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The Social Significance of Postmodern Music
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The paper highlights the famous composers of minimalist music, how they were influenced, their influence on culture.... In fact, very often, television is regarded as the essence of postmodernism while postmodernism, in its turn, is called “television culture”.... Finally, television is also considered as a form of bricolage, which is the implementation of the principle of eclecticism characteristic of the postmodern culture.... When postmodernism came into power, the collapse of high and low culture took place, which resulted in the emergence of new genres....
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The Ways in Which Identities Are Formed through Consumption
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Such individuals do express their liking for Japanese Aneme, Japanese punk bands, and selective chinese and Japanese martial arts movies, while they deplore the modern popular music and films as cliché and trite. ... Critically examine the ways in which identities are formed through consumption Introduction The changing dynamics of the culture are attributed to alarge extent to the growth of consumption.... The postmodern culture is largely dictated and influenced by the culture of consumption....
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Business Ethics - Company Scholastic
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Scholastic's read and rise is another social responsibility, it's a systematic and sustainable literacy program which is designed to bring in the families, communities and schools together so to support literacy development of children and to celebrate the positive impact of culture and tradition.... Therefore, it is suggested that to maintain a work culture attention should be paid particularly to the issue of generational difference.... Scholastic Corporation has also has a multigenerational workforce and to keep it effective and motivated to work, the management follows some basic principles so that the generation gaps between the members are reduced and the members are able to work freely and with a friendly attitude which is an important factor in organizational workplace....
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The Mutual Evolution of Gender Roles and Languages
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the difference between sociolniguistics and the sociology of language is very ... isrespect, acting as an image of worth in a culture which was increasingly attuned to the ... ender orientation is based on the assumption that psychological differences between ...
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Strategic Forecasting for War in Somalia
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The Gulf nation on the horn of Africa has therefore to undergo a serious from wartime to a peace time culture.... The transition to a peacetime culture should be less difficulty than conceived in view of the current state of a series of bombardments.... In any attempt to influence cultural patterns it cannot be emphasized to much that problem of changing single person or small groups which are uprooted and transplanted into a new cultural background is rather different from the problem of changing the culture of a compact group remaining on native soil....
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Multicultural Concerns in Marriage and Family Therapy
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Numerous definitions have been allotted to the term culture due to which a conclusive statement cannot be made regarding its concept which varies with one context to the other.... This paper will focus on the practice of marriage in the Hmong culture along with the ethical considerations.... All culture is learned, but not everything learned is culture (Phil Bartle).... In very simple terms, culture itself can be defined as everything people have, think and carry out as members belonging to a society....
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Brand Management: Main factors, New Trends and Research Gaps
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The author of the paper dwells on the phenomenon of brand management.... Namely, this paper presents a critical review of the Brand Management research over a sixteen-year period ranging from 1990 to 2005, extracts the key factors in brand management.... ... ... ... The study reveals that six categories are most investigated and relevant for managers: Brand Management, Brand Equity, Brand Knowledge, Brand Awareness, Brand Recall, and Brand Image....
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Critique on Racism in America
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The essay "Critique on Racism in America" focuses on the critical analysis of the major issues concerning racism in America.... In the US, racism has been a major problem for many years.... Despite the election of Barrack Obama as the first black president, the vice is still prevalent.... ... ... ...
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China Foreign Direct Investment Forecast
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Moreover, the paper elaborates chinese foreign investment and the undermining factors and then provides a detailed evaluation and limitation to China's FDI forecast before giving a comprehensive conclusion.... Most of chinese companies have prioritized to secure great assets in developed and developing economies including Africa, Cambodia, and Myanmar.... The chinese companies have decided to move production processes in other developing and developed economies mainly for lower costs and the inherent preferential trade deals offered in foreign countries....
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Description and Purpose of Different Accounting Records
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Thirdly, it helps an entrepreneur to understand the differences between net income and net cash flow from operating activities.... The money measurement concept allows an entrepreneur to distinguish between transactions that can be expressed in terms of money and those that cannot.... Finally, exit interview is useful for verification and closure of the communication between the interviewees and the auditors....
