...Bill Gates is one of the most wealthiest people in the United States today, and also one of the most powerful. He has done some amazing things in his life and he continues to do so by trying to accomplish these goals for Africa. The four main goals Gates is working hard to accomplish are mobile banking, better software for education, increasing agriculture so Africa can feed itself, and eradicating child deaths and diseases. Bill Gates is doing an amazing thing for these people in need, especially for what he is doing for the children’s deaths and diseases because everybody deserves a shot at life. Some people might argue against Bill Gates and his goals for Africa but I think he is doing a wonderful thing for all of the people who live...
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...Marketing Plan Oliberté International Marketing MIB Front - Team 4 I. Executive Summary II. Concept Statement A. Company Background and Mission B. Products and Services C. Business Model: Sustainability and Uniqueness D. Strategic Intention E. Marketing F. Risk Analysis G. Differentiation H. Evaluation: Factor of success III. Situation Analysis A. Industry Analysis 1. Industry overview 2. Porter five forces 3. Market size 4. Position in the market life cycle 5. Available distribution structure, plus attitudes and practices 6. PESTEL 7. Risk Analysis B. Firm Analysis 1. Brief history of the company and stage of internationalization 2. SWOT Analysis 3. Stakeholder Analysis 4. Product Development and Product Extension 5. Pricing and Financial Policy 6. Internet and E-commerce 7. Organizational Structure C. Competitor Analysis 1. Competitive Positioning: Direct and Indirect Competitors 2. Market Share Distribution 3. Future Competition – Direct and Indirect Competitor 4. Barriers to Entry 5. Competitive Advantages D. Customer Analysis 1. Who are your customers? 2. What do customers want/need? 3. What must be done to satisfy their wants and/or needs? 4. What is the size of the market? 5. What is the growth profile? IV. Strategic Marketing Decision A. Marketing Scope B. Marketing Goals 1. Successfully launch and market the expansion of the product offer 2 Marketing Plan Oliberté International Marketing MIB Front - Team 4 2. Successfully launch and market the...
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...need in anyway they can think of. They have come up with four major goals that they want to help Africa achieve in fifteen years. Their focus on Africa will: help improve the way of life for many families. The Gates have come up with many ways to help Africa, one goal is for everyone's health to improve in the years to come. The Gates feel that if they get the chance to vaccinate everyone then they can wipe out some diseases. Also, they believe that in the next fifteen years Africa will be able to feed itself without help from other countries when they improve farming with more variety. Bill and Melinda Gates would also like mobile banking to become more popular in Africa to improve the lives of poor families. Another step to improving Africa is through education. If Africa has better software education will become common. The most important aspect while improving Africa is focusing on making mobile banking accessible for everyone to use....
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...carbon dioxide and nutrients in order to manufacturer glucose. (UCSB Science Line). Tropical rainforests can be found in Africa, Asia, Australia and Central and South America. The Amazon rainforest is the largest one in the world. (Shmoop, 2013) Water is essential to produce chemical reactions in all types of organisms. Water is the main ingredient to all life processes. On earth water is the most common substance. Water has three different states: solid, liquid and gas. In order for living creatures found in the tropical rainforests such as insects, monkeys and lions, the availability of water enables life to survive over much of the planet which in turns creates the circle of life. (Shmoop, 2013) In order for the ecosystem to survive, you need producers such as the sun and plants, consumers such as insects, animals and fungi, which is a decomposer that survives on eating dead things. (Moulton, 2004). In order for consumers to be able to have fruit, producers must plant the seeds in order to grow fruit consumers would eat. (The Study of Life, 1993). In an ecosystem, energy and nutrients that are usually obtained from outside the ecosystem helps the ecosystem maintain itself. The ecosystem must have some type of external energy. (Regoniel, 2014). Solar energy is used to produce organic plant material through photosynthesis. Animals that feed solely on plants make up the second trophic levels which are called herbivores. The third trophic level...
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...crucial source of food to larger, more familiar aquatic organisms such as fish and whales. The common jellyfish feeds by collecting medusa, plankton and mollusks with its mucus bell nematocyst-laden tentacles and bringing the prey into its body for digestion. They are found throughout most of the world’s oceans. They do not have respiratory parts such as gills, lungs, or trachea. It is a small organism, so it respires by diffusing oxygen from water though the thin membrane covering its body. It is probably rare for these to live more than about six months in the wild. The hermit crab species have long, spirally curved abdomens, which are soft. The abdomen is protected from predators by a salvaged empty seashell carries by the hermit crab, into which its whole body can retract. As the crab grows in size, it has to find a larger shell and abandon the previous one. If the hermit crab cannot find a well-fitting shell, it will most likely be eaten. Sea cucumbers are echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea. They are marine animals with leathery skin and an elongated body containing a single, branched gonad. Sea cucumbers are scavengers found on the sea floor worldwide. They all have an endoskeleton just below the skin. They catch collagen that forms their body wall. This can be loosed and tightened at will, and if the animal wants to squeeze through a small gap, it can...
