Month: May 2015
America, Our Home? A Qualitative Study of 1.5 Generation Asian Americans
Background: As the population of Asian immigrants and their children continues to grow in the U.S., it becomes increasingly important …
Awakening from Dream, Back to the Pre-Modern: Satoh Makoto’s “The Dance of Angels Who Burns Their Own Wings”
Japanese playwright and stage director Satoh Makoto (shows an acute insight that human suffering is the outcome of the illusion …
Re-Heating’ Hope through Recognition in Japanese Late Capitalism: A Sociological Analysis of Ryo Asai’s “The Kirishima Thing”
How is invisible power exerted through recognition? By adopting Ulrich Beck’s social theory of reflexive modernisation, this paper analyses Ryo …
Positive Disciplinary Power
For decades now, academics have developed analyses for uncovering oppressive forms of power in society. These investigations often reveal conscious …
An Analysis of Pembayuns Speech Acts in the Sorong Serah Ceremony of Sasak Marriage: A Ritualistic Discourse Study
This study investigated the Pembayuns speech acts in Sorong Serah ceremony of the Sasak marriage. As such, it examined the …
Developing Social Work Practice for People with Disability through Digital Storytelling
The International Federation of Social Workers adopted the new global definition of social work in 2014. Although promotion of social …
The Empirical Analysis of Tea Price Under the Influence of Wage Earners
This paper pays attention on the variation of tea plantation wage earners from 2006 to 2015. A detailed description on …
Community-Based Tourism’s Image Positioning and Strategic Management in Thailand and Lao PDR for Achieving ASEAN Community
This research is a synthesis of knowledge gathering from related researches in the realm of image, management, participation, tourism activities, …
The Dynamics of Indonesia-Malaysia Bilateral Relations Since Independence: Its Impact on Bilateral and Regional Stability
The bilateral relations between Indonesia-Malaysia since the independence of Indonesia can be categorized in three phases. The first is the …
Factors Affecting Malaysia-Singapore Relations during the Mahathir Era
The relationship between Malaysia and Singapore tends to fluctuate from time to time. At times the relation is very good …
International Development in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS) and Its Impact on East West Economic Corridor (EWEC)
Following the post-Cold War era, in 1992 the Mekong region countries established an Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the development …
Cultural Values in Selected Southeast Asian Countries as Reflected in Representative Short Stories: A Comparative Study
This study reveals the intent of the researcher to investigate the commonalities of cultural values in the community life and …
Million People March against Pork Barrel Projects: from Potentiality to Actuality
In this paper, we endeavored to ask how virtual reality becomes a public space for advocacies, which call for crowd …
Japan, the Global Novel and the Question of Responsibility
Recent years have seen the arrival of a number of novels, which, while they thematically touch on Japan to some …
Hegemonic and Counter-Media Frames of the Unsolved-Past Tragedy
Tempo magazine has brought the memory of the unsolved-past tragedy of Indonesia, “1965/66 Event” in some ways in both New …
Political Parties Re-Disconnected? Websites and Social Media of Indonesian Political Parties
Political parties of Indonesia nowadays have created their own websites (Hameed, 2007) in which the patterns of the use of …
Between the Concept of Rights and the Philosophy of Ethics: An Investigation on the Concept of Marriage of Chinese Lesbians
This article examines the issue of how the Chinese citizen makes a choice when a confliction appears between the pursuit …
Skateboarding Subculture in China: Development Path, Characteristics and Representation of Values and Social Change
Youth subcultures were for a long time located out of the public eye in China. Only over the last 30 …
Temples: Probing the Possibilities of Economic Regeneration of the Local Communities in Goa
Temples of Goa have played a very vital role as symbols of cultural resistance to the Portuguese hegemony. In the …
One Nation-Different Fates: Kazakhstan in Pursuit of Cultural Identity
This article provides analysis of experience which modern Kazakhstan went through in process of determination of its own identity and …
Musical Pedagogy’s Improvement through New Technologies and Musicology: The Ogma Project
What is musical pedagogy? A way to teach someone the technical practice of an instrument? To learn how to express …
Moral Aspects of Economic Theories and Present-Day University Curriculum
Contemporary science of economics considers itself to be primarily based on the teachings of the 18th century moral and political …
A Dilemma or Hope for China’s Democratization: A Research on Cyberpolitics Participation of Chinese Citizen Based on Chai Jing Event
This article examines the main characteristics of Chinese cyber-politics participation and reveals the deep reasons behind those characteristics of Chinese …
Who Makes the Garden? (The Comparison Between And Ancient Chinese Documents)
Tachibana Toshitsuna(橘俊纲)，the author of
Implications of the Japanese 2014 Election
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led his conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to a landslide victory in the snap election …
Weaving the Traditions for the Future: Building a Sustainable Support Framework for Iranian Traditional Hand-Woven Textile Arts
Iran has been notably applauded for its luxurious hand-woven textile art of the Persian carpets which has been a tremendous …
A Comparative Study of Religious Other-Making and Power between Muslims and Christians at the First Crusade
Religious other-making means to recognize and approve the owning identity or discourse as the ultimate truth based on the negation …
