...of the foundation of America, men have tried to figure out the correct way to deal with law-opposing criminals. From crucifixion and slavery, to death by firing squad and life sentences, the world has utilized different forms of discipline. The death penalty has formed into the most questionable form of punishment, drawing the most attention from the public eye. The United States government uses this sanction to punish criminals for committing the most heinous crimes and offenses. The crimes that obtain the death penalty mostly consist of murder which include murder during a kidnapping, murder for hire, drug-related drive by shooting, and genocide. However, the crimes can also consist of other capital offenses, such as espionage, treason, and death resulting from aircraft hijacking. The United States of America...
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...Almiyahou, Ngala Pro: Bryson 04/11/16 1. Bibliographical citation: Gosnell, Jonathan. "Franco-American Cultures In A New World Perspective." French Politics, Culture & Society 30.3 (2012): 96-118. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 23 Mar. 2016. 2. Bibliographical citation: Slatta, Richard W. "Making And Unmaking Myths Of The American Frontier." European Journal Of American Culture 29.2 (2010): 81-92. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 23 Mar. 2016. This article is very intriguing “plain a key difference in the myth-making of the two North American countries. ‘If a creation story explains, often in mythic terms, how a people came to a place and claimed it as their own, then Turner’s frontier thesis became the creation story of the U.S.´ this quotes also sum itself on what Slatta is saying this article about myths in the American history and present. Looking this myths and comparing to what I think of another city full myth like Paris, a person start to understand why Paris back in the 20s and 60s have a very different meaning to foreigners to Paris. Paris in a way represent France because of its size, population, Capitol city and by far the most vibrant city in Europe today and back in 20s and 60s. Within the country it’s self they are many myths that separate people most noticeable as the author stated was during the civil war. The south view black people as their property and they wanted to hold on to while the north wanted to liberate...
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...Socio –Economic Indicators of United States of America Almost all the indicators of United States of America are deflecting the real picture of a developed nation. The indicators describe the supremacy of United States of America in every field (social and economic). Social and economic condition of United States of America is pretty good and life standards of its citizen is very high. As it’s a developed nation so its indicators are much different from other developing world. But it’s lacking in health related issues because of poor health facilities and high infant mortality rate. Some of its socio economic indicators are as follow Enrollment in schools at Primary Level Enrollment at primary level is 98% irrespective of gender Gross National...
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...What America Means To Me “Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain…” the opening words of “America The Beautiful” really paint a picture of America. The freedom from shore to shore, where all can worship freely because of the countless sacrifices people made. That is what pops in my mind when I think of The United States of America. “America, America, God shed his grace on me!” This is what our country is built on, what our founding fathers meant it to be. The beauty of Christians coming together to thank God for our country and the soldiers who built it to be free. The people who woke up every morning like it was their last. Putting all their trust in God that they would hold their baby again, or see their wife again. The...
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...actions taken and proposed solution) - Answer case question accurately (use chapter materials) - 50 points - Explaining how the Hofstede cultural dimensions influence the decisions taken (explaining the problem, actions taken and proposed solution) - 50 points How might (a) U.S. pharmaceutical companies (b) U.S. consumers benefit from the rise of the Indian pharmaceutical industry? The U.S. pharmaceutical companies have major benefits from India exporting their generic drugs. Getting India to trade with America, has helped with cheaper prices in the pharmaceutical aspect. American pharmaceutical companies are protecting the revenues made and securing the boundaries of a competitive market. Having expansion of Indian pharmaceutical companies has also had a major impact on consumers of the U.S. When prices are lower, insurance prices decrease, cheaper visits at the doctor’s offices, and a decrease in expenses paid. The contribution of India will help America advance in the long-run. Since the U.S. has free trade with open markets, the U.S. is able to get the exports from India easily. India pharmaceutical companies have an absolute advantage over the U.S. pharmaceutical companies. India needs to specialize in the production of generic drugs. The company has the absolute advantage in exporting goods to another country. The profits will increase for India and Americans get a cheaper deal from the generic drugs exported from India. From the perspective of Hofstede...
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...almost dead because of bad economy, high prices for energy and the housing prices. The most fundamental assumption of American dream Is money and ownership of material things, which keeps rising steadily year after year. Denmark has long passed the point where adding more income and more stuff will make us happier. Research show that once an individual passes §50000 a year in income, more money has little effect on his or her happiness on average. When both parents work more and more they can barely see each other or their kids. Both young men and women say in employment surveys, that they want time to take care of their family and their health. The old American dream included a social safety net and provided a baseline of security. These are scary times and young people are the largest and fastest – growing group of American without health insurance. 2) The amrerican dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller to everyone. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to get it enough, and it is not a dream of motor cars and high income, but a dream of social order. In America people work more hours to get the big cars, fancier homes, the fruits of prosperity for their families- but have less time to enjoy their prosperity, others looks toward a new American dream with less focus on financial gain and more emphasis on living a simple, fulfilling life. For Arnold America was the place to go if you wanted your...
