...The World is Not Enough: Globalization, Guns, and Greed by Kathryn E Smith “…trade cannot be maintained without war or war without trade.”[1] Globalization is defined in many ways, and although it has been expanding and contracting over thousands of years, it has only in the past two centuries become a topic of such interest. Many think of globalization as “primarily a monetary phenomenon,”[2] and although most definitions of globalization do only concern trade, it is more broadly “the process by which different regions of the world affect one another economically, politically, or culturally.”[3] Today, military might is paramount in the expansion of globalization. It may seem cynical to those raised in American high schools and higher education institutions to say that “the hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.”[4] And yet, truly “McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps.”[5] Historically, this military protection of commercial interests has great precedence. As far back as the ancient city-states of Venice and Genoa, powerful navies were the basis of wealth.[6] In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Qing Dynasty of China pursued imperialist expansion, and conquered no less than four independent nations.[7] British Imperialism ...
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...World hunger World hunger is the worst problem in the world today. My goal today, is to bring to yourknowledge the facts surrounding world hunger and what you can do to help. Let’s start bydefining world Hunger. Hunger is a term which has three meanings according Oxford EnglishDictionary (1971) “1.the uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food; craving appetite.Also the exhausted condition caused by want of food 2.the want or scarcity of food in a country3.a strong desire or craving.” World hunger is defined by the 2nd definition on a world scale. Ithink that world hunger is an unfair problem in the world and needs to be solved. Just becausepeople have fewer opportunities than me does not mean they can suffer hunger. In this paper Iwill list statistics, other information surrounding world hunger and ways you can help so thebiggest problem in the world can be solved. In 2010 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO) estimated the numberof people hungry in the world. The numbers were:578 million in Asia and the Pacific, 39 millionin Sub-Saharan Africa, 53 million in Latin America and the Caribbean, 37 million in the NearEast and North Africa and 19 million in developed countries. That is a total of 925 millionpeople in the world. World Food Programme put it in a different statistic that puts a light on justhow big the problem is. They said that 1 in 7 people in the world are hungry. That is why I careabout world hunger. 1 in 7 is hungry because they have fewer...
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...* World Food Day Either we build a future for all, or there will be no acceptable future for anyone: Let’s be the Zero Hunger Generation World Food Day Either we build a future for all, or there will be no acceptable future for anyone: Let’s be the Zero Hunger Generation By By:Deavion Dyanta Semple By By:Deavion Dyanta Semple World Food Day World Food Day Theme: “Social Protection and Agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty” Theme: “Social Protection and Agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty” Street Address Address 2 City, ST ZIP Code Phone: 555.555.0125 Fax: 555.555.0145 E-mail address Street Address Address 2 City, ST ZIP Code Phone: 555.555.0125 Fax: 555.555.0145 E-mail address Caption describing picture or graphic. Caption describing picture or graphic. Why care about Hunger? Because the right to food is a basic human right. In a world of plenty, 805 million people, one in nine worldwide, live with chronic hunger. The costs of hunger and malnutrition fall heavily on the most vulnerable. 60% of the hungry in the world are women. Almost 5 million children under the age of 5 die of malnutrition-related causes every year 4 in 10 children in poor countries are malnourished damaging their bodies and brains Every human being has a fundamental right to be free from hunger and the right to adequate food. The right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child has the physical and economic access at all times...
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...does not value experience enough” Discuss (10) Plato was a philosopher and mathematician born in Greece. If someone does not value something, it suggests they do not believe in its worth, importance or usefulness. To begin with, Plato was not an empiricist; someone who believes that knowledge is derived from the experience of their senses. This was due to the fact that Plato believed in A prior knowledge; knowledge gained before experience. Plato believed that when we were born, our immortal soul already gained some sort of knowledge which we are able to use in this world. Therefore Plato does not value experience enough due to his beliefs. Furthermore, Plato understood that the world in which we live is the World of Appearances, where the objects in this life are just poor copies of their true forms in the Realm of Forms. We are deceived by our senses because they limit us to how much knowledge someone can have. For example, there is only so much that we can see from our eyes, which therefore limits our knowledge. On the other hand, pain can argue against this. If you were to hit your head on something quite hard, you will feel pain and come to understand this the world we live in is real and not an “appearance”, and the experience we get here is the only experience that exists. This illustrates that Plato did not value experience enough because he thought that our senses deceived us. Similarly, Plato argued that everything in this world, the World of Appearances, was temporary...
