... life with significant implications for our understanding of consumer culture. Providing a concrete and tangible definition of what constitutes popular music has been the subject of much academic debate. As Richard Middleton contends, attempting to define popular music is "riddled with complexities" (1990, 3). Studies of popular music encompass a range of approaches from musicological, whereby music ... approaches to studying popular music stem from cultural studies, an offshoot of sociology developed primarily in the 1970's at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) in Birmi...

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... a shared vision of the future, stimulate followers intellectually and show individual consideration to followers, this style of leadership best describes the characteristic and the leadership attributes of Richard Branson. The second part involves a discussion on how transformational leadership style can influences collaboration or team work within department. Consistent with the TFL theory, recent meta-analysis ... and collaborate together through team performance, a sense of ownership, feedback encouragement and empowerment (Grant 2005). Through encouragement of staffs in coming up wit...

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... would be the ruin of any man who used his profits in such frivolity. At thirty-three Franklin published the first Poor Richard's Almanac, a collection, effectively, of his own quotes, assembled under the pseudonym Richard Saunders'. Franklin used the character Poor Richard', after the alleged author, to personify the moral codes and work ethics he wished to enforce on other Americans. For instance ... ...

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... how a wide variety of audiences can react differently to the media based on their beliefs or values; these different readings can be identified through Stuart Hall's Reception Theory. According to Richard Sharpe (2012) "Reception theory is a version of reader-response literary theory that emphasizes the reader's reception of a literary text" and is broken down into three types "Preferred, negotiated ... ...

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... conscripts from across Europe, Napoleon could lower this expenditure while using money received from his conquests internally within France. Holland, who were led by Louis Bonaparte, provided conscripts for the French. Initially, Louis rejected the idea of conscription due to his pro-Dutch beliefs and ... . However, the French soon began to impose heavy demands on the Belgians to support the French Army. As in Holland, this led to rebellions and protests from the Belgian population which indicates the unwillingness of some satellite states in supporting the French Army, which is ... wi...

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... (Franchini 1988). This sense of nationalism resulted in the French losing their foothold within Cambodia during the Second World War and consequently led to the independence of Cambodia in 1953. The next two decades in some sense were represented by single man dominance in Cambodian politics ... of the communist left, Cambodia experienced an era that, although would only last a mere four years, forever changed the country. The Khmer rouge movement led by Pol Pot, also known as, "Brother Number One," (Cambodia Tribunal Monitor) accounted for an estimated 1.5-3 million deaths and was aimed...

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... corporate business ethics and the use of stock options as employee compensation because some people feel it was one of the biggest factors that led to the executive misconduct (Jickling). Stock options are granted to executives as part of their salary and are used to align executive interests ... the board (Maleske). These new regulations gave the board more power and responsibility such as working with the auditor on internal controls, and led to greater diversity and expertise on the BOD of companies. The most important change SOX had to the Board of Directors of companies was ... )...

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... in 1937 is not at its first attempt to establish a constitution, although it is still a burgeoning Republic. Indeed, following the war of independence which led to the Treaty of 1922 granting autonomy to the south of the island, a Constitution had already been put in place and governed the State from 1922 ... in the north of the country: the events that were taking place in the north (demand for civil rights for the catholic minority which led to the sending of British troops to Northern Ireland and direct administration by Westminster of that part of the kingdom) which inevitably had ...

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... as a surprise, considering the last line of the Communist Manifesto: "Working men of all countries, unite!- This newly found unity among communist countries led to an interdependence believed to take over the world, a new world market independent of prices, so long as communists were productive and successful. And ... for Eastern Europe supported it, and had it not been for the revolution many farmers would have been driven into poverty through bankruptcy, which led to local rural support. Its objectives at the beginning of the revolution, in the agricultural sector, were: meet food re...

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... Athens in the Peloponnesian War, flawed elements within her own economic system and the conservative nature of her leaders throughout the period had eventually led to the state's decline. These elements included an imperialistic campaign despite the rigid structure of Sparta's limited economy, the process of land tenure ... of these factors became a decrease in the population of Spartiate citizens necessary to maintain the relatively stable economic structure of the Spartan state. This led to a decline in Sparta from an empire of considerable strength to a gradual diminution in power, h...

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... far from a holistic conflation of the two movements, so radically different were their aims. Whilst Futurism tied itself to a strongly patriotic sense of Italian nationalism (a trait that led to a smooth transition into Italian fascist politics of the 1930s), French anarchism, by contrast, prided itself on disengaging with any overarching authoritarianism, be it national or otherwise, ... . The struggle to find a compromise in the theatrical representations of anarchism is exemplified in Les Mauvais Bergers in 1897, wherein Mirbeau's depiction of a workers' revolution against capitalists...

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... to greater trade or business relocation. The internationalization of economic activity in Europe first took off in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with the development of new shipping technology that led to Spanish colonization of Latin America. However, the Chinese had developed better and more sophisticated technology much earlier but did not choose to use it to promote economic expansion. Similarly ... 1970s. However, the post-war financial system had been tied to the US dollar and disputes between the Europeans and Americans over US government spending on Vietnam (amongst oth...

