charged by administrative council. The council has 18 persons‚ and three of them are the representative of country. The curator is also the chairman of the council. The Louvre has several departments such as are‚ technology‚ information‚ security‚ culture development‚ public‚ and store departments. One has to be mentioned is half of the stuffs are securities‚ about 2 thousand. Because the Louvre is so large that‚ in order to rotating normally‚ it needs a lot of securities. In the past‚ the staffs
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Q: Take a contemporary cultural phenomenon and discuss in relation to Adorno and Horkheimer’s theories on mass culture and entertainment. INTRODUCTION In today’s fast-paced world‚ the society is in a constant state of flux‚ with personal and interpersonal contact being extruded in favour of mediated forms of communication. The mass media are fundamental for dissemination of both mass and popular culture‚ which‚ in the simplest terms‚ refers to the artifacts‚ entertainment‚ beliefs and
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Criminalizing Conduct: Harm Principle Re-considered Synopsis To criminalize a certain act is to declare that act illegal and devise sanctions in response to that act. This process of criminalizing an act is a rather extreme form of censuring whereby that particular conduct is made both unlawful and punishable. Hence‚ on what basis do we make the colossal leap in distinguishing what is wrong from what is right‚ and what should be prohibited from what should be allowed? The proceeding paragraphs
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KRITIKĒ VOLUME ONE NUMBER ONE (JUNE 2007) 25-31 Article The Critical Role of Art: Adorno between Utopia and Dystopia Paolo A. Bolaños In the drama of conscious existence‚ it is not theory and practice that encounter each other‚ but enigma and transparency‚ phenomenon and insight. If enlightenment does occur‚ it does so no through the establishment of a dictatorship of lucidity but as the dramatic selfillumination of existence. – Peter Sloterdijk1 Introduction eading or hearing
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CORPORATE CULTURE AND THE INDIAN SOFTWARE INDUSTRY Introduction This article tries to explain the concept of corporate culture in general‚ its effects on the performance of employees in an organization. It then dwells on the specifics of the Indian software industry and then goes on to find out how organizational culture affects the performance of the software industry giving examples of specific software companies. Understanding and assessing your organization’s culture can mean the difference
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Train industry was one of the most important industries in the modern human culture since it was a very useful way to transport goods and people‚ which was the concern of many scientists in the last 2000 years. Matthew Murray and George Stephenson made great contributions in the train industry. Matthew invented the first steam powered locomotive train while George came up with the idea of coal transporting trains. Old trains were depending on steam for power. In 1829‚ the Rocket was the first steam
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would be profitable to try to define culture; for a cultural studies researcher not only it includes traditional high culture (the culture of ruling social groups) and popular culture but according to Raymond Williams also everyday meanings and practices.As stated in Matthew Arnold´s "Culture and Anarchy" culture is “the disinterested endeavor after man’s perfection”.It was James Clifford in “Collecting art and culture” that defended that what we gather for culture is not always the same because objects
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emeraldinsight.com/0969-9988.htm Organizational culture: the case of Turkish construction industry Ela Oney-Yazıcı‚ Heyecan Giritli‚ Gulfer Topcu-Oraz and Emrah Acar Department of Architecture‚ Division of Project and Construction Management‚ Istanbul Technical University‚ Istanbul‚ Turkey Abstract Purpose – The main stimulus of this study is to examine the cultural profile of construction organizations within the context of Turkish construction industry. Design/methodology/approach – This study is
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Culture really plays an important factor for an individual in making decision especially for individual that involves in construction industry. In construction industry‚ focusing on the payment process‚ involves a lot of culture and attitude that will give impact to the progress of the project. Yitmen and Taneri (2005) viewed culture as a really strong element that can determine the overall effectiveness and success of a firm because it can affects all aspects of life from the way of the interaction
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Culture industry is a term coined by critical theorists Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895–1973)‚ who argued in the chapter of their book Dialectic of Enlightenment‚ ’The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception’‚ that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods – through film‚ radio and magazines – to manipulate the masses into passivity; the easy pleasures available through consumption of popular culture make people docile and content‚ no
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