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...When it comes to food ethics I would have to say that wasting good food is probably at the top or near the top of the list. Pojman says it the best by stating that if there were ten children at the table the healthiest eat the best, but throw away most of their food. Two of the children get enough food in order to get by. The next three just manage to avoid hunger pains by eating rice and bread. The other two are unable to get enough food to survive and eventually die of hunger related diseases (Pojman & Pojman, 2012). This is something that hits home for me. I have children that will throw away good food and not think twice about it. They are young children that do not yet understand the concept that other kids in other places of the world...
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...Chelsea Tang Ms. Bertenshaw ENG2D1-01 15/10/15 The Killer of Love Love is a powerful and wonderful thing to experience, even though this element has its pros and cons. Some people are too selfish for love. They do not value their significant other well enough and they do not show effort to pursue their future in romantic and familial terms. Everyone deserves love, but some people are too selfish and push love away for their wants. They also do not value it enough to find it necessary in their lives. In addition, they do not want to pursue their love because they think that gaining materialistic things, higher status or power is more important. Therefore, people take advantage of love to earn what they desire. In both myths and the real world, there are people who are too selfish for love because they value themselves and materialistic things, higher status or power too much, therefore they are blinded by selfishness. There are two myths that display selfish lovers, “The Archer and the Moon Goddess” and “Theseus and the Minotaur”. In “The Archer and the Moon Goddess”, the selfish lover is Chang O, because “she […] realize[s] the full consequence of her selfishness [after she empties the entire contents of the bottle into her mouth]” (Kong and Wong 38). She wanted to gain godly status again, but she did not think of how Yi would suffer in hell forever. The former goddess only thought it would be a benefit for both of them if she drank the whole potion, and Yi would find...
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...plan pour l'expression orale Part 1: presentation of the notion Space and Exchanges = movement of money: Trade (the basis of all societies) The Stock Exchange (money rules the world) Globalization (the world has become a small village) Space and Exchanges = movement / communication: School (social diversity / knowledge...) The Internet / social networks... Space and Exchanges = movement of people: Immigration. Gap Year Part 2: relation between the documents studied in class and the notion immigration = mass movement: history of immigration to the USA (video) causes (video + propaganda document) hopes and disillusions / the American Dream (Rose + propaganda document) Pros and cons (“enough is enough” “Mexican woman”...) Gap Year = individual movement: definition (take a gap year: home page/ web site) reasons (home page web site + guide for parents) Pros and cons (class discussion + the Camel book mobile) Space and Exchanges Proposition de plan pour l'expression orale Part 1: presentation of the notion Space and Exchanges = movement of money: Trade (the basis of all societies) The Stock Exchange (money rules the world) Globalization (the world has become a small village) Space and Exchanges = movement / communication: School (social diversity / knowledge...) The Internet / social networks... Space and Exchanges = movement...
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...(( Instant )) Message to I.T. Leaders: The Kids Are Alright. Has technology impacted your life, Have you become a victim of technicological way of living? Has everyone else around you caved to the way of technology? Do have concerns of how technology will impact the following generations to come? If so then this information is for you? Technology has become the one main component in our daily lives, it is the one thing we turn to every day. The way we talk to people, the way we make a sale, the way we run our business's, the way we listen to music, the way we buy and sale stocks, everything we do in our daily lives is ran by technology. Look at what I am doing right now, I am doing this essay on my lap top which is recommended to have in college these days. No writes out their essay's by hand any more, its all through computers and technology which is disappointing in a sense, because its the easy way out of things as I see it, I am not saying that technology does not have its benefits it does, but what ever happened to the old classic hard working satisfaction people use to do, people managed fine and did many great things before there was technology like there is today, Its laziness the easy way of doing everything, if their is an easier way of doing things, where people can do things faster but with less work, they will develop it, but what about the long term affects of all this, dont people see what is happening to our society? Doesnt...
