
architecture is known
as the Georgian
cross-dome style.
Cross-dome
architecture
developed in Georgia
during the 9th
century.
Sameba (Trinity)
Cathedral in Tbilisi.