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Mr. Farrukh Khan was born in the year 1960 at Karachi, in Pakistan, but spent most of the early 26 years of his life in Nigeria. He later attended Government College, Sokoto, Federal School of Arts and Sciences, Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria and the University of Tasmania, Australia. After university training, Farrukh received specialised training at National Panasonic Video Systems Division, Osaka, Japan and at Nokia Chimera, Lahore, Pakistan. With 20 years of working experience as a professional engineer, academic, researcher and author, Farrukh now devotes much of his time to researching topics that interest him. He now works as a freelancer from his place of birth, Karachi in Pakistan. Farrukh has worked as an assistant professor at Sir Syed University, Baqai Medical University Institute of Information Technology, CAMS College in Karachi and at Preston University, where he used to teach Electronics and Advanced Computer Architecture. Farrukh is widely travelled, having visited about 50 major cities on four continents of the world, but he has never visited North America. He was lucky to have gained professional work experience in Australia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia as well as the UAE.
Farrukh researches and writes about whatever he finds interesting and has produced about 370 academic writing efforts so far, aided by grants from individuals, businesses and publishers. Some of these are presented here for distribution by Lulu. You will find the offerings interesting and more will be added as they become available.
Farrukh can assist busy executives, students or your business to produce researched and written material that they may want, but cannot find the time to complete. Perhaps a publisher or an agency involved in outsourcing research under a research grant may want to have some material produced? You can email Farrukh at: farrukh.rehan.khan@googlemail.com
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Print: $50.00 Download: $45.00 It is possible to argue that the past century was one of intellectual, physical and emotional violence that is without parallel in world history. Efforts at colonial domination, wars for freedom, the First and the Second World Wars and the struggle between communism and capitalism kept many nations involved. Vietnam and Southeast Asia were to witness many conflicts and the Vietnam War was to present a devastated nation to the world that had been a battlefield between global superpowers with conflicting ideology. However, it is possible to find the roots of the conflict in Vietnam in the stark social disparities that even the French colonialists were not interested in addressing. This essay presents a discussion about Vietnam, its colonial exploitation, attempts at social transformation, religious and cultural influences and the flawed American military intervention in the region.
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Print: $66.90 Download: $37.50 The division of Korea was the result of the presence of the Russian and American armed
forces in two separate parts of the Korean Peninsula when Japan surrendered at the end
of the Second World War. However,
the Korean War started when North Korea felt that it could reunite the Korean Peninsula
by force and invaded the South with backing from its Chinese and Russian communist
allies. It was only after the United States of America had involved itself in the war that it
was possible for the South Koreans to reassert their right to self-determination. However,
the Korean War in which the North had sent 66,000 tanks to invade the South was to see
Chinese forces fighting against the Americans with more than half a million dead only on
the Chinese side. This essay presents a discussion about a strategy for the
resolution of the North Korean problem to bring about lasting peace that will be best for
the world.
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Print: $19.10 Download: $10.00 The ongoing global financial recession has forced an era of intense competition on all
manufacturers, especially those associated with the manufacturing of computers and
electronic gadgetry. For those who must deliver the optimal combination of hardware
and software to capture the consumer’s imagination to make them pay out of their
disposable income, competing with superior functionality, quality and price has meant
that they must have access to superior capabilities in terms of design, including VLSI
design. However, it is important to compete to survive and to remain in a position to
deliver new products that will rule the market of tomorrow. This essay presents a
discussion about a strategy for competing against Apple Inc, a well-established and
successful firm with an established brand and a capability for in-house VLSI design.
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Print: $16.70 Download: $5.00 This very brief note is about an evaluation of the positioning of two major retail and
grocery competitors. Amazon Grocery, a relative newcomer to the market, which
commenced operations in May 2006, has an emphasis on the organic and health food
related markets with an inventory of 15,000 non-perishable items. About half of the
previously mentioned inventory items for Amazon Grocery are organic and health food
related items. The other retail competitor is Aldi’s focuses on the highest quality food
products at the lowest possible price. The evaluation note focuses on demographics and
socio-cultural trends, advertising, strategy and image for the previously mentioned
retailers and the strategy that a competitor should adopt.
