1. Problemstellung The Iban longhouses are a key attraction in Sarawak. Even West Malaysians find Sarawak´s ethnic culture exotic because there are no similar communities in Peninsular Malaysia. The Iban customs and traditions are unique because Sarawak is the only part of Malaysia and of the world that is home to this community. Total visitor arrivals into Sarawak was 394.992 in 2002 compared to 2012 it increased to 4‚069‚023. From interviews with local tour operators and hoteliers‚ it is clearly
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Journey to the End of Islam is a travel narrative that follows the journey of Michael Muhammad Knight‚ an American born-again convert to Islam. His travels through historic Islamic sites in Ethiopia‚ Pakistan‚ Egypt‚ Syria‚ and Saudi Arabia are made with the intention of facilitating a better understanding of his faith and the extensive range of variations to the religion. Throughout the journal‚ Knight is exposed to everything from devout orthodox Muslims to Islamic punk rockers who partake in what
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Modernization is the concept that refers to the major social changes that occur when a traditional society rapidly shifts from the house to the factory‚ resulting in industrialization and the spread of education. Prior to the Opium Wars‚ imperial China lacked the proper ideology and infrastructure needed to successfully compete with the Western world‚ resulting in the “Century of Humiliation”‚ or the period of intervention and imperialism by foreign powers. Consequently‚ the imperial Qing court made
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and the troublemaker who is shooting up the town but also have on modern clothes from the east. The author Stephen Crane did a great job on the descriptions of the story‚ through the actions of the characters. also the author shows the idea of modernization of society through the elements of character and setting. Jack Potter‚ is the Sheriff of a small town in the West. The other character who is known as Scratchy Wilson‚ also lives in that town. without one the other will not be in relevant to
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Once Mao had won the Chinese Civil War 1949‚ China’s new communist government implemented policies that both benefited and confined China’s population. Throughout Mao’s reign as leader‚ Mao maintained his leadership through violence and manipulation‚ however‚ his acknowledgement of the gender and the social minorities brought China’s population certain human rights. Wanting to maintain a strictly communist government to suppress human rights as much as possible‚ Mao and China suffered economical
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1. Rao‚ V. (1993). The rising price of husbands: A hedonic analysis of dowry increases in rural India. Journal of Political Economy‚ 666-677. Motivation and objective : Attempts to investigate the reasons behind the increase in dowry . Methods : It adapts Rosen’s implicit market model to the Indian marriage market and tests predictions from the model with data from six villages in South Central India and from the Indian census Theories : Using utility function‚ U is assumed to be maximized‚ given
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION | This volume is submitted to assist Congress in the review and deliberation of the proposed national budget for the legislation of the annual appropriations measures for the next fiscal year. It contains the details of the government’s proposed program and is presented into two parts‚ namely: Part I – National Government Budget‚ and Part II - Budgets of the three (3) Energy Corporations. | The FY 2008 Budget Program | The total proposed expenditure program for FY 2008
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His goals were to open up the China’s market to the outside world‚ breaking down the collective farms‚ getting rid of state-run enterprises and providing more jobs for people in the industry. He found that the most important thing was the modernization of agriculture because 80% of the population derived their living primarily from agricultural production. The new contract responsibility system allowed farmers to rent land for individual farming families. Farmers had to sell a certain percentage
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conditioned or even determined by it. This inescapable and inclusive quality contrasts with the notion of modernization‚ arguably the prime term that globalization has replaced both in popular and scientific discourse. While modernization excluded various ‘others’ that were deemed either pre-modern/ traditional or only on the way to modernization‚ globalization includes us all‚ even our ‘others’. Modernization temporalized its universalism: eventually all would/could become modern. Globalization spatializes
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work‚ and yes we are okay‚ that is true‚ but it was difficult. I define it as we are on the razor’s edge right now in terms of the Army budget as I look over the next five years. That razor’s edge is about balancing end-strength‚ readiness and modernization. We have to continue to balance those. The choices that the Secretary and I have to make will always be in balancing those three so we can still maintain whatever the size of the Army that is left as the best trained‚ best equipped force in the
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