Energy Politics Issue XV1: Winter 2008 Table of Contents Economics Energy Policy and Ecomics’ Understanding Crude Oil Prices By James D. Hamilton 4 Government Business People Nuclear Fuel Banks By Danila Bochkarev 37 Forecasts on Saudi Arabia Liquids Production By Jean Laherrere 62 Four Dozen Chinese Rigs are in te U.S. Land Market With Dozen More Planned By Kathy Kemper 82 Regular Features Peak Oil and the Second Great Depression By Colin Campbell 85
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Video Cards Introduction People are living in a three-dimensional space. They know what is up‚ down‚ left‚ right‚ close and far. They know when something is getting closer or moving away. However‚ the traditional personal computers can only make use of two dimensional space due to relatively low technology level of the video card in the past. As the new technology has been introduced to the video card industry in recent years‚ the video card can now render 3D graphics. Most of the PC computer
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Sociolog~of Knowledge and its Consciousness The Sociology of Knowledge and Its Consciousness t 1 By Theodor W. Adorno Robert Merton‚ C. WrightMills et al. repeatedly complained that the sociology of knowledge failed to solve its centralproblem of specifying the nexus between social and cognitive structures. Nonetheless‚ this field has remained limited to techniques of content analysis and correlation studies whilefailing to explain these categories and correlations other than by recourse tofunctionalist
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Review: Part 1 Maori: One of the several indigenous peoples whose language is in danger of going extinct. It is a group that is indigenous to New Zealand. Gendercide: Systematic killing of people of a single gender. It is the problem of 160 million women missing from Asia due to sex-selective abortion. Youth Bulge: Generation significantly larger than the generation before it. A trend thay existed in the 20th cent. The problem it causes is creating jobs once that generation reaches a working
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Chiu Ka Po Adele 3035043051 Word count: 2500 Essay question: 5 Introduction Since the very beginning of civilization of human being‚ family has been a fundamental institution of our society. In the study of sociology‚ there are two dichotomy of defining family‚ which are the structural-functional approach and the conflict approach (including feminists)‚ mainly focusing on the patriarchy. I would like to briefly explain the two approaches and provide with some concrete examples to illustrate
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“The study of sociology cannot and should not be seen as scientific” To what extent do sociological arguments and evidence support this view? (33 marks) The debate about whether sociology can be represented as a science has existed for many years. Comte; who first used the word sociology argued that sociology should be based on the methodology of the natural sciences. He argues that the application of natural science methodology to the study of society would produce a ‘positive science of society’
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Sociology of the Classroom Sociology‚ as defined by Thompson (1994)‚ is one division in the family of social sciences that seeks to explain patterns of human behavior. The social environment is not only happen in our daily lives but also in our education especially in the classroom. As Boli (2002) writes‚ “Education has become a global social process that both reflects and helps create the global society that is under formation.” This assumes that education is a combination of social acts and it
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requirement of the video system is as below. ------------------------------------------------- A video store system runs a series of fairly standard video stores. Before a video can be put on the shelf‚ it must be cataloged and entered into the video database. Every customer must have a valid customer card in order to rent a video. A customer rents the video for three days at a time. Every time a customer rents a video‚ the system must ensure that they do not have any overdue videos. If so‚ the overdue
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Invitation to Sociology Peter L. Berger (1963‚ pp. 23–24) [2] noted in his classic book Invitation to Sociology‚ “The first wisdom of sociology is this—things are not what they seem.” Social reality‚ he said‚ has “many layers of meaning‚” and a goal of sociology is to help us discover these multiple meanings. He continued‚ “People who like to avoid shocking discoveries…should stay away from sociology.” As Berger was emphasizing‚ sociology helps us see through conventional understandings of how
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Marxism and Sociology Marxist theory on sociology is primary based on the work of Karl Marx (1818-1883). His ideas seem to be equally important in the field of economics and political science. Several neo-Marxist theorists like Louis Althusser (1918-1990)‚ Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) et al have contributed in taking Marxist theory on sociology further. Marx lived in an age when entire Europe was still recovering from cultural shock of prior revolutions (French revolution and others). Moreover
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