the cultural logic of neoliberalism

IELTS Part 2 and Part 3 Topics and Questions -The Cultural Impact of Overseas Travel

IELTS Part 2 and Part 3 Topics and Questions -The Cultural Impact of Overseas Travel

... quality or the safety of the food? • (Similar to above) In general, are people in China concerned about such matters as the nutritional value of the food or the contents of the food they buy (for ... to the food)? FQ (This question might include: the packaging and the origin of the food) • What are the possible results if all (or the majority of) the people were not very concerned about the ... about the contents of the food they eat? (假设的问题) • (Similar to above) What could happen if all (or the majority of) the people were not very concerned about the contents of the food they eat? Food...

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Tài liệu The Pure Logic of Accounting: A Critique of the Fair Value Revolution pptx

Tài liệu The Pure Logic of Accounting: A Critique of the Fair Value Revolution pptx

... section will discuss the economic consequences of the application of the fair value accounting logic for the representation of the business firm The accounting logic provided by the historical cost ... a confrontation of, on the one hand, the implied understanding of the economics of the business firm; and on the other hand, the concepts of asset and liability that belong to the respective accounting ... the fair value of the consideration given to acquire them at the time of their acquisition Liabilities are recorded at the fair value of the consideration received in exchange for incurring the...

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The Economic Logic of Illegal Immigration potx

The Economic Logic of Illegal Immigration potx

... -0.5 times the product of labor’s share of national income (0.7), the square of the fraction of the labor force that is foreign-born (the ratio 21.2 million/146.1 million squared), and the percentage ... labor inflow, the productivity gains from immigration will be larger the scarcer the skills of the incoming immigrants A given type of worker may be scarce either because the U.S supply of his skill ... with emigration from the country spiking in the aftermath of each downturn In terms of the economic benefits, this is 29 Passel, “Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Undocumented Population.”...

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the cultural construction of gender and representation of ide

the cultural construction of gender and representation of ide

... dominating; the other is chained to a bed "It is evident in this video that she interrogates the cultural construction of gender and representations of identity."Justify My Love" is the same The banned ... construction of gender and representations of identity The video suggests a set of images to the viewer and usually these are a blurring of gender and identity Music videos predicate on the representation ... interrogate the construction of gender and the representation of identity They not seem to cross any boundaries People watch soaps to relax and somehow relate, so if they were to experiment with the theatre...

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Two Bits - The Cultural Significance of Free Software ppt

Two Bits - The Cultural Significance of Free Software ppt

... back to the 1970s and crisscross the histories of the personal computer and the Internet, the peaks and troughs of the information-technology and software industries, the transformation of intellectual ... knowledge in the era of the Internet This book is about the cultural significance of Free Software, and by cultural I mean much more than the exotic behavioral or sartorial traits of software programmers, ... corporations, unions, professions, churches, and other forms of organization because of their focus on the radical technological modifiability of their own terms of existence In any public there inevitably...

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university of texas press thelma & louise live the cultural afterlife of an american film nov 2007

university of texas press thelma & louise live the cultural afterlife of an american film nov 2007

... availability, the absence of civilization, and so hides the histories of the West in favor of the familiar fantasies of the West as an unoccupied place of self-creation for Anglo tourists (like their ... used as the dominant image in newspaper advertisements for the film The original poster for Thelma & Louise emphasizes female friendship, the possibilities of the open road, and the appeal of the ... spirituality The foreground superimposes credits over the road and the flat desert before the mesas The film’s title is located just above the tops of the mesas, in bottom center, in the largest type on the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:58

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The cultural construction of nanyang chinese community in late qing and early republican china discovery of a cultural space

The cultural construction of nanyang chinese community in late qing and early republican china discovery of a cultural space

... iss ues in the formation of th e cultu ral id ent it y of the Nan yang or Sout heast Asi an Chines e throu gh anal yzi n g cultural space of and in the Nan yang First of all, t his thesis est ... onl y the cultural el em ents of thems elves and migrants from di fferent p arts of China, but als o the el em ents of modern and traditi o nal, West ern and t he col onial local cultures The ... communit y, thus m ade the process more com plex sin ce the “Sel f” was mi xed with the “Other” in the I dev elopm ent From the mid-1800s to the 1920s, more and more Chines e emi grat ed from China...

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Dismembering appearances the cultural meaning of the body and its parts in eighteenth century understanding

Dismembering appearances the cultural meaning of the body and its parts in eighteenth century understanding

... names of the lines of the hand, from E Pater, The Book of Knowledge Shewing the Wisdom of the Achievements of the Ancients (London, 1720) ‘To Give or Receive’, from F Nivelon, The Rudiments of Genteel ... obstructions, and the passions of the mind.102 Around the middle of the century the 96 P Slack, ‘Mirrors of Health and Treasures of Poor Men: The Uses of the Vernacular Medical Literature of Tudor England’ ... image of the corporeal whole, without first assessing the state of the parts.’73 They thus argue that more analysis of the specific parts of the body is essential for understanding how the whole...

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THE CULTURAL DIMENSION OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

THE CULTURAL DIMENSION OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

... who makes the sale is not so much the intrinsic superiority of the product but rather the skill of the seller in understanding the dynamics of the trans— action between oneself and the customer ... consequences, is the result of pulling the item from its proper cultural context and viewing it from the perspective of another culture It is also the result of the individual's inability to see the foreign ... part of the system is likely to produce concomitant changes in other parts of the system The introduction of a single technological innovation may set off a whole series of related changes In other...

