...COMM020 Steve Lipman 11/08/2012 Assignment: Analyze the debating of “Does China do capitalism better than America” hosted by Intelligence Squared Does China Do Capitalism better than America? There is no doubt that China is rising whether the American people like it or not. What kind of impact is China having on American economy and trade policy? Intelligence Squared hosted a very interesting debating called “Does China Do capitalism better than America”. The audience first voted for the motion, but 35% changed their minds after hearing the debate. How did the team against the motion change the audience’s minds? The debating strategy played a key role during the debate. There were two teams in this debate. For the motion team, Orville Schell, Director of Director of the Center on U.S. - China Relations at Asia Society & Award-Winning Journalist; Peter Schiff – CEO & Chief Global Strategist, Euro Pacific Capital. Bestselling books, Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse, The Real Crash: A Blueprint for a Bankrupt America. Ian Bremmer and Minxin Pei were on the team of against the motion. Ian was much energized and casually dressed without a tie. Minxin Pei was from China, and earned his Ph. D from Harvard University. Currently he serves as Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. In 2006, he published his second book, China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy. From the book...
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...Cancan Li Professor Bald English 121 MA 2 What We Can Do More Than Service Cooperating with different people including college student volunteers and local neighbors living in the Capital Hill community, Seattle, I volunteered at Central Lutheran Church Community Lunch Program, which provides free meals three times a weak to nearby low-income and homeless people. Every early Tuesday morning, I worked to prepare food and set dining room before our guests’ coming. Many homeless people slept overnight near the church’s entrance and gathered in front of the transparent door at ten o’clock. Being locked out before the lunch was served, they spent more than two hours lying on the door and kept staring at people inside who were busy in the kitchen. Compared to people outside, each volunteer in that kitchen was under massive pressure because of not only the heavy work but also their stinging gaze on back. That is the first time I realized the homeless people’s participation in service work was necessary and inevitable for a successful and effective community service program. Most social programs owned by business or government hire trained faculties, admit part-time volunteers and very limited service beneficiaries, homeless people in this case, to keep service running. Service receivers are traditionally defined by incapacity of serving like patients on operating tables who do not probably take scalpels to open their own chests. This misconception wastes...
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...It is better for people to be unemployed than people to be employed but they do not enjoy. Do you agree or disagree? I worked in a nine- to- five job as a banker for five years and wanted to die of my job, but had to resort to continue working to earn my living. In my opinion, working in a career that we do not have a deep passion for is not a totally good choice because this will alleviate people’s working satisfaction and adversely affect their career prospect, but it is still better than being unemployed in terms of financial perspective. An increasing number of people are changing their careers. What are the reasons? Do you think this is a positive or negative development to society? My brother had ten-year working experience and he made changes in his career more than five times. In my view, frequent changes in occupation are caused not only by the explosion of technology but also people’s new desire. As the result, the society has to struggle with the lack of skilled workforce. Advertising discourages people from being different individuals by making us want to be and to look the same. To what extent do you agree or disagree? People in Vietnam wear similar clothes, use high-tech gadgets of the same brand and share many other items in common. Personally, this trend proliferates due to the domination and attractiveness of some advertising campaigns of well-known brands. But, advertising is not the unique culprit because people also look the same when they imitate...
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...“The fact that girls do better than boys is more to do with factors outside of the school rather than factors inside of the school.” To what extent do you agree with this view? If we look at exam results such as GCSEs and A levels there is a clear picture of girls outperforming boys. Girls are also more likely to pass their A levels and go on to university. These gender and differential educational achievement have been explained by the influence of factors both inside and outside of the school. Many sociologists have argued that it is factors inside the school that have led to this increase in girls’ performance. It has been argued that feminism has had a huge role in female achievement in education. Mitsos and Browne say that teaching has been feminised and teachers have lower expectations of boys. They say that women are more likely to be classroom teachers and this is therefore giving girls positive role models. There has also been the change in teaching resources used at schools as many sexist images have been removed and they are less likely to stereotype girls into passive roles. Interpretivists say that teachers have lower expectations of boys. Teacher’s expectations may lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy of poor behaviour. Negative labelling may explain why there are more disruptive boy and why boys are more likely to be excluded from school. Jackson agrees with this view arguing that schools label boys negatively which leads to self-fulfilling prophecy. The introduction...
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...Do school systems care more about grades than students? School systems constantly shove grades down students throats. Neil deGrasse Tyson is an american astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. He once said “When students cheat on exams it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.” The school systems define students by their grades, grading isn’t always the same, and students are cheating instead of learning the material. The school system cares more about the grades they get funded for than the students in their schools. Most students feel as that they are defined by a letter grade giving to them. To the school system students are just a number in the computer and based on letter grades. The school system doesn’t see the struggles of your personal life. Teachers assign homework after and hour and a half class, but students with after school activities don’t have time for homework. Your homework is part of your grade and teachers still expect...
