Abstract Part one of this analysis, the Product Concept, details the creation of an E-commerce site to be named ?Bazaar,? a name that was chosen because it has strong Middle East identification and because it captures the concept of the site as a wide-open shopping mall with a difference. Part two, The Market, divides the analysis into two main sections -- the events leading up to Saudi Arabia's belated but active and focused entry into the Internet Age, and the current situation that draws on user surveys completed within the previous six months. These surveys show that the growth in Internet usage in Saudi Arabia is proceeding faster than predicted. In the competition section, particular emphasis is placed on the ISPs, since the success of an E-commerce site depends on choosing the right ISP. In the architecture section, the writer details the topography of the pages and provides a hierarchical division of the levels and the relations between the static and the dynamic pages. The technology section then emphasizes the type of connectivity and configuration will be used, including the justification for choosing to develop the site using Frame Relay Technology. In the strategy section of this analysis, the report presents a task breakdown of the individual structural components of the business group.
Executive Summary
Product Concept
The Market
Background
Current Situation
Competition
Finance and Advisory Board
Architecture
Internet Technology
Telecom Technology
Strategy
From the Paper "Saudi Arabia has had an Internet connection for several years, although public access has only recently been allowed. The Kingdom also sponsors many Web pages, both commercial and government, and, until recently, those were all established outside of the country, mostly in Bahrain or the United Kingdom ("Internet to enter", 1997).
The region's first wide-area network, GulfNet, was created in 1985 by the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and IBM. It was an SNA (Systems Network Architecture) network in a star configuration with the mainframe hub in Riyadh. Initially there were ten additional nodes in the Kingdom and three in Kuwait connected via 9.6 Kbps leased lines. International connectivity via a link to BITNET in the United States was established in 1987 (Mansuri & al-Zoman, 1996)."
Abstract This paper contends that it is New Delhi's grand tradition as a political center of power that has firmly rooted it into the spatial landscape. Further, its vast expansion into a major commercial and industrial center within India, coupled with its lack of spatial identity (due to a centralized value on its place in a cultural sense), at once keeps it out of the "traditional" quadrant while placing it into that of the "bazaar city", where it is likely to remain.
From the Paper "Few people can imagine India without calling to mind its vast cultural, spiritual, and natural splendor. So, too, few non-Indian's can bring to mind the nation without imagining sprawling squalor, chaos (to the western mind), and the history of Gandhi. However, there is much more to India today that few non-Indians understand-that is that the nation, once one of the most disadvantaged in the world, is now rising as one of the nations "most likely to succeed" educationally, economically, as well as politically."
Abstract This paper looks at how James Joyce's protagonist in "Araby" travels to the bazaar on a quest to obtain an exotic treasure for his lady love and how, like a mythic hero, he has overcome obstacles on his journey. At the end of his voyage, however, he finds no Holy Grail but only flowery knick-knacks. It examines the narrator's journey of self-discovery, focusing on the author's use of narration, diction, imagery, and language to establish a tone that conveys this discovery.
From the Paper "Joyce chose a first person narrator in this story. This choice is essential because it allows the reader to establish an immediate empathy for the protagonist as well as to overlook the foolishness of the boy's infatuation with his older neighbor. The narrator at first is a very innocent child: he reports matter-of-factly on the appearance of his street and the death of the priest who rented a room in his house. The speaker lists The Memoirs of Vidocq among the priest's few possessions, even claiming to like this book the best, but fails to see the irony in this choice of literature by a holy man."
Abstract This paper discusses the issue of evidence-based Medicine (EBM), providing arguments for and against it being abandoned altogether. The author of this paper puts forward his own suggestion that the real question is not whether EBM should be destroyed or sustained, but what it should look like a cathedral or a bazaar? He goes on to argue that, if EBM is to serve the interests of service users as much as those of the medical and pharmaceutical powers, it must come to resemble a bazaar more than a cathedral.