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... solution in return (Pieterse 2000). Others take issue with the fact that the rhetoric of post-development can sound like anti-development. The critiques against post-development, however, have led to a clearer understanding of post-development. Post-development, as is development, is a very nuanced movement, and several authors prescribing to the post-development theory have recognized the criticisms ... processes to identify what, if any, useful practices can be appropriated to pursue post-development ends" (McGregor 2007). Ultimately, the discourse on post-development theory has led t...

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... 's land system. The historical origins of the process of land concentration vary from region to region. It is particularly relevant to note that the private appropriation of land not only led to the formation and consolidation of large holdings, but also had the diametrically opposite effect of fragmenting smallholdings. Many developing countries have sought to modernize their economies as quickly as ... the purchasing power of the urban population, based on the control of food prices or other forms of intrusion that alter the market distribution mechanism and that have therefore often l...

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... requiring NCACC's authorization and approval, which has reportedly resulted in South African firms bypassing the law.30 The RFMA had a number of shortcomings, such as the vague definitions' provision, which led to its ineffectiveness. In particular it failed in securing convictions save for plea-bargains, as in the case involving Mark Thatcher, allegedly implicated in the attempted coup d'Etat in Equatorial ... Federal agency, or any provisional authority, to the extent such employment relates to supporting the mission of the Department of Defense overseas", the limited scope and defini...

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... crops. Research into this assertion has largely substantiated industry claims; in a peer-reviewed study conducted by the European Union Cooperation and Development Fund, it was found that genetically modified products led to a 21% increase in global crop yields (Klumper & Qaim, 2014). The same study concluded that GM products were overall more profitable, and furthermore benefitted farmers in underdeveloped nations by protecting ... in recent years due to the development of glyphosate-resistant GM crops, which thus allows farmers to spray the herbicide indiscriminately. The increase in ...

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... Great War were still open. Most importantly though developing side by side with the model of Italian Fascism was the much more incisive and ruthless model of German National Socialism, led by Adolf Hitler. For both Hitler and Mussolini sport would have a huge amount of importance for their ideologies and their Fascist societies, so much so that sporting events would become ... Mussolini in 1923. By 1926 Mussolini passed a law that declared he was responsible only to the King and made him the sole person able to determine Parliaments agenda, this soon led to local autonomy being swept aw...

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... economy, technology, and the resounding threat of terrorist attacks have caused chemical and biological disaster management to be an emerging public health concern. Chemical-related injuries and deaths occurrences have led to the demand from the public towards governing authorities to strengthen controls at the national and international levels. The demand to strengthen controls for chemical and biological disasters is largely ... to such matters efficiently for the health safety of the masses. The Environmental Management- Strategies for Chemical Disasters by Bhawana and Fulekar writes...

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... other hand, tends not to show such highly active and random wave patterns. Recordings from EEG studies have shown sleep to possess a number of different wave patterns, a characteristic which has led to the development of "sleep stages." Sleep has been broadly classified into REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep or NREM (Non Rapid Eye Movement) sleep due to their differing ... , 2005). It is the combination of both the significant quantity of total sleep represented by these sleep states and the differences in their contribution towards total sleep time which have led researchers to believe tha...

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... the people had won the right to vote in a "free- election and choose the type of government they deemed fit to effectively govern the nation. The 1948 elections in Italy led promise that the people, for the first time, would be able to decide for themselves how their country would begin their existence in this "new world-. The landslide Christian Democrats ... candidates and were forced to accept ministerial positions under the Christian Democrat Premier in a coalition cabinet. Nonetheless, the results made the Truman administration take notice of such a potential "disaster-, and led th...

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... of the Future for UNIVERSITY during the strategic planning initiative undertaken four years ago and was a member of the core planning team for Lamar School District last year which was led by Dr. Steve Barone. Dr. Professor has a variety of experiences in higher education that compliment this initiative which include four years as Assistant Dean of the college, seven years as ... 4.1 Conduct Strategic Planning: Dr. Steve Barone is a very familiar face to many school districts in Mississippi. Barone has provided strategic planning for schools and businesses throughout the world. He has l...

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... turn, can inflame the nationalisms of these minority nations. For example, in Europe, some nations were assimilated into large nation states whilst others developed strong nationalisms that, in some cases led to the formation of new states, such as in the case of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919. In terms of Gellner's comments on the importance of education and literacy ... social constructions or cultural artefacts which came into being when traditional ways of thinking crumbled. This can be exemplified by the demise of sacred languages such as Latin, which had led to the decline in th...

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... (see appendix 8) based on the degree to which teacher or pupil assumes responsibility for the lesson. This promotes a continuum within teaching styles, where at one extreme is the direct teacher-led approach and at the other portrays a much more open-ended and pupil-centred style whereby the teacher acts only in a facilitator role. The spectrum proposed by Mosston & Ashworth (1986) provides ... ...

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... will have any impact on the current capitalist system. Evidence to contradict this claim is widespread. The rise of the managerial classes had, in the hundred years preceding the publication, led to perhaps the greatest overhaul of British society that there had ever been, ousting the landed aristocracy from their position of total power and control. The Great Reform Act of ... ...

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... about their private relationships and feelings. Various television shows in which people are encouraged to divulge their personal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors exemplify this attitude. The extraversion of U.S. society has led practitioners to put more emphasis on what is said rather than what is unsaid in psychotherapy. "American academic psychology has taken for granted the values of self-expression, self ... ...

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