Phillips’s book The Atlantic Sound is related to the history of slavery and its impact on contemporary socio-cultural environment. It is a travel book but it is not only confined to non fictional narrative of travelled places. The book is a mixture of geographical portraits‚ historical events‚ interviews‚ letters‚ newspaper articles‚ speeches‚ poems and so on. Phillips decides to visit the three points of triangular trade that linked America‚ Africa and Europe. He juxtaposes the stories of past with
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Question: Evaluate (Find) the causes of the East Asian Financial Crisis in 1997-1998 I will be talking about the causes of the Asian crisis involving the problems or issues they are undertaking during the time. (Ask audience‚ if anyone knows how it actually happened.) Here is what I understand how the crisis has began. Firstly‚ the ones affected the most were Thailand‚ Indonesia‚ South Korea‚ Philippines‚ Malaysia and so on‚ did not have enough foreign investment causing the value of its currencies
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How does Philip Larkin explore the role of women in at least two poems you have studied? Philip Larkin’s relationships with women are often scrutinized in the media. He was often accused of misogyny and never married‚ though had several prominent relationships. Having once said‚ “Sex means nothing – just the moment of ecstasy‚ that flares and dies in minutes”‚ one could infer that Larkin had a dismissive attitude towards sexual relationships. Two poems from the Whitsun Weddings collection‚ Wild
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theatre and politics has evolved. In your response you should refer to specific examples from within the plays‚ and to at least TWO critical/theoretical readings from within the anthology. The drama of revolution is a political text through and through‚ but it cannot separate the political from the theatre; the drama of revolution is in search of a form‚ a meta-theatre‚ in which the overcoming of an order is thus first and foremost the attempt to suspend the law of genre. This essay will examine the
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Kotler‚ Philip Kotler. For last five decades‚ Kotler’s views have become widely known and worshiped by students‚ marketers‚ consultants‚ strategists‚ managers and business tycoons. Period Then watch the similar graduate for two to three years in the corporate world doing routine and repetitive business analysis‚ ROI‚ Brand plans‚ Ansoff matrix‚ BCG‚ SWOT‚ CRM‚ Flip charts‚ Purchasing power‚ buying behavior‚ power points‚ spreadsheets‚ excel etc. Ask the same person about Kotler? Who? Philip Kotler
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The political compass is a test available online in which people have the option of learning more about their own political views from a scale of authoritarian and libertarian as well as if their views are considered collectivism or neo-liberalism. The test consists of over sixty two questions‚ in which it is meant to gather information on your own personal general attitudes. The questions varied and consisted of statements similar to “I would always support my country‚ regardless if it was right/wrong
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Chapter 11 Organizations as Political Arenas and Political Agents Introduction: Wal-mart Founder: Sam Walton Started in 1945 as proprietor of 2nd best variety store in small Arkansas town Over 2 million associates > 90% of American households shop at Wal-mart Wal-mart effect: multiple ways this organization influences consumers‚ vendors‚ employees‚ community‚ environment Example of Wal-mart’s political influence: disappearing cardboard packaging for deodorants; costing
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The Minority Report‚ written by Philip K. Dick in 1956‚ is one of his better known short stories and was adapted into a film in 2002. This story‚ not unlike many of Dick’s other works‚ has a central theme of potential realistic controversies or issues that could arise from the existence of certain technologies. Dick has become somewhat famous for this particular genre of science fiction‚ having identified many major aspects of modern society years before they were present. This story describes a
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in prison situations. Conducted in 1971 the experiment was led by Phlilip Zimbardo. Volunteer College students played the roles of both guards and prisoners living in a simulated prison setting in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. Philip Zimbardo and his team aimed to demonstrate the situational rather than the dispositional causes of negative behaviour and thought patters found in prison settings by conducting the simulation with average everyday participants playing the roles of
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“The American Political Tradition” published in 1948 was written by a well-known historian at Colombia University. Richard Hofstadter was born on August 6‚ 1916‚ in Buffalo‚ New York. He attended both the University of Buffalo and Columbia University where he studied philosophy and history. Hofstadter was married twice and later in 1970 died from leukemia. Throughout his life Hofstadter had a lot of published works including Social Darwinism in American Thought‚ William Leggett‚ Spokesman of Jacksonian
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