...Is the world really flat? In his famous book: The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman depicts how globalization has broken the restrictions of country border and is transforming the world into an interconnected, flat world. Based on his observations, Friedman groups these globalization phenomena into 10 so-called “flatteners”, such as Collapse of the Berlin Wall, outsourcing, offshoring, and informing. He is a firm advocate of free trade. He recounts several examples of Chinese and India companies that take advantage of low cost labor to integrate into the whole world trade supply chain. From his view, the world is really becoming a seamless world factory where every country works in cooperation along this supply chain. Meanwhile, globalization is bringing a set of globalized values to every corner of the world. Indeed, the world seems like a truly fair playing ground. However, in my view, the world is just far from being flat. The world is in a huge imbalance. Due to the comparative advantage of labor between developing countries and developed countries, the world capital is flowing from the US and European countries which have high labor cost to emerging economies like China and India where there are abundant supply of cheap and skilled labor. On one hand, China and the other emerging economies are accelerating their integration into the interdependence world factory. Gaps in living standards, wage and technology are quickly shrinking. The benefits of economic boom are spreading...
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...Granny Flats - The rising trend Granny flats are the newest home improvement and renovation trends gaining popularity all over the worlds. Granny flats Sydney are not only providing extra accommodation, but also generating extra rental income for many home owners. In the past, converting your garage or backyard to a living place and rent it out was viewed as illegal in Australia. But those days are long gone. With new property regulation that encouraged construction of affordable secondary dwelling places, granny flats started popping out in Sydney and spreading all over the country. While some homeowners are ignorant of this new trend, the smart homeowners have started to build secondary dwelling spaces on their property and making extra...
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...volunteers and business sponsors, to stand out among the crowd is critical to success. UNITECH Builder is one of the largest real estate Developer in India with around US$ 5 bn market capitalization. Turning many barren landscapes into landmarks UNITECH has an experience of 20 years in real estate development. It comes under the top 50 real estate companies in the world and boasts development such as South City, Nirvana Country, Cascade, The Close and many more remarkable developments are there. Reliance and commitment is the cornerstone of Unitech’s corporate philosophy and combined with an exceptional insight that how people aspire to live. The first real estate company in India is Unitech which has achieved the ISO 9001-2000 certification for planning, Marketing and Construction of real estate in the National Capital Region. Unitech is committed to develop energy efficient green buildings and is also a registered member of the Indian Green Building Council. A great experience in developing prestigious projects across India an Unraveled expertise makes the Untiech the niche of conceptualizing and delivering world class IT/ITes parks, commercial complexes, SEZ’s , schools, malls, hotels, integrated residential development and amusement parks. Today Unitech is one of the leading real Estate Developers in India. Established in 1972, and now a pan-India presence has been established but earlier Unitech was focussing more on National Capital Region (NCR and is one of the largest...
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...There are 3 potential threats of hk subdivided flats. The first one is related to building code violations. Original partition walls are frequently removed from flats in order to make room for many new non-loadbearing walls. These new walls add to the stress on floors and loadbearing walls, threatening the structural integrity of entire buildings. Hong Kong’s Buildings Department conducted an investigation on collapsed building ,it listed several contributing factors to the building’s structural failure, additional loading due to flat subdivision on all upper floors is one of the cause of it. The second one is Fire Safety Violations. Amongst the obvious consequences from overlooking building codes, the most imminent threat to tenants is that of fire. The escape routes in sub flat are often blocked ,the common corridor is too narrow .In addition, fire-rated doors are also uncommon, it increase the risk of a fire growing out of control. Also, fire spreads quickly through densely populated places like a subdivided structure, even a small fire from an external source can be catastrophic to a subdivided building .When there is a fire, with no ventilation or place to escape, tenants can easily be trapped and killed. The thied one is the deficient environmental hygiene is another problem that exists in subdivided housing units. When flats are subdivided, additional plumbing fixtures such as toilets and sinks are commonly installed by landlords or in some cases by tenants...
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...January 2013 Untouchable This is a summary of “The Untouchables” is a section from The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty First Century written by Thomas Friedman. In this excerpt Friedman explains how everyone should strive to be “untouchable” in todays society. This is ironic because untouchables in India’s caste system are people with very little respect, but how Friedman puts it they are people with jobs that can not be outsourced or become digitized. Due to globalization Americans as “individuals will have to work a little harder and run a little faster to keep our standard of living rising.” We have to stop the globalization of industries and begin globalizing individuals because we ave to think globally to survive. Self awareness has been created by the ability to move work around to other countries people now realize they have to be able to have the skills and be able to compete in order to survive in today’s work world. Americans can not be mediocre at their job and get by anymore. A start would be striving to be the best and staying passionate about whatever that person does for a living. Friedman believes that the world is becoming flat due to jobs being outsourced all over the world. Jobs will go to the cheapest most productive worker wherever they may be. The companies that will survive in this new flat world are changing their model of work in order to compete world wide. Students need to reorient what they learn in school to change it to make it useful...