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...expectancy, percentage of rich people in the country, and also the level of inequality including social problems. The Adult Literacy (% of population) graph means that the percentage of people in a country that can read. As we can see, different countries have different percentage, the question is why? I think this is because when the percentage of people was young, they didn’t have enough money to support their lives to get the education or they didn’t get enough time to get education while busy working to earn money and livestock to support their family. As for poverty they don’t have enough places to work. Most of them work as a fisherman and sell what they get from fishing, crops, and teaching in school. This is because it is hard to find jobs in a specific country especially a poor country. For the Goss Domestic product in US dollars, the product of all the work is counted in US dollars. This is high according to each currency of each country. I want to give it a press on the word poverty. Poverty is the state for the majority of the world’s people and nations. Why is this? Is it enough to blame poor people for their own predicament? Have they been lazy, made poor decisions, and been solely responsible for their plight? What about their governments? Have they pursued policies that actually harm successful development? Such causes of poverty and inequality are no doubt real. But deeper and more global causes of...
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...Matt Smith Political Theory 2/7/02 Locke/Hobbes vs. the United Nations After WWII the world was in disarray after having witnessed the second global conflict. The countries of the world came together to form the United Nations, an organization comprised of the nations of the world in an attempt to deal with crisis and future events in a way that would deter the onset of another such conflict. Some believe that the United Nations should be a global governing body. Others may argue on the side of John Lock or Thomas Hobbes in saying the United Nations is a civic government for the nations of the world -- a Leviathan to ensure order and harmony between the states of the Earth. These people would be mistaken in their assumptions and interpretations of Locke and/or Hobbes’s thought. Both Locke and Hobbes would argue consistently that the United Nations would not work and does not make sense given the state of nature that man comes from. John Locke explained his theory of the state of nature in his Second Treatise on Government. According to Locke man exists in the state of nature as an individual coexisting peacefully with other human beings. The reason for this peaceful coexistence between people in the state of nature is because of a few simple rules. The first of these is the respect of people’s life, liberty, and property. A person’s life and liberty are forms of his property. If a person was to in some way take away another person’s property then that...
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...* 1.0 General * 1.1 Company Profile Adidas is a company that designs and manufactures sports clothing and accessories based in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany. It is also an industry-leading brand all over the world relating with sports shoes and clothes. Its operating income is €1.011 billion in 2012 and they aims to reach the target of €2 billion in football in 2014. Its workforce is 46,306 employees according to the reports from 2012. 1.2 Purpose of this Manual Now, this manual is going to point out of their 5 years re-engineering plan including advantages and disadvantages, weakness and strength. 1.3 Scope of EMS The scope of EMS is included in most of the reputable brands and businesses which are operating using the sources of environments. So, Adidas is also taking care about the environment since their main resources are cotton and leather. The decision to have 100% ‘Better Cotton’ in their products by 2018 is a good example of this. ‘Better Cotton’ is cotton grown to social and environmental standards set by the multi-stakeholder Better Cotton Initiative (BCI). So while setting this target supports their ambitions to make their products more sustainable, the responsibility for meeting it rests with their Global Operations team and their sourcing strategy. 2.0 Policy 2.1 Analyzing the environmental policy of Adidas According to their re-engineering plan, Adidas targets in 4 major areas: 1. Recyclable Main Materials 2. Energy and Carbon...
