Posts Tagged ‘ modern culture ’

Lyric Analysis #1 [If I Were A Boy - Beyoncé]

I was listening to “Single Ladies” by Beyoncé (don’t ask) this morning when a thought struck me. What if I actually pay attention to the words she sings? I then thought I’d open Spotify and take a listen to her album “I Am… Sasha Fierce”. Someone once told me that it was a good album. [ READ MORE ]

House of Building.

In the last three, maybe four years I’ve been quite fascinated with Bauhaus, the German style of architecture and design that was developed by Walter Gropius. The Bauhaus was a German fine arts and architecture school that was opened in 1919 and closed under pressure from the Nazi regime in 1933. You’ll have probably come [ READ MORE ]

Selected Trueisms.

A single event can have infinitely many interpretations. Being sure of yourself means you’re a fool. Crime against property is relatively unimportant. Dependence can be a meal ticket. Emotional responses are as valuable as intellectual responses. Fake or real indifference is a powerful personal weapon. Going with the flow is soothing but risky. Humanism is [ READ MORE ]

Type.

  • April 3rd, 2010
  • Posted in Blog

Warning: The following entry is quite wanky and self-indulgent. If you can’t stand to read people talking about their work on a personal level and using phrases like “take stock of who I am as a person” then I suggest you skip over what’s written below. Above is the result of several hours’ work in [ READ MORE ]

Words (Aren’t Always Needed).

  • April 2nd, 2010
  • Posted in music

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (aka The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation) is probably one of the coolest names for a band I’ve ever heard. The name alone was enough to spark my interest and listen to their music. ‘Here Be Dragons’ is the name of their latest album, and I can honestly say that I haven’t [ READ MORE ]

Travel Sickness.

  • March 29th, 2010
  • Posted in Blog

TRAVEL SICKNESS – TOPIC OVERVIEW Travel Sickness (TS) is a potentially deadly cultural illness, a virus found in the heart, mind, body, and politics of certain humans. People can become infected by: Willingly engaging in meaningless, emotion-based movements spawned by corporate interests. The purchase and consumption of personal image products intended to mask individual creativity [ READ MORE ]

A book of faces you say?

I got rid of my facebook account recently.  Committing social-network suicide wasn’t so hard, merely a case of logging onto my account via my phone’s browser, heading to the relevant page and hitting the appropriate button.  I didn’t need to brace myself, nor am I having intense withdrawal symptoms from being without the big blue [ READ MORE ]

ECONOMICS.

Recently, I have been reading about Economics. While I think that as a subject (for the most part) it is banal, pointless and dry, it certainly has some validity in the modern world and gives an insight into the workings of Humans as a collective rather than on an individual basis.

Here are five economic problems. Answers on a postcard.

1 - In 2009, the country of Mattopia imports equaled its exports. Mattopia's GDP was £500 million, its consumer expenditure was £385 million, and its investment was £14 million. Mattopia's government purchases were;

a) £500 million
b) £899 million
c) £101 million
d) zero

2 - If aggregate demand grows only slightly faster than potential GDP, then the economy will;

a) experience economic growth with low inflation
b) be at a business-cycle peak
c) experience economic growth with high inflation
d) experience recession

3 - (Expenditure Multipliers) The multiplier is 1.5. A decrease in investment of £5 billion will shift the aggregate demand curve __________ by _______________.

a) leftward; less than £5 billion
b) leftward; £7.5 billion
c) rightward; less than £5 billion
d) leftward; £5 billion

4 - The economy is experiencing high inflation and high unemployment. What combination of fiscal and monetary policies will decrease both inflation and unemployment?

a) feedback rule with an increase in money growth and a decrease in taxes
b) fixed rule with no money growth and no change in taxes or government purchases
c) an increase in money wage rates and constant money growth
d) fixed rule with constant money growth

5 - The real interest rate will increase if all of the following events occur, other things remaining the same, except;

a) new technology increases the world investment demand
b) the world saving supply around the world decreases
c) the supply of private saving around the world increases
d) the world investment demand increases

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