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...Problem Can a science based strategy for the game rock, paper, scissors win more than playing randomly? It is important to understand because the game is used to settle arguments and choices between two things. I wanted to confirm through experimentation that people do not play the game randomly, they use patterns and tendencies that an opponent can take advantage of. Hypothesis A science based approach when playing rock paper scissors will win more games than playing randomly. Experiment For my experiment, I am going to play 100 games of wins or losses of rock, paper, scissors using science based strategies against humans and 100 games of wins and losses against random computer selections. I did not record the ties, only wins and losses. The...
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...A significant reason as to why I believe floods has a greater impact on Australia than droughts is because floods cause significant damage to farm land which has the potential to lead to serious agricultural consequences including loss of income, contamination of topsoil, crop loss and damage to harvests, as a result, causes great financial burden to farmers. Despite this, droughts also endure the potential to cause significant destruction of farmland including soil erosion, however, floods are recognised to have more of an immediate impact than droughts. The consistent rainfall and flooding across Queensland’s producing regions in 2011 has resulted in an array of damage to fruits and vegetables including tomatoes, celery, lettuce, watermelon and...
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...live life simply, doing what they truly want to do with their lives. Emerson states in his writing of “Self-Reliance” that, “These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world” (Emerson). Emerson realized as the world begins to modernize that we are trying to tell ourselves something that we want to truly do, but that true desire seems to grow faint when the “needs”, and “necessities” of our duties in the world tend to kick in. In Thoreau’s “Walden” he states, “Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, whether they do or not;...
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...Why do girls achieve better GCSEs than Boys? The traditional role of the supposed ‘housewife’, Cook, clean, look after the children, the husband goes to work and gets all the money. Girls began to see that there was more to just being a housewife. Many women were beginning to work. This left such an impact that many girls began to see that there was an ambition, an ambition to be an ‘independent women’. A women who achieved things on her won starting with her education. Artist like destiny’s child (independent women) and Ne-yo (Miss independent) have written songs praising women who are dependent on themselves as young girls listen to their ‘idols’ they see this as an ambition in life. Research has shown that girls achieve better GCSE results than boy because they ‘behave’ better than boys do during classes. A study of performance in school showed that marks are not determined just by academic ability but also attentiveness and how organised you are. Girls have shown to have more of these traits than boys; this therefore gives them an advantage over the boys, which research has shown. Research form universities blame the fact that teacher also look at how well the child is engaged and how often the child loses control. These factors are said to benefit girls making their marks compared to boys, rise. "GCSEs require a degree of solo work and are not viewed as 'cool' in a laddish culture." Some believe that because boys supposedly do not deem a lot of revision and staying...
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...In recent times, with the development of Information Communication Technology (ICT), firms are incorporating internet technology in their business processes with the aim of achieving competitive advantage. This has resulted in e-business playing a major role in today’s business with investors, entrepreneurs, executives etc embracing it. E-business is explained as performing business on the internet. This therefore means that e-business does not just involve buying and selling but also serving customers and working together with business partners towards achieving its objectives. IBM considers e-business: ... the use of internet technologies to improve and transform key business processes. With the adoption of e-business, more value can be created by the way in which business is transacted in an organization. For example, businesses transacted over the internet or in any highly networked environment results in a reduced transaction costs as compared to a traditional set up or market. In this context, transaction cost include; the time spent by managers and employees searching for customers and suppliers, communicating with other players in the industry as well as other companies regarding transaction details. … the costs of travel, physical space for meetings, and processing paper documents,’ as well as the costs of production and inventory management (Lucking Reiley and Spulber, 2001). E-businesses also boost transaction efficiency by facilitating quicker and more informed...
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...To what extent do you agree with the statement that 'e-business is much more than a strategic initiative'? I find particularly interesting Johnsons and Whang’s (2002, p. 413) statement that “nothing has rocked the young field of the supply chain management like the emergence of the Internet”. It indeed rocked, by lowering costs, minimizing the response time, creating new business models, improving logistics abilities and overall improving the service offered to the customer. Gribbins et al. (n.d.) analyzed in their paper how e-business impacted P & G, a major player in the consumer goods industry. From P & G’s e-business and internet “embrace” we can clearly see the impact and results this strategic initiative has on an organization. A few examples of what they have developed: 1. E-stores (e-commerce) platforms, where customers can do purchases online; this approach have brought the organization direct contact with the customer and a global reach and expansion; 2. Supply Chain Information Collection Initiatives which, by sharing effectively information, efficiency is increased, inventory management is kept under control, hence costs are reduced; 3. Transora online B2B procurement e-stores which reduces the customer’s ordering time and purchasing costs and provided a good flow of inventory management, which makes a close to perfection integrated supply chain for all parties involved; 4. Web-based knowledge data bases, to help reduce product development time by creating...
