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There is an abundant literature about the risk of company failure, but few things are written about the prediction of small business success. The purpose of this research is to present a diagnosis of smaller business rising ; this diagnosis, founded on qualitative variables such as the manager's behaviour and the firm's organisation, uses factor analysis statistical technics. The method we present, tested with a small population, is an efficient way to detect firms with genuine facilities of rising out.
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Contemporary Finnish folk music, unlike internationally successful contemporary Finnish rock (HIM, Nightwish, The Rasmus), transmits Finnish and Finno-Ugric tradition in a reinterpreted form to international audiences. This article explores this transmission through a case analysis of Äijö, a song by Värttinä, "the brand name" of Finnish World Music. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) provides a unified framework, which allows for tan examination of how different folk music traditions and the practices of Western popular music have been used in Äijö. The data with which this research was undertaken consists of publicly available media texts representing different stages of the production, distribution and consumption of Äijö.
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Starting with Claude Lévi-Strauss's evaluation of Richard Wagner as “the undeniable father of the structural analysis of myth,” this paper compares Lévi-Strauss's myth analysis with Wagner's myth construction, arguing that each illuminates, clarifies, and potentially enriches the other.
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Historians who study sites of memory emphasize the fluidity in meaning attached to those sites. The meaning of monuments is dependent upon changes in political context, which affect both how they are perceived and the uses to which they are put. With specific attention to the Place de la Nation in Paris and to Dalou's monument, Le Triomphe de la République, this article argues that street demonstrations have played an important role in creating meaning for Parisian sites of memory. It focuses on four events in the history of the Place/monument: the inauguration of the bronze statue on 19 November, 1899; the demonstration marking the formation of the Popular Front on 12 February, 1934; the “bloody” 14 July demonstration of 1953; and the demonstration against Jean-Marie Le Pen and the National Front on 1 May, 2002. While the specific political context of these demonstrations varied, as did the character and purpose of the actors composing them, they all provided an occasion for the rehearsal of France's revolutionary traditions, with particular reference to the Paris Commune. The transitory nature and specific purposes of particular demonstrations, however, restricted their ability to alter the monument's significance. This is painfully apparent in the case of the Algerian demonstration of 14 July, 1953, which ended in a quickly forgotten massacre.
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Because few women of Chinese heritage came to Canada, Chinese migrant communities before 1950 are described as “bachelor societies.” Sojourners' own ambition to return home with more wealth, the imposition of ever-increasing head taxes on migrants from China, the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act, and deeply entrenched racism toward people of Chinese heritage meant that the vast majority were doomed to live their lives without the emotional, material, or domestic support or companionship provided by wives and children. They were de facto bachelors, if not bachelors in fact. New research, however, shows that since the 1910s young men of Chinese heritage carved out spaces for themselves in Toronto's urban sexual culture, and young white women a space for themselves in Toronto's Chinatown. During the first half of the twentieth century, many men of Chinese heritage enjoyed sex, companionship, love, and family life. Perhaps as many as a third were married to or lived common-law with women of white heritage, and many more frequently engaged in sexual and intimate relationships with sex workers they sometimes sought as long-term companions. The evidence presented here challenges the current perception that “Chinese bachelors” lived sexless, loveless lives. These relationships were not without controversy, of course, but many people within the community accepted them, and women of white heritage, including sex workers, were integrated into the community in diverse ways.
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Keywords: Juifs, Czernowitz (Chernivtsi), Ukraine, tourisme des racines, générations
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AbstractIn Babel's ruin : Poetry and Translation in Paul Celan — Paul Celan, one of the greatest German language poets of the XXth century, is also one of its greatest translators. In the five-volume current edition of his Complete Works (Suhrkamp) two volumes contain his translations, mostly of poetry, from seven languages and of about fifty authors. This article attempts to show that the same poetics underlies both the act of writing and that of translating, and that this double production was Celan's answer to an ethical challenge : to recreate a human language, open to alterity, in the shadow of the specific historicity of living after Auschwitz.
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AbstractThis article proposes to reflect upon the dialectical tension between minority and majority to the level of theoretical, literary, and microsocial analysis of the “appearance” of the minority—appearance being the “who” in the “who am I ?” that declares and signifies itself in social and public space. It aims to grasp the figures of the Jew and the Black as ideal types of the minority in order to elaborate upon a specific political dimension of the minority that is constituted within the individuality, equality and anonymity of a republican citizenship. First of all, we will endeavor to carry out this study from the perspective of political and moral sociology. In order to perceive and analyze how political activity is discussed and elaborated and to see what is implicated in the appearance of the minority in the social field, we will study selected texts among certain dialogues, correspondences and essays in the field of post-colonial studies (Fanon, Hall) and the “Jewish question” (Arendt, Sartre).
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Started in 1997, WashingtonOnline Virtual Campus (WAOL) consists of a consortium of 34 community colleges around Washington State to provide asynchronous online learning. WAOL bears many of the features of a loosely coupled organization with its geographically dispersed frontline instructors, fragmented external environment, modularity of courses and supervision, and its use of enhanced leadership and technology to communicate a culture. Recent surveys of its administration, instructors, and staff found disparities in various constituencies' perspectives on the organization's culture, decision-making, values, brand or reputation, communications, and WAOL's authorizing environment. Research suggests that WAOL benefits from some aspects of loose coupling: greater adaptive abilities and responsiveness to the State's college system; “fast” course development and launching; and isolated breakdowns. There is, however, a persistent difficulty in conveying a cohesive culture. There is a perception of WAOL's invisibility among its varied constituencies. This organization is at a crossroads, with the threat of colleges disconnecting from this consortium. WAOL should redefine its direction and purpose, such as coupling with local universities to provide not only associates degrees but full Baccalaureate and/ or Masters degrees. It may strengthen its position by improving learner supports, publicizing its decisions, creating a stronger sense of virtual community among the instructors (as in its recent creation of an online community for instructors), increased participative decision-making and use of line faculty and staff insights, and greater course varieties.