Foreign TV has a significant impact on my society due to its highly pervasive and easily accessible nature. In Singapore‚ we are constantly exposed to foreign – mainly Western – TV shows‚ from Gossip Girl and Project Runway to entire channels of K-pop. In the same way fashion trends on the red carpet become pervasive in fashion magazines and soon hit high street stores such as H&M and Topshop‚ thus influencing how people dress‚ our exposure to fashion trends on TV also influence the way we dress
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Maastricht introduced European citizenship. This finally defined what an EU citizen ’ is‚ most obviously in the amended Article 17 of the Treaty of Rome. This declared that in order for one to hold "citizenship of the Union"‚ one must hold "nationality of a Member State". So anyone with nationality to a country within the European union is immediately granted European Citizenship. Consequently all nationals belonging to states joining the EU will also be automatically conferred European citizenship. It
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The Successes of European Imperialism At the height of their power‚ the British Empire consisted of half the world. But how did it get there‚ and where exactly is “there”? With Europe having just undergone the Industrial Revolution‚ it needed resources to fuel its economy. The fact that Europe had gone through an Industrial Revolution and nowhere else had gave them an advantage over the rest of the world. The successes of European imperialism were many. It gave a few power over many‚ it fuelled
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Liberty University The Decline of European Christianity A Paper Submitted to Professor J. Earls By La Dawn Brooks Church History 302 February 10‚ 2012 In this paper I will attempt to explain the decline in European Christianity and what attributed to itt. When did it actually start? What caused people to move away from Christianity? More importantly will we ever see an increase in these
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Between the 1300’s to the 1500’s‚ Europeans wanted to explore. There are four major reasons why Europeans wanted to explore Asia. The reasons included economy‚ culture‚ politics‚ and technological advances.The European were looking for new ideas to bring back to Europe. The first reason for exploration is economics. Europeans wanted spices‚ perfumes‚ silks‚ precious stones‚ exotic foods‚ and tightly woven colorful rugs. Asia had all of these goods. European Merchants realized that they could make
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The importance of racial hierarchy in understanding European colonization efforts can largely be linked back to power‚ control and wealth. One of the greatest tools that the Europeans had during their conquests in the Americas and Africa was their use of religion as a means of rendering the native peoples that they intended to take advantage of docile. Essentially‚ it seems that in the cases where European explorers were easily able to spread their religion‚ as opposed to meeting resistance‚ they
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Have you ever wondered what was behind the European Imperialism…. Probably not‚ but i’m going to tell you anyways. European Imperialism was about controlling the most amount of land in Africa or in any area of land. There are three main topics in European Imperialism‚ they are economics‚ military‚ and exploratory. Economics was a great driving force of European Imperialism. I will tell you why‚ with evidence I found in a few documents. In document Eit shows how Great Britain imports and exports
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After the industrial revolution‚ imperialism became a common practice of European nations to take over weaker nations or regions and dominates its economic‚ political‚ and cultural life. Imperialism affected many countries in Asia such as China‚ India‚ Japan‚ and Africa. European expansion began in the 15th century however the process greatly accelerated in the 19th century. British economic and political interest in India began in the 17th century‚ when the East India Company established trading
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online and over the phone services. The foundation provides early assistance to young people across four core areas: mental health‚ physical health‚ work and study support and alcohol and other drug services. One alarming issue addressed by the organisation in recent years has been the rising rates of suicide in regional areas‚ and especially amongst Indigenous youth aged sixteen to twenty-four. In 2010‚ Indigenous youth suicides made up 80% of all suicides nationally‚ as compared to only 10% in 1991
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World War II‚ European started to have some certain level of cooperation. Different states in Europe began to set up intergovernmental and supranational organization. Such cooperating acts must come up with reasons. No matter what the reasons are‚ the European states developed rapidly from the 1950s to the 1970s. The historian Mark Mazower has suggested that Europe experienced a ‘miracle of growth’ between the 1950s and 1970s. The growth had contributed even to now‚ making the European Union one of
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