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    20‚000 full time officials and 113‚000 unpaid officials. A strong undercurrent of peasant discontent began to appear. This was mainly due to the fact that the Reich food estate only applied to 20% of total farms and then held back expansion and modernisation in the farming industry. This then reduced the employment opportunities within the farming industries which didn’t help with the wages for farmers as they were not able to grow or expand to create a more expansive set of customers. Furthermore

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    Assess sociological explanations for the increasing number of religious and spiritual organizations and movements in society today. (18 marks) There are many explanations for the growth in other religious and spiritual movements in society today sociologist have offered three main explanations for this trend‚ marginality‚ relative deprivation and social change. Sociologist Weber argued that other forms of religious and spiritual movements such as sects tend to arise as a result of marginality.

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    References: 2. Azhar‚ S. (2006). Modernisation of Islam. New Delhi: Arise Publishers & Distributors. 3 4. Duignan‚ B. (2009). Postmodernism and modern philosophy. Britannica encyclopaedia. Retrieved October 2‚ 2010‚ from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1077292/postmodernism

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    Gangwon. The proposal envisages opening a nudist area by 2017 to attract more foreign visitors to a province known for its sandy beaches. "We see this project as part of our efforts to promote tourism‚" an ESRH official said. Despite its rapid modernisation‚ South Korea remains a largely conservative country and the official said the plan would need the approval of local residents. "Without their consent‚ it will be difficult to push ahead‚" she said. "In fact‚ we’ve already received protest calls

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    community development policy that can be implemented locally. Stafford & Furze (1997) states the German sociologist Tonnies developed the polarised positions of gemeinschaft and gesellschaft‚ which signify community before modernisation and society after modernisation and diversification; that the former is characterised by close relationships‚ ascribed rather than achieved status based on clear‚ specific and relatively unchanging roles without role conflict; strong faith in traditional institutions

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    The poem “Flower Fed Buffaloes” by V. Lindsay is a short text set on the prairies of America in old days. It is about “Flower Fed Buffaloes” where the old days take pass and that the buffaloes did not live there because locomotives has taken over the prairie‚ where buffaloes were. Three key techniques used by the poet were alliteration‚ metaphor and repetition. They were effective because they helped me understand the theme. The theme is the buffaloes prairies have been taken over by the modern day

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    1 Was Silvio the right choice for general manager of Schindler¡¦s India operations? Why/Why not ¡V give details. This question can be answered by taking following 3 things in consideration. 1.1 Silvio¡¦s characteristics This can be better explained by detailing his strengths and weaknesses. 1.1.1 Strengths: As per Luc Bonnard‚ they trust him 100%‚ he has courage‚ he is young and flexible‚ he is generalist not specialist‚ and willing to go to India. So here is the list of his strengths with

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    £141 million in the year ending 31 March 1981. Lord King of Wartnaby was appointed as Chairman in February 1981 to return the company to profitability and prepare it for privatisation. As a result of his sweeping changes (staff reductions‚ fleet modernisation‚ improvement of control systems and terminal facilities and a new responsiveness to customer needs) ‚ the company earned profits in the year ended 31 March 1983 (BA 1987). With the major technical and operational changes paying dividends‚ BA

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    Modernization theory is a theory used to explain the process of Modernization within societies. The theory looks at the internal factors of a country while assuming that with assistance “traditional countries can be brought to development in the same manner more developed countries have. This theory of modernization however failed because it can be argued that it was too Eurocentric in its methodologies. That is to say its centered focus was on Europe or European peoples. The theory never considered

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    Discussion of modernisation and dependency theorypdf_ico This essay shall discuss two theories of development – modernisation and dependency theory (MT and DT). In this limited space‚ I shall narrow my analysis down to two of the staunchest representatives of each camp: Walt W. Rostow and André G. Frank. Also‚ because it is impossible to discuss their broad publications‚ I shall subject only the very core of their theories to scrutiny here. After (1) a quest for the shared assumptions of both

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