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Shifting sights The cultural challenge of sustainability

Shifting sights The cultural challenge of sustainability

... of a gap between the aims and underlying values of the modern development process and those of the majority of indigenous peoples and communities being ‘‘developed’’ If the values and goals of ... languages the words used to describe culture, life, and environment are often the same, indicating the connectedness of these ideas in the indigenous mind For example, Faa Samoa is Samoan culture or the ... in a particular cultural curriculum and agenda (Vine, 1992) The cultural challenge of sustainability 237 IJSHE 3,3 238 In my island part of the earth and ocean, the globalisation of Western, scientific...

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Law in Crisis  The Ecstatic Subject of Natural Disaster  The Cultural Lives of Law

Law in Crisis The Ecstatic Subject of Natural Disaster The Cultural Lives of Law

... the miracle in theology,” and just as the divine suspension of the laws of nature proves the existence of God, so too the sovereign suspension of the sovereign’s law proves the existence of the ... purpose in these sections is to situate my analysis of the crisis or the disaster—and more specifically the subject of the crisis or the disaster—within these broader theories of the state of exception ... rejection of the alleged universality of the knowing subject, and the critique of the complicity of masculinity and rationality,” there must be “a renewal of intent in the sex-specific nature of the...

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The cultural economic logic of contemporary action heroine cinema  (post) feminism, postmodernism, and the consumption of spectacles

The cultural economic logic of contemporary action heroine cinema (post) feminism, postmodernism, and the consumption of spectacles

... becomes the meeting-point of apparatus theory and psychoanalytic theorization of Lacan via the notion of the mirror phase The process of viewing is equated to the illusion of a strong ego of the ... compared the operation of the “cinematic apparatus” on the spectator to that of the dream Baudry argues in The Apparatus” that “taking into account the darkness of the movie theater, the relative ... – the cultural- economic logic that will navigate the analysis of the action heroine cinema in Chapter Four, and then the thesis will come to the conclusion in Chapter Five In order to make the...

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Báo cáo y học: " Laugh Yourself into a Healthier Person: A Cross Cultural Analysis of the Effects of Varying Levels of Laughter on Health"

Báo cáo y học: " Laugh Yourself into a Healthier Person: A Cross Cultural Analysis of the Effects of Varying Levels of Laughter on Health"

... both extremes of the emotional spectrum were shown At the end of the videos, the brachial artery constricted for five minutes and was then released In fourteen of the twenty volunteers the artery ... expression (27) Therefore, the crux of individualism is the ethnic diversity of various individuals It is not the particular view of the individual that makes them an individualist, but it is the differing ... conditions, and then to specify the name of that condition If the participant failed to indicate the name of the condition regardless of a “yes”, the survey was discarded assuming the participant...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:57

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A vietnamese – english cross – cultural study of the use of hedging before giving bad news

A vietnamese – english cross – cultural study of the use of hedging before giving bad news

... artifacts ), the study is confined to the verbal aspects of the act of giving bad news with the use of politeness and hedging In addition, adjacency pairs are beyond the scope of this paper - The study ... to the perspective of pragmatics though the author realizes that syntactic theory and semantics apparently explain the meaning of the spoken word 3 - The Northern Vietnamese dialect and the ... “hedges” and these hedging devices attenuate or reduce the strength of the utterance or soften/ weaken the effect of the utterance They damp down its force or intensity or directness By giving the notion...

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An english-vietnamese cross-cultural study of keeping face at the first encounter

An english-vietnamese cross-cultural study of keeping face at the first encounter

... for the authors aim to get results to design the DCT, also the other part of the survey questionnaire The MCQ consists of 20 suggested topics The informants are asked to put a tick (v) in the ... influence in the communication at the first encounter 25 Situation a To business partner of higher status in the office b To their business partner of equal status in the office C To their business ... on the way the speakers talk and express their ideas They can also have great impact on the choice of topics in communication The second explanation can lie in the way the two cultures view the...

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Comparing the cultural and linguistic analysis of the English word “meal” and words relating to it in contrast with Vietnamese equivalents.

Comparing the cultural and linguistic analysis of the English word “meal” and words relating to it in contrast with Vietnamese equivalents.

... denoting the objects covered by the scope of the notion expressed in the word, and the significative function is the function of expressing the content of the respective notion The function of rendering ... difficult The oldest or the husband of the family sits at the head of the table and others sit in descending order according to age or wherever they like The meal starts when everyone has their own ... teaspoonful for the pot Boiling water is poured into the pot and the tea is left for about five minutes before the host serves the guest Even there are the adages from the side of the Victorian...

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CHAPTER 5 The Logic of Group Behavior In Business and Elsewhere

CHAPTER 5 The Logic of Group Behavior In Business and Elsewhere

... as the value of their degrees decreased While students may not like the discipline imposed on them by tough professors, they want tough professors to help them maintain the reputation of their ... however, the Chinamen told him to butt out, that they owned the barge, they earned more money the faster they got the cargo up the river, and they had hired the brute with the whip to eliminate the ... relative to the value they place on other products, the price of musical earrings will increase in response to increased demand, as will the profits of the firms producing them The increased profit...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "INCLUSION, DISJOINTNESS AND CHOICE: THE LOGIC OF LINGUISTIC CLASSIFICATION" pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: "INCLUSION, DISJOINTNESS AND CHOICE: THE LOGIC OF LINGUISTIC CLASSIFICATION" pdf

... in the logical relationships between concepts rather than in the actual extensions of the concepts themselves This is in accord with standard linguistic practice, where the focus is on types of ... utterances rather than utterance tokens An example of an inheritance network is given in Figure We have followed the standard convention of placing the more specific elements toward the bottom of the ... both a d and an e On the other hand, if we assume that b is defined, then the presence of d and e in a conjunctive concept should ensure the presence of b, thus eliminating the sets {d,e,f}, {c,...

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