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...Balance is something we take an act on everyday. Not only does balance affect how we see the world like; work, family, and our lifestyle. It also affects the worlds population. People can increase or decrease at any moment. When thinking about our population increase there is the usual which is child birth. An when one thinks of decreasing it is death like; diseases, illnesses, dramatic events, or old age. However, the world is being impacted by child birth. Either women are having to many and it is over ruling the deaths or women are not having enough babies and death is overruling life. By analyzing both sides, the basic demographic equation came into play. The basic demographic equation is " the growth rate equals births minus deaths plus net migration" (p. 459)....
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...there so called "brother" id just like ti point out that id rather be an only child. In fact. I may as well be. I am so fed up of your behaviour lately and i dont want aby oathetuc excuses as you ehy you dont k ow how ti ve a giod brother. I hioe your friends are a good enough substitute because you ni longer have me by your side. I cannot rmrmever the last time i was avke to soek to you on a real level waqar becayse your too busy consumed by other oeople to care abiut me. The other day for instance. Putting tour fucking lesuireky WANTS (not needs) before me. Our roles are to make life easier for eachother when our parebts cannot. And you failed me. JUST THUBK. THINK. If it eas thr other way. Look little princess boy. I Hi there so called "brother" id just like ti point out that id rather be an only child. In fact. I may as well be. I am so fed up of your behaviour latelHi there so called "brother" id just like ti point out that id rather beHi there so called "brother" id just like ti point out that id rather be an only child. In fact. I may as well be. I am so fed up of your behaviour lately and i dont want aby oathetuc excuses as you ehy you dont k ow how ti ve a giod brother. I hioe your friends are a good enough substitute because you ni longer have me by your side. I cannot rmrmever the last time i was avke to soek to you on a real level waqar becayse your too busy consumed by other oeople to care abiut me. The other day for instance. Putting tour fucking lesuireky WANTS (not...
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...Jocelyn Barrera English 114 Prof. Maskery Sep 27 2012 Poverty In Third World Countries Poverty is a major issue in our world today where people cannot afford the basic necessities required to survive. Although 1st world countries have more then what is needed, people still suffer from poverty. Poverty is a lack of goods and services necessary to maintain a minimal life style. However, in 3rd world countries poverty is more present then in 1st world countries because of the lack of resources, power,money, and education. The struggle to survive often results in having more children, however, people in poverty usually are not educated about safe sex practices. As a consequence, sexually transmitted diseases run rapidly. When the parents are HIV positive, HIV is passed to their newborns and the cycle of death by AIDS rages. Not only is diseases a problem but the causes it brings to families, children and the country as a whole.The reality is poverty is a silent killer that is ignored by most especially by the 1st world countries. They tend to ignore other countries and not try to put an end to poverty. There is about six billion people in the world as of 2012, and from that half of the population are suffering from poverty (Anup Shah). Which brings us to the question, Is there ever going to be an end to poverty? From research I have made poverty has been present to back to centuries even before BC and is still happening today. We would think that poverty would be decreasing...
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...extent, if you cry doom long enough you'll always get proved right, given the laws of entropy. So this is a bit 'faux' controversy... This is the introductory note taking exercise for a Pestle analysis of China, drawn on conventional internet sources such as Wikipedia, the CIA World Factbook and Nationmaster. China is the most populous country in the world, with 1.34 billion people. It has the third largest GDP, with $4.84 trillion, behind Japan and the U.S. Like India, the currency and conditions make it useful to look at some statistics using Purchasing Power Parity, which bumps up China's GDP to $7.8 trillion, which would move it ahead of Japan. It also is the second in the world in annual military spending, although that needs a bit of context, as the world's number two spends about 15% of what the world number one (USA) spends. But with PPP, that looks like more money, and insofar as it is used to pay salaries, rather than buy Israeli rocket parts, PPP is valid in this context too. China is badly governed by the Communist Party, and in my five-year Pestle forecast I will be making the case that misgovernance will prove to be the root cause of a downward spiral