Meaning of Development * Development is not purely an economic phenomenon but rather a multi-dimensional process involving reorganization and reorientation of entire economic AND social system * Development is process of improving the quality of all human lives with three equally important aspects. These are: Todaro’s Three Objectives of Development * . Raising peoples’ living levels‚ i.e. incomes and consumption‚ levels of food‚ medical services‚ education through relevant growth processes
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“Media Ecology” “Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman laid down the foundational principles of media ecology‚ a term that is increasingly being used to describe the totality of our media environments.”(Source: mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com). Media ecology is about how the technology changes the society and the environment we’ve grown from. Marshall McLuhan‚ a media scholar is the one who conceptualize the term media ecology. And Neil Postman is the one who introduced it to the
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BRIC COUNTRIES The BRIC Countries label refers to a select group of four countries(Brazil‚ Russia‚ India and China). The four original BRIC Countries comprise more than 2.8 billion people or 40 percent of the world‘s population‚ cover more than a quarter of the world’s land area over three continents‚ and account for more than 25 percent of global GDP Building Better Global Economic BRICs In 2001 and 2002‚ real GDP growth in large emerging market economies will exceed that of the G7. At end-2000
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is big-up by tourism which is the number one foreign exchange earner followed by exports of marine products‚ citrus‚ cane sugar‚ bananas‚ and papaya. Crude oil is playing a big part as oil has been found in our lands and this has been exported since 2006. Agriculture plays a major role in the economy of Belize as it produces its own corn‚ soybeans‚ rice‚ beans‚ fruits‚ tomatoes and a big diversity of vegetable products for its own subsistence. It also produces dairy foods‚ beef and poultry and
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Our Elopak - Our Future It has been almost a full year since I first came to Elopak to work. Last November my colleagues and I arrived to provide your management team Six Sigma Green Belt training. We also provided many of the other leaders in the factory with Six Sigma Yellow Belt training‚ and we subsequently have also initiated Professional Team Leadership with the management. I’m sure that by now you are wondering‚ “What the heck is this Six Sigma stuff‚ and what does it have to do with
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The media and advertising hinder do indeed hinder our being fully human. Mass media including radio‚ television and newspapers endeavors to shape public opinion on a variety of things. The media attempts to manipulate those values instilled by parents and society in general‚ thus taking away from our being human. Messages designed to influence peoples’ attitudes‚ desires and decisions fall upon society urging those people to buy a certain product‚ vote for a certain political figure‚ or support
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Media is everywhere; it has become a part of our daily life. The media plays a dominant role in the learning process. Its impact is vast in shaping the life of an individual. Media has the potential to shape personalities‚ change the way we perceive and understand the world and our immediate reality. In the last 50 years the media influence has grown with the advance of technology‚ first there was the telegraph‚ then the radio‚ the newspaper‚ magazines‚ television and now the internet. We live
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Functionalists take a positive view on education. They see is as a process that instils the shared values of society as a whole. Functionalists believe education performs three main functions: social solidarity‚ specialist skills and role allocation. Durkheim indentified two main functions of education: creating social solidarity and teaching specialist skills. Social solidarity is an individual feeling and being part of a single community. Without social solidarity members would follow their own
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POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION (PGJMC) ASSIGNMENTS January Session: 2013 JMC-01 JMC-02 JMC-03 JMC-04 School of Journalism & New Media Studies Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi‚ New Delhi-110068 PGJMC ASSIGNMENTS Dear Learner‚ As explained in the Programme Guide‚ you need to submit one assignment in each course (JMC01‚ JMC-02‚ JMC-03 and JMC-04). All these are Tutor Marked Assignments (TMAs). Before attempting the assignments‚ please read the instructions
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and silver started flowing into the Old World from the New World in the sixteenth century‚ and the French and American Revolutions destroyed currencies in each of those countries. EXPLAIN THE INFLATION Nevertheless‚ as we shall see‚ the Twentieth century produced the worst inflation in human history. Every single country in the world suffered worse inflation in the Twentieth century than in any century in history. So what caused this inflation to occur‚ and is further inflation in the Twenty-first
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