...Microeconomics examples of topics for essay#1 IMPORTANT Guidelines for essay - You are doing a short research paper. Therefore, you need come up with research questions or thesis. Think what interests you in what we cover in the class. For example, o If you are interested in outsourcing, your research questions could be “Is the US better off or worse off because of the outsourcing to China?”. Then you go do a research on it. Find academic articles or news articles that support and/or against outsourcing. o You do research by reading those articles that you found and then combine the information you find into a unified paper that represents your fully formed expertise. The key to the whole thing is "combining," so as you do your research, look for facts and information that go well together and help explain (or disagree with) each other o You may start your introduction and research questions. Then start a second paragraph with a short explanation of what is “outsourcing” and state facts such as how many dollars or how many jobs the US outsourced to China in 2010. o The paper must show an analysis of a real world outsourcing situation such as what are the problems with the outsourcing, why there are the problems, how to fix the problems, what the pros and cons of each solution are, and how it will affect consumers who buy imported goods at Walmart or exporters to China. o Warning: You should...
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...Draft essay Since the Second World War, development has increased rapidly. Modern societies hope to develop the standard of living through growth in economy and technology. However, development also has some negative impact on society. In addition, the negative impact of development is becoming more serious, especially in developing counties. In this essay, the term ‘the social cost of development’ refers to damage to society caused by activities aimed at achieving the goals of society. The concept of the ‘development’ is considered to include the development goals and all systems and legal measures used to achieve development. Further to this the concept that social cost is‘too high’ is considered to mean that too much damage is caused to society before it is possible to achieve the development goals. In view of the above this essay will argue that the social cost of development is too high. This will be demonstrated by analysing of the impact of the social cost of development on the environmental pollution and health. Developing countries will cost the environment to develop the economy. A major reason for this is that it is commonly that in older to solve the poverty, developing countries will cost the environment to develop the economy. Firstly, during economic growth, environmental degradation will increase. According to the result of research by Dinda, “When a country achieves a sufficiently high standard of living, people attach increasing value to environmental amenities”...
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...EC1 Section 5 Illustration Essay Raphiporn (Mind) Chonlakhup 5580568 Population Growth’s Negative Aspects on Various Countries Currently, the world population is reaching an estimated number of 7,094 million people or about 7 billion (Population Connection, 2013) and is growing by 145 people every minute or 2.4 every second (CIA World Factbook, 2012). The increase in world population happens usually because of the faster decline in death rate than the birth rate due to more availability of antibiotics, immunization, clean water and increased food production which improved child lives and decreases infant mortality. Too much population growth in a region, a city or a country can result as overpopulation. Overpopulation refers to a condition when the number of the population exceeds the capacity of their living habitats and the existence of their resources, it normally occurs from the unbalanced rate of birth and deaths, an increase in immigration, or an unsustainable biome and depletion of resources. Overpopulation is generally considered as a disadvantage as it may contribute to multitudinous problems such as environmental deterioration, low life qualities, good deficiency, and fatal issue such as population collapse. This essay will emphasize on the diversity of negative aspects of population growth in various countries on their environments, economy, and society. The major and largest factor related to my idea of too much population growth as a disadvantage towards...
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...Meaning of alcohol in five different societies: Native Americans, Maori, Chinese, French and Russian This essay was conducted in order to look over whether the meaning of ‘alcohol’ differs across various cultures. The essay will compare how tribal people conceptualise the definition of this substance and how it is explained by contemporary societies in developing and developed countries, and also in the post-Soviet country. Contemporary or postmodern period is known as the latter 20th and the 21st century (Johnson, 2001). This paper will provide examples of indigenous societies from North America and New Zealand, and also societies from China, France and Russia. The essay will briefly review the way their attitude to alcohol changed since earlier times. It seems that in practice relation with alcohol is usually understood by drinking alcoholic liquids. The behavioural consequences of drinking depend as much as on a people’s idea of alcohol does to a person as on the physiological processes that can result from alcohol abuse. It would be advisable to say that alcohol as a ‘drink’ played an important role in almost all societies’ cultures since Neolithic times. Alcohol helped to drive the globalisation of trade since 17th century (Hames, 2012). The role of this substance was usually described in relation to religious experiences or by enhancing the enjoyment of life. Historically, alcoholic beverages also were widely used as sources of antiseptic nutrients in medicine. In modern...
