This article presents evidence that high-ranking public officials in the Ministry of Strategy and Finance South Korea affect local budget allocation. Applying a regression model on uniquely constructed panel dataset, I found growth rate per-capita National Subsidy, which is subcomponent national susceptible to discretionary behaviors, increases approximately 7 percent hometowns bureaucrats. To ...

Gravel Heart (2017) is the ninth postcolonial novel of Tanzanian-born British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah who was awarded 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. Being a part his literary diction, explores in-depth justification traumatic migrant stories with neurological symptoms like sense (un)belonging, assimilation, naturalisation, hybridity values and norms, keen in-betweenness. Born setting hometo...

When considering professionals sports leagues, the common topic of discussion is usually about individual players or favorite hometown teams. Sports enthusiasts are the first to rattle off a laundry list of statistics about teams and players, but do they realize they are openly discussing that player’s efficiency in terms of labor? Although it is a popular form of entertainment there is a marke...

BACKGROUND Tobacco smoking is the leading cause of preventable mortality. The prevalence of smoking in adolescents in high schools ranges from 23.5% to 41%, respectively. In Colombia, these figures are similar and students entering the University are exposed to initiate smoking. The purpose of this study was to establish the determinants associated with the initiation of tobacco smoking among u...

In this paper, I tackle the relat ionship between East and West from a cultural perspective.Though the difference is wide, they have in common a considerable number of social norms. Try ing to make a focuson how the West regards the East on the level of normal individuals, I analyse Kim Barnes’ novel “In the Kingdom of Men”. Her protagonists migrate from hometown ‘Oklahoma’ to ‘Saudi Arab ia’ o...