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...HYGEIA INTERNATIONAL Expansion in Nigeria is the issue. Henry Livingstone, vice president of the Africa/Middle East Region of Hygeia International, has just received a proposal from his Nigerian managing director for a major move into poultry production. This would extend Hygeia’s profitable agricultural activities even more in that West African country. CORPORATE BASE HYGEIA International is pseudonym for one of the 10 leading pharmaceutical companies of the world. Based in the United States, Hygeia also has laboratories and plants in many countries. Over a third of its net income is earned outside the U.S., and because of growing federal regulation, Hygeia looks abroad for a rising percentage of its future income. Like other large pharmaceutical films, Hygeia has converted drugs designed for humans to use in farm animals. This opens up a large market with relatively low R & D expense. In addition to veterinary products for the control and treatment of disease, Hygeia produces a variety of feed supplements. Currently, about 15 percent of Hygeia’s total sales of over a billion dollars come from agricultural activities! Hygeia’s agricultural business includes active participation in mass production of poultry. Today, frying chickens are raised in 100,000-chick batches. Thanks to genetic selection. Scientific feeding, and a strictly controlled environment, fries can be ready for market in 10 weeks. Egg production is similarly engineered. Significantly, these mass...
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...Identify and explain 3 reasons for population changes in developing countries (9marks) Looking at population changes in the developing world, in a sociological way, means looking into demography, sociologist believe that It is important to study demographic trends such as, birth, fertility, infant mortality, death and migration, because they can produce ‘insights into why societies experience social changes’. The main population change in developing countries is its rapid growth. In 1999, the UN declared that the population of the world had reached 6 billion people, compared to only 2 billion people in 1925. Most of this increase has occurred in the developing world, with less developed regions of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean taking up 99% of the world’s population increase, which are about 83 million people. Theories on this included Malthus, who argued that ‘populations increase in size at a much faster rate than the ability of those same populations to feed themselves’, he concludes with, that theses limits on food supply would lead to ‘natural checks’ on population such as famine and malnutrition, and maybe the possibility of the out break of war, because countries would fight over what little food there is left. Such checks limit population because there is an increased death rate. He also argued that we should attempt to avoid overpopulation, by delaying marriage and abstaining from sex. A biologist, who’s ideas where adopted from Malthus, Paul Ehrlich...
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...hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years • Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children will die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days! • The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year. • One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. United Nations Food and Agriculture • The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy • Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF • 3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day. • In 1994 the Urban Institute in Washington DC estimated that one out of 6 elderly people in the U.S. has an inadequate diet. • In the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991 46% of African-American children were chronically hungry, and 40% of...
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...Using named examples, assess the extent to which conflict over water supplies is inevitable. On Earth, we have many valuable resources and none are more valuable than water which unfortunately is limited in some places more than others. Everyone believes that they have an equal right and due to this, conflict is likely break out around the world. However, conflict is far more likely in countries that are less developed as they depend upon water for agriculture and their livelihoods. One area where conflict has the potential to occur is in China. They are currently attempting a water transfer scheme on a large scale that plans to move water from the South to the North of China where the capital is located. This is due to the lack of water present in the North and the possibility of being able to irrigate more land. The scheme is estimated to cost a minimum of $62 billion for the movement of 44.8 billion metres cubed of water from the Yangtze River to the Yellow river basin. Surprisingly, China only has access to 6% of the worlds fresh water supply which is leaving 21% of the world’s population searching for more supplies. China also has a plan to take more water from the Tibetan Plateau area that is stopping rivers flowing into countries that are close by. This will allow more water to flow into the East. This is causing growing concerns in India about their future water supply as the vast majority of their water flows from this area. As a lack of water is flowing into India...
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...David Lew Qingwei Rachel Crumpler Business and its Publics: Section 29 May 12, 2013 TOMS Shoes and the Effective Creation of Shared Value Over the last 30 years, absolute poverty worldwide has fallen 20%, yet poverty levels in Africa have remained static, hovering around 40% of the continent’s population over the same time period (“Poverty”). Poverty is endemic to many developing nations in Africa, and many attempts have been made to ameliorate the socio-economic toll that it wreaks on the region. However, the continued predominance of poverty in the region today makes it clear that previous attempts at traditional poverty eradication have failed. More recently, the rise of social entrepreneurship has revitalized the discussion about poverty alleviation, with companies committing themselves to creating transformational benefit for the disadvantaged segments of society (Martin 151). TOMS Shoes is such a company that has made a commitment to social responsibility. Unfortunately, TOMS and its footwear draws a great deal of criticism, and there is mounting evidence that creating shared value, as seen in Oliberté Footwear’s business model, is a more effective route to poverty alleviation. Ultimately, we must carefully consider the advantages of Oliberté’s shared value over TOMS’ social responsibility, and call for future social business models to take note of what both of these social enterprises do right and wrong to create the best solution for bringing upward social mobility...
