Relation

Entry 1: Today we discussed the public sphere. In summary, we discussed the emergence of the “mass audience”, the low/high culture binary, and determining where the idea of “the public” comes from. We have a conception of the public sphere from the bourgeois class. The set ideal is that of a private (civil society) and the public (state-mediates crises). This public sphere is formed and operated through the norms of publicity. There are five norms that make up publicity: status as person is…

The point Mr. Woods was making in chapter seven was that both the international monetary fund and the World Bank existence is important for a number of reasons. They are instruments that foster global monetary cooperation and financial stability, they facilitate trade, promote high employment and sustain economic growth while working to reduce poverty and improve people’s lives in poor countries. These institutions advance the mentioned causes through lending practices and conditionality in…

agriculture sector, Afghanistan has always had a high dependency on foreign powers for income and state revenue. 50% of the source of state income came from foreign aid from countries like the U.S. Afghanistan entered into the realm of international relations during the proxy wars between the powers in the Western Bloc(the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union). This war was an ideological war and it was ideas of free-market capitalism which…

Over the past few decades, many people believe that we have been living in a unipolar system, with United State as the central domination. However, entering the twenty first century, China has stand up with strong economic development to be a new polar of super power. As Chinese market going strong, many believe that the Western era will soon be over. Following the rise of China’s economy and its behavior towards regional power, many arguments rise on whether China will rise peacefully or not.…

their respective wife and mother who was the first known victim of the virus. Additionally, the film also follows a handful of prominent researchers with the Centers for Disease Control as they attempt to develop a vaccine for the virus and a public relations strategy…

Theories and arguments of international relations help in conceptualizing and understanding the international orders to explaining the interaction among states. These orders emerge after major wars have changed the route of history as the leading states, the winners, sought to hold onto their newly acquired power trying to reform basic organizing rules, principles, and arrangements. The character of the order changed because the capacity and the mechanisms of states to restrain and limit power…

The Prisoner’s Dilemma is a game used in international relations to demonstrate the potential outcomes of two states choosing to either cooperate or defect (Jervis). Neorealists analyze the game by assuming only one round is played and the two participants cannot communicate, meaning that the most beneficial outcome…

This paper will prove that there are certain issues in society that need to be addressed and made public especially, because people are being exploited and devalued by big successful companies. An analyses will be made of two images in which culture jam takes place- one of the images involve Fair and Lovely and the other involves Nike. I will unpack hegemonic discourses in society and the ways they are reconfigured through culture jamming to present counterhegemonic discourses. Before going…

Many would say that teens are “the future of tomorrow” where thanks to what they learn, it will impact them and the future of society. It is with that knowledge that, when we see many teenagers on their phone using some kind of social media, we worry for the future of America. A justifiable worry as 95% of teenagers in the United States currently go online and 80% of them partake in some type of social media. (Cookingham and Ryan 2). Teens make up a large portion of the most famous social…

In my polytechnic life, I acquired the skill of managing relations between people, and developed a capacity to relate and collaborate with different individuals. During a few of my field practicums in child care centres as a student-teacher, discrepancies between colleagues occasionally arose. These include when the teachers encountered miscommunication and lacked clear roles when encountering a difficult situation. An example of such an instance was when two teachers who split their class into…