Essays on International Financial Architecture Priyvrat Mamgain 2/25/2013 Topic 1: What were the outcomes of the Bretton Woods conference and which factors can account for the agreements reached at that conference? (1200 words) The Bretton woods conference is a United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference that was organized between 1 and 22 July 1944 at Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton woods‚ New Hampshire‚ United States. 730 delegates from 44 nations signed an agreement on the final day
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New Design in Historic Settings coNteNtS FOREWORD 1.0 IntRODuctIOn 2.0 nEW DEsIgn In HIstORIc sEttIngs 3.0 PRIncIPLEs FOR nEW DEsIgn In HIstORIc sEttIngs 4.0 mEtHOD 5.0 cAsE stuDIEs: An OVERVIEW 1 3 5 7 11 17 Acknowledgments We would like to express our thanks to Urban Initiatives‚ Malcolm Fraser Architects and Andrew Wright Heritage Consultants for their work in preparing the initial report for this publication. Images are Crown Copyright unless otherwise stated. Dates‚ where
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Windows XP vs. Mac OS X Architecture Kurt Luchtman POS420 Irene Giouvanos May 29th 2006 When looking at the interface of the Mac OS X Operating System and the Microsoft Windows XP operating system many similarities can be seen. The most obvious is the use of blue in the interface. In the core of the systems they both have a micro kernel which addresses thread management‚ space management and other communications at the system level and is more resistant to attacks from a virus. Mac OS X
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In the article "Questioning Constitutionality of Vernacular Schools Is Not Seditious"‚ the author‚ Faidhur Rahman Abdul Hadi‚ deals with the issue whether UMNO Petaling Jaya Division Deputy Head‚ Mohamad Azli’s act of questioning the constitutionality of vernacular schools is seditious as claimed by the MCA Religious Harmony Bureau Chairman‚ Datuk Ti Lian Ker. The thesis statement of this article is that questioning the constitutionality of vernacular schools is not seditious. The author argued that
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African American Vernacular Traditions: Integrated Into Modern Culture African American vernacular traditions have been around for many centuries and still cease to exist in their culture. The vernacular traditions of the African Americans started when slaves were existent in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. It is believed that the slaves spoke a mix of Creole and partial English‚ in which they had to create in order to communicate between them discreetly. The vernacular traditions originated
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GAME DESIGN AS NARRATIVE ARCHITECTURE By Henry Jenkins The relationship between games and story remains a divisive question among game fans‚ designers‚ and scholars alike. At a recent academic Games Studies conference‚ for example‚ a blood feud threatened to erupt between the self-proclaimed Ludologists‚ who wanted to see the focus shift onto the mechanics of game play‚ and the Narratologists‚ who were interested in studying games alongside other storytelling media.(1) Consider some recent statements
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and its perspective on the basis of PRDS History in Kerala R. Prakash‚Kerala The greatest spiritual upheaval that the world saw in the beginning of this century was staged in India‚ with the emergence of P.R.D.S. the defensive activities of ‘Keezhala People’ have been feathered in different parts of the world. But no where else‚ there took place on an organised spiritual uplift based on their history and culture. It was in Kerala‚ in India‚ that such an event was staged though it
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Bibliography: i) Nasir‚ Abdul Halim and Hashim Haji Wan Teh. The Traditional Malay House. Kuala Lumpur: Institut Terjemahan dan Buku Malaysia‚ 2011. ii) Sahabuddin‚ Firrdhaus. “Vernacular Architecture of Traditional Malay House”. Malaysian Vernacular Architecture and Its Relationship to Climate. Academia.edu. iii) Mohd. Rasdi‚ Mohd. Tajuddin‚ Kamaruddin Mohd. Ali‚ Syed Ahmad Iskandar Syed Ariffin‚ Ra’alah Mohd.‚ and Gurupiah Mursib. The Architectural Heritage of the
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Description The phrase “parti pris” (also known as "esquisse" or "maquette") is the basic scheme or concept for an architectural design from which an architectural project will be developed. It is the functional arrangement and underlying organisational idea of a building’s plan or its elevation. The phrase is often referred to as the “big idea” and is the chief organizing thought or decision behind an architect’s design presented in the form of a basic diagram and / or a simple statement. A
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Abstract Software architecture plays an important role in the achievement of particular qualities we want to see in our software under development. On the other hand specific software demands some distinct qualities in software architecture. Now question arises how software architecture becomes the base to achieve the certain qualities and how qualities influence the architecture. Architecture provides the base for the development of the core product so by inspecting the architecture we can predict
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