...Introduction In recent years, the global and local foodshed has changed considerably. Even though the fast food markets such as Mc Donald’s inevitably harness the global resources to increase profit margins, many people do not even realize how and why companies and corporations have changed the agribusiness (Kloppenburg, Hendrickson & Stevenson, 1996, p. 8, 11). More importantly, perhaps, Americans have become more dependent upon the cheap foods and snacks so many fast food businesses offer. It is considerably normal for the average American (family) to eat-out at least three times or greater per week; home prepared meals entail of a high preservative, frozen, fridge to table products. Yet, in my household within the last ten years, our eating habits have changed considerably. Partially coauthored by the socioeconomic impacts of rising petroleum prices, by the knowledge of food production and practices in the United States and abroad and by health considerations, my family largely consumes products from Asia, Caribbean, local farmers and our community gardens (p. 5, 8, 9, 11). We also eat foods seasonally, without exception and buy fair trade products whenever possible. While these consumption patterns might not reflect those of most Americans, and would exemplify what Kloppenburg, Hendrickson & Stevenson (1996) deem alternative producers and eaters; they do not necessarily involve disengagement from the existing food system (p. 8, 9). Rather, they reflect the food...
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...Components of two meals: Breakfast: Coffee Creamer Mixed green salad Pico de gallo Cheese spicy guacamole Dressing Lunch: Chicken enchilada soup (homemade), ingredients include chicken, diced tomatoes, black beans, onions, green pepper, various spices, cheese Club crackers The brand of coffee that I use does not state on each label which country their beans come from. Instead, they list on their web site the countries where they grow or acquire their coffee beans. These countries include South and Central America, Indonesia, Africa, the Caribbean, and in the USA, Hawaii (Millstone.com, n.d.). The salad greens we use are packaged by Dole. The package does not state that these greens came from outside the United States, so they are produce from some place within the United States. The pico de gallo we use is a premade selection that is prepare in the United States. The spicy guacamole brand that we use is made in Mexico and shipped into the United States. The dressing we use is prepared in the United States, but it does have some ingredients that could be from outside the United States. However, the labeling on the package does not state the origin of all the ingredients. The chicken in our soup is local chicken. There are numerous chicken houses in our area that raise both layers and roasters, so most of the chicken we purchase is locally raised. The tomatoes, onions, and green pepper were purchased at a local farmer's market during the season for these vegetables...
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...Humans live in a world where geographic boundaries cease to exist when it comes to goods, services, and even food. Most people think nothing of having freshly squeezed orange juice or kiwis for breakfast, even those who live in New York City with 10-inches of snow on the ground in the middle of January. In this age and time everything and anything is available for consumption year-round at the local grocery store. Although it may be an “unintended consequence,” these conveniences can come with potentially major ecological and economic impacts that are both positive and negative. For example, the coffee you drink may come from beans imported from Columbia, the sugar you use may come from India, or the steaks you sear on the grill may have come from Argentina. How much fuel was spent transporting these products across the ocean? Were any pesticides used? If so, was it done in a sustainable fashion? Were forests cleared to make room for grazing herds or larger agricultural fields? These are just a few of the many questions that should be considered when making selections at the grocery store. Explore the following resources in the Kaplan Library, along with the link from the United States Department of Agriculture, to learn more about the foods humans rely on and the variety of ways in which these foods can be acquired. Roosevelt, M. (2006). The lure of the 100-mile diet. Time, 167(24), 78. Cosier, S. (2007). The 100-mile diet. E: The Environmental Magazine, 18(5), 42. ...
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...People make choices every day – decisions as big as choosing a career or a marriage mate and as small as selecting what to wear or what to eat. Even seemingly small decisions, however, can have far-reaching effects. In today’s virtually borderless society, the food we choose to eat affects not only ourselves but also our communities, our ecosystems and even the global economy. Therefore, we need to think globally and act locally. We need to widen our horizons and think about how what we choose to consume affects the environment and the people around us in both the short-term and the long-term. First, the global market itself has pros and cons. A global market ideally creates opportunities for more people to provide goods and services more cheaply, which in turn makes more jobs available. Additionally, it allows consumers complete access to many products that would otherwise be difficult, if not impossible, to acquire. However, in order to do any good in the long term, the system must be sustainable (Collins, 2010). That said, today, the global market is realistically not so. Decentralization, which functions by having smaller groups of people specialize in a certain niche product that is then dispersed globally, is socially unjust, creating pockets of wealth while a large majority of people work hard for less money in their local currency (Norber & Gorelick, 2013, para 5). The high demand for one specific area’s natural resources results in frequent over-farming, which...
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...Education ( formal ,informal) Globalization, Sociological Imagination The principal objective of education has been the development of the whole individual. The minimum level of education that was necessary to achieve this goal in the agrarian society was basic or primary and in the industrial age, secondary. In the present borderless information society, education needs to be able to respond to additional demands of a rapidly globalizing world by raising awareness of environment, peace, cultural and social diversity, increased competitiveness, and the concept of a global village. Such education is to a knowledge or information society what secondary education was to an industrial economy. Education prepares the individual to connect - and live in harmony - with the environment around him. Globalization has changed the size, nature and quality of that environment. The challenge for higher education, therefore, is to reform, create and develop systems that prepare the individual to work in a borderless economy and live in a global society. In other words, our educational institutions need to produce global citizens. Formal is classroom-based, provided by trained teachers. Informal education happens outside the classroom ,in after-school programs ,community-based organizations ,museums ,libraries, or at home. Whatever your view on education ,it is clear that schools are one of the most important agents of secondary socialization . Peer groups and teachers have a major impact...