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Cyber Stalking
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the difference between these two crimes is in the method or perpetuation.... The trends also indicate an increase in victims aged 18 to 30 and those who are 41 years old and above with most victims being Caucasian, and the rest being Hispanic, Afro-american, Asian, and Native Americans (Hitchcock, 2009)....
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Contrast between Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin
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This essay "Contrast between Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin" discusses Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin that were stalwart painters in the Post-impressionist period.... The Post-impressionist period captures the visual arts that originated in France between 1886 and 1914.... A study on comparison and contrast between Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin ... The Post-impressionist period captures the visual arts that originated in and around France between 1886 and 1914....
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Human Cope in Changes in the Environment upon Immigration
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Even in the case wherein living in the same culture, still, the difference of their upbringing of their own family might contribute to their adjustment.... Family, school, work place, peer groups, religion, culture and the like are some of the factors that influence in the growth of people.... ealing with “culture Shock” ... Being exposed to groups of people will enable a person to identify and analyze the culture that defines a particular society....
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Theoretical Framework for Islamophobia Prejudice
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In fact, religion and culture are habitually used together in discussions concerning Islamophobia (Helbling, 2013).... ocial distance theory also seeks to explain that hatred of Muslims is anchored in culture (Alibeli and Yaghi 2012).... This may explain the alleged wars against Muslim Arabs in the Middle East and Gulf countries by the dominant Western European and North american countries to deny them vital oil resources.... Alibeli amd Yaghi (2012) cited a study done in 2006 by the Pew Research Centre, which indicated the american people (55%) believed that Westerners and Muslims have a bad relationship, compared to 32% who believed otherwise. ...
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Thai - Writing System Research
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Writing systems have different structures and styles spanning in many regions across the world.... There are different types of writing systems classified according to.... ... ... Thai is categorized in syllabic alphabet or Abugida.... Thai is syllabic because the main sign contains a vowel and a consonant (Suthiwan and Rungnapha 4)....
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Answer the question about a book
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Name: Instructor: Course: Date: american nationalism and the Civil War Nationalism has been perceived, by many antagonists, as the primary cause of many of the twentieth century's american Civil Wars.... american nationalism and the Civil War Nationalism has been perceived, by many antagonists, as the primary cause of many of the twentieth century's american Civil Wars.... The american Civil War was worse than all other american wars, and from its results, a new freedom came for millions of Americans, who were previously held in bondage....
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Primary Modes of Subsistence
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The paper "Primary Modes of Subsistence" looks at the culture of the Mbuti people of the Congo region in Africa.... It also looks at how foraging has influenced their way of life and hence their culture.... However, culture and the primary modes of subsistence have an influence on each other.... However, culture and the primary modes of subsistence have an influence on each other.... Some aspects of people's culture may have an influence on the modes of subsistence that they take up....
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Timothy Shary - the Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema
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This paper ' Timothy Shary - the Image of Youth in Contemporary american Cinema" focuses on the fact that Timothy Shary believes that to have popular acceptance among the youth in school, a combined formula of conformity and rebellion is necessary (Shary 61).... ... ... ... Shary adds that he also takes into account the need to consider individual identity that is special to gain a considerable number of crowd or followers....
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Sociology: Crime and Punishment
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In the fourth difference between the criminal and the administrative laws, different organizational mechanisms operate to handle violators.... american Sociological Review 10 (Apr.... american Sociological Review 10 (Apr.... Sutherland introduced the concept of white-collar crime in his 1939 american Sociological Society presidential address.... The first difference rests on the common law distinction between crimes that are mala prohibita and those that are mala en se....
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CRITICAL SYSTEMS THINKING AND PRACTICE
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Cisco Systems Uses Its Culture for Competitive Advantage
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First 3 years were less productive for CISCO after the change introduced in 2001 but with in a period of 7 years the Company got use to the new culture introduced by Chamber and now the Company has more than 10 boards and 30 councils which Rivelo cannot recall exactly the numbers further this number is evolving every now and then so it's hard to remember the exact figures.... Team work is the integral part of the culture in CISCO....
