The article “Is Local: Global as Feminine: Masculine? Rethinking the Gender of Globalization” by Carla Freeman discusses the issue of gender categories of local and global and the author argues that we should not limit our perception of globalization as exclusively masculine. At the beginning the author outlines that the globalization theory was traditionally defined as "masculine" making it clear that the author did not define it as “masculine” by themselves. The author says that the "global processes
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price range. Foreign and local brands are occupying the local market competitively. Customers’ preferences for both brands differ in some ways and one of it is the brand personality. Aaker‚ 1996 mentions that customers’ preferences are subject to the emphasis of brand personality. For example‚ consumers are much more exposed to international brands as these products are intensely advertised globally to make them more recognizable worldwide (Hsieh‚ 2004). As compared to local labels; which only limited
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Summary of “On Buying Local” by Katherine Spriggs Having the luxury of eating any fruit or vegetable at any time is amazing but it can come at a cost to our bodies and our environment. Buying local is a way we can counteract this because local farms are more sustainable and overall better for the environment. The United States play a huge part in global warming. But this is an international problem and many companies are putting billions of pounds of pesticides and chemicals into our water‚ air
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LITHUANIAN LOCAL BASKETBALL REQUIRES CHANGES Most Lithuanian people like basketball and even call this game their second religion. One group likes to play it‚ while other enjoys watching this entertaining game. It could seem strange‚ but nowadays it is very difficult to see interesting game between Lithuanian teams as there are two strong teams and lots of weaker‚ which can compete between each other‚ but not with those two teams. For most basketball fans it looks normal‚ but there are people
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Involving local residents is a feature of the New Deal for Communities approach. Discuss the advantages and the challenges of involving local people in the running of community health projects. Under the New Deal for Communities initiative Thornhill plus you secured funding for renewal of the Thornhill area. The aims are to reduce social exclusion and improve people’s quality of life. I will discuss some of the advantages and challenges of involving local people in the running of community health
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volunteering nationally doesn’t have some of the personal and emotional effects on people like local volunteering does. When people volunteer in a local community to help the environment‚ it impacts people in the area emotionally because of how close to home it is. Volunteering locally is “eye-opening to realize that doing even small things can have a big impact on others” (Bigfuture.org). When you volunteer for your local community to help the environment‚ remember that its quality‚ not quantity. Environmental
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Supermarkets vs. local shops To many‚ supermarkets are an integral part of modern-life‚ but should their expansion be at the cost of local stores? TheSite.org looks at the pros and cons of supermarket shopping. For Time savers: Let’s be honest‚ life without supermarkets would be total hell. Gone are the days of trawling the high street all day long‚ and now we can fit shopping into our busy schedules. We’re not even restricted by opening hours‚ with many supermarkets now open 24 hours. Choice:
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Local Economic Development Programs in India An essay by Judith Rietveld‚ Rotterdam School of Management‚ The Netherlands Introduction In this essay‚ I try to find an answer to the following question: How can the private sector best serve the unmet needs of India’s people in a sustainable way? I will answer this question from a local economic development perspective. Local economic development is “a process by which public‚ business and nongovernmental sector partners work collectively
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DEVELOPMENT AND ITS MERITS AND DEMERITS OVER LOCALS ------------------------------------------------- Development is a concept that signifies the enhancement‚ the betterment of present status of an Individual‚ an area‚ a state‚ a region‚ or a country in context with that particular space and time. Development is a view. It is a dynamic concept. The Term development is defined by whom‚ is inevitable to be answered. Development is a relative term. However‚ it should be pondered over that development
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in magazines. In many of Twain ’s novels and short stories he uses local color to help define his characters and give meaning to his stories ("The Norton Anthology Of American Literature" page 212-215). The use of language that is specific to a particular area‚ the depiction of his characters and people throughout the story‚ the use of idioms‚ and the description of places as settings characterize local color. In other words local color is used to express "distinctive natural‚ social‚ and linguistic
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