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...Globalization of Economic Activities: Control of economic activities by domestic market and international market; coordination of national economy and world economy; 4. Connectivity: Localities being connected with the world by breaking national boundaries; forging of links between one society and another, and between one country and another through international transmission of knowledge, literature, technology, culture and information. 5. Borderless Globe: Breaking of national barriers and creation of inter- connectedness; the ideal of 'borderless globe' articulated by Kenichi Ohmae. 6. A Composite Process: Integration of nation-states across the world by common economic, commercial, political, cultural and technological ties; creation of a new world order with no national boundaries; 7. A Multi-dimensional Process: Economically, it means opening up of national market, free trade and commerce among nations, and integration of national economies with the world economy. Politically, it means limited powers and functions of state, more rights and freedoms granted to the individual and empowerment of private sector; culturally, it means exchange of cultural values between societies and between nations; and ideologically, it means the spread of liberalism and capitalism. 8. A Top-Down process: Globalization originates from developed countries and the MNCs (multinational corporations) based in them. Technologies, capital,...
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...BUS 321 Marketing Page 1 of 9 Mid-term Addition Group Assignment April 17, 2007 How the EU is Changing the European Market By Page 2 of 9 Q.1.) Relate this story to the concept of SWOT analysis. Can you find any examples of leverage, problems, constraints, and vulnerabilities? Government officials envision the EU as a single market, an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, person, services, and capital is assured. This is a tall order in the current European Market as huge benefits are plentiful for some and lacking for others. The countries that are members of the EU house an regulatory environment with which local and multinational firms operate. What is the cost of the current situation for the European Union? The EU is one of the world’s biggest investors in promoting economic and social growth to the European markets. The European Union considers Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as one of the key solutions to promoting development, economic and social growth to the European Markets. It is within the scope of framework that the EU follows a pro-development approach of long-term investments that will generate stable employment and growth for the European marketplace. The European banking industry has been slow in converting into a modern means of investment opportunities and lacks standardization of banking rules and regulations...
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...Roll No: -36884 Managing People and Organization (MGT492) Solution Assignment-1 MGT 492 ASSIGNMENT NO 1 Q1. Discuss in details Government environment and Economic environment effect on Global borderless environment? World has become a global village and government policies are becoming flexible for globalization. Instable political situation in a country can badly affect the business and global borderless environment. Different trade agreements have witness for a better global environment for business and supply chain management. Economic environment includes economic development, exchange rate and infrastructure. Economic development in the positive direction can have good effect on global borderless environment. If the inflation in currency is high then there is high risk for the business. The exchange rate can effect global business environment. The infrastructure is mandatory for the global business environment. If the infrastructure is poor then the supply chain will require long time and the inventory will need to have long warehousing. Road structure is also a good economic requirement. Companies are going international by eliminating structural divisions that impose artificial geographical barriers. This type of MNC is often called a transnational or borderless organization, and reflects a geocentric attitude. Q2. Explain difference between Downsizing and Reengineering with example? The process of cutting organizational resources (e.g., human...
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...Globalisation is the integration of a country to a global level. In this current century, people’s views are no longer between “country and them” but in fact are more likely to be the “world and them”. Kenichi ohmae, writer of “The borderless World” once mention in his book that globalisation that created a borderless world among country (Ohmae 1999). While globalisation has positive, innovative, dynamic aspects, it also has negative, disruptive, marginalizing aspects (UNDP 1999). Over the past 30 years, globalisation had brought new dimensions to the traditional economic thinking around trading trade. The existing of globalisation causes impacts in economic, political and social in the 21st century. Globalisation had rise tremendously since the advance of technology, science, and transport. Industries are moving to different country every second just from the help of these advanced technologies. Countries had lowered their barriers for international trade and welcoming foreign investment and trade. Corporation now have the flexibility of operate across borders and thus increase foreign investment in other country. Foreign investment will increase economic growth in many developing countries. A research done by African Economic Research Consortium for Nigeria proves that foreign direct investment positively affects their economic growth and needs to be encouraged (African economic research consortium 2007). China is the top ranked destination for foreign investors since year...
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...has the power to legally binding resolutions, economic sanctions and to even take military action in order to maintain peace. Effectively, the UN is therefore a creation of its members. The Powerful 5 (P-5) USA, Russia, UK, France and China, have the ability to pass legally binding resolutions which can promote peace and security and eradicate any form of threat. A recent example of this is formed in the Syria crisis and the UNs decision to get rid of the Chemical weapons it had used on its civilians in order to reach peace. This demonstrated the power of the legally binding resolution and showed the importance of the UN as a form of global governance. Nevertheless, the United Nations is more of s debating society and is merely just a creation of its members. In a borderless world, perhaps other institutional bodies have done the job for UN in promoting peace and security, evident in the G-20 involvement to help control the issue of the financial crisis 2007. To some extent,...
