Once were peripheral: Creating media capacity in East Asia This paper is about critical mass in media industries with emphasis on onemerging production centers rather than ‘structures of dominance’ emanating from North Atlantic corridors of power (US‚ Europe) -Media businesses move outwards and into East Asia ‚ cultural export strategies of countries without the advantage of English language Brief: 1st section Limitation within political economy‚ cultural geography and cultural studies
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development in East Asia? The rise of Asia’s so called “Tiger” economies followed by China‚ has given rise to the spectrum of a distinctly East Asian economic development model. The pioneering economic success of in particular‚ Singapore‚ South Korea and Japan since the 1970’s has highlighted the need to evaluate and distinguish how such economies achieved such successive growth. A variety of possible factors can explain or highlight possibilities for the successive development of East Asia. A particularly
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Perceptions on the Training and Development Function: An Empirical Study of the Middle East Abstract The present study aims to determine perceptions on the training and development function in Middle East organizations. Using a purposive sample of 150 HR practitioners from Saudi Arabia‚ Kuwait‚ Dubai and Lebanon‚ the study found that there is a perception that candidates for supervisory and management roles are adequately trained to take on their jobs. However‚ they were uncertain about
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spheres of influence of leading world powers have changed consistently‚ reducing the impact of Germany and its allies and destroying the Ottoman Empire as the dominant power in the Middle Eastern region. However‚ the effects of World War I on the Middle East had proved to be quite different from what the local population had expected because instead of liberation and expanding the territory of independent states‚ the local population faced the problem of growing impact of European superpowers‚ especially
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Unattainable Perfection Everything is ruined if an eye is not kept on the entire picture of the situation. The novel East of Eden‚ by John Steinbeck‚ and the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude‚ by Gabriel García Márquez‚ both emphasize the negative outcomes that are met during the futile attempt to create a perfect world. Attempting to create a world where everything runs without difficulty can be extremely difficult in itself. Characters use land as an output when they are put in these difficult
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Since German and Hungarian researchers are not connected to imperialism‚ Said conveniently leaves them out of his critique. Said also ignores the positive contribution that researchers associated with power made to the understanding of the Middle East. Said makes an egregious error by negating any Islamic influence on the history of the region. His discursive blinders--for he has created his own discourse--led him before September 11‚ 2001 to denigrate the idea that Islamist terrorists could blow
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investigation is to answer the question: To what extent did the Soviet Construction of the Berlin Wall affect the economic health of East Germany? The main body of the investigation serves to outline Germany’s economic health while the Berlin Wall is in place. Background information will be given to provide the information as to why the Berlin Wall is affecting East Germany. History‚ a tv channel‚ or educational website and The Economic History of Germany‚ by Thayer Watkins‚ are evaluated in terms
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A report from World Bank mentions that leasing industry has long existed in MENA region & is currently active in 70% of the countries. However‚ presently leasing industry is under developed by international comparison and there is lot of potential for future growth. This potential can be realized if MENA policy makers address the existing regulatory & institutional constraints. Most MENA countries have a leasing industry. Leasing in both of its forms‚ conventional & Islamic is present
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Essay on WHY HAS EAST ASIA GROWN MUCH FASTER THAN AFRICA? INTRODUCTION Many nations in Africa observed an impressive growth rate in the early 1990. These were relatively greater than those obtained in the Asian Countries. However‚ between the 1960s and 1990s‚ Africa has witnessed a continuous decline in growth and this has raised concerns about what Africa could learn from the miracle of the East-Asian countries. This decline is general for most if not all African countries but emphasis
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as many cultures define it differently. These nations specifically belong in the sub-region: The East of Africa generally causes people to recall colonisation of the 19th century‚ however apart from nations who were still under the control of a parent country‚ very little new colonies emerged‚ and the ones that did where short lived during the first and second world wars with German and Italian East Africa. However‚ the 20th century tells a story of decolonization‚ freedom‚ war and genocide. In total
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