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...of Coca Cola in third world countries play a very large role in the success of Vitango. If the Customers do not like the product (taste, price, availability, etc..) than the product will not sell. 2. Competitors If the competition is cheaper or tastes better or is more readily available, Coca Cola will have a hard time selling their product, even if it contains essential vitamins. 3. Marketing Intermediaries If the resellers of Vitango are not supporting Vitango, it will never succeed. 4. Suppliers. Price plays a key role in the sales of Vitango. If Coca-Cola can find suppliers which will provide them with what they need at a low enough price, Vitango may be able to match the prices of other competitors. 5. Publics Coca-Cola may not be planning on directly making any money with Vitango. They may just be looking for Media attention which creates Coca-Cola awareness and a good reputation, which in the end can create more sales for other Coca-Cola products worldwide. Question 2 (20 marks) 1. High Prices Since Coca-Cola is a for profit organization, they can been accused of having prices that are too high. They will likely only sell something if it turns a profit, therefore the prices need to be high enough to turn a profit. GAIN on the other hand is a non profit organization which would not be expected to raise prices. 2. Deceptive Practices Vitango could sound as it is all you need for poor country to become well nourished. Although Vitango has many...
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...Ward-Shah English 110 – Sec. 017 October 4, 2012 Rising Prices of Health Care and Its Effects Medical costs in America are the highest compared to every other country. Many people explain that our costs are higher just because our expensive costs, on going to the doctor more often, or that wet get sicker more. In fact, the opposite is true. The reason that medical costs are higher is because of the prices. Since the prices are higher we as Americans pay more, it’s that simple. When trying to explain the high cost of medical care many people though it was because we use medical services more often as Americans. Research shows that “we spend less time in hospitals than Germans and see doctors less often than Canadians.” (Klein) This is odd, because even though the above is true our medical costs are almost double that of Germany and Canada. We pay more and get less out of medical care. “The United States spends more on health care than any of the other OECD countries spend, without providing more services than the other countries do” (Klein). This just shows that our prices for some reason are just higher than they are in other countries. To understand why this is we must understand why prices in other countries are lower. “In 2009, Americans spent $7,960 per person on health care. Our neighbors in Canada spent $4,808. The Germans spent $4,218. The French, $3,978” (Klein). The reason behind the lower prices in the above countries is because their countries governments...
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...a drug pusher is just like committing murder. Drugs have been with us since the beginning of time. Depending on different eras and cultures drugs are used differently and with agriculture large quantities of drugs are able to be produced. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that the drug epidemic has destroyed many dreams and lives of people of all ages and races. Just about anyone can become an addict when trying out a drug. Most people already know that pain medication is prescribed and available easy and too much and in turn this is creating addicts. In the year of 2010 pharmacies dispensed something like 42 tons of hydrocodone and 69 tons of oxycodone. That’s enough drugs to give each human being in the United States of America 24 Vicodins and 40 Percocet’s. Prescription drugs are exceeding all drugs in levels of abuse. The rates are staggering with deadly results all across the nation DRUGS The drug problem is not an enemy that can be easily vanquished. A side effect is usually regarded as an undesirable secondary effect which occurs in addition to the desired therapeutic effect of a drug or medication. Side effects may vary for each individual depending on the disease state...
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...Fairtrade is an organisation with the aim of improving the livelihoods of farmers from developing countries in order to support equality among people. The business is however often in the critique for procedures that are either not helpful for their farmers or even harm the market as a whole. This paper aims at analysing the Fairtrade standards as well as evidence from the literature with regard to the actual impact of the system. The results show that the standards set by Fairtrade are actually fair for their farmers, however a lack of transparency and traceability hinders their proper implementation. Furthermore, Fairtrade standards appear to have even negative effects on farmers that are not part of their organisation caused by rough price competitions as well as on the society as a whole since it hinders an autonomous development of the poor nations. Key Words: Fair Trade, Standards, Developing countries, Livelihood 1 1. Introduction The rising globalization has brought a lot of opportunities to developing countries since their agricultural products can now easily be purchased from all over the world. Due to poor economic, social and political conditions, their producers are however often underpaid and treated badly, while major corporations make the most profit out of it. While moral concerns about the origin of products are arising more and more within the last centuries in the western world, the willingness to pay extra for good worker treatment is...
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...Industrial America gave birth to corporate America with companies of steel, oil and railroad companies. Businesses such as Carnegie Steel owned by Andrew Carnegie became the world’s largest corporation, which was later bought out and changed the name to value at one billion dollars. Success stories of America being of “opportunity” gave a romanticized view of this young country, inviting immigrants from all over Europe to come to America. Their dreams of a better life full of prosperity were soon turned into a nightmare. In order to maintain and grow in the industrial age, employers used cost effective practices that was dangerous to the laborers, such as limited raises and zero job security. Andrew Carnegie, Jay Gould and John D. Rockefeller...
