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is the Second World War. Sweden has a special position at this time because politicians decided that Sweden will stay neutral. From 1932 to 1976, Social Democrats were at the head of the country, supporting the ideology of equal distribution of resources and fair social coverage. When IKEA had been created, Sweden entered in a “socio-economic” phase (1945- 1965) where the priority was to ensure the material well-being. The first service innovation of IKEA was in 1953 with the creation of a “showroom”

Evaluate the consequences of changing population trends for both MEDCs and LEDCs In the 1950s-60s, the « population explosion » caused major concern about mas starvation in the Global South, leading to the Green Revolution. Nowadays, trends have been reversed : in most countries, population growth is falling and people are ageing, causing a « papy boom .» According to the Demographic Transition (DT) model, this should indicate that countries are more and more developed as they are advancing in

The Corporate Paradox (1975-2002) Chapter 7, The Company in America since 1975, extracted from The Company : a short story of a revolutionary idea, written by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge and published in 2005. Chapter 6 : the triumph of managerial capitalism (1913-1975) For John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, the modern corporation was one of the prime innovations that led to the Industrial Revolution. In the 1970s, many companies began to focus on the core business

THE CORPORATION A\ The key points • A “family”, a “monster”, a “paradox”, a “person” Corporations were originally small groups of people working together to achieve a specific objective serving the public good. Modern corporations were born the day productivity became the principal objective during the industrial age. While in front of the law, a corporation is just a “legal person”, it is at the same time a wonderful family working together and dangerous monster becoming out of control. •

FRANKENSTEIN,OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS; HOW WOULD YOU PERSUADE A POTENTIAL READER THAT FRANKENSTEIN HAS A PARTICULAR RELEVANCE TO THE WORLD TODAY? Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus is a gothic novel written by the young British woman Mary Shelley,published in 1818.The novel is considered to be one of the earliest examples of science-fiction. It is also a warning against the expansion of modern man in the industrial revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle The Modern Prometheus. When

University Spring 2010 Introduction The rapid wealth of top money managers and financiers has spurred my curiosity to understand the world of investment. Especially the world of investment banking, which seems to be a different world of its own, has received not only sharp criticism lately, but applause as well. So, a keen inclination toward studying investment banking will all its beauties and ugliness took birth. Moreover the success and failure of leaders have sharpened our curiosity to mainly

Minister (Head of Scottish Government = Alex Salmond MP MSP  Prime Minister of the United Kingdom = Gordon Brown MP Scotland is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with: • England to the south • is bounded by the North Sea to the east • the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west • The North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest. • In addition to the mainland, Scotland consists of over 790 islands including the Northern

Farm sizes are small only as much as the family can cultivate Farm sizes are large about 400 hectares fro rubber plantation 2 Owned by an individual or family Owned by the state or company in most cases 3 Output is small and almost to feed the family Output is large and for sale often in foreign markets 4 Farmer use simple tools e.g holes cutlasses and axes Machines are used in most farming operations e.g tractors 5 Labour is provided mainly by the farmer and his family Labour is employed

contemporary artists. He lives in Malakoff. He is married to the artist Annette Messager. Using various materials (old photographs, found objects, corrugated cardboard, clay, lighting, candles ...), Boltanski seeks emotion through all artistic expressions he uses photos, film, video. The themes omnipresent in his work are memory, the unconscious, childhood and death. One of the artist's features is its ability to reconstruct moments of life with objects that never belonged to him but that he nevertheless