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...has the power to legally binding resolutions, economic sanctions and to even take military action in order to maintain peace. Effectively, the UN is therefore a creation of its members. The Powerful 5 (P-5) USA, Russia, UK, France and China, have the ability to pass legally binding resolutions which can promote peace and security and eradicate any form of threat. A recent example of this is formed in the Syria crisis and the UNs decision to get rid of the Chemical weapons it had used on its civilians in order to reach peace. This demonstrated the power of the legally binding resolution and showed the importance of the UN as a form of global governance. Nevertheless, the United Nations is more of s debating society and is merely just a creation of its members. In a borderless world, perhaps other institutional bodies have done the job for UN in promoting peace and security, evident in the G-20 involvement to help control the issue of the financial crisis 2007. To some extent,...
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...Impacts of a Borderless Society Kaplan University SC300: Big Ideas in Science: From Methods to Mutation Carmelisa King December 1, 2014 Living in the United States there are resources that are more readily available to us than in other parts of the world. However, in the world today there are endless boundaries when it comes to how we obtain goods, services and food. In certain countries it’s hard to obtain clean water, foods with all the necessary nutrients and vitamins that are needed. However, in the United States we live in an era where everything is available for consumption and all we have to do is go to the local grocery store, Walmart, Target or Farmers Market. This paper will discuss the impacts of a borderless society. Where we get our foods from? The farming methods that are used and how these methods impact the environment and the employees who work with these farms. Were the items grown and shipped in from other countries? Lastly, this paper will cover the ecological and economic advantages and disadvantages of purchasing foods locally. First of all we will discuss my breakfast yesterday. It consisted of eggs, potatoes, onions, green peppers, and orange juice. Some people buy food from the local grocery store. However, I normally purchase our groceries from Stiles Farmer’s Market, Brother’s Farmer’s Market, Publix or Winn Dixie. My breakfast meal consisted of: eggs, onions, potatoes, green peppers from Farmer’s Market, and Simply Orange Juice from Publix...
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...With the invention of internet world has become a global village. It has become a very convenient source to send data in any form of text, voice, video, picture etc. to other a person living thousands of miles. This borderless world came with new ways for people to interact with one another. With the introduction of Social Media Platforms people around the world are now connected real-time without the hindrance of physical distance. The crowd which was once dispersed gathered around in creating small communities with fan following of similar interests. With the growing addiction in daily life use; Social Networking platforms have become a vital part of our daily life whether we want to be in touch with our loved ones, doing online business or just want to keep ourselves up to date with latest events happening around the globe. It has its positive and negative effects on different societies. My thesis is the positive side of Social Networks. I think Social Networks have given a new voice to people living in certain societies where it has become the only true medium to express themselves to the masses. A place where everyone can be united under one cause. In a world where media might not be as free as it might seem. Social Networking websites like twitter or facebook has made it possible for the news to be written by people who are actually experiencing the event. An example can be taken in the current situation of Syria where news reporters are banned to enter war affected...
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...Virtual Management: A New Way to Manage Virtual Management: A New Way to Manage Technological innovation has been a driving force in the growth of e-business organizations. The e-organization growth has spawned new leadership methods and business processes aimed at maintaining competitiveness in a changing global economy. One business model attributed to the technical revolution is virtual models. This paper is intended to argue that traditional business management, methodology, and structures are failing to accommodate an ever-changing global environment, characterized by hyper-competitiveness, and the exponential increase of information systems design. The current virtual model is managed using out of date management theories, performance metrics, and technical innovations, thus creating a need to update the open systems thinking and organizational theory of the virtual model. As an open system, virtual environments are quickly becoming the new wave of business organizing. Open Systems Organizational Theory Jones (2010) defines organizational theory as “the study of how organizations function and how they affect and are affected by the environment in when they operate” (p.7). Organizational theory maintains a master relationship with organizational structure, organizational change and design, and organizational culture. Organizational structure is “the formal system of task and authority relationships that control how people coordinate their...
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...Globalization and me: what impacts could it be? According to Word Power Dictionary, globalization comes from word globalize which means develop (business, society, etc.) so as to make international influence or action possible. Other than that, globalization can be define as the increasing connectivity and interdependence of the world’s economies, societies, and cultures because of advances in communications, technology, trade, international investment movement of currency, and migration. In my opinion, technology is the big roles or function that brings the globalization. Same as Kenichi Ohmea words, globalization as a borderless world seeks to change the world into a single unit only. This process is easier with the advances in communication technology. There are numerous ways in which globalization has impacted the world. The globalization has impacted on education, economic, culture, language, food and others. Globalization also means the phenomenon that makes the world seem smaller in terms of human relations due to the speed of development of information technology. Human easily get information and difficult to filter the negative elements that permeate the hearts and minds. Some terms such as “borderless worlds” and “open skies” make such as trade, the development of political and economic power towards the development of civilization. Education is the process of receiving and giving systematic instruction, especially at school and university. There are positive and...
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