From the Paper "Some critics of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) argue that it should be abandoned altogether (e.g. Sa Couta 2003). By contrast, Sandra Tanenbaum (2003, p. 298) argues that, despite its weaknesses in practice, the public idea of EBM lends it a power that can be used by health administrators to support policy decisions that can benefit patients. A key problem with Tanenbaum's approach is that it underestimates the role of ideas in shaping social practice and the extent to which the philosophy of EBM has come to serve particular commercial and ideological interests. I would suggest that the future of health services research lies not in destroying or preserving the idea of EBM but in questioning and subverting it. The real question is not whether EBM should be destroyed or sustained, but what it should look like: a Cathedral or a Bazaar? One type of structure represents hierarchy, order, authority, exclusion and the pious realisation of a complex but unitary concept. The other represents a 'great babbling bazaar of different agendas and approaches' (Raymond 2000, p. 1), potentially profane and subversive, but nonetheless inclusive in character. I want to argue that the movement that embodies the idea of EBM must be subverted from within. If it is to serve the interests of service users as much as those of medical and pharmaceutical power it must come to resemble a Bazaar more than a Cathedral."
This paper discusses Ayatollah Khomeini's overthrow of the Shah in the Iranian revolution of 1979: Background, political and religious forces, strategies, socioeconomics and the role of the bazaar.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, 1995, $ 55.95
From the Paper "At the beginning of 1978, the Iranian government of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi appeared to almost all observers, inside and outside Iran, to be firmly in power, and likely to remain so for the indefinite future. That there was fairly widespread disaffection from the regime was evident, but the Shah had survived such disaffection before, and there was little reason to suppose that he would would not survive it again. He had extensive military and internal-security forces at his command, while his potential opposition was divided among groups with widely varying agendas and bases of support, ranging from the Tudeh (Communist) Party to militant Islamic groups. Between the ruthlessness of SAVAK, the Shah's internal-security organ, on the one hand, and the internal divisions of the opposition on the other, it seemed likely that the Shah would continue to suppress ... "
Abstract This paper takes a look at Edmund Burke's book, 'Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East'. Burke's book consists of a collection of essays, documenting the life stories of peasants, villagers, pastoralists and urbanites.
From the Paper "Defensive Modernization defines the transformation of the Arab political, cultural and social worlds. Artisan shops in the Bazaar were gradually replaced by factories and industrial complexes. Smokestacks and skyscrapers increasingly rivaled minarets in the Middle East's newly urbanized skyline. Eventually new Western forms of communication such as the telegraph and telephone, railroads, trucks and airplanes displaced human and animal transport. In the period after the end of the Second World War, when the Middle East finally threw off the burden of colonialism, defensive modernization became an essential part of new Arab states investiture into nationalism. Projects on a grand scale such as the Aswan Dam in Egypt, or the drive for modernism at a pace that overrode traditions in the Shah's Iran are all symptomatic of the concept."
Tags: social, economic, political, integration, peripheralization, west, arab, bazaar
An analysis of the relationship between culture and economics and gentrification according to Jason Hackworth and Josephine Rekers' article, "Ethic Packaging and Gentrification".
Abstract This paper examines the arguments found in Jason Hackworth and Josephine Rekers' article, "Ethic Packaging and Gentrification". The paper explains the term gentrification and describes how culture and economics are closely related to the gentrification of ethnically defined urban neighborhoods. The paper then describes the four case neighborhoods used in the study - Little Italy, Corso Italia, Greektown and the Gerrard India Bazaar and discusses if the article's arguments are relevant to them. The paper includes six potential discussion questions and answers at the end.
Table of Contents:
Summary of Relevant Arguments
Criticism and Identification of Gaps
Applications to the GTA
Six Potential Discussion Questions
From the Paper "The reader of this article who then visits the ethnic neighborhoods will discover that the statements made are verified. Greektown, for example is clearly commercially constructed, just as Italian culture in Little Italy is specifically produced for the sake of the market. However, the GTA is comprised of Durham, Halton, Peel, and York; in order to apply the theory or the findings of the article to the GTA, culture would have to be sufficiently prominent as to become a commodity. If there is not a culture that is unique for an area, then urban space will have to be reinvested on the basis of some other commodity."
Abstract This research essay delves into the background of the story from Persia, "Appointment in Samara", and it's message that it is impossible to escape fate, in reference to death. The research paper is written though a storytelling lens and gives a summary of the story as well as cultural and historical background information.
From the Paper "Bazaars are not common in the United States, but in the Middle East and many other places around the world, they are a common place to gather goods including food. Now, the underlying moral to this story is that fate cannot be overturned no matter how far you run. That being said, Islam's holy text, the Koran, says that the time of death for every person has been predetermined by Allah. Allah is also mentioned, quite ironically in fact, when the merchant wishes for Allah to watch over Rakush in his trip to Samarra to outrun Death."
