Economic Conditions in Hong Kong Unemployment went from 2.5% in 1997 to over 6% in 1999 GDP fell to historic low of minus 5.1% in 1998‚ with slight improvement to 0.7% in 2nd qtr. of 1999. Property sector was dominant growth driver in Hong Kong‚ over 65% of stock market valuation and 50% of bank lending. Tourism was only 4% of economy activity in 1998 and 1999. Gov’t. hoped to diversify with a tourist attraction. $104B to territory from tourism in 1996‚ dropped to $55B in mid-1997. The Walt
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COMM 130 I. INTRODUCTION A. Mass media as a product of modernity B. The development of communication and media as an academic discipline C. DEFINING THEORY Theory – system of law-like propositions THEORY – helps make sense of phenomena THEORY – helps in guiding action THEORY – helps predict consequence/behavior of reality THEORY – propositions to understand reality KINDS OF MEDIA THEORY * Social Scientific * based on systematic and objective observation
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Why Marx Was Right Why Marx Was Right TERRY EAGLETON New Haven & London Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund. Copyright ∫ 2011 by Yale University. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced‚ in whole or in part‚ including illustrations‚ in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press)‚ without written permission from the publishers. Yale University Press books may
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BIOGRAPHY OF KARL MARX Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5th‚ 1818 in the city of Trier‚ Germany to a comfortable middle-class‚ Jewish family. His father‚ a lawyer and ardent supporter of Enlightenment liberalism‚ converted to Lutheranism when Marx was only a boy in order to save the family from the discrimination that Prussian Jews endured at the time. Marx enjoyed a broad‚ secular education under his father‚ and found an intellectual mentor in Freiherr Ludwig von Westphalen‚ a Prussian nobleman
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Marx’s Influence on Community Development This essay explores Marx’s influence on community development‚ within the parameters of social justice. I felt it was necessary to narrow down the focus of this topic as Marx has been translated‚ philosophized‚ reiterated‚ rewritten and rethought by a plethora of philosophers‚ sociologists‚ economists etc. I am also concentrating on Marx’s written ideas with regard to Western civilization. This essay does not enter into debate or description of contemporary
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Recent conceptual work on tourism destination competitiveness has proposed a comprehensive approach that adds industry-level competitiveness attributes to more conventional tourism destination attributes. This study builds on these ideas by generating sets of both attributes‚ developing a methodology for assessing their relative importance and examining the degree to which their relative importance varies across locations. Survey data were gathered from tourism industry practitioners in three
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The role of dialect representation in speaking from the margins: "The Lesson" of Toni Cade Bambara by Katy M. Wright "What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain’t in on it? Where we are is who we are‚ Miss Moore always pointin out. But it don’t necessarily have to be that way‚ she always adds then waits for somebody to say that poor people have to wake up and demand their share of the pie and don’t none of us know what kind of pie she talking about in the first damn place."
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Karl Marx has greatly influenced the creation of the modern world and was one of the first revolutionary communist. Through his literary works and philosophies he helped to inspire many 20th century communist regimes including the Soviet Union‚ China‚ Cuba‚ and North Korea. Marx’s ideas did not end at communism; his religious ideology also helped shape and mold the 20th century world. Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Trier‚ Germany and died in 1883. He was a philosopher who turned to economics
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Are the ideas of Marx‚ Weber and Durkheim useful for understanding social change today? Illustrate your answer using the ideas of one of these theorists This essay will discuss Karl Marx’s theory to understand social change in contemporary society. This will be explored through the relevance of Marx’s theory on class divisions and Globalisation in today’s society. Additionally‚ it will also incorporate arguments on the restrictions on Marx’s theory of social change. Globalisation is described as
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Ancient Egypt is divided up into three main time periods‚ the Old Kingdom‚ the Middle Kingdom and the New kingdom. The Eighteenth Dynasty marked the beginning of the New Kingdom and played a key role in the revolution of Egypt’s religion‚ architecture‚ trade and it’s expansion. Some of Egypt’s best known Pharaohs reigned during this time period‚ including Ahmose I‚ Hatshepsut‚ Thutmose III‚ Amenhotep III‚ Akhenaten and Tutankhamun. The Pharaohs of the time‚ as well as other aspects helped push Egypt
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