...Why does it seem that women in Country music today are always portrayed in the same, stereotypical way? The newly popular country duo Maddie and Tae are protesting ‘Bro Country’ and have decided to turn the tables in their hilarious video for ‘Girl in a Country Song.’ Since being posted on the YouTube Channel MaddieandTaeVEVO less than four months ago, the video has gotten 12,000,000 views. This video puts a very interesting twist on what most viewers think of a “country” song, and It’s no surprise that this video has become so popular,as it is an obvious parody on how most modern country music videos portray women. This isn’t your everyday parody video. It is very well thought out, and even from the first few lines, the theme of this video becomes apparent right away. But the theme of "Girl in a Country Song" and its video can't be misunderstood. The song is not...
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...I like a lot of different music genres, but my favorite kind of music is Punk/Punk Rock/Rock. There are some Punk Pop bands that I like, but I generally stick to the first three. My least favorite kind of music is Rap and Country. When it comes to Rap I just don't like it. The beat is terrible and the lyrics sound like a drunk person wrote them right before they fell asleep in an alcohol induced coma, but Country I really can't stand. I don't like anything about Country music or its history. The only time I would listen to Country is if one of my friends wanted me to. Even then I would protest though. The beat of Rap and Country don't appeal to me. Though I don not have anything against anyone who likes these types of music, I simply do not...
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...as a large and greatly densely populated country with figures, which have been estimated by the World Factbook (2014), either beaten or are approaching the 166 million mark depends on which source you want to rely on. Based on BBC New Asia (2014), Bangladesh count as the 94th largest country in the world with a surface area of 143,998 square kilometres (55,598 square miles). World Population Review (2011) added that, Bangladesh density figures shows as for every square kilometre of land in Bangladesh there is an average of 964.42 people which makes the country the 9th largest in the world in terms of density alone. Moreover, the World Factbook (2014) stated that, Bangladesh is mostly located on deltas of rivers flowing from the Himalayas crossing the country into the Bay of Bengal. (Source: BBC 2014) According to the World Factbook (2014), 98% of the population are Bengalis and the lasting 2% are from Bihari’s and other ethnic tribes. Also, it shows that Muslims count as 89.5%, Hindus as 9.6% and other beliefs as 0.9% of the total population of Bangladesh. 2.2 The Political System Cavusgil et al (2014, p.202), outlined the political system as ‘’A set of formal institutions that constitute a government. It includes legislative bodies, political parties, lobbying groups, and trade unions. The system also defines how these groups interact with each other’’ First of all, the country official name is People’s Republic of Bangladesh...
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...Contents 1. Introduction to Ethiopia’s Economy 3 Agriculture effect on economy 4 2. Ethiopian Economy Facts 9 3. GDP Projection 14 Analysis of various factors 17 Inflation 17 Interest Rates 17 Exports and Imports 18 Trend Analysis 18 4. Conclusion 19 5. References 20 1. Introduction to Ethiopia’s Economy Ethiopian economy is mainly based on agriculture sector, which accounts for 46% of the GDP and 85% of the total employment. Coffee has been a major crop which also mainly contributes to Ethiopia’s exports to the other countries. Ineffective cultivation practices and inadequate rainfall are the major deterrents to the agricultural sector. But recent joint efforts by the Ethiopia Government and aid agencies are helping to upgrade the traditional agricultural practices. This has significantly contribution to the reduction in number of Ethiopians suffering from starvation. The sectors of banking which comprises Insurance and Micro-credit industries are not open to foreign investors, though Ethiopia had huge inflows of investment in other commercial agricultural sectors like leather and textile. The graph shows Ethiopian economy’s sector-wise performance from the year 2004 to 2010. The agricultural sector has seen constant decline from 65% to 30% chiefly due to minimal rainfall. Soil is not fertile for the harvesting, so the crops were not growing properly. In industry sector emerging as it can be seen from growth up to 60% in 2010 as compare to...
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...Country Risk Analysis: John D. Young MGT 448 January 16, 2010 Stephen Thomas Country Risk Analysis When entering any market, analyzing the business risks is an important process. Many sources of risk exist and responsible organization will examine every possible source in preparation for managing a variety of issues. These risk types include political, legal, and regulatory risk, exchange and repatriation of funds risk, competitive risk, taxation and double taxation risk, market risk, distribution and supply chain risk, physical and environmental risk, social and cultural risk, and cyber-risk or technological risk. Political, Legal, and Regulatory Risks Politically, China faces some stability issues. China has a Communist government. In many cases, this regime has led to stability that has helped the country reach the more recent levels of economic improvement, despite some notable discontent among its people (Cai & Li, 2009). However, since reaching a more prosperous economy China has been at odds with itself. Balancing its communistic central government with capitalistic economic centers has been unsuccessful. Additionally, the development of the nation has led to a large disparity between the classes with some rural regions looking as they did decades ago whereas urban centers rival New York and Tokyo in excess (AMBest Co Inc., 2011). This generates a lack of trust in smaller regional centers and towns that threatens to create instability in China (Ke...