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Print: $25.00 Download: $25.00 The International Criminal Court is said to be arguably the most influential international
organisations created since the United Nations. However, despite the fact that 120 nation
states signed the Rome Statute on July 17, 1998 to give birth to the International
Criminal Court, it is felt that the jurisdiction of this Court is far too restrictive and often
likely to be at odds with the national jurisdiction of nation states. This essay presents a discussion about the relationship between national
jurisdictions and the International Criminal Court presenting a challenge to
international criminal justice despite the emphasis on positive complementarity.
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Print: $50.90 Download: $30.00 This study seeks to explore how film creates cultural anxiety for spectators. Film as a
medium permits the filmmaker to present strong immersive experiences that challenge the
old model of culture with a popular grip. Whereas spectators may want to denounce the
old model, the permeating grip of the old culture and a need for cognitive adjustment and
debate causes tensions that result in cultural anxiety. After all, a film presents its
message to many, permeating political and media rhetoric across the majority, minority,
political and religious spectra. For those interested in films and the art of making films,
it is important to understand how anxiety about ‘our’ culture now appears ubiquitous
and how films have contributed to this anxiety.
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Print: $73.80 Download: $50.00 After the oil and food price shocks of 2008, the world is now experiencing a severe economic downturn, with uncertainties, extreme market volatility and a decline in consumer and business confidence. In Europe, the tourism and hospitality sectors have resisted the downturn better than in North America and Japan, where the effects are far more severe. However, both consumers and tourism and hospitality executives remain nervous as the bad news from the United States of America reaches into the living rooms, the boardrooms and offices. Occupancy rates are down and Europe remains flush with bargains in tourism and hospitality. However, it is not easy to get the customer to come in for a smile and a treat. This dissertation presents a discussion about the impact of the current recession of 2008/2009 on the European tourism and hospitality industries and strategies for competition.
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Print: $20.00 Download: $12.50 Historians agree that the Meiji era in Japanese history presented a succession of large reforms that were to bring about an improvement in Japanese society. Compulsory education for women and a greater tolerance for debate were amongst the positive improvements of the Meiji era that were to enhance freedom and the position of women. However, even the Meiji government could not change the fundamental psyche of the Japanese and a complex interplay of class, poverty, gender inequality and exploitative forces continued to act against rural women from of masses. This brief essay presents a discussion about women in Japan during the Meiji era and it will appear that although the Meiji government did try to improve the situation for women in Japan, it could not alter fundamental influences.
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Print: $100.00 Download: $60.00 The boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria that had extended from Lake Chad to the sea and into the deep ocean had been a source of disagreement between the two neighboring states. Although close historical links had existed between the two nations, Germany acting as the colonial power in what is now Cameroon and Britain in the present day Nigeria had agreed about the division as far back as the 1913. However, France at the end of the First World War replaced Germany as a colonial power and Britain administered a part of the Cameroons. Thus, after the independence of Nigeria Bakassi peninsula, claimed by Cameroon, ended up under Nigerian administration. This thesis presents an examination of the International Court of Justice decision in the Nigeria vs. Cameroon case and attempts to determine how this decision influenced the balance of hydrocarbon reserves and the energy situation in the region.
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Print: $19.10 Download: $12.50 With trends that are suggestive of an increasing number of couples living together and continued high divorce rates, it is clear that the number of children affected by a divorce or a separation is increasing. Such children are likely to present adverse impacts, including depression, low self-esteem, behavioral problems and a lack of achievement. Thus, it is important make the right efforts to try to help the so-called children of divorce and to minimize the impact of divorce. Fortunately, it is possible to do more to help children who have suffered from the divorce or separation of their parents as they confront a reorganization of their family. Parental education about divorce, interventions designed to help children open up, discuss issues and to acquire problem solving skills as well as peer support do help. Schools are important in helping a child to adjust. This essay presents a discussion about ways to help children through a divorce or a reorganization of their family.
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