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...master cutters. o A high quality manufacturing o Experience work with European country o High quality of design ready to wear o Aware about employees welfare WEAKNESSES o Lack of production cost o Lack of producing finish good o Lack of management planning o Lack of raw material o Lack of man power OPPORTUNITY o Attract more customer based from Europe o o o o Expand more branch within and outside Malaysia Leave Malaysia Hire cheaper employees in China to reduce cost Improve in technology o THREAT o Price competition with China manufacturing Kiki and Houida want move to China The PESTLE Model Political: Definition: What is happening politically environment in which business operates. For example: Represent the way and the extent to which a government influences the economy and a certain business. Political factors are represented by specific areas, such as labour law, tax policy, tariffs,trade restrictions and even environmental law. For example based on HCF: 1) If Jefry Tan expending their business to China. China and Malaysia have two way relationship. 2) Malaysia have politic relationship with Europe when HCF export their textile to Europe, indirectly it can give a good impact to Malaysia. 3) One of the reason why Europian and Malaysia...
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...In China, should smoking in public places be prohibited? In recent decades, the number of the smoker in China has increased significantly, and the issue of whether smoking in public places should be banned or not has been widely argued. The term ‘smoking in public places’ refers to the phenomenon of having a cigarette in the area where many people gather. This essay will argue that smoking in public places should be prohibited. The reasons for this include the health issues caused by smoking, negative effect on public environment and the related safety problem. It is argued that the main negative aspect of smoking in public places is the extremely harmful influence on health. For the smokers, their lungs and throats can be damaged seriously. Moreover, the incidence of cancers, especially lung cancer and laryngeal cancer, to the large extent is increasing because of smoking. Additionally, smoking in public area will also affect other people’s health. The harmful chemicals contained in the second hand smoke may cause a series of disease, such as heart disease and respiratory disease. Undoubtedly, banning smoking will make a large difference on these related health problems. Another reason to prohibit smoking in public places is its negative impact on the environment. Firstly, plants can be poisoned by the harmful chemicals released by smokers. In addition, the smoke also contains a large amount of particles, which adds greatly to the air pollution. Thirdly, during the production...
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...Essay One: Answer both Part A and Part B Part A - What is your short-term goal following graduation from the Georgetown McDonough MBA Program? What skills are you seeking to develop or improve upon in order to reach your goals? (500 words or fewer) Part B – What is your long-term career goal? (100 words or fewer) Essay 1 - Part A I was like a sinking ship, with no chance to develop the ocean. Four years ago, I started a clothing trading company named DREAMIX with a close friend who majored in art design. He had a dream of becoming fashion designer and I majored in international business with hopes of establishing an international trading company. The name of the company, DREAMIX, symbolized a mixture of our ambitions and dreams for the success of a company that we spent many hours in university planning. Our plan of action was simple; we researched laws required to build a company in Taiwan, talked to several professors, and asked entrepreneurs who had worked in similar areas for advice. Both my partner and I had successful careers in the army and felt fully capable and confident that our success could be achieved through DREAMIX. We were enthusiastic about building our own brand, “Welcome A Board”, as I had been a sponsored skateboarder and had been successful in helping to lead our college skateboarding team. Soon after discussing our plans of making clothes with a friend, we realized we didn’t have the budget to launch a successful marketing strategy...