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...Country Risk Analysis Germany By: Matthew Duby 103805300 Brett Benson 103682527 Due: Monday, March 30th Addressed to: Dr. Gunay Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………3-4 Supporting Information How does Germany’s bond yields compare with other countries?………………….................4-5 What is the rating of Germany’s government bonds?…………………………………………5 What are Germany’s interest rates (short, intermediate, long-term)…………………………..6 Who are Germany’s top 3 trading partners? Are they the same for imports and exports?........6-7 What is Germany’s current account balance? Has it been a surplus in the past few years?......7 Why might Germany be running a surplus?...............................................................................7 Are their top three trading partners running a current account surplus or deficit?....................8 What is Germany’s population, GDP, unemployment, money supply growth and inflation rates?......8 Do you think interest rates in Germany are going to increase or decrease? Why?....................9 Do the trends have a positive or negative outlook?...................................................................9 Do you expect Germany’s exchange rate to appreciate or depreciate against the USD?..........10 Conclusion With the acquired information, would you invest in Germany’s T-bills?..................................10 Was your hypothesis confirmed? What did you learn?...........................
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...Country Analysis: Russia MBA Fall 2015 International Management in Sport and Entertainment Table of Contents Country Analysis: Russia 1 Introduction 1 Economic Environment 1 Political and Legal Environment 2 Culture 2 Conclusion 6 Country Analysis: Russia Introduction Russia is the world’s largest nation, covering 6,5 million square miles, with a population of 143 million people recorded in 2014. Russia borders European and Asian countries as well as the Pacific and Arctic oceans. In order to make a decision, concerning the market expansion of an organization into Russia, the economic environment as well as the political and legal environment will be analyzed with a focus on the cultural aspects. Economic Environment Russia is one of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), which are projected to be the fastest growing emerging economies, with a combined GDP of $16 trillion. With a GDP of $2.6 trillion, Russia is a leading exporter of natural gas and oil and is the fifth largest economy in the world. Services are the largest sector of the economy and accounts for 58 percent of the GDP. The most important segments in services include wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles and personal and household goods. This represents 17 percent of total GDP; public administration, health and education (12 percent); real estate (9 percent) and transport storage and communications (7 percent). Industry contributes...
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...Country Analysis MEXICO Aga Wyporska 100853121 Executive Summary: Mexico is located in North America with a population total of 113,423,000 people (University Michigan State 1994 - 2012). It borders 3 countries: Guatemala, Belize and the world economic super power, the United States of America. It has the second greatest economy in Latin America and is a major exporter and refiner of oil. Mexico is currently experiencing growth in its economic factors such as GDP, labor productivity and its exports of goods and services; however, due to the current political instability and the extremely high amount of drug trafficking and the associated violence, it is not recommended to proceed. A lack of an ability to implement laws leads to a lack of solid property rights and enforcement of contracts, which ultimately leads to a loss of business. Country’s Macro Environment: Some of Mexico’s most critical industries include agriculture, which is in the decline (3.9% of GDP in 2006 down from 7% in 1980) and electronics, which is experiencing an upsurge (Central Intelligence Agency 2012). Furthermore Mexico is the 6th largest oil producer in the world and so has a strong performance in the energy and mineral resource industry. Lastly Mexico is involved heavily in services such as tourism (it is the 8th most visited country in the world) and finance (World Tourism Organization 2012). Mexico is the second largest supplier of electronic parts to the US market (exported $71.4 billion...
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...Country Analysis - Greece Bordering the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea in southern Europe,Greece is a country of mostly mountains with ranges extending into the sea as peninsulas or chains of islands. From wet winters, to hot and dry summers, greece is a popular tourist destination. With nearly 4.5 million people in the Athens area, Greece is populated with nearly 10 million people in which a parliamentary democracy exists. 300 people are elected whom form the parliament which conducts the legislative duties of the government.The political party collects approximately 151 seats in the parliamental duties of the administration. The president automatically becomes prime minster and then gets appointed to become cabinet ministers. The actual ‘president’ is elected by the parliament for a five year term. The current ‘chief of state’ is President Karolos Papoulias and the head of government is Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. As you are aware, Greece’s economy isn’t doing too well lately. Greece has a capitalist economy which means it has an economic system based on private ownership of capital. 40 percent of the countries GDP is accounted from a public sector. Tourism provides fifteen percent, in which we will discuss later. Between 2003 and 2007 the economy grew nearly four percent per year. This is partially due to the 2004 Olympic games which also resulted in an increased availability of...
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...Singapore – Country Analysis Vineet Khattar; Group Work 9/29/2012 Contents Country Background: .......................................................................................................................... 3 Cultural Aspects of Singapore: ............................................................................................................ 3 Political context................................................................................................................................... 3 Economic policies of Singapore .......................................................................................................... 4 Institutional Framework ..................................................................................................................... 5 Labor Policies of Singapore ................................................................................................................. 7 Objectives of the country: .................................................................................................................. 8 Corresponding Policies Implemented by the Government ................................................................ 8 Performance ....................................................................................................................................... 9 Opportunities, Challenges and Risks......................................................................................................
