oppositions * denotations * connotations 3. Reference to the code / shared knowledge 4. Conclusions Media: from Medium= Middle Media: open windows to the world or tools which construct meanings and suggest interpretations? Semiotics: from σημεῖον (semeion) > sign = the study of signs Structuralism: the world is structured and can be interpreted/understood according to and within the structure What is a sign? * Something that stands for something else * Anything that
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1. King Vikram & the Vampire: Story # 3: "The Parrot and the Thrush: Which are worse, men or women?" "As he spoke these words, the parrot changed into a god, for the curse was fulfilled, and went to heaven like a god. And the thrush suddenly became a goddess, for her curse was at an end, and flew up likewise to heaven. So their dispute was never settled at that court." When the vampire had told this story, he asked the king: "O King, tell me. Are men bad, or women? If you know and do not tell,
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Commodities, and Markets The Role of the Government in the Economy Monetary and Fiscal Policy American Agriculture: Its Changing Significance (Posted February 2001) Labor in America: The Worker's Role Other Language Versions: Foreign Trade and Global Economic Policies Afterword: Beyond Economics Glossary Executive Editor: George Clack | Editor: Kathleen E. Hug | Art Director: Barbara Long Illustrations: Lisa Manning | Internet Editor: Barbara Long This site is produced and maintained
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onoECONOMICS RESOURCE | 1 ECONOMICS RESOURCE | 1 ECONOMICS 2009-10: FUNDAMENTALS OF ECONOMIC THINKING Table of Contents Preface to the Economics Resource .................................................................................. 5 Fundamentals of Economics ............................................................................................ 7 The Basic Economic Problem—Scarcity ...........................................................................................
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The global financial crisis in 2008-2009 made a severe change to the world economy with include United States. The problem begins in the US Financial system, arising from the deteriorating quality of subprime assets that started in 2007, that caused into a major horrible global financial crisis in the last half of 2008. From a housing crisis, it quickly grew into a banking crisis with the investment and merchant banks first absorbing the impact before it spread to the commercial banks. The main reason
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Thousands of years ago, China was said to be the most advanced nation in the world. Today, they are still much more advance than most of the countries. China was named by Europeans after the ancient Ch’in Dynasty of the third Century B.C. China continues to be the oldest civilization in the world today. China was the only from the world’s great civilizations to evolve from nearly total isolation from the rest of the world. The primarily result of this was geography: the sea to the east
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| Introduction The 2009 economic crisis was significant for two reasons: the rapid rate at which the free market constraints were dropped, and the lack of any stable resolution by the Left (Mellor, 2009). Tenets pertaining to market domination suffered a lethal crack owing to multiple nations realizing the inessential communization, rather than the actual, of economic arrangement (Mellor, 2009). The core of the problem was complicated, but simplification showed
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012-IBE-CaseStudies.docx Academic Year 2011-2012 International Business Environment Jean-Guillaume DITTER, PhD Groupe ESC Dijon Bourgogne – Burgundy School of Business SUPPORT DOCUMENT I - CASE STUDIES The texts making-up this document review and emphasize significant issues covered during the sessions. The questions asked at the beginning of each set of texts are meant to help students identify the issues that they should pay attention to. Students will work in teams on one single
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man By John Perkins Preface Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, U.S. Agency for International Development, and other foreign “aid” organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs
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the go, they actually started from the 20th century and they have been increasing since then. In the end of 20th century the U.S housing prices after a multiyear started declining, the mortgage prices had been at a very high rise before that and suddenly they started declining at the end of 20th century. Around mid 2008 there was a striking increase in the mortgage delinquencies. This increase was also followed by mortgages and this great loss in value meant an equally great decline in the capital
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