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Symbols and Representation within Culture, Media, and Literature
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Essay "Symbols and Representation within culture, Media, and Literature" discusses the five unique symbols that are represented which give way to a larger interpretation and an inherent level of meaning that would not be inferred if such symbols were not included.... What is meant by this is that the symbology and impacts that these individuals have had in the references to culture and the way through which individuals have come to identify with the world so demonstrably been impacted by such characters as George Orwell's Winston Smith, that an alter ego and redefinition of our own society based around an Orwellian concept of what Winston Smith would experience, say, or how he would react with regards to a given situation have been evidenced....
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Should The Government Have Control Over The Minimum age requirement to get Married
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Though underage marriage is common in Arab countries, western culture is also not far behind.... Underage marriage creates lot of social and needs to be controlled.... This paper analyzes the underage marriage, its consequences and the government's role in.... ... ... Underage marriage, often against the will of the young girl, is very common in Arab society....
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Gentrification and Class
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The system that operates in the neoliberal society is one that exploits people in the name of class and control because of the global corporate culture.... On the other hand, Acker highlights how a class can influence the distribution of resources in terms of a person's race or gender attributes denoting the acceptable capitalist culture.... Ideally, New Orleans became a city with the African american population being the highest in the late 1970s because of agricultural mechanization through those that were on their way route to Crescent City....
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The contemporary history of United States
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The story of American interventions in foreign countries that were supposed to be for prompting democratic culture and liberal values is just farce.... The oppressed nations got liberated from Spanish imperial rule as the result of the Spanish-american war which broke out in 1868, were soon became U.... protectorates in order to protect the interests of american businesspersons in those lands.... Kinzer has an altogether different take on american history from the ideological state apparatus that nourishes the official view at the expense of truth....
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Insomnia among adults: causes, effects and treatment
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The current study mainly seeks to identify and discuss the causes, effects, and treatment for insomnia among adults aged 18 years old and above by collecting articles published not older than the year 2000 for recent information.... ... ... ... In the paper three major themes were identified, particularly the causes, effects, and treatment of insomnia among adults based on the findings presented by the research papers....
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Thinking Through Religions. Humans and the Sacred
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Additionally, an individual's relation to the land is a way of making subtle linkage with the holy and one's consciousness with the world is prevalent Native Americans culture as a way of uniting the interior state and the exterior state (Lane 73-94).... The Landscape of Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American Art and culture.... Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in american Spirituality, Part 1.... The Spirit of Native America: Beauty and Mysticism in american Indian Art....
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A Refuge in Thunder: Candombl and Alternative Spaces of Blackness by Rach
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Laurence Levine in Black culture, Black Consciousness famously noted how black religion and mythology survived in stories like Brer Rabbit, interpretations of Christianity, etc.... Laurence Levine in Black culture, Black Consciousness famously noted how black religion and mythology survived in stories like Brer Rabbit, interpretations of Christianity, etc.... Reading Chapters Two and Four of Refuge in Thunder, my immediate reaction was to question how much our ideas of blackness had been controlled by an Anglocentric view and lens looking at the African-american experience....
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Has the UN's Reform 2005 Failed
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Furthermore, our contemporary world is characterised by two important factors first of which is globalization which entails the rigid separation between the national and the international spheres at the economic technological, political, social and cultural levels (Durand 2005, p 61)....
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Link between Industrial Accidents and Technological Innovation
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Most of the issues were attributed to the organization's structure, culture and procedures (Buck, 2011; Shrivastava, 2013).... The paper "Link between Industrial Accidents and Technological Innovation" states that industrial accidents present various challenges to the engineering profession.... This model presupposes that industrial accidents occur as a result of the unexpected relationship between components in a perfectly functioning system....
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United states Today Economic Situation and its Credibility around the world
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As I encountered more of such articles, I began to realize that the highs and lows of the american economy do have profound impacts on other countries.... The current economic crisis that the US is facing has proven to be disastrous not just to the average american citizens but also to many other countries in the world.... The debt ceiling issue was absolutely contentious because of the repercussions it may have on the american economy.... It was after World War II that the contest between the two superpowers became more intense....
