Fashion Industry

http://www.elizabethandclaire.ie/us-fashion-industry-discusses-healthier-bodies

Fashion Brands and Social Responsibility

http://fashionablymarketing.me/2010/12/how-fashion-brands-can-ensure-corporate-social-responsibility/

http://www.fashionfightspoverty.org/blog/?cat=4

Fiona Simpson AU: More money wasted on…

http://www.fionasimpson.com.au/Media/LocalNews/tabid/69/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/700/More-money-wasted-on-plans-for-failed-bus-station-project.aspx

The Telegraph AU: Back up plans for failed marriages

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/aussies-have-back-up-plans-for-failed-marriage/story-e6frf00i-1226057687832

NYT: Debts Plans that failed

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/01/us/politics/the-debt-plans-that-failed.html#/plan/biden-talks

Rachel Crow If I were a boy – X Factor USA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdWAi1NHV9E

Greece’s Financial Crisis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13805391

Costa Concordia Disaster

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16563562

 http://www.cnbc.com/id/28794290

 http://allwomenstalk.com/the-untold-story-of-a-consumer-nation-something-to-think-about/

 http://www.ehow.com/about_6505556_youth-consumer-culture.html

http://fulleryouthinstitute.org/2009/02/consuming-teen-identity/

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/parents/marketing/issues_teens_marketing.cfm

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/magazine/consumer-society

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/145_consumerism/page2.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption

 http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3006.html

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