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...Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Book Report By: Matthew R. King International Management 04/11/16 After carefully reading Hot, Flat, and Crowded; I was able to form a relationship with the author Thomas Friedman. Hot, Flat, and Crowded speaks directly with the reader about issues going on in our world. Global warming is a major issues that Freidman presents, and he presents actions on what we should do as a civilization to counter the affects of global warming. Hot, Flat, and Crowded is all about creating a more sustainable world to live in, but too many people, organizations, and businesses are not taking the appropriate time to follow the actions that Freidman suggests. We have to change the way we operate as people and as businesses, because we are harming our environment our ecosystem cannot keep up physically with the way we are living. Also some adverse effects are adding to the destroying of our environment, ozone layers, and our ecosystems. The energy we use everyday is growing at a significantly higher rate every year, and our ecosystem cannot keep up with our usage. “Planet's surface temperature may warm up in response to a doubling of carbon dioxide -- a byproduct of fossil fuel burning -- they typically predict a rise of between 2.1 and 4.7 degrees Celsius.” Earth could become hotter than thought, study warns. (n.d.). The use of more and more energy is producing twice as much carbon dioxide emissions to be released and it’s beginning to pollute the atmosphere at a...
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...A few short years later, he became the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. His gifted hands helped him earn the title of being the top neurosurgeon in the world and also become the title of a book and movie (Carson and Murphey, 1990). Carson went from living in poverty to being a high ranking medical surgeon (Preston, 2014). He overcame adversity not because his family was privileged, but because of his hard work and dedication. His story is the perfect example of the American Dream. He is also a perfect role model for young Americans who are living in poor, poverty areas, with little guidance. He is a living, breathing example for how anyone can achieve...
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...Speech Outline I. Joanne Kathleen Rowling is a woman who went from rags to riches in less than a year because she believed that anything was possible. II. Today I will inform the class on the changes that the Harry Potter series had on J. K. Rowlings life. III. WIIFM: After my speech, the audience will be much more informed about the life of R. K. Rowling, and how she became one of the richest women in the world. Body. T1. So now, I. The Life of J. K. Rowling just before… A. Death of her mother. 1.Multiple Sclerosis B. Divorce 1. Divorced Jorge Arantes in 1993 2. this left her a single parent of one baby girl, Jessica B. Living in poverty 1. She lived in a one room flat in Edinburgh 2. Her flat had no heat and was infested with mice 3. She wrote the first chapter of Harry Potter and the philosophers stone on a napkin. T2.But everything changed when she had a small idea that would become a big deal… II. The Rise of Harry Potter, and Joanne Rowling A. Rowling had no faith after being denied by so many publishers. B. Published by Bloomsbury children’s books on June 30, 1997. 1. They paid $14,300 for the rights to the first book. 2. It was an instant success. C. Harry potter and the Philosophers stone went international in less than a year. 1. Scholastic...
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...feature among Filipinos One discernible physical feature predominant among Filipinos are the most common relatively flat noses. Evolutionary, this has been due to the climate, because people living in colder regions have longer and bigger noses due to the colder air, which so has the opportunity to warm up more before going to the lungs. Because of the hot temperatures close to the equator, this was not necessary for people living in the Philippines. Still, today you find several variations of noses among Filipinos as well as in more western regions. The different kind of noses range between really flat noses, really small noses, really wide, but also not so wide noses and you can even see people with pointy noses already. Still I guess the flat noses with the rather round tips are still the most usual kind. Therefore, a lot of Filipinos still think it is a sign of low class or lower social status if you have a wide flat nose compared to a small and peaked nose. But I also think that this is an assumption which is losing its credibility. One of my German friends here in the Philippines has a white, pointy and relatively bigger nose compared to the Filipinos and a lot of Filipino people tell her, that they like her nose and think her nose is really pretty, so I guess having a pointy nose is some kind of beauty feature here as well. Especially since it is all over the world a sign of beauty among models. I actually like both kind of noses, since I think it depends on the face around...
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...the Hong Kong government would be meaningless when the diseases are spread from other countries. We cannot help tackle the hygiene problems in the mainland China, but Hong Kong government should also pay attention in spreading of diseases from tourists and immigrants. Hong Kong government should also keep an eye of the poor sanitation in subdivided flats because the living condition is poorer that we expected, it is sure that if people living in the subdivided flats would easily be infected becase of the poor hygiene. In my opinion, Hong Kong government should set up Infrared Thermometer in the immigration centre, so that the temperature of every tourits and immigrants can be seen. Once the temperature is out of range, he/she should receive a medical check so that we can ensure no infected patient are entering Hong Kong causing the spreading of infectious diseases.This measure is important in stopping the spreading of diseases from country to country and lead to world spreading. Other than preventing by checking newcomers from other countries, Hong Kong government should first tackle the problem of poor sanition in subdivided flats by keeping toilets, bathrooms, drainage, sewage facilities clean because subdivided can easily be the first infected...