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...Dear Citizens of the World, Do you believe that globalization brings more positive benefits or more negative consequences to the world? Do you believe that the negative consequences could be controlled? Why or why not? What do you think should be done? In my opinion, we are at the beginning stage of the globalization process; and the process itself might be well compared to the industrial revolution in its complexity, and the degree of the impact it inflicts on the societies and cultures. We well remember from our history lessons what the Industrial Revolution has done to the people of 18th, and 19th Century Americas and the Europe. In the end a great society had been built, but the price of it was rather high. Armesto, F.F. (2008) The World a Brief History. “Industrialization uprooted lives, disrupted families, and imposed bleak working conditions in cities rife with filth and disease. Visiting the British city of Manchester in 1835 , Alexis de Tocqueville, considered the greatest social analyst of his time, recoiled from factories that keep air and light out of human habitations which they dominate; they envelop them in perpetual fog here is the slave , there is the master; there is the wealth to some here the poverty of most.” Yet she wrote, “From this filthy sewer, pure gold flows.” Alexis de Tocqueville words still apply to the majority of the world’s population; since the majority lives in a perpetual poverty; poverty even greater, from the time when the globalization...
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...turquoise mosaic skulls held in the collection of the British Museum, Hirst thought it would be great to create a diamond version, but was originally deterred by the prohibitive cost. Upon further consideration, he decided that the ludicrous expense could actually be the work’s rationale. Since it was first exhibited in 2007, “For the Love of God” has become one of the most widely recognized works of contemporary art. It represents the artist’s continued interest in mortality and notions of value. A reminder of the fragility of life is the main idea of the work. “For the Love of God” provides an illustrative case study for thinking about art and value. It can be viewed alternatively as a glorious, devotional, defiant or provocative gesture in the face of death itself. In “For the Love of God”, we can see capital’s maintenance of itself in the artwork’s surrender to circulation and indifference to form when it comes to its place in the market. Almost by certain alchemy, formaldehyde...
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...we feed ourselves, nurturing our seedlings of potential and smothering our demons as we grow so high, the sun cannot reach them below the canopy. Adah Price was abandoned by her mother in an ant swarm, which inherently allowed her to realize her place in the world. Upon being left by her own mother, she realized in that moment that life would be worth living. It was only when she was being trampled that she found the will to stand. In the events leading up to the “nsongonya”, Adah is seen with a wired view of life. She doesn’t acknowledge her worth, and she doesn’t make herself any more than the “broken twin”. She resents her hemiplegia just as she resents her father, and is portrayed as a pessimist. However, when the Ants come, they destroy everything, not just the crippled or the poor. They annihilate everyone just the same. Adah is seen limping, struggling just to catch up to her mother, and she is ultimately trampled. When orleanna leaves her, she realizes that she can no longer ask for help or depend on others, she has to stand up for herself. At this point in the novel, she realizes with outstanding clairvoyance that she wants to live. She is no longer being swallowed by her undeniable...
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...of Chatime can be seen by it has so many outlets, 800 franchises, all around the world. They are Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, US, Uk, Australia and 12 other countries besides South Africa. Chatime has so many flavors for the tea drinks provided to the consumers with unique taste, fresh brewed tea and fresh ingredients. As Chatime decided to introduce its products to the worldwide by becoming a “Global brand with local flavor”, Chatime needs to makes the products with local tastes and meet the cultures in every country. In home country market, Taiwan, The demand for Chatime can be considered high. It is supported by the level of income of Taiwanese people is quite high and the good taste of Chatime products as well. The booming of milktea drinks factor also become the factors why Chatime drinks demand is very high. Since Chatime still does not have the outlets in South Africa, Chatime needs to considerate to open the market in South Africa to expand the business. As now South Africa is a very fast developing. Besides that, there is a local brand tea in South Africa named rooibos which is very popular for South African people. The report from Euromonitor International (2013) indicates that the tea which has benefit for health and such as rooibos will experience a strong consumer demand. Hence, as Chatime has similar taste with rooibos and also could make products with local taste, it would be a good opportunity for Chatime to expand their business to South Africa. Lastly, this...
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...The Forum on China Africa Cooperation, or FOCAC for short, is an official forum between Communist China and African states. This forum is very important in as far as china Africa relations are concerned because of a host of reasons. The major reason is that both China and Africa stand to benefit economically from this relationship, as China gets raw materials from the continent, in return largely for concessionary loans and assistance in rehabilitation or construction of infrastructure of various magnitudes. Another area where the importance of FOCAC is seen is China’s political support for the ruling elite in Africa, and diplomatic support for regimes usually under pressure at forums like the United Nations, as in the case of Zimbabwe and other countries accused of various shortcomings. It is clear from this therefore that relations between China and Africa are those of feeding off each other, or principally a relationship of friends in need of each other. However, as shall be seen in this essay, there are also various problems that arise with this FOCAC, not least of which are accusations that China turns a blind eye to human rights violations in Africa as long as it benefits. For the purposes of analysing the issue of relations between Africa and China, the conceptual framework of interdependence shall be pursued. This theory argues that countries relate to each other because there is dependence on each other for various strengths. For instance, China needs African resources...
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