It will try to account for a number development efforts made within four decades from the country's decolonization in 1946 to its transition to democracy in 1986 and relate it to the modernization paradigm which was shaped by a number of historical events after the war. ... What is this modernization paradigm? ... It can be said that Macapagal's program has elements of the modernization paradigm, leaning on the liberal capitalistic economic framework. ... Certain concepts of the modernization paradigm were borrowed by these administrations in their development efforts. ... Sociologic...

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New editions of The Tempest created a different atmosphere for reading it as a paradigm of exploitation by taking Caliban as a more a less "noble" slave. ... The shift in Caliban's image from symbol of the oppressor to symbol of the oppressed occured when Latin American scholars began to stress indigenous heritage and emphasized cult...

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Affirmative action policy in professional and university atmospheres was first implemented by an initiative in the Department of Labor under the administration of Richard Nixon as to purposely create equal educational and employment opportunities. However, since its official establishment in 1969 an...

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Affirmative action policy in professional and university atmospheres was first implemented by an initiative in the Department of Labor under the administration of Richard Nixon as to purposely create equal educational and employment opportunities. However, since its official establishment in 1969 an...

• Word Count: 2038
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
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Whether the sweeping generalizations of Huntington's theory about civilizations are justified or not, when the focus shifts to people as individuals, things become less clear. ... Indeed, "empirical evidence cannot support Huntington's claims that his 'paradigm' provides the best explanation for conflict in the post-Cold war era, especially with regard to ethnic conflict" (Fox, 2002). ...

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While the shift to landscape painting in Europe at about the same time was seen as a move away from the more eminent topics of historical painting, in America the representation of landscape by the Hudson River School was understood as a form of historical painting in which the landscape was filled with culturally rich iconographic and symbolic meaning. ... It combines the different steps of America's steady shift from wilderness to civilization into one single picture. ...

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Although a lull in the tensions between the two was welcome, the shift towards parity between the two nations was difficult for a country with a historically absolutist and moralistic worldview toward international affairs. ...

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