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Rasti Vaibhav – Founder & Managing Director of Sydney-based Licenced Independent Buyer’s Agency Get RARE Properties

This article was originally published here: Rasti Vaibhav – Founder & Managing Director of Sydney-based Licenced Independent Buyer’s Agency Get RARE Properties Rasti Vaibhav has made it his goal to help others achieve their long terms goals through property investment. What’s your story? Rasti Vaibhav is an Architect and ex-Fund Manager where he directly managed […]
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Theoretical Perspectives On Culture

Music, fashion, technology, and values—all are products of culture. But what do they mean? How do sociologists perceive and interpret culture based on these material and nonmaterial items? Let’s finish our analysis of culture by reviewing them in the context of three theoretical perspectives: functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. Functionalists view society as a […]
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Chinese Society From Confucius To Communist Revolution

To figure out the effects of national events on a society and to understand how a society’s behaviour patterns are shaped throughout the history, one should understand that society’s or nation’s psychology. In order to understand a nation’s psychology, one should look at the social psychology discipline. Barons, Byrne & Suls (1989) characterize social psychology […]

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Chesline Pierre-Paul – CEO of Chesline Pierre-Paul

This article was originally published here: Chesline Pierre-Paul – CEO of Chesline Pierre-Paul Chesline Pierre-Paul combines her disruptive instincts with lateral thinking to alter the perceptions of others. What’s your story? I am a unicorn. I am a disruptor, a media & language activist, poet, anti-colonialist, transformation coach, and social impact expert on innovation, economic […]
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Space Tourism: Can It Be More Than ‘Space’ Joyrides For Millionaires?

Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and his team successfully flew to the “edge of space” on the Unity 22 mission aboard a Virgin Galactic plane on July 12. The event was hailed as the start of space tourism, narrowly beating the planned launch on 20 July by fellow billionaire business magnate Jeff Bezos and his firm Blue Origin.  But does the 85km (53 miles), the altitude […]
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Why Are So Many Greek Statues Naked?

A simple answer could be that the Greeks believed nudity was powerful, ideal, and beautiful. But like so many things from ancient life, there is no easy answer. Greek art—including sculpture, vase paintings, drinking cups, frescoes, and mosaics—is known for depicting nudity, especially male nudes. According to Shelby Brown, senior education specialist at the Getty […]
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Is Love Losing Its Soul In The Digital Age?

Instagram users have taken to issuing “weekiversary posts,” where they diligently mark the duration of their romances. An article in The New York Times explained how weekiversary posts have the unintended – or very much intended – consequence of shaming people who are not in love.  The article also noted that this phenomenon makes some doubt the intensity […]
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How China Is Transforming Its Economy Through Learning

I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Institute’s new report, “Reskilling China: Transforming The World’s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learners”, which focuses on the country’s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […]
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