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...University of the Philippines Lahug, Cebu City The World is Flat Book Review by Thomas Friedman Submitted by: Angelique Kay G. Consular Submitted to: Ms. Mae Claire Jabines Chapter Summaries Chapter One: While I Was Sleeping The first chapter begins by illustrating Friedman's disclosure that the world is flat. It sets forward on his visit to Infosys Technologies Limited in India, where he go on foot with Discovery Times. Friedman is inspired by the grounds' propelled innovation, for example the glass-and-steel edifices and huge even screen Tvs. The organization's CEO, Nandan Nilekani, tells Friedman that the global competitive field seems to be leveled and that that the world is being flattened. From this, we can see that a "flat" world is one in which the "playing field" on which companies contend is presently level. It is one in which companies from different nations can compete with each other on an equivalent basis. Friedman breaks down Globalization into three (3) eras. The first is from 1492-1800, which he calls Globalization 1.0 and it shrink the world from large to medium. Its dynamic force is countries — how much physical strength your country has and how creatively you can move it into action. The second is from 1800-2000, which he calls Globalization 2.0 and creates a small world. It is about the multinational companies. As Friedman argues, we are now in the Globalization 3.0 period where in the world shrinks from small to tiny, flattening to such a...
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...there. Throughout history, Estonians have had to fight for their freedom. In 1918, Estonia declared independence. It was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940 during the Second World War. We fought the communist terror during the war but were defeated. As a result of the occupation, Estonia lost nearly 20 percent of its population. But we never gave up. When the 1980s offered us a new chance, we took advantage of it. Estonia became one of the first countries to pry open the cracks in the Soviet Empire. Finally, in 1991, after 50 years of occupation, Estonia became free again. We had freedom but little else. Estonia was destroyed during the period of communist rule. In 1939, Estonia’s living standards and way of life were more or less the same as neighboring Finland’s. Then Estonia lost its independence, but Finland, despite losing territory and population, succeeded in keeping its independence. Life under two different political systems created a huge disparity in the development of Finland and Estonia. People learned and worked hard on both sides of the Finnish Bay, but only the Finns seemed to prosper. After starting from the same point, Finland’s gross domestic product (GDP) Talking Points • Fifty years of communist rule devastated Estonia. In 1939, Estonia and Finland had similar standards of living. In 1987, Finland’s GDP per capita was $14,370, compared to Estonia’s GDP per capita of about $2,000. • After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Estonia took...
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...In Bret Harte’s “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” the characters act in a way that make them morally ambiguous. During late November of 1850, in the town of Poker Flat, California, a vigilante committee round up some "undesirables" and banish them from their town. The "undesirables" are John Oakhurst, a gambler; Uncle Billy, a thief; and two women—Duchess, a prostitute, and Mother Shipton. The character's behavior discourage readers from identifying them as purely evil or purely good. “Bret’s energies are devoted to manipulating his characters for effect, not to realizing them as human beings.”The Outcasts are essentially civilized beings under the wild and wooly costumes, morally abiding citizens hidden by the exotic customs and outlandish behavior....
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...need to create more jobs in the United States; however, significant disagreement exists among these groups on how best to achieve this goal. Many economists, especially those currently in Washington, believe that job creation begins with increasing the demand for goods and services, the demand side, espousing remnants of Keynesian economics. However in a world of global economic competition, merely creating additional demand for goods and services does not necessarily translate into job creation in a specific venue. Increasing demand must also translate into increased capital formation, job creation and productivity in the same country or economic venue. This supply-capital formation component is missing in the attempts at economic stimulus in the United States and in many western European countries. In a competitive global economy with increased capital fluidity, capital tends to flow to venues (countries) that offer the highest risk-adjusted returns. Thus, countries around the world are competing for capital and resulting job creation in a world with heterogeneous tax structures, standards of living, levels of infrastructure development and human and natural resources. The ability to attract capital depends on these factors as well as possibly other factors, where it is not readily transparent which countries posses advantages in attracting capital. However, it is obvious that capital formation necessary for job creation depends heavily on new investment...
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...A study on Purchase Intentions Towards Flat and Land Properties – Influential Indicators and Measurement Statement of problem Now a days the total population of the world passes the 7 billion mark. The growth rate is also significant. The world's current (overall as well as natural) growth rate is about 1.14%, representing a doubling time of 61 years. If the growth rate goes on till 2067, it is expected that the world's population will reach 13 billion (worldbank.org). Many Asian and African countries have high growth rates. For the period 1970 to 1990, the average annual growth rate of urban population was 6.5 per cent for Bangladesh, 3.4 per cent for India and 4.2 per cent for both Pakistan and Sri Lanka (Hugo, 1992). Currently the population growth rate in Bangladesh and Pakistan is 1.6%, in India and Sri Lanka it is 1.3% and 0.9% respectively (worldstat.info). The rate of urbanization is estimated to be 5-6% annually for Bangladesh (REHAB, 2004). About 25% of the people of Bangladesh is now living in urban areas and 34% will be living by 2015 (REHAB, 2004) and 50% by 2025 (Singha D., 2001). Among the Asian countries Bangladesh is the fourth largest with the population of 142 million (BBS 2011), but in terms of the density of population Bangladesh ranked fifth where 1101 people live in a square kilometer. Increased population growth generally represents problems for a country – because of increased need for food, cloths, accommodation, infrastructure, and services...
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