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McKinsey Consumer and Shopper Insights June 2012 Standing Tall: Japan’s Resilient Luxury Market Brian Salsberg Naomi Yamakawa Photograph: Abbie Chessler 2 In the immediate aftermath of the tsunami, earthquake and nuclear disaster that hit Japan last year, killing 19,000 people and battering the nation’s already shaky confidence, it was hardly surprising that people didn’t feel like shopping. At the time, the conventional wisdom was that such restraint was likely to last. People would

connotations, many people have resigned themselves to the idea of cloning cows that produce more milk or using a cloned mouse for use in controlled experimentation. However, the idea of cloning humans is a highly charged topic. Several authors have attempted to outline some of the ethical objections to cloning while at the same time minimizing the role religion plays in this debate. The objections posed by

The Indian caste system describes the system of social stratification and social restrictions in India in which social classes are defined by thousands of endogamous hereditary groups, often termed jātis or castes. Within a jāti, there exist exogamous groups known as gotras, the lineage or clan of an individual. In a handful of sub-castes such as Shakadvipi, endogamy within a gotra is permitted and alternative mechanisms of restricting endogamy are used (e.g. banning endogamy within a surname). The

OVERVIEW In this second update of 1991’s groundbreaking Dreamworlds, Sut Jhally critically examines the representation of women, men, and sexuality in music videos. Jhally’s primary argument is that music videos, not unlike other forms of advertising and popular culture, represent the pornographic imagination by offering a degraded and limited view of female sexuality based on narrowly defined adolescent heterosexual male fantasies. Locating the stories and images of music video in a wider context

Industry Two—Internet Companies CASE 12 Google Inc. (2010): The Future of the Internet Search Engine Patricia A. Ryan Google began with a mission: to create the ultimate search engine to help users tame the unruly and exponentially growing repository of information that is the Internet. And most would agree that when the word “Google” became a verb, that mission was largely accomplished.1 IT HAD BEEN NEARLY SIX YEARS SINCE GOOGLE’S ATTENTION-grabbing initial public offering and, despite overall

McCarthyism and the Conservative Political Climate of Today      FOR ALMOST fifty years, the words "McCarthy" and "McCarthyism" have stood for a shameful period in American political history. During this period, thousands of people lost their jobs and hundreds were sent to prison. The U.S. government executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, two Communist Party (CP) members, as Russian spies. All of these people were victims of McCarthyism, the witch-hunt

Anti-Semitism in the West from Constantine to the expulsion of Jews from Spain OUTLINE Introduction I. Constantine and Christianity as the state religion A. Legislation concerning Jews B. The Justinian Code C. Anti-Semitic Church Fathers II. The Crusades A. The march to Jerusalem B. Fourth Lateran Council C. Host desecration and blood libel D. Pogroms III. The expulsion of Jews from Spain A. The Inquisition B. The Conversos C. Expulsion Conclusion

Other Stories (1978) and Diamond Dust and Other Stories (2000). She is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for her novel Fire On The Mountain. Her novel, Where Shall We Go This Summer has won The Federation of Indian Publishers and Author's Guild Award for Excellence in Writing in 1979. She was awarded the Neil Gunn International Fellowship for 1994. In Custody was made into a film by Merchant Ivory productions in 1993, starring Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri; and screenplay by Anita

AN APPRAISAL OF ACCOUNTING SYSTEM IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR   (A CASE STUDY OF BOARD OF INTERNAL REVENUE ENUGU STATE)         BY       EMEODI FERDINAND .C.   ACC/2006/241         DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTNACY FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCE CARITAS UNIVERSITY AMORJI NIKE ENUGU STATE          JULY, 2010.                     An Appraisal of Accounting System In the public Sector (A case study of board of Internal Revenue Enugu State)       By     Nnamani Ugochukwu J.c.   Acc/2006/241       Department

sociological positivism.[7] Method and objectivity In his Rules of the Sociological Method (1895), Durkheim expressed his will to establish a method which would guarantee sociology's truly scientific character. One of the questions raised by the author concerns the objectivity of the sociologist: how may one study an object which, from the very beginning, conditions and relates to the observer? According to Durkheim, observation must be as impartial and impersonal as possible, even though a "perfectly