Culture convergence due to ‘modernization’ or ‘globalization’ Since early days‚ time and distance has become borderless as business entities begin to grow and spread their roots all over the world. It becomes unavoidable for one country without being any related to other countries in any business. Each and every individual have their own culture and being proud of it‚ but when the relation between two entities (individuals or countries) happens‚ the cultures may converge due to obtain mutual understanding
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Name: Nihal El-Banna Student ID: 322304 Course Title: Political Economy of Agriculture and Food Professor: Deborah Johnston To what extent are agricultural transformations and modernization still necessary for economic development in contemporary low-income countries? Illustrate your arguments with reference to concrete cases. Introduction: Recently‚ several new comers to the middle income countries category‚ namely in North Africa‚ have made it above the $1.25 poverty line without experiencing
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parents‚ and to Mitsubishi Elevator Europe B.V. which participated in the Dutch cartels are guilty for participating cartels. The products which this industry is related to are elevators and escalators‚ as well as the provision of maintenance and modernization services for these products. The elevator and escalator sectors in Europe are highly concentrated. KONE‚ Otis‚ Schindler and ThyssenKrupp are international manufacturers of elevators and escalators and are the most important manufacturers operating
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Those educated in the schools established during the Tanzimat period included Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other progressive leaders and thinkers of the Republic of Turkey and of many other former Ottoman states in the Balkans‚ the Middle East and North
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Highness” by the British Government. The Aga Khan believed that the poor status of Muslims in India was illiteracy‚ and therefore‚ education was the greatest solution. He felt that education should be a medium of service to others and a tool for modernization. Sultan Mohamed Shah‚ along with some of his close colleagues donated a significant sum of money to the Aligarh University. At the age of 29 the Aga Khan realized the poor political conditions for Muslims in India and formed the All India Muslim
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creating powerful combinations that no one would dare attack. The final impetus for war being the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo‚ Bosnia. The Central Powers consisted of Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ Ottoman Empire (Turkey)‚ and Bulgaria‚ against the Allies comprised of Britain‚ France‚ Italy‚ Russia‚ and later on the United States. The United States exchanged its neutrality for war in 1917 by declaring war on Germany. The war ended in 1918‚ as Germany and Austria-
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to the world that newly independent countries could sustain development if they adopted Western strategies. Two of the strategies‚ the “human capital” and “modernization” theories became so attractive that since independence in the late 1950s and 1960s‚ developing nations have placed much emphasis on education as a vehicle for modernization and socioeconomic development. Because the movement to expand educational opportunities in the developing world was strongly tied to economic development and
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None of the mentioned innovation. To keep pace with the modernization‚ there should be room for improvement in the field of information technology. Nowadays‚ companies shift from manual to computerize primarily because of advantages brought by the use of computers. In connection with‚ problems such as missing data and information sent to the wrong place arise. Furthermore‚ some could not be able to handle the massive volume of data of customer. Under the old manual membership and billing systems
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AB ST RAC T The German sociologist Ulrich Beck has elaborated a highly original formulation of the theory of risk and reflexive modernization‚ a formulation that has had a significant impact upon recent sociological theorizing and research.This article examines Beck’s sociology of risk in the context of his broader social theory of reflexivity‚ advanced modernization and individualization. The article argues that Beck’s work is constrained by several sociological weaknesses: namely‚ a dependence
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fundamentalism arose as a reaction to the influences of the West due to US backing for Shah‚ Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the support for the Mujahedeen. However‚ Western influence may not be the only factor as globalisation and the failure of modernization and secularization also play a part in the rise of religious fundamentalism. At that point of time‚ many Islamist organizations define themselves in opposition to the West‚ and particularly the United States‚ especially as the latter’s foreign
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