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... Essay #1 [Choice#2] The one-child policy is a population control policy that was introduced in 1979 to relive social, economic, and environmental problems in China. At the time the growth rate of China’s population was very high and the main purpose of the policy was to limit the large family units in the country to one child each. After implementing the policy, the government hoped to see reduction in the growth rate of its enormous population. Sometimes couples can have a second child only if their first was a girl or had disabilities. As of today, China’s government believes that their one-child policy will result in a wealthier, healthier and happier life for the people of China. After viewing the article, “Plight of The Little Emperors” and documentary, “China’s lost girls” I think the one-child policy implemented in China is not the right way to control over population. I believe that China’s one-child policy has been unsuccessful because it has caused health issues and gender imbalance. The first reason why I think the one-child policy has been unsuccessful is because it has caused health issues. Traditionally in the Chinese culture, the children take care of their parents when they are older. Since the one-child policy only allows them to have one child, they are willing to do almost anything so that child will be successful and support them in old age. By sacrificing themselves, these parents may face health issues. In the...
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...Globalization of Labour In this modern era, labour markets around the world have become integrated. Countries such as China and India have transformed their labour markets to open markets. This is due to the new economic reforms and political changes within the countries. Changes in the regulations of cross country trade and a reduction in restricted capital flows have allowed greater world wide integration in labour markets. The technological innovation combined with these factors has allowed production processes to be set up in other countries thus creating more jobs. This has also lead firms to be more cost efficient, although the exploitation of these resources have also lead to controversial and ethical problems. The opening up of the Chinese, Central European and Indian markets have lead to a large surge of labour supply for economies around the world. The global labour supply has increased four times from 1980 to 2005. Moreover, majority of this increase is come from the East Asian markets as the population of the working age is increasing. Furthermore, the majority of the increase was from people without higher education. Whereas the supply of labour with higher education increased by fifty percent later as the economies in China and India developed further. Trade is a critical channel to access global labour markets. Immigration has increased in many countries worldwide but still is restricted in many countries. Immigration has increased in countries such as Germany...
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...The 4-2-1 Phenomenon The main purpose of this essay is to review the effect on how this structure has affected, affects and is a big challenge for China’s development. It all starts far back in 1979 when the one child policy was introduced. At first it was a measure aiming to control the rapid growth of the population, now the country is facing its consequences. (Dvorsky) By the midpoint of the century, more than a quarter of the Chinese population will be over 65. And it will be at this point in time (if not sooner) that young adults will face an unprecedented burden of care — what's been dubbed the 4-2-1 problem. China already has the world’s largest elderly population and it is expected to increase. Elderly people aged 60 and above will grow by 100 million in just 15 years (from 200m in 2015 to 300 by 2030). This argument in the increase of elderly people will lead to an increasing demand for services and expenditures related to health care, the cost of which will fall upon China’s only children. The one-child policy has created a situation in China in which there are too few young people to support a growing, aging population. This scheme basically stipulates that a child would bear the responsibility of providing to his/her grandparents (usually 4) parents as they cannot rely on siblings or other family members during their old age, himself and on top of that, his future family. Even with high savings rates, it seems unlikely that the younger generation will...
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...of globalisation, and how it is affecting their environment. The implications from industrialisations which results in over exhausting natural resources, has caused environmental degradation, and most of this is done by human activity especially international business activities. This essay will look at the impact of economic globalisation on China while focusing on China’s ecological environment. To start off, the essay will look at the definitions of globalisation and economy, followed by China’s change from being an agriculturally farming intensive country towards rapid industrialisation. Because of this activity pollution, emissions as well as environmental degradation resulted in serious ecological problems. International bodies such as the Kyoto Protocol, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Environment Programme, have stressed the importance or reducing pollution and emissions in developing countries in order to maintain sustainability. Cancer villages are becoming a major concern in China and that was enough to make the Chinese political party to take responsibility and change their views on the ecological environment. The question here is can China implement these changes to maintain sustainability for future generations, and if so what methods are they using to achieved this by? According to Morrison (2011), globalisation is the “process by which products, people, companies, money and information are able to move quickly around...