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...To what extent do you agree that the human causes of desertification in the sahel are more important than the physical causes? Desertification is when formerly productive land becomes a desert due to a combination of natural and human factors. It’s a long term change that results in land degrading or becoming poorer, vegetation dying and soil becoming exposed to erosion by wind and rain. The Sahel is an example of where desertification has happened. The sahel is a semi arid region of north central Africa south of the sahara desert. It passes through countries such as Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia and Chad. The sahel has been turning in to the desert since the late 1940s, this has been caused by drought, population increase, overcultivation, over grazing and cutting firewood. There is only one physical cause of desertification in the Sahel and that is climate change. There have been frequent and very intense droughts that occurred from 1968 to 1974 and then again from 1979 to 1984. Without water for a long period of time the vegetation will die and the soil will turn to dust thus making it more easily eroded by the wind. The intense and frequent droughts are said to be caused by global warming which leads to higher temperatures and an increased evapotranspiration, therefore you could say that the droughts are caused partially by humans as they burn the fossil fuels causing global warming. The other four causes of desertification; population increase, over cultivation, overgrazing...
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...Aysha Qureshi Teacher Faisal HSC4M Why is the global literacy rate higher for boys than for girls? What beliefs do such literacy statistics reflect? Worldwide, only 30 percent of all girls are enrolled in a secondary school. The cause of the low literacy rate for girls has been due to global issues such as gender inequality. In most countries around the world girls are brought up with the mindset that they must not think like a man rather a mother and a wife. This has brought about a decrease in the number of girls being allowed to go to school. Early marriages also have a great impact on the decrease of literacy rates among girls. The global literacy rate that has been higher for boys than for girls is a result of girls not being allowed to go to school, being married at an early age and compelled to have the attitudes of a mother and wife. In many countries around the world, girls are not allowed to go to school for various reasons. One such reason is the society's mentality, that boys are superior to girls. Quite a few people out there-- mostly men-- think that girls can never, and should never compete with boys. Even in countries with high literacy rates for girls, boys still can’t get used to the idea of having a female boss. Patriarchal societies discourage the idea of girls getting an education, because they know that if these girls become educated, they will fight against the injustice done to them. The high[->0] [->1]rate[->2] [->3]of[->4] [->5]child[->6]...
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...1. Many experts argue that people do their best work when they are motivated by a sense of purpose rather than the pursuit of money. Do you agree? Critically evaluate and explain your position. The study of what motivates people has fascinated researchers and academics over the years. Many renowned researchers have come up with their own model explaining the mechanisms of motivation. Though all these theories are unique in their own right, the division of motivations into two forms; extrinsic motivations and intrinsic motivations is a common sight. Both these factors have their place in getting people out of their beds in the morning and trading the better part of their waking hours for work. However, for people to do their best work, a sense of purpose is often more useful than the pursuit of money. The type of job and position are also key factors in determining whether money or a sense of purpose will be the better motivating factor that encourages people to deliver their best work. George Bernard Shaw once said that “Lack of money is the root of all evil.” Money is defined as whether money is shells or rocks or gold or paper, in any economy it has three primary functions: it is a medium of exchange, a unit of account and a store of value. Of these three functions, its function as a medium of exchange is what distinguishes money from other assets such as stocks, bonds or houses (Mishkin, 1992). The pursuit of money is rooted in human behaviour today and the motivations for...
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...Emily Bronte explores the depths of both mental cruelty and physical cruelty in what has been branded by John Bowen as an “extraordinarily violent book”, Wuthering Heights. Mental cruelty is suffering without physical assault, whilst physical cruelty causes harm to another, whether intentionally or not. Both mental cruelty and physical cruelty are demonstrated within the novel, as a result of oppression, society and circumstances in this Gothic novel, each main character is exposed to excess elements of both said cruelties over the course of Wuthering Heights. Based upon David Cecil’s theory that Wuthering Heights is an allegory to which he applies the ‘House of Storm’ and House of Calm’ concept, the Heights is immediately established to be a place of innate cruelty and of wild uninhibited primitive emotions. This is made evident when Mr. Lockwood, an educated gent of a high social class visits the heights and is met with the imminent cruelty of the residents. The dogs which inhabit Wuthering Heights are “not accustomed to being spoilt”, much like Heathcliff who is first labelled as “it” and experiences the long term effects of mental cruelty through exclusion and brandishing as a “gipsy boy”, which were deemed as undesirable and a pollutant to society at the time of writing. Instantly Heathcliff is faced with mental cruelty of both social attitudes at the time towards ethnic groups, and the torment which faces him in the form of Hindley and Edgar Linton as he is treated and...
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