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.... | Country Analysis | Brazil | | . | [Pick the date] | AHMEDABAD MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION | Submitted to Prepared by Dr.P.V.Desai Sagar Sakariya CONTENT Introduction | | Brazil annual report: Economic Indicator | | Government and Politics | | Foreign Relations | | States and Municipality | | Geography | | Climate | | Component and Energy | | Transport | | Demography | | Main Drivers for Doing business in Brazil | | Mani Challenges of Doing Business in Brazil | | Summary of Indicator- Doing business in Brazil | | List of Procedure | | PESTLE | | Political * Political system * Change in government * Lula administration focus area * Law | | Economic * Economy of Brazil * Industrial output * Key industries * FDI | | Sociological * Culture * Language * General attitude * Personal appearance | | Technological * Technology research * Information technology * R & D * Technology policy of Brazil * Brazilian industry and Technology | | Legal * Legal system of Brazil * Municipality * Court and justice | | Environment * National * The Future | | Introduction Brazil is the largest and most powerful country in South America and has become one of the world's most...
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...Country music is influenced by many people. Many people also stereotype country music to be about farms,trucks, guns, hunting, and beer. Although many of the country songs do contain those aspects. Country songs can have good meanings to them. The song “Letter to Me” is a song with a great meaning. In "Letter to Me," the song's narrator is an adult who is reflecting on his youth. Now older and wiser for having lived various teen-aged experiences, the narrator uses experiences he had as a teenager to give his more youthful self advice on dealing with various situations. Country songs are often used as casual background music. It is also a fun type of music to people. A lot of people say they don’t like country but most of them could have fun while listening to a country song. Country music has been around for a nong time and will be around for a long time in the future. Country music uses many different instruments. The general instruments are guitars, bass guitar, drums, banjo, harmonica, violin, and knees.Yes, human knees, most country songs have a knee slapping...
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...process, and working together is success” -Henry Ford. Throughout the years there have been many unfortunate events that our country has been involved in: the Great Depression (1929), World War 1 (1914-1918) and World War 2 (1939-1945), the Boston bombing (2013), etc. These events caused panic and worry in our country. It also caused us to come together as one and keep our great nation up and running. I believe societies should join together when times are difficult. Our country is one of the only countries to not split into sections. For example, in the article “A Quilt of a Country” written by Anna Quindlen she states, “Other countries with such divisions have in fact divided into new nations with new names, but not this one, impossibly interwoven even in its hostilities” (Quindlen 4). This piece of evidence shows that even though we have had plenty of hard times, our country always comes together as a whole. Our nation isn’t like the other nations that split apart when there are difficult times....
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...Thailand occupies the western half of the Indochinese peninsula and the northern two-thirds of the Malay Peninsula in southeast Asia. Its neighbors are Burma (Myanmar) on the north and west, Laos on the north and northeast, Cambodia on the east, and Malaysia on the south. The official language of Thailand is the Thai language, but the languages spoken in Thailand include Thai, English, and various minority tongues. The population of Thailand is estimated at 67,400,746 in 2015. Life expectancy at birth: total population: 74.18 years male: 71 years female: 77.54 years. Compare to U.S. expectancy in 2011 was 78.7 years, which is slightly below the OECD average of 80.1. For U.S. men, the average life expectancy is 76, while it's 81 for U.S. women. Thailand literacy age 15 and over can read and write total population: 93.5%, male: 95.6%, and female: 91.5%. Thailand's climate is tropical with a mean annual temperature of 82°F and high humidity. There are three distinct seasons – the hot season from March to May, the cool season from November to February and the rainy season from about June to October. Most Populated and Main Cities In Thailand: City Population Bangkok 5,104,476 Samut Prakan 388,920 Mueang Nonthaburi 291,555 Udon Thani 247,231 Ports under the governance of PAT include those of Chieng Saen, Chieng Khong, as well as the Bangkok Coastal and Barge Domestic Terminal: Port of Laem Chabang: Laem Chabang is in eastern Thailand, on the and is the country's...
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...India The Republic of India is a country located in South Asia and the capital is New Delhi. It is the seventh largest country in the world, slightly more than one third the size of the United States. It is also the second most populated country with over 1.22 billion people. India’s economy is continuing to grow and based on the purchasing power parity, it is the third largest in the world at 4.76 trillion dollars. India is also the second largest in the world when it comes to workforce. India’s three major economic sectors are: agriculture, industry, and services. The original official currency of India is the Indian rupee. The Indian rupee has been falling against the US dollar, as shown in the graph below. The exchange rate between the Indian rupee and the US dollar over the past five years are: 43.319 in 2008, 48.405 in 2009, 45.726 in 2010, 46.671 in 2011, and 53.437 in 2012. (CIA) This means that one US dollar is equivalent to 53.437 rupees, in the year of 2012. This also means that the value of rupee is depreciating. A weaker rupee has its pros and cons. A weaker currency will make imports more expensive, the price of oil and other materials to import from foreign countries will go up. Since one of the big imports of India is crude oil, it only makes the economy worse. Higher oil price means higher transportation price, so therefore producing products will be more expensive and that leads to higher inflation. Rupee depreciation has its bright side for companies that...
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