Commonwealth Times 2001-11-01

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COM Outlook Winter 2004

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"Populists are actually Democrats!" : A Content Analysis of Interviews and Speeches Given by Nigel Farage Against the Backdrop of Populism and Euroscepticism

Abstract With Europe and the EU facing a time of constant political changes and financial crisis in to the Eurozone, the rise of phenomena like Euroscepticism and Populism are more topical than ever. Through the use of populist rhetoric, Eurosceptic parties, such as the British UK Independence Party (UKIP), are gaining support across Europe and have proven their influence on the European political stage. Claiming to speak in the name of the ‘common’ people, UKIP’s leader Nigel Farage regards himself as their representative in a quest to defend democracy, the peoples’ and the British nation states’ interests against the ‘dangerous’ supranational institution and political elite. Farage and UKIP argue against the regulations coming from ‘unelected bureaucrats’ in Brussels and proclaim their main political agenda, favouring the UK’s eventual withdrawal from the EU. The use of wellchosen, cunning populist rhetoric along with the targeting of EU’s supranational institutions and Mr. Barroso and Mr. van Rompuy as ‘Bully-boys’ has proven successful for Farage and UKIP. An examination of speeches and interviews by Farage lays open his implemented populist rhetoric tools and sheds light on the main targets of his criticism, the EU’s institutions and the European political elite. The aim of this thesis is to meticulously single those out and interpret how and why he criticises them. By applying an encompassing quantitative as well as qualitative method of content analysis, twenty-nine of Farage’s speeches and interviews are scrutinised against the backdrop of populism, populist rhetoric and Euroscepticism. Through frequent simplifications of complex issues and a reoccurring lack of substantial arguments, however, his credibility occasionally happens to be negatively affected. Farage does not provide a fundamentally solid plan for the UK’s and UKIP’s future, in case of Britain’s withdrawal from the EU

Vista: November 30, 2006

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The effectiveness of audio short stories in http://princess.disney.com to teach listening of narrative text : an experimental research at tenth grade of MA Sunan Prawoto Pati in the academic year of 2017/ 2018

This study is about the use of audio short stories as a medium to help students in listening narrative text of the tenth grade of MA Sunan Prawoto Pati in the academic year of 2017/2018. The objective of this study is to explain the effectiveness of short stories in http://princess.disney.com to teach listening on narrative text. The research methodo was an experimental research, which was conducted in two classes: the experimental group (X IPA 2) and control group (X IPA 1) as a sample. The X IPA 2 was taught by using audio short stories, while the X IPA 1 was taught using conventional learning. The data collection methods of this research were documentation and test. The researcher gave a listening test to gather the data. The try-out test had been tried out to find out the validity, reliability, difficulty level, and discriminating power before it was used to gather the data. The formula that was used to analyze the data was t-test. It was used to determine whether there was a significant difference between students’ scores in experimental class and students’ scores in control class or not. After the data had been collected by using test, it was found that the pre-test average of the experimental group was 62.43589 and control group was 57.4324. On the other hand, the post-test average of the experimental group was 71.795 and control group was 64.864. The post-test showed that the mean of experimental class was higher than control class (71.795>64.864). The obtained t-test was 2.951, and the t_table was 1.993 for alpha (The t-test score was higher than the t-table (2.951> 1.993). It meant that H_a was accepted while H_o was rejected. Since t_countwas higher than the t_table using short stories in http://princess.disney.com was effective medium to improve students’ listening on narrative text

From Empire to Motherland: Writings and the Politics of Translation in the Literatures of Transcolonial Taiwan, 1937-1960.

“From Empire to Motherland: Writing and the Politics of Translation in the Literatures of Transcolonial Taiwan, 1937-1960” examines the literary culture of Taiwan from the end of the Japanese colonial period through the war, liberation, and the subsequent arrival of the Nationalist regime from Mainland China. Focusing on Lu Heruo (1914-1951), Zhong Lihe (1915-1960), Lin Haiyin (1918-2001), and Sakaguchi Reiko (1914-2007), the dissertation demonstrates how these four writers grappled with the enforcement of two monolingualisms during the transwar period, and how their writing reflects multilingual soundscape through an emphasis on cacophony, intertextuality, and translation. The introduction argues for a transcolonial approach to reconceptualize complex relationships between wartime and postwar periods, and to reconfigure the existent markers that separate these writers into unrelated categories. Chapter 1 reads Japanese and Chinese stories by Lu Heruo ("A Happy Family” and “Warfare in Hometown") to analyze how the rhetoric of untranslatability creates a malleable, multilingual space within the monolingual text. Chapter 2 analyzes forms of intertextuality and intersubjectivity in Zhong Lihe’s “The Fourth Day,” “Outlaws and Hill Songs,” and “Willow Shade," suggesting how translatability serves to create transnational identity. Chapter 3 reconstructs the importance of Lin Haiyin in the 1950s in bridging the knowledge gap between Japanese and Chinese materials through re-phoneticization and translation. It also repositions Lin’s signature nostalgic work Old Stories from Peking’s Southside as a transcolonial work that releases the sentiments of “double diaspora.” Chapter 4 analyzes how Japanese writer Sakaguchi Reiko translates diverse sounds into creating a Taiwanese women’s discourse that disturbs the male-dominated imperialist and Nationalist discourses in “The Zheng Family” and “The Story of Indigenous Woman Ropō.” A close reading of these writers in relation to each other demonstrates a complex multilingual legacy made visible and audible in The National Museum of Taiwan Literature, where visitors are now encouraged to hear the cacophonous literary heritage and to review the unsettling relationship between aurality and textuality. This dissertation sheds new light on the most contested literary history of Taiwan, and addresses the ambiguous linguistic territory intersected by Japanese-language literature and Sinophone literature.PHDComparative LiteratureUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/135889/1/panmei_1.pd

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Strategies for Banks Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorism Finance Compliance Programs to Protect Financial Systems

Ineffective implementation of anti-money laundering (AML) compliance programs exposes the vulnerability of banks’ and increases the threats of money laundering and terrorist financing. The banking community must address the threat of money laundering and terrorism finance to protect the global financial system from abuse. Grounded in the fraud management lifecycle theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies to reduce threats of money laundering and terrorist financing. Data were collected from semistructured interviews, a review of bank policy documents, and previous Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) cases. The participants comprised six BSA/AML compliance officers at banks in the United States and Canada with experience implementing successful AML compliance programs. Thematic data analysis revealed three themes: effective internal and external communications, enhanced human/technological collaboration, and consistent internal compliance training. A key recommendation is to incorporate external communications with law enforcement. Potential, positive social changes include better educated bank compliance personnel, improved transactional monitoring, and enhanced employee training to reduce illicit and fraudulent financial activity which could result in weakened cartel operations, increased tax revenues, and more prosperous and safer communities