Originating from an economic philosophy in the 1930's, neoliberalism has helped to build a societal structure that has fostered this increase in energy production and resource extraction (Mirowski & Plehwe, 2009). ... The four goals of the TGP were for it to foster flood control in the Hubei region, better navigation for the Yangtze River, increase tourism, and most importantly, help meet China's demands for energy production (Fu et al, 2010). ... A contradiction arose from these regulations however, as, to help rectify the TGP degradation of the Yangtze catchment to deter floodin...

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By the same token, these conditions helped resurrect older economic theories. ... The neoliberal philosophy of economic development revived the old precepts of economic liberalism, which hold that an unregulated free market and private sector are the engines for unrestricted growth, the benefits of which will trickle down from the owners of capital to the entire population. ...

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Beginning teachers need to assimilate into the school culture and appreciate the individual dynamics of their colleagues and supervisors in order to seek help and to understand the support systems they can avail. ... Teachers "constantly import data from their own lives" into discussions of curriculum and school practices (Goodson, 1991) and as schools are given certain autonomy in administering the CCE package, a beginning teacher's philosophy and personal beliefs would need to be closely aligned with that of the school. ...

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With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the concomitant demise of communism in the twentieth century which shed abroad a spirit of triumphalism through the West, came the euphoric impression that, "history had finally ended with the universal victory of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government". Put differently, Chandran Kukathas claims, "we live in an age of democracy fetishism" and "global political phenomenon of 'democratization." That is, Democracy was hailed as the best form of government hence, an increasing process of democra...

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