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The Big Mac Index

comparison illustrate "much, in Big Mac PPP terms, selected currencies were over- or undervalued at the end of" (The Big Mac index...

Building Customer Loyalty Through Loyalty and Reward Schemes

other rewards. The scheme has been so successful that Air Miles are almost a form of shadow currency that many companies use to re...

Which Have Been More Influential in the West - Japanese Management As A Philosophy Or Set Of Discrete Practices?

Japanese practices, their values and culture in development and the actual practices need to be examined. After this evidence indi...

Popularity of French Children’s Songs in French Colonies

Haiti and the Caribbean Islands may appear to be non-French by skin tone and speech, they are still cultures that are likely more ...

Christology of Matthew Fox

and orientation. Fox argues that there is a "creation-centered spirituality" within the framework of Christian tradition that shou...

eBay as a Business

people retiring early who need an extra income. The ability to buy and sell goods in eBay gives a high level of flexibility; they ...

Popular Culture: Forging a Distinctive Identity

Each of these distinctive elements of society sprang from the pressing need to forge a distinctive self identity. Each was fed by...

Frankfurt School & View on Mass Culture

way, attempted to "fix" Marxism and their ideas came to be known as "Critical Theory."5 When Horkheimer became director of the Ins...

Pop Art: Art and Popular Culture

includes paintings," which contrasts sharply with the fact that considerable critical "attention has been given to popular music a...

Popular Culture of 1950s America

not something that sprung up in the 1990s or 1980s. Yes, it is a 1950s phenomenon ("Film History of the 1950s"). McDonalds was fra...

All in the Family, Values, and the Television Sitcom

first introduced to America in the episode entitled "Meet the Bunkers" that CBS originally aired on Tuesday, January 12, 1971 at 9...

Popular Culture and Electronic Media

brought the outside world in, thus ultimately changing how people felt about their world and how people saw their world. As radi...

Politics and Cultural Values

the political correctness that goes along with it have won out. This triumph is concerning to say the least. Weyrich (17) warns,...

Sentencing and Armed Robbery

sentences imposed throughout the U.S., data from the Department of Justice indicates that recidivism rates are extremely high, as ...

Austen, Northanger Abbey

this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...

Marketing Status

as a ready competing, the same market that Status is trying to compete in. We will look at both the market in South Africa and the...

Scientific Management in the UK

been able to cope with the expansive growth seen over the last fifty years. In order to consider this we need to look at the compa...

Syncretic Music

the accompaniment of the "Indian sitar, the rebab or bowed choraphone, the suling or bamboo flute, the gendang, kenong and saron o...

Media Perception & Canadian Healthcare System

the director of health system performance studies at Fraser Institute, was quoted as saying that "It is irresponsible for a wealth...

Which is the Best Birth Control Method: Pills, Patch, Nuvaring, or Depo Shot?

method is that the criteria for choosing should not limited to its effectiveness alone. Birth control must be easy to use, and it...

Friedman: “The World Is Flat” (Sort of). Or Maybe It’s Spiky.

help to explain some of the wobblier thinking in which he indulges. Be that as it may, his theory briefly is this: as noted, he s...

Ragtime Music as a Societal Phenomenon

"Youve Been a Good Old Wagon but Youve Done Broke Down" (Ketch, 1993, p. 182). Sensing a popular music form, the New York song pu...

Roberto Benigni's 1998 Film Life is Beautiful

reviewer Thierry Jousse considered the Cannes award "totally disproportioned", arguing that the film in fact was too slight to mer...

The Smart Car in the US

market, it many ways it was ahead of its time, however the last few years have been much better, by August 2008 the sales levels w...

Steven Johnson/Everything Bad is Good For You

that the judgment of future generations as to what is valuable and what is in error in the past is frequently surprising. In other...

Technology is Not Neutral

think we "fit" the services they offer. While this may be merely annoying when it comes to dealing with the junk mail, both snail ...

"Fairness" in Pay Inequities

are paid substantially less for comparable work and responsibilities compared to the private sector in the job families analyzed" ...

3 Education Research Proposals

policies, implementation and use may occur, impacting different stakeholders. 2. Methodology To assess the way popular media a...

Socialization and the Individual

in Western culture. Consider, for example, the games played by rural Indian children and compare them to the games played by rura...

The Non-Neutrality of Technology

comes to dealing with the junk mail, both snail mail and email, that comes pouring into our homes, it is something else when the i...