It has reached every domain from cultural to economic, political, legal, military and environmental. ... Regional countries break the national boundaries and move towards the way of to becoming a part of the international community. ... Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that political and the national unit would be congruent. ... As globalization development goes beyond the national boundaries, nationalism seems to be inhibited. ... (Held & David, 2003:85) In the political field there is a global consciousness enhancement. ...

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According both Webster and Cambridge dictionaries, Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies that share the same aim - to define, defend and establish equal rights and opportunities for women within political, social, economical and cultural spheres of life. ... Feminists can be anyone in the population, i.e. men, women, boys or girls - in other words a revolution that includes women and men who wish the world to be equal without boundaries. Nowadays such boundaries are well known as discrimination and prejudice against gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status and economic st...

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The indictment of sitting heads of state, such as Slobodan Milosevic, became a defining moment for the rule of law in its most stark sense, embodying the proposition-captured in the Nuremberg Judgment's aphorism-that "[c]rimes against international law are committed by men, not by abstract entities, and only by punishing individuals who commit such crimes can the provisions of international law be enforced."2 Against an entrenched culture of impunity that had countenanced the likes of Pol Pot and Idi Amin, these precedents radically surfaced and mainstreamed accountability, profoundly and...

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Literature often holds a mirror to the social, political and economic milieu in which it was created; this could not be truer in Elizabethan times. A virgin Queen redefined the role of courtier, amorous intent must be merged with political advice, and this climate provided much fodder for poets, writers and playwrights alike. ... John Knox's The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women likened the political state to the human body. ... Elizabeth further distended gender boundaries by frequently referring to herself in male pronouns as well as female. ... The iss...

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The globalization of the world, in terms of economic convergence, greater political participation between different groups and nations and greater cultural interchange has tremendously enhanced the role of translators and translation. ... All too often, ideas become stagnant since they are relegated to a certain geographical location or a cultural boundary since the work exists only in a single language, whereas if translated, ideas become more potent due to greater debate and discussion. The texts of Ancient Greece and Rome, translated into several languages, gave the world some of the most...

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Politics are a driving force of human nature that dictate the destiny of a nation and potentially control every person that inhabits a region. The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment evolved the world-view of politics, as it became an aspect of life that everyone desired to take part in. ... Society's general view of government provoked the unstoppable flow of revolutionary political concepts that were implemented throughout the Enlightenment. ... The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment rearranged the world-view on politics, as it no longer became acceptable for a government ...

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Bender-Baird's writing aims to expose these gender injustices to the public eye and hopes that in due time, would reach a meaningful concurrence for political officials to consider. The book also covers authentic stories that happened within the last decades, which is relevant enough to be included in the provision and formation of sexual diversity politics. ... Army official, who upon discussing her identity coming out as a transgender, was stereotypically judged, and eemed unfit for higher political admission. Bender-Baird takes her pace from that standpoint to spread open the eyes of...

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Egon Schwelb (1946) argued that the basis for the UDHR is in the legal and political thinking between the seventeenth and twentieth century, from France, England and the United States. ... Some of the reasons cited are ideological and cultural clashes such as 'Western' emphasis that economic rights are given priority over individual political and civil rights, and philosophical ideas around human nature and societal relationships that differ from those held in the 'West'. ... Ignatieff (2001) argues that the UDHR drafting committee saw their role as needing to determine t...

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The scarcity of water for human and ecosystem uses leads to intense political pressures especially that there are 261 watersheds and countless aquifers that cross the political boundaries of two or more countries (Wolf A. 2001) and that the control of water resources is considered vital to the survival of a state (Daclon Corrado M. 2007). ... Because the Johnston plan of 1955 allowed Jordan to use 55% of the river's water, Israel 36% and Lebanon and Syria 9% each, some of the riparian countries have their rights confiscated because of political issues. ... However, Political tension is s...

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Although, as trade and migration were introduced, phenomena such as the expansion of empires and religious movements, economic structure and political ideals led to interconnections between certain parts of the world and the beginnings of globalisation. ... Where the Early Modern Era was still deeply rooted in its recent past due to the ideals of communal sentiment, religion, and the rule of the monarchical government , the Modern Era saw the world transform from empires to nation states with respective national identities and hardened geographic boundaries. ... The French Revolution was an ...

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Globalization is essentially a process by which an ever tightening network of ties that cut across national political boundaries connects communities in a single, interdependent whole, a shrinking world where local differences are steadily eroded and subsumed within a massive global social order (Mowforth and Munt, 1998: 12). ... In sociological perspective, "tourism consists of the of phenomena of space movement connected with voluntarily temporal change of place in space, change of life rhythm and environment accompanied by making personal contact with the visited environment Mpofu (20...

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This was the common belief at this time "research such as Lorenz" (1974 cited in Brown 2007) put forward a biological theory arguing that conflict could be explained in terms of intrinsic aggressive instincts Tajfel believed that this 'blood and guts' model as he coined them did not account for the waxing and waning of political conflicts throughout the world. ... Today's world is a very different political climate to when Tajfel was developing his theories and that Tajfel himself believed that all social psychology should reflect the cultural climate in which it is produc...

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While political and other agencies overlook the problem San Andreas Fault brings nationally and go with the theory that the earthquake will occur for another 30 million years, "a probability of 14% and 26% was composed for a magnitude 7 event to occur within the next 50 years.... Recent research by McGill University geologist Christina Rowe shows that the tsunami in Japan in 2011 was caused by a thin fault, "to our knowledge, the thinnest plate boundary on Earth"(Rowe) yet the San Andreas Fault is several kilometers thick. ...

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The strategic aspect of Human Resource Management has outgrown the boundaries of a departmental concern, and nowadays the main challenge Human Resource Management faces is aligning its planning and operations activities with the general goals and objectives of the company as whole. ... This task requires HRM managers to become specialists in areas that far exceed the limits of personnel management and requires the knowledge of business administration, corporate politics and strategic development. ...

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Globalization can be seen as an increase in flows across national boundaries. ... This definition would be somewhat comparable to the one given in the book "Going Global" in which globalization is said to affect "every aspect of life - economic, political, social, cultural and environmental" (Moynagh and Worsley, 2008). ... According to the website 'China.org.cn': "the agricultural way of life, centred around rice, has had a strong influence on the social, economic, political and i...

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