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Neo-Roosevelt, or Why Post-Colonialism Is Premature
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This source documents Twain's stance on organized religion, namely Christianity, and american politics as told by Twain through a series of written correspondences with close personal friends and family.... The essay is meant to further expose the reader to the idea of american Imperialism and how it was so effectively used when Americans needed a reason to push hard for westward expansion.... Trombold attempts to tear down the ethnocentric idea of american Exceptionalism, by studying what a false, exceedingly harmful, and historically inaccurate ideal it really was....
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Corporate Ethical Failure and Where the Blame Might Be Assigned
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Ethical situations arise on a daily basis, and how a person responds to them makes the difference.... Enron culture also discouraged free and open communication because elimination of the code warranted an organizational member to raise signals as to what is happening in the corporation.... Organizational culture in Enron can also be blamed for the failure.... Ethical codes succeed when they are entrenched and assimilated into an organization's culture....
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Economics of Mexican Cartel Behavior
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"AN american DRUG LORD.... Whereas the field of economics traditionally deals with legitimate businesses and the means by which interaction between individuals for business entities is conducted, there is a solid stratum of the economy that is oftentimes on analyzed.... Introduction: Whereas the field of economics traditionally deals with legitimate businesses and the means by which interaction between individuals for business entities is conducted, there is a solid strata of the economy that is oftentimes on analyzed....
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Analysing Historical Facts since the 1500s
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estizos this is a term traditionally used in Spain and Spanish-speaking America to mean a person of combined European and Native american descent.... Journal of the american Chemical Society, 117(17), 4788-4796. ... This was a chinese rebel leader who overthrew the Ming dynasty in 1644.... The Forbidden City was the chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty.... It flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries (Anderson, 1996)....
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People Management Considerations for the UK-Based Organisations
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There are some differences and similarities to the UK culture that will determine the strategic direction for people management in these countries.... The United Kingdom is a highly individualistic culture, which translates into a business set of values emphasizing recognition for personal achievements and securing the rights of the individual....
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James Cameron and his influence on the Movie Industry
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James Cameron has greatly influenced the Movie Industry and culture, thus, he deserves recognition for it.... A prominent entertainment figure, honored across the world by prestigious organizations, and listed in TIME magazine's top 100 influential people of the 20th century, James Cameron has greatly revolutionized and influenced the movie industry and culture, deserving even higher accolades, honor and recognition....
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US Medicaid and Medicare program and Australian Medicare programs
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This poses a serious question on the structure, integrity and application of the US Medicare and Medicaid programs in terms of being able to meet the healthcare needs of the american people, being efficient, and effectively meeting the targets for health care service covers.... There are differences in the application of the Medicare programs between the US and the Australian governments.... The differences between Medicare and Medicaid programs come from the level of funding....
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Has China Excellent Environmental Policies as It Is Stated
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Although progress is made to address the issues of environmental protection in China, yet the legal culture of China obscures that progress.... The legal culture of China does not readily disseminate or divulge the information that may be of use to the members of the regulated communities (Ferris and Zhang, 2005).... Rapid growth of economy has been the major goal of the chinese state since the 1990's.... Indeed, the biggest challenge that the chinese leaders are facing today is how to sustain the growth of economy and simultaneously address the rising social challenges....
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The Impact of Civilization
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Thirdly, there is a distinct difference between the commercial activities of hunter/gatherer tribes and civilized society.... Finally, the political difference is dramatic.... In the paper 'The Impact of Civilization' the author suggests that civilization represents a transformation in the lives of individual men and women....
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Experiencing Depersonalised bullying: a study of Indian call-centre agents
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The aforementioned authors recognise that the corporation, today, has transcended the boundaries of business environment and thus engrains influence (and is influenced by) culture, human attitude and behaviour, and conceptions stemming from stakeholders about the acceptability of certain moral and ethical behaviours.... Herein lays the difficulty in the case study of bullied call centre employees: employees have extremely relative views of acceptable moral behaviour stemming from managers whilst the corporate culture of shareholder and consumer dedication forbids utilising a more culturally-relevant HR model of humanism to gain commitment and motivation from the employee population....