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...Negative impacts of generational differences in the workplace of China The past decades have witnessed a dramatic transformation in China. With the development of modern society, the generational differences are becoming growingly deep and complex. Although it is normal that people have diverse personalities and lifestyles, the disparity between generations is quite evident. Working age Chinese fell into two main generations, “a generation being defined as an identifiable group that shares birth years, age, location, and significant life events at critical developmental stages”(Kupperschmidt, 2000, p.65), divided by the year when the reform and opening up was implemented. As an increasing number of young people have graduated from schools and start their careers, concern about the generational difference in the workplace is raised. Since different generation internally share different value and culture, communication problems and interpersonal conflict are almost inevitable, which may result in negative impact in workplace, like inefficiency and low productivity. In this essay, the causes and effects of these problems will be examined before continuing suggesting solutions. The essay will then be concluded by presenting personal opinion on this topic. The first and perhaps most common problem emerges from generational differences in the workplace is communication difficulty. The young generation and old generation both have their unique languages due to different culture background...
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...Essay Plan & Outline Rational: I found that we all commonly belief in the worthiness of being alive due to the fact that we take it for granted that being alive gives us hope and joys. However, there are certain amount of people who perceive being alive as a burden and meanwhile considers the hope of afterlife as a better place to be. By committing suicide, they cease the consciousness, succeed in brining changes and freedom from struggling in pains. Due to the fact that suicide is not only a philosophical but also a public health issue, it is important to explore the ultimate motivations of suicide and suicide attempts. I therefore determine to investigate the issue to gain an in-depth understanding, by using the case of series of suicides committed by a multinational enterprise, Foxconn’s employees in its Chinese manufacturing plant. I wish to argue based on research evidences that the motives to cease pains, to bring changes and to pursue a taken for granted better afterlife constitute to suicides. The outline of my essay is shown as follow: Introduction In 2012, Foxconn, a renowned multinational enterprise, has seen a series of suicides committed by its young workers in China, which shocked the society. The perceptions about life and death depend on individuals’ unique situations. However, suicide and suicide attempts persist as a predominant public health problem (McClure, 1984; Weissman, 1974), and therefore it is important and significant to specifically look into...
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...Introduction to Sun Tzu's Art of War Sun Tzu's The Art of War is the most famous work on military operations in ancient China. Being the oldest military treatise in the world, it is one of the greatest cultural legacies of the Chinese nation. Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a classic on military operations and the most influential in the world today. Sun Tzu or Sun Zi (孙子) is traditionally believed to be the author of The Art of War. Sun has had a significant impact on Chinese and Asian history and culture, both as an author of the Art of War and as a legendary figure. Historians have questioned whether or not Sun was an authentic historical figure. Traditional accounts place him in the Spring and Autumn Period of China (722–481 BCE) as a heroic general of the King of Wu who lived c. 544—496 BCE. Scholars accepting his historicity place his supposed writing The Art of War in the Warring States Period (476–221 BCE), based on the descriptions of warfare in the text. Traditional accounts state that his descendant, Sun Bin, also wrote a master treatise on military tactics. Historians have questioned whether or not Sun was a real historical figure. According to traditional sources, such as the 2nd century BCE biography written by Sima Qian, Sun was born in Qi (now Shandong Province) during the Spring and Autumn Period of China (722–481 BCE). His real family name is Tian, but the last name of Sun was given by King of Qi State to his family when his grandfather, a general for Qi...
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...economic, and cultural researches on the evolution of markets and industrial organizations within modern societies. From other perspectives, economic development of embrace improvements in a variety of indicators such as literacy rates, life expectancy, poverty rates, health, and education. In fact, these indicators are more related to economic growth so that development goes often with growth. Scientists often argue that poor countries and mainly “third-world countries” have experienced very fast economic growth with barely little economic development and especially during the periods where they served as resource providers for industrialized countries. Other economists claim that economic growth causes or contributes to economic development, because according to this perspective, because at least some of the increasing income is spend on human sustainable development such as education and health; this is actually the most reasonable approach regarding this link that joins growth to development. As economic development relates directly to human development, we can understand this relationship with so many different explanations. For instance, an increase in disposable incomes often leads to improvement in health and nutrition among others....
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