The Built & Human Environment Review‚ Volume 3‚ Special Issue 1‚ 2010 Using Grounded Theory Methodology and Rich Picture Diagrams in analysing Value Creation in Houses of Culture Projects in Sweden Laurell Stenlund‚ K. Kristina.Laurell-Stenlund@ltu.se Luleå University of Technology‚ Luleå‚ Sweden Abstract What kind of value does a public building for cultural activities create for clients‚ construction professionals and users? One approach to understand the complexity of ongoing processes
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Lessons from the Rich and Famous By: Sejung Marina Choi‚ Wei-Na Lee‚ and Hee-Jung Kim. Journal of Advertising. Summer 2005 (85-96) Abstract: The celebrity endorsements on TV of the U.S. and Korea are studied based on the characteristics of low context‚ high context‚ individualism‚ and collectivism. Article Summary: A study was undertaken which focuses on celebrity endorsements on TV found in the U.S. and Korea. Marketers invest significant sums in celebrity endorsements. Many countries adopt
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The Truth about Daisy Sallie Bingham in the article "The Truth about Growing up Rich" describes the society that contains her power and role as a woman. While her article was published in June of 1986 it might as well been the basis for Scott Fitzgerald’s character‚ Daisy Buchanan‚ in The Great Gatsby. Bingham says that women are held captive in the upper crust of society. Their visibility is reduced as they are hidden behind the large institutions of their fathers and husbands. Daisy and Tom’s
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transparency in economical and political actions on main commodities of poor nations‚ high-price traditional ceremonies which remain a drag on development in poor nations‚ a lot of baseless wars and others. To reduce the difference in qualities of life in rich and poor nations and countries‚ first and foremost‚ the whole world including its all international organization must give full independence to all poor countries and leave them alone on deciding what to do next. Most dominating countries and international
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population has continued to decline as most of the financial support‚ which is distributed to rich landowners or corporations. Reforms in 2003 moved the CAP into a less-price-support system to an income-support system with market determined system. This solved early problems of the CAP (Dumping and Food Mountains)‚ however did not resolve one of the main concerns‚ as most of the funds still goes to rich landowners and agricultural sector population tends to decrease. In this essay‚ I would like to
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Two arguments which present interesting views on higher education are bell hook’s “Keeping Close to Home” and Adrienne Rich’s “What Does a Woman Need to Know?” Hooks views higher education with a concern for the underprivileged‚ whereas Rich views it with a concern for women. Of the two works‚ I personally do not agree with Rich’s argument. Bell hooks views higher education to be a time in which we find ourselves and learn more about who we are. This
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Lesbianism as Strategy for Liberation in Adrienne Rich ’s Poetry Introduction: Identity Crisis and Lesbianism Rich views hitherto existing norms and values of the society are male made. So‚ she articulates poetic statement for the feministic movement in the United States against the world of art that is built in the language of patriarchy‚ she through her art and criticism‚ offers a probing examination of women ’s roles and their relation with males‚ of motherhood and of what means to be a woman and
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Many people are against feminism because they claim to support families and think that feminists are against motherhood and families in general. This impression many people have of feminism‚ according to Elaine Tuttle Hansen‚ is “so ingrained . . . that in an anthology of writing from the women’s liberation movement . . . essays on ‘family’ are prefaced with this disclaimer: ‘We are not against love‚ against men and women living together‚ against having children. What we are against is the role women
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criticisms on compulsory heterosexuality and the idea that heterosexuality is the only real natural relationship. In the article‚ “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” by Adrienne Rich‚ she states that‚ “heterosexuality‚ like motherhood‚ needs to be recognized and studied as a political institution” (Rich 637). She argues that heterosexuality is politically institutionalized because it has been strategically and deliberately carried out by laws and regulations that restrains women and
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According to Linda Alcoff in her essay Cultural Feminism Versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory‚ a woman in society ‘…is always the Object‚ a conglomeration of attributes to be predicted and controlled…’ To what extent can this theory be applied to the presentation of woman in feminist literature? With reference to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood and ‘The Bell Jar’ by Sylvia Plath. Stein suggests that the preliminary and concluding material of‚ ‘The Handmaid’s
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