Mutual Distrust between China and Japan and the Locked Sino-Japanese Relations
The two giants--Japan and China--in East Asia have been trapped in a negative political relationship for several decades. Even if …
Correlation between types of Personality and Learning Styles of Selected Students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP): Basis for Learning Enhancement Program
The Polytechnic University of the Philippines, as one of the top universities in the country, has to maintain its competitive …
Multiple Identities of Media Labourers and Experiences of Creative Autonomy: An Empirical Investigation from a TV Programme Producer’s Perspective
The paper shows that media labourers are likely to form multiple selves throughout their career path, and their perception and …
Examining Identity Formation of Third Culture Kids through Transnational Engagements
This paper studies the identity formation of Third Culture Kids (TCKs)—who have spent a considerable amount of their childhood and …
Archivists to Activists: The Evolving Role of Museum Educators
Traditionally, museums have displayed their collections with a tendency towards a single, authoritative interpretation. Many contemporary museums, however, now design …
Teaching Idiom and Metaphor via Poetry in the Chinese EFL Classroom
I discuss the use of poetry as a vehicle for teaching concepts of idiom and metaphor to EFL students in …
Are Women Still Better at Learning Languages? Examining Gender Differences on Learners’ Academic Performance at University
Several past studies (for instance, Steffens & Jelenec: 2011, Heinzmann: 2009) investigated gender stereotypes on language learning at school. They …
The Influence of Gender Role Ideologies in Women’s Careers: A look at Marianismo and Machismo in the Treatment Room
Global statistics document an increase in women’s careers in the professions and portray successful female roles in the industrial, political …
The Struggle of Waria Buddies to Achieve Symbolic Capital in an Infectious Diseases Intermediate Care Unit in Indonesia
HIV/AIDS is a major health issue that has become the concern of various parties. Infection Diseases Intermediate Care Unit (Unit …
National and Gender Power Negotiations in Harriett Low’s Lights and Shadows of a Macao Life
Dictated by the cult of domesticity, American women's status in the mid-19th century remains largely the same from previous centuries: …
Now the Powerless Speaks: A Study of Bama’s Sangati and Baby Kamble’s ‘The Prisons We Broke’ From a Dalit Feminist Standpoint
In context of the powerful and the powerless in the social formation of India, caste system has been a matter …
“Soledad”: A Depiction of a Filipino Woman’s Chastity as Perceived by Pre-Service Teachers
"Soledad" is a poem written by Angela Manalang-Gloria during a time when the Philippines was steeped in Catholic faith and …
Comparative Analysis of Purchasing Behavior at Physical and Online Bookstores by University Students
This study conducts a comparative experiment on the purchasing behavior of university students at both physical and online bookstores. Recently, …
An Empirical Study of Cloud Maturity across Industries
The cloud adoption can be regarded as a paragon shift of business transaction, which will accompany with business process reengineering. …
Demand on Commodities Contributor of Poverty in Aceh Province: Analyses on Urban Households
Commodities contributor of poverty is dominated by food commodities. Rice and cigarette filter are commodities that contributes a lot to …
Guidelines for Improving Productivity, Inventory, Turnover Rate, and Level of Defects in the Plastic Industry
The purposes of this study are to study the current situation, opportunity, and obstacle in plastic industry, to create a …
Twenty-Five Years after the Fall of Communism: Toward a Symbolic Interactionist Approach to the Study of Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe
Even when the domestic political system has undergone reform, it sometimes seems unlikely that any outside force can introduce enough …
Governing International Commercial Contract Law: The Framework of Implementation to Establish the ASEAN Economy Community 2015
The Head of the State Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Summit of Association of South East Asian …
Asset Allocation Applying Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO)
Portfolio optimization is an important problem in finance. Its goal is to discover an efficient frontier which shows highest expected …
Research on Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction in Labor Relations of New Generation of Migrant Workers in China: The Sample from Tianjin Binhai Development Zone of China
New generation of migrant workers (NGMW) refers to the ones who were born in the countryside from 1980s to 1990s, …
Willingness to Pay for Ecotourism Management with Community Participation in Lipe Island, Satun Province
Lipe island, specially the most popular tourist destinations in the southern island, Satun province Thailand. A part of beautiful beaches, …
Exploring Local Movie Markets in the Field of Cultural Democracy and Social Media Practice
Film awards and professional positive film reviews usually suggest a successful film box office. However, that is often not the …
Impact of Financial Reward on Employees’ Commitment in College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti, Ekiti State
The need for increased efficiency has become extremely important in educational institutions like the College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti. In order …
Needs and Health Problems of the Elderly: A Perspective of the Family Care Giver in the Community
Objective: Aging is natural process which unique occurred in the old age population. This study aims to examine the elderly …
Inspecting the Bad Society? Bentham’s Panopticon Revisited
In Panopticon; or, The Inspection-House (2008 [1797]), the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham outlined what he perceived to be a model …