Course Blog for Soc 3151: Social Issues and Social Policy at Baruch College
Ahmadinejad would probably like this blog. Here’s the article link:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/23/general.assembly.ahmadinejad/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Free Speech: Hadley Freeman Ponders The Fashionable Fallout Of A Faltering Economy
http://www.style.com/stylefile/2008/10/free-speech-hadley-freeman-ponders-the-fashionable-fallout-of-a-faltering-economy/
Contradicting to my other post about financialization of fashion, in this article it almost seems as if it doesn’t care if the economy has any impact on it at all. They feel like fashion still continues, still has the need to provide to people [...]
Fashion industry hit by hard financial times
http://www.3news.co.nz/News/NationalNews/Fashion-industry-hit-by-hard-financial-times/tabid/423/articleID/104380/cat/64/Default.aspx
In this articles it basically just talks about how the crisis harmed the fashion industry. I find it ineresting that they are talking on new ideas on how to make their sales. I did my research paper on fashion and financialization of fashion. WIth this point proven, there are [...]
I smell a “ahh I knew this was going to happen moment”. Almost like a kick in the face. This article basically talks about the credit card loans that many banks are failing to collect. Hmm, I woornder why. This is to say and show how serious credit cad debt is. I mean banks offer [...]
It seems as if everyone wants something different. The more unique the clothing is, the more fashionable and expensive it will be. The article “Fashion lives outside malls” by Anna Barbara Lorenzo, does a good job at describing how the mass production hurts fashion marketability. She stated:
“Mass production maybe good for certain businesses, but it [...]
these are the quotes I got from the first two chapters of steal this university, which helped me write my paper.
“in the past twenty years, more than 500 new for-profit colleges and universities have opened their doors- at the four year level, for-profits have increased their number from 18 to 192. “- p15
-this is a [...]
I reviewed the article, “Superstars without talent? The Yule distribution controversy”, by Laura Spierdijk and Mark Voorneveld. The article is quite interesting, as it focuses on the world wide phenomenon of novice artists that start their career with little or no talent and end up with all the benefits of being a superstar. The [...]
Jeff Schmidt writes in Disciplined Minds that industry looks for “an obedient thinker, an intellectual property whom employers can trust to experiment, theorize, innovate and create safely within the confines of an assigned ideology” (Schmidt), so to, the NBA does the same with its players. Have you ever heard a player speak out on the [...]
Sherwin Rosen’s, “the economics of superstars”, is a very interesting article. This is a topic which I wanted to research and write on for quite some time. To start off, all artists these days are signed for profit gain. The way that playing the stock market is a gamble, the same is with artists. [...]
I read an excerpt from Simon Johnson’s article, “U.S. Oligarchs and their Minions”. The article basically states that one possible outcome that can occur if, this financial crises prolongs in a certain way, is the reign of an Oligarchy. Now, the definition of an Oligarchy is a form of government where power effectively rests [...]
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