more recently‚ an art form I have been interested in exploring from a more critical and academic perspective. I’ve wanted to extend my knowledge beyond hip-hop as a pastime and into hip-hop as a social tool with the power to create‚ reproduce‚ and challenge dominant social life. This consideration facilitated my research question: “How is homosexuality represented in hip-hop music and communities?” Due to hip-hop’s entrenched roots of heteronormativity and rigid gender identities‚ homosexual representations
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BRE499 Dissertation Title: An Analysis on Tendering Decision in Hong Kong Construction Industry: The Contractor Perspective Department: Department of Building and Real Estate Supervisor: Ms Sandy L.Y. TANG Course: BSc (Hons) in Surveying (Part-time) Submitted by: WONG Yu-fung Student ID: 05507045T Submission Date: 2nd April 2009 Declaration I declare that the completed Dissertation represents my own work‚ except where due acknowledgement is made‚ and
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Housing Bubbles in Metropolises in China Introduction The boom of house market has emerged accompanying with the soaring development of Chinese economy over the last two decades. Although the prosperity of real estate sector makes contributions to the growth of national fiscal revenue and Gross Domestic Product‚ it also raises a serious problem --- housing bubbles‚ defined as the housing prices deviate too much from its fundamental value (Flood and Hodrick‚ 1900)‚ especially in metropolitan
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Agents of Socialization Specific sites or groups carry out socialization. We call these agents of socialization. Similar to the concept of a business agent or insurance agent‚ they represent and act on the behalf of the larger society and. Socialization can occur outside of these agents but society relies on these agents doing most of the socialization. There’s nothing "official" about these agents‚ at least not in our society. Totalitarian societies attempt to establish official agents of socialization
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Question: a) Discuss the opportunities and challenges of having access to a broader workforce. Answer: The Workforce is the total number of a country’s population employed in the armed forces and civilian jobs‚ plus those unemployed people who are actually seeking paying work. In other words‚ workforce also refers to Total number of employee (usually excluding the management) on an employer’s payroll. It may also mean all those that are available for work. Workers may be unionized‚ whereby
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Chaucer And Estate Satire The meanings of the word “estate” defined by the Middle English Dictionary is ‘a class of persons‚ especially a social rank or a political class or group; also a member of particular class or rank’. The idea of the "estates" is important to the social structure of the Middle Ages. (Mann‚ Jill. Chaucer And Medieval Estate Satire. Introduction. London: Syndics of Cambridge University Press‚ 1973. 1-7.Print.) Feudal society was traditionally divided into three "estates". The "First
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1 INTRODUCTION 1 Goals The tutorial is intended to provide information on agents and agent technology to educate more of the software development and CHI community on the impact and nature of current Agent technology. By providing a reasonable backdrop for agents‚ this tutorial hopes to allow the student to pursue additional reading material with a more objective eye for that which is real and that which is hyperbole (hysteria?). 2 Objectives The tutorial student should leave with
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Hospital and Long-Term Care Facilities Laura Wilson HSA 500 Introductions to Health Services Dr. Rhonda Hill February 12‚ 2012 1. I will be describing the difference between nonprofit and for profit hospitals‚ also describing at least three major trends that have occurred within the hospital sector‚ plus describe and differentiate the roles of hospitals and nursing homes in providing long-term care and giving three examples‚ and last critique the current state of long-term care policy
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“any instances of law violation among police officers leads to a public perception that the police subculture is breaking down.” I am by no means an expert in this area‚ but my understanding of police subculture is that it is a set of norms and beliefs that are shared by a majority of law enforcement officers working in police organizations. There are two types of police subculture‚ occupational subculture‚ which is
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Note on Affordable Housing and Housing Finance in the Face of the Global Financial Crisis for the Luncheon Meeting‚ New York‚ 25 June 2009 Introduction In its resolution A/RES/63/221 entitled “Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UNHABITAT)”‚ the General Assembly “invites the Governing Council of UN-HABITAT to keep under review developments in the housing finance systems
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