Article Reviews As editor of the book, "Exploring Post-Development," Aram Ziai provides an introductory look at the discussions of post-development theory, taking a cursory look at the various arguments for, or against, post-development. Ziai expertly delivers an overview of the post-development movement, having arisen in the 1980s as a response to the dissatisfaction with the concept and practice of " ... the problem with this view is the rhetoric and posturing. Some of his arguments against post-development is the acknowledgement of development arising not just from Western developed so...

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... for all societies. Consequently, what is considered "evil" to us may be acceptable to another culture. An example of this would be the "sweat shops" operating in South East Asia who employ young children to work long hours in sub standard conditions for minimal pay in order to manufacture goods ... business organisation. In our western society many people would find this appalling and organisations would not get away with such exploitation but in South East Asia it is acceptable as children are expected to help support their families from an early age. Therefore, if children were made to ...

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... to the validity of anything done under this part of this act after the making of such proclamation and before the passing of such resolution." The establishment of the Special Criminal Court is therefore dependent on a prior declaration by the government, which can be cancelled out, either by a decision of the government, or by a decision of the Parliament. In her book devoted to the study of the Special Criminal ... Court, published in 1974, Mary Robinson rightly underlined the dangers that may arise from article 35 of the 1939 Act. She stressed in particular the marginal role that the...

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... among all people" and that "all men should be free" to maintain their own income and refuse certain work. Much of the attempted globalisation in the Archaic Period was from the East, and although many did not endure, the mini-globalisations and events such as the revolt created a legacy that was adopted in many cases by ... and industrialisation. The Early Modern period distinguished itself on the basis of expansionism, the method of managing global trade and information exchange. The period of Early Modern Globalisation is discerned by trade arrangements such as the East India Company,...

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... foreign investors. ACIA's drafters intended to draw on 'international best practice' as well as on the existing agreements (ACIA Business and Investor, 2013). With the increase number of investors, more capital will move or flow into a member-state thus enriching and boosting its economy. Also it will enhance the infrastructure and communication connectivity, closer consultation in ... the ACIA was created to promote more conductive business/investment environment to South-East Asian Region. " A key feature of this agreement is the non-maintenance of quantitative restrictions and th...

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On July 2, 1798, Napoleon, inspired by Alexander the Great's prior conquest of Egypt, invaded Cairo, and within 48 hours, Egypt fell, leaving the land open to Napoleon's goals of establishing trade in raw materials and manufactured French goods in the Middle East. With this, over a century of foreign rule, control, and influence by European powers in the Nile River Valley begins. While the ... economically driven goals of French occupation in Egypt were the primary objective, Napoleon continued to stress ... the region without any formal governmental or administrative bodies other than the l...

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... discourse about Islam, it's followers, and even the Arabic language. These controversial and often belligerent articles are an inside closed-view of how Westerners view Islam, which is as disassociated and conflicting from the West/Christianity, subordinate to the West, an enemy to it ... crimes. In Homeland Insecurity: The Arab-American and Muslim American Experience after 9/11, sociologist Louis Cainkar interprets the cumulative post-9/11 experience of Arabs (Muslim and non-Muslim) living in metropolitan Chicago. Cainkar provides objective and detailed statistics to back up the insecur...

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... well. In addition, logically thinking the stronger countries such as the United States, China or Japan will want other strong countries to be their allies, which is when the adversity of globalization takes part where the stronger countries become stronger and the weaker countries stay weak. Globalization also takes effect culturally when foreign entities or influences are introduced to your local ... these processes countries have been introduced to many different products, food, and values, that they have never encountered before. There have been many cases where new overseas commodit...

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... been put to one side for the upkeep of an all round defence against the French The continuous expansion of Prussia throughout the 19th Century, eventually culminating in the unification of Germany, was matched by the expansionist programmes of Great Britain and Russia's movements to the East and down towards their southern borders. Added to the expansion of the Habsburg Empire in Italy there was also ... an increase in Austrian influence in South Eastern Europe as the power of the Ottoman Empire declined and suffered the loss ... of territory to the European powers. Via an interaction ...

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... been put to one side for the upkeep of an all round defence against the French The continuous expansion of Prussia throughout the 19th Century, eventually culminating in the unification of Germany, was matched by the expansionist programmes of Great Britain and Russia's movements to the East and down towards their southern borders. Added to the expansion of the Habsburg Empire in Italy there was also ... an increase in Austrian influence in South Eastern Europe as the power of the Ottoman Empire declined and suffered the loss ... of territory to the European powers. Via an interaction ...

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... population through constant surveillance, public mind control, propaganda and on-going overseas war. Orwell uses his novel to foreshadow and predict the state of world affairs following World War 2 leading up to 1984, the year in which the book is set, and the effects unchecked, rampant capitalism has had on the world, leading it to develop into three global super-states where ... that feature heavily within Nineteen Eighty-Four. This essay is trying to carry out a predominantly Marxist reading of the book, since there are several points in which it is worth making comparisons. Given th...

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... holy place; that removeth the cover of the well, that we may come by the water.(Grossman 50), stressing upon the need for translation as one of the most important elements of human advancement. The lack of translations, especially when seen with reference to books from the Islamic culture and other East Asian nations may be considered one of the primary reasons for the lack ... of concord between this large and influential group of the world population and other groups of people who constantly decry their culture ... and civilization. The lack of translations, of works of literature, sp...

