Posted in Uncategorized on May 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Group Presentation: Global Music
This presentation was well organised, the first and second speakers especially knew their content well. It was unfortunate, however, that the management of time was not better orchestrated and so the third speaker who had an equal amount to say was not given a fair opportunity to say it in due to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2009 No Comments »
Group Presentation: Gender Equality
This presentation was well organised, with a fair amount of research evident but limited citations (just what was perceived as societal norms). Perhaps my perceptions of Jordan were wrong (I travelled there for a whole day and restricted my visit to tourist sites) however I was under the assumption that it was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2009 No Comments »
I did not enjoy this weeks lecture on War. Perhaps it was as a result of my sensitivities, particularly with regards to World War II, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, but I found the lecturer to be hinting at legitimising the acts of Adolf Hitler through the legality of what he did.
Unfortunately because of group presentations we weren’t [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Yesterday, with a lead up of stress and panic we presented our presentation. The most panicing thought was whether or not as a group we had completed the task properly and given that this was the first week of presentations we didn’t really have anything with which to go by.
We spent the hour between the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Today we finalised our presentation and tied together a few loose ends in what was the first actual complete group meeting. Again, I find that’s the problem with group assignments – time limitations: everyone’s so busy and when they have the time it’s usually really late at night or early in the morning depending on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I had a rare opportunity to meet up with Ashleigh to work out what our assignment entailed and what direction Ingrid and Ashleigh had taken it. I was impressed with the amount of work they got done in such a limited time, and felt bad at the same time that I couldn’t help out. Luckily [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Finding time when we all can meet has been extremely difficult over the holidays with work and other assignment commitments. Unfortunately the rest of the group is meeting up this afternoon to discuss the assignment’s progress and collect information and properly delegate everyone’s contributions but I’ll be at work.
Whatever work they do, they’ll send me [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 15th, 2009 No Comments »
This post marks the first formal report of our group’s assignment progress (short of the previous uploaded form). Over the long week end break I researched terrorism and the impacts on schools compiling a list of incidents and also finding a great book: Innocent Targets: When Terrorism Comes to School. Unfortunately after calling Borders and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2009 No Comments »
Global Economic Integration through the WTO:
This evening we were given the second debate topic “China’s entry into the WTO has bought no economc benefits to the majority of the Chinese people” on the negative side.
The reading by Guo this week spoke about the political reforms which came about as a result of China joining the [...]
Posted in Foundations in International Studies, Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2009 Comments Off
Europeanization, Nationalism and Technology Transfers in Historical Perspective
This week’s readings presented a real intellectual outlook on technology’s influence on nationalism and global transfer of technology on economic nationalism. McQuire (2006) links modernity to the technological achievements of ‘the West’ especially given technology’s instrumental involvement in colonial expansion. A sophisticated society has been made synonomous with [...]