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Health sysytems and government response to AIDS in America
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As much as the american government works towards the attainment of AIDS Free State, there is a lot of weaknesses in the health systems as there are no adequate-trained workers.... As much as the american government works towards the attainment of AIDS Free State, there is a lot of weaknesses in the health systems as there are no adequate-trained workers....
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The Problem of Integrating Ethics
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Therefore, what has replaced the social trustee professionalism is an audit culture.... According to Pels [(2000:148) as cited by Fertig (2003)], this audit culture is '.... The standard notions in the works of Thiroux are envisaging a world where there is a positive, mandatory link between cognitive science and ethical issues.... This dichotomy has been further classified by Stronach et al [(2002:109) as cited by Fertig (2003)] as one between an 'economy of performance' and 'ecologies of practice'....
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Shahrukh Khan and the Representation of Islam in His Movies
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In order to curb themselves from these negative externalities and dominance of western culture they became rigid in their belief that it is only through the return of Islam throughout that their perils can be healed.... “My name is Khan and I am not a Terrorist”: Representation of Muslims in ‘My name is Khan,” Journal of Language and culture (2011) 2.... Like North american and European media in many Bollywood films there have been impacts of stereotypes like terrorism, extremism but historical facts reveal that prior independence serious attempts were made to address the positive aspects of Islam and Muslims in Bollywood movies....
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Investigation of whether Womens Education Influences Family Size
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Both the least educated and the highest educated women share the small family norm; however the difference in the use of contraceptives between the two groups ranges from 20 to 50 percentage points.... Data from Demographic and Health Surveys for nine Latin american countries reveal that “women with no education have large families of 6-7 children, whereas better educated women have family sizes of 2-3 children” (Martin and Juarez, 1995, p.... The relationship between women's education, fertility, and family size have been examined, as well as the influence of women's education on family size....
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Decision To Downgrade The Yuan
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The United States demands are based on their belief that China for years has been rigging the rules and played currency games that have left american workers to suffer.... The essay "Decision To Downgrade The Yuan" aims at comparing and contrasting the views of the chinese central bank and those of other mainstream views about the decision by the chinese government to downgrade the Yuan.... One key reason for the devaluation of the Yuan to which the chinese government and other players agree on is the fact that China is now willing to make financial reforms....
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Film and Theater Studies, Farewell My Concubine
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Dieyi is unable to be himself as he does not feel like a woman, which is the character he portrays, explaining why he was confused about his attraction to another man in a culture that does not tolerate such atrocities of homosexuality.... arewell my concubineThe critically acclaimed chinese film Farewell My Concubine, directed by Chen Kaige, premiered in 1993 (20th century), set at a time when China was in political turmoil, with the existence of almost a decade-long Cultural Revolution, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the civil war as well....
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Different Approaches to Strategy Development - Ebay
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5) Upholding a strong community affinity -The company considers that nurturing direct communication between buyers and sellers with similar interest had enabled it to produce loyal, active community of users, as noted before this stress on community building has been there from the time during eBay's founding.... To improve the payment part of the customer experience, an acknowledged complexity for mast buyers and sellers, Ebay bought a corporation with the name Billpoint, which has an online bill payment service that assists credit card payment between buyers and sellers. ...
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Schools Can Only Improve Children for Their Future by Helping Build a Solid Foundation
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The manner in which the difference is brought to the fore is another pertinent consideration, and one that has a lot of bearing on the way these students conduct themselves within the global dynamics.... The role of child-teacher linkage and the eventual effect of education in between is an important issue which has been discussed at stretch....
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The Effects of Mixed Classrooms on Elements of Students Achievement
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american Civil Liberties Union, 93(5), 37-41. ... As with the sciences, it was difficult to bring to control all the important differences between the single classes and mixed classes.... eer effects- are the good or bad influences which arise due to social interactions between various individuals of the same age, interest and class.... Racial, ethnic and gender differences as seen between teachers and students cause significant effects on teachers' perception of their students' performance (Association, 2009)....
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