There’s a deliberate mixing of pop culture references in the titling of this album. If on the one hand you abbreviate the underground rap pugilistVirtuosoto a singular “V,” you might be reminded of a 1980’s NBC mini-series called “V: The Final Battle” where aliens attempt to steal...
religious and cultural factors often play a complex role in conflict, in as far as they are often perceived to be part of the problem, but also part of any potential solution.
This is done by introducing the often overlooked theory of the contemporary European philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty. An effort will also be made to briefly compare Merleau-Ponty's theory to other theoretical ap...
Besides, I thought, if I were a member of a cabal that really could take over the world but did not want the public to know what our plans were, the first thing we would do would be to concoct a conspiracy theory that had nothing whatsoever to do with our plans; but to a naive p...
theory and practice have been supplemented by readings that see the play's inconsistent or discomfiting moments as pointed subversions of its superficially positive portrayal of the Duke's (and James') competence and authority.3 In light of recent critical interest in literary texts' ideological ...
This paper aims at connecting democratic theory with civic technologies in order to highlight the links between some theoretical tensions and trilemmas and design trade-offs. First, it reviews some tensions and trilemmas raised by political philosophers and democratic theorists. Second, it considers bot...
many parts of the current economic system are in danger of failing, primarily because depletion is leading to too little energy and other resources per capita. For example, the US dollar may lose its reserve currency status, the world debt bubble may pop, and globalization may take a majo...
different but certainly distinct.The personality of your brand is what makes it special, it’s what your organization stands for in all it does and says<and, yes, the relationship between organization culture, values, beliefs is inextricably linked to whatever brand is being offered to people>....
Perhaps more plausible is the theory of a disgruntled employee with inside knowledge of Sony systems and a lot of savvy friends. The resulting international crisis may be what passes for funny in some nihilistic corner of hacker culture.
According to Hirschi’s [38] social control theory, deviant behavior can be controlled through strong social bonds. Therefore, when adolescents have strong bonds with their parents, the risk of engaging in deviant behavior decreases accordingly. Turkish culture also places a strong emphasis on family...