Poverty is perceived as something unending in most poor and developing countries and it still occurs in areas including which have become tourist attraction centres. Tourism is an economic sector that is increasingly growing in importance to most poor and developing countries especially in rural areas and in the interior. Tourism activities have the ability to stimulate regional development rapidly which in turn benefits the locals. However, there is also a situation whereby its development is not equally beneficial to the government, investors and locals despite the rapidly developing tourism activities in that area. Pro Poor Tourism (PPT) is a mechanism that is able to benefit the poor at tourism centres; several strategies and approaches were identified as capable of increasing the cooperative bonding between the government, private sectors and local population as well as providing benefits to all three parties without ignoring the locals in the area. This study aims to present the .....

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This study aims to investigate the extent of acceptance and awareness of the social commentary art through printmaking among public. Social commentary is a function of art toward people, and artworks can carry messages and change public opinions and expose the reality of such a social, cultural or political issue. A Convergent Parallel Design mixed method is used as the study methodology to measure the public acceptance and understanding of social commentary and printmaking. The statistical data proved that there is significant influence of acceptance and awareness of social commentary has reflected Arab public perception of a certain issue which is also supported by qualitative findings. But also, findings showed that there is a significant confusion between social and cultural themes and political artworks are the most understandable. That significantly important to line up Arab social commentary printmaking for future reference and, to facilitate the formulating guidelines towards c.....

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The aim of this research was to verify the Malaysian version of Rathus assertiveness as a drug prevention scale in secondary school students. The current research participants were 211 secondary students in Johor, Selangor, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. An exploratory factor analysis with principal axis factoring and varimax rotation was performed for the initial analysis. After the eigenvalue emerged, the data was suppressed to.30 to display the factor loading. The value of commonalities and factor loading were considered to frame and locate the items in the scale structure. Furthermore, the reliability of the scale was tested through Cronbach's alpha. The result showed that nine factors emerged, explaining 58.721% of the variance. Four of the 30 items were eliminated from the analysis because they had commonalities below the threshold. The structure of the scale was as follows: seven items in the first factor, four items in the second factor, four items in the third factor, two items i.....

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