The Legal Environment – The Same but Different? A Comparison of the Regulatory Regimes of 21st-Century Europe, the USA and China

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odhran James McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Legal Environment ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Regulatory Regimes

scholarly journals Tackling Illegal Activities Through Tax Law – Al Capone Case Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Matej Kacaljak
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Tax Law ◽  
Legal Environment ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Illegal Activities

Abstract This paper discusses the Al Capone case and identifies legal institutions which contributed to the conviction of Al Capone for tax evasion in the USA and discusses similarities in Slovak law. The Slovak legal environment is assessed with the aim of identifying potential room for improvement. Under an assumption of identical factual circumstances, it is tested whether Al Capone would be convicted of tax evasion in the Slovak Republic and if not, what would be the main reasons. The paper concludes that due to some, probably unintentional, specifics of Slovak tax and criminal law, Al Capone could not be convicted of tax evasion by the Slovak courts. In our opinion, these specifics do not, however, constitute material elements of the basic structure of Slovak tax and criminal law and could be relatively easily corrected.

Prevention of chronic disease in the 21st century: elimination of the leading preventable causes of premature death and disability in the USA

The Lancet ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 384 (9937) ◽  
pp. 45-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula E Bauer ◽  
Peter A Briss ◽  
Richard A Goodman ◽  
Barbara A Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
The Usa

Coveted, detested and unattainable?

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Petersson ◽  
Emil Persson
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa

•This article explores how the image of the USA has developed in two major Russian daily newspapers, Izvestiya and Komsomolskaya Pravda, in a time period comprised of a total 20 weeks’ of study in the years of 1984, 1994, 2004 and 2009. For Russia this time span was dramatic: it moved from seemingly stable superpower in the 1980s, over the chaos after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, to the partial comeback to great power status at the beginning of the 21st century. While telling the story of how the image of the USA has evolved, the article also describes how Russian self-images have developed. The image projected of the USA was Manichean in the 1980s, whereas the most benevolent images were found in the 1990s. The examples from 2004 and 2009 reflect an assertive Russia that is back on the world stage. The USA is here again often criticized, but also — as before — comprises the scale against which Russia itself is measured. •

scholarly journals The haunted culture—Shamanic heroes in the cultural content industry of South Korea

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-104
Author(s):  
Jinseok Seo
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Consumer Market ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Asian Market ◽  
Cultural Content ◽  
Short Time

Vytautas Magnus UniversityKorea, with insufficient natural resources and a limited consumer market, began to take notice of the cultural content industry in the 21st century. This means that the cultivation of this industry has not taken place for a long time compared to Japan, the USA or Hong Kong. Yet Korea has obtained an astonishing outcome in a short time. The popular culture of South Korea, with the appellation of hallyu, boasted of an enormous strength initially in the Asian market and subsequently stretched to markets in other countries, too. Seeing that Korean cultural archetypes do not play a successful role in the cultural content business of Korea in general, the position of shamanism is truly trivial among the others. I would like to analyse and discuss the meaning, function and potential of Korean shamanism in the field of the Korean cultural content industry.

scholarly journals STAGE IMAGES OF ROCK MUSICIANS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE FORMATION OF MODERN TRENDS IN CLOTHING DESIGN

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-211
Author(s):  
Kateryna Kyselova ◽  
Olha Shandrenko ◽  
Alina Shcherbak
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metal ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Hard Rock ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Rock Musicians ◽  
Characteristic Features

The purpose of the article is to reveal the influence of stage images of rock musicians on fashion design trends formation. Research methodology: the authors of the article use methods of source study analysis to determine the level of scientific development of the issue, comparative historical analysis to identify the characteristic features of images of musicians and catwalk models of clothing collections of famous designers, and theoretical generalization to draw conclusions. The scientific novelty of the work is to highlight the influence of stage images of musicians on the formation of modern trends in fashion design. The analysis of genre affiliation reveals stylistic differences of the stage costume of popular musicians of the USA and Europe. Some stylistic characteristics of the artists’ stage clothing could be traced in the collections of famous fashion brands of the 21st century, such as Balenciaga, Philipp Plein, Vetements, Alexander Wang, Alexander McQueen, and others. Conclusions. The research reveals the main stylistic features of the stage costume of hard rock and heavy metal musicians. Stage images of artists were innovative and widely used in fashion design of the 20th and early 21st century. The active influence of musicians on fashion trends began in the 60s and 70s of the twentieth century, which coincided with the development of stage costume design and the significant spread of media technology. Hard rock and heavy metal performers created and popularized such a style direction as “grunge”, which is one of the leading musical trends in 2020–2021. Designers of the 21st century borrowed many details, visual and stylistic features, and even concepts for brands from popular hard and heavy artists of the 1970s–1990s. Stage images of rock musicians have a significant impact on the development of fashion and design.

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