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... delay also art historians started to shift their attention from the retualized celebration of the artist towards the role of spectators and buyers in defining the status and value of art. It is this context in which "Ways of Seeing" has been written. The multitude of approaches to art suggested by the book's title is also reflected in its composition - if that is the word. Although ... " picks up on its political theme), this hope only addresses the personal life of the individual and thereby diverts attention from the need for social change. With the inclusion of modern advertisement "W...

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... into Uganda in 1979, Vietnam's intervention into Cambodia in the same year and India's intervention into East Pakistan in 1971, which led to the creation of Bangladesh (Garfinkle, 2003; p2). More recently (1999), the U.S. government acted in the context of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and led humanitarian interventions in Kosovo. After the 11 September 2001 terrorist ... sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental policies" provided that such activities "do not cause damage to the environment of other states or of areas b...

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... Royal Proclamation is to apply new rules in the territories in the interior is deliberately issued to prevent such conflict among the aboriginal people and the Europeans. One of the main purposes of the Royal Proclamation is to provide a constitution for the newly acquired territories for management purposes. The proclamation worked to divide the territory into four distinctive areas, which ... is easier to implement governing structures. The colonies are established as Quebec, East Florida, West Florida and the island of Grenada by the order of King George III. The boundaries of Quebec...

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... film studies, the book defines genre as a category or classification of a group of movies in which the individual films share similar subject matter and similar ways of organizing the subject through narrative and stylistic patterns. Additionally it can also function as cultural rituals in which rituals are both formal and ideological practices that can become a beneficial means of responding a variety of situations. Genres have ... known as New Hollywood began to emerge. Film school educated directors began drawing on established genres, special effects and large advertising to create b...

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... compare political regimes. Nevertheless, I will only make my conclusion final after I have interpreted the political systems of both China and Nigeria using his concepts of Participation and contestation. Robert A Dahl in his book "Polyarchy-Participation and Opposition"" caries forward his ideas of the conditions under which political systems change or are transformed from one type to another. (Dahl (1971) ... 21), thus making Nigeria a near polyarchy based on the figure 1.2 of Dahl's "Polyarchy" book, as there are still loopholes in the political regime of Nigeria to be considered an ...

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... narrator's reliability and validity is also examined to figure out whether or not his version of storytelling is true – for Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, which determines how the reader will see Grenouille's moves and mental stability throughout the story. The weaknesses of this perspective and the book's course of time also influences how the reader is affected by Grenouille, as they may be ... extent that the narrator them self will go and how the narrators plot and events in the novel can be considered ironic. In Suskind's book, one of the ironies that could be seen is the titl...

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... in the short- and long-run when coupled with operational effectiveness. Porter describes strategy as "performing different activities from rivals" or performing similar activities in different ways." The essence of strategy is being different and doing things in a different way - so different, in fact, that competitors find it extremely difficult and costly to imitate those differences. The reason ... operational effectiveness is easily imitated and strategy is not results from the existence of trade-offs. To be different, to serve different customers, or to perform different activities...

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... missions in various villages and/or cities. We talk to as many people, some key individuals, as possible just to be able to provide a fraction of the intelligence information required by the Department of the Army and Other Government Agencies. HUMINT fills-in the intelligence gaps and enhances the other intelligence disciplines value in the intelligence field. Other intelligence disciplines such ... as Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) and Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) can only provide pieces of intelligence information that can elevate the situational awareness in that particular AO. HUMINT...

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... benefits and inevitable limitations. Finally, the key ethical issues will be taken into account to aid the purpose of utilizing this technique properly. Definition of Focus Group The focus group is a technique of data collection by means of forming a group of selected individuals to discuss and interact with a specific topic informally (Threlfall, 1999). The main feature for this technique is ... through other techniques such as individual interview (Morgan, 1993). Thus, as Morgan contended in his book, the focus group is "an excellent method at establishing the why behind the what in ...

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... find escape in fiction as it soon becomes his reality. Immediately into the poem, Larkin writes "[w]hen getting my nose in a book/Cured more things short of school", revealing how through reading he was able to find remedy to his troubles. He then follows with "It was worth ruining ... specs" in the second stanza. As he transitions into the second stanza, the speaker begins to shift into a darker stage of his life not only in his preference of literature but seemingly in his reality as well. Saying, "Evil was just my lark:/ Me and my cloak and fangs/ ... Had ripping times in the dark"....

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... god' through the metonymy 'staff'. He shifts blame on his brother, 'the ivy which had hidden my princely trunk/ And sucked my verdure out', where the personification of Antonio to 'ivy' allude to his imperceptible Machiavellian conduct. This remains the cause for Prospero's drive for vengeance. However, his progress as a character throughout the play, particularly ... . Further to this, Prospero's awareness of his ambitious seeks for power through, 'drown my book' and to put on his 'hat and rapier' indicates an acceptance of his responsibilities as Duke of Milan, ...

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... sexual or nonsexual (Bruhn and Levine, 1993). Dual or multiple relationships occur especially when the counselor takes up more roles with a client or combination of professional and unprofessional roles leading to loss of direction and breach of the code of ethics of the counselors. The relationships take various forms for instance; having sexual relationships with the client or ex-client, borrowing money from a client, giving ... can also create hostility between the counselor and the client and this will affect the counseling process negatively as the client may consider this as an un...

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... institutional change such that the widening gulf between the formal and informal institutional may be reconciled. The military dictatorship that has plagued Pakistan may be seen as an example of coercive restriction against progressive institutional change towards a decentralised society where re-negotiation in line with the indigenous socio-economic realities could be undertaken. Thus, the distorted economic structure ... evolve through the same capitalist dynamics)prediction that all societies have gone through what the underdeveloped world is going through now. Such a claim would be a...

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