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... Economic volume 1 The cost of food, fuel, and oil is the three main necessities of life support around the world. Food is important to everyone’s needs for life well being and nurturing for life support and health. Fuel and oil is essential for operating the vehicles transporting food, and supplies in demand, traveling, and driving to and from work. Fuel is one of the main resources used to help make everything work as individuals rely on for driving or operating. However, everything is mobilized by transportation, using fuel of some kind weather its gasoline, oil, or diesel in many of cases. In addition, cars, trucks, and trains, airplanes, buses work shopping and traveling to get things done more efficiently. Selling prices of goods such as food, clothing, household products, are extremely higher in the US market then foreign countries markets overseas mainly. The selling of imported product such as food and gas have caused most US based companies to use the service price elastic because of shipping and handling cost. Some are purchasing products through the chain of business in order to reduce some of the high cost of shipping. In the 1990’s to 2000 was at a stagnating drought time with no rain and farmers had to raise the on produce and farm animal feed. Farmers lost millions of dollars on weather crops and again the consumers took the hit in the marketplace. Seem like the price should have dropped in the following year, with the...
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...advantage of price differentials for prescription drugs in other global markets by either physically crossing over to the Canadian border or ordering them from the internet. Analysis In an increasingly global environment, companies must become more aware of an empowered consumer. Information, such as pricing in other countries, is able to spread very quickly. American consumers often wish to be on an equal playing field with the rest of the world. This means that a service/good that is bought in the United State should be comparable in price/quality to the same good/service bought in another country. GSKoSmithKline (GSK) encountered numerous public relations and strategic issues with their decision to limit the supply of drugs shipped to Canada. Many American consumers chose to buy the cheaper versions of the drugs from Canadian pharmacies because of the significant price reduction. Many of these consumers, who were often low income or elderly, could not afford the United States drugs because of the expense. GSK’s Responsibility to American Patients Healthcare is a business, but it must be treated differently than other businesses. GSK has both a social and ethical commitment to produce life-saving drugs that are affordable and easily accessible to the American public. The large price differentials between drugs purchased in America and drugs purchased in Canada led many to believe that GSK was a profit-hungry corporation that did not care about human life. Like any...
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...Women in America Equality has always been an issue in America. Inequality in America has had many different reasons. One reason for inequality is that men have always been superior to women. Women didn’t have the same rights that men did. Women couldn’t have a job or vote. Women finally got the right to vote in 1929. Now even though women have pretty much the same rights as men do, inequality is still greatly noticed. Women still don’t get treated as equals. Women get higher prices in auto shops and hair salons. Because men don’t think of women as equals when in an auto shop, women are taken advantage of and given higher than average prices. In hair salons or barber shops women are given higher prices than men, even for the same haircut, because women will generally pay more to have the look that they want. Women also get the “credit” for poverty. Poverty is usually feminized completely. If a family is at or below the poverty line, the woman in the house is blamed for it. Inequality in America is not gone, it is just under the surface where not many people may see the truth behind it. In America the average price for a woman’s haircut is $44, but the average price for a man’s haircut is $28. (Risen) Some would blame the difference in price on the difference in price on the length of hair. The price for a woman to get a haircut is almost double what a man’s haircut price is all over the nation. The most expensive haircut in the nation for a woman is $73. This price is the...
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...9-504-094 REV: SEPTEMBER 14, 2004 YOUNGME MOON IKEA Invades America In 2002, the IKEA Group was the world’s top furniture retailer. With sales approaching $12 billion, IKEA operated 154 stores in 22 countries and serviced 286 million customers a year. (See Exhibits 1 through 4.) In the United States, IKEA had 14 stores, with plans to open as many as nine more in 2003. There were a number of factors that distinguished IKEA from other furniture retailers—its stores were strictly self-service and featured such amenities as playrooms for children and Swedish cafés, and all of its furniture came unassembled (customers were expected to put together the furniture on their own)—yet there was no question about the company’s success; when a new store opened, it was not unusual for thousands of shoppers to line up on the first day. Company Background IKEA was founded in 1943 when 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad decided to start a local catalog company using some money his father had given him.1 Initially, the company sold basic household goods at discount prices; in 1947, however, Kamprad began selling home furnishings. Six years later, Kamprad opened his first furniture showroom, and two years after that, IKEA began designing its own low-priced furniture. In 1958, IKEA opened its inaugural store, in Almhult, Sweden; at 6,700 square meters, it was the largest furniture display in Scandinavia at the time. By the time IKEA opened its flagship store in Stockholm in 1965...
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