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My Life as a Politics Student

2005-03-12T18:25:00.000-08:00

According to the Theory of Hegemonic Stability as illustrated by Charles Kindelberger in his work, “The World in Depression 1929-1939,” the pre-1914 era of British Hegemony was propagated by the ability of the quasi-autonomous Bank of England to act in its own interest in avoiding the problems caused by the current operation of the Gold Standard. Britain’s control over the institutions of the Gold Standard, characterized by its enormous holdings of overseas capital, and the incentive to preserve the system in order not to risk its assets as the largest financial power allowed the United Kingdom to guide the course of the Gold Standard System (Brown, pg. 180).

Can someone explain this to me? I wrote it, I understand it, but WHY? WHY am i studying this?

My Life as a Politics Student

2005-03-12T18:22:00.001-08:00

"According to the Theory of Hegemonic Stability as illustrated by Charles Kindelberger in his work, “The World in Depression 1929-1939,” the pre-1914 era of British Hegemony was propagated by the ability of the quasi-autonomous Bank of England to act in its own interest in avoiding the problems caused by the current operation of the Gold Standard. Britain’s control over the institutions of the Gold Standard, characterized by its enormous holdings of overseas capital, and the incentive to preserve the system in order not to risk its assets as the largest financial power allowed the United Kingdom to guide the course of the Gold Standard System (Brown, pg. 180). "

Can someone please explain this to me? I wrote it, its actually quite good, BUT WHY? WHY?

Cheers

My Life as a Politics Student

2005-03-12T18:22:00.000-08:00

"According to the Theory of Hegemonic Stability as illustrated by Charles Kindelberger in his work, “The World in Depression 1929-1939,” the pre-1914 era of British Hegemony was propagated by the ability of the quasi-autonomous Bank of England to act in its own interest in avoiding the problems caused by the current operation of the Gold Standard. Britain’s control over the institutions of the Gold Standard, characterized by its enormous holdings of overseas capital, and the incentive to preserve the system in order not to risk its assets as the largest financial power allowed the United Kingdom to guide the course of the Gold Standard System (Brown, pg. 180)."

Can someone please explain this to me? I wrote it, I pretty much understand it, but the main question is WHY?

The life of the university student is a trying one.
Cheers darlings.

Shoes or France?

2005-02-24T16:41:00.000-08:00

It wasn't a very hard decision - my plans to study in France this summer have been abandoned. There were a few reasons for this decision, other than a fabulous pair of Nine West wedge sandals:
a) its expensive (5 g's whaaaaaaaaaaaat!)
b) its taught my people at some French Institute who aren't professors
c) all marks are on a weird different French scale which have to be converted to U of T marks
d) I would have to be really poor until I left, and I want pretty things like shoes!

I wanted to post a picture of them, but they're not on the Nine West website but I will get a picture to you soon so we can all appreciate the beauty of a good pair of summer sandals, bought in February.

How I Ignore People on Campus

2005-02-22T13:07:00.000-08:00

Today as I was walking down the stairs in Old Vic and away from my politics tutorial, I saw someone I knew. This someone is an acquaintance of both angelo and myself, and I'm sorry to say that if I had made my presence known to her I would have been forced to make small talk and listen to her boring 'I am an English student' life. So what did I do? I said nothing, and promptly walked into the Victoria College Bookstore in order to further conceal my presence.
This is just another one of the things that I do on a regular basis - ignore people that I know in order to avoid talking to them. I'm not quite sure why I do this, maybe its to avoid small talk, annoying comments people say - but nonetheless it occurs more and more frequently especially on campus. That's my thought for today.

One further note - I just discovered that blogs have spell check!

UOFT101: Introduction to the Stat Student

2005-02-20T16:42:00.000-08:00

Who would you expect to see at Tim Hortons at 3 am in the morning? Of course, 6-9 asian u of t students studying stats and talking to each other in foreign languages. For those of you not attending U of T presently, welcome to the callibur of people i am generally forced to associate with in the so called 'academic environment' of the University of Toronto. Although the U of T stat student is usually confined to its natural haunt at Robarts which is luckily at the other end of campus from where i am usually situated (Holt Renfrew), I am finding that they are migrating accross Queen's Park Circle into Victoria College in alarmingly larger numbers.
I can deal with having to see them at school, but having them situated just a short distance from my house at my very own Tim Hortons is increasingly offensive. Is there no safe place in Toronto where one can escape the very scarey and fashion challenged stat student? Say what you will about those of us studying the Humanities, but generally, and I use this term losely in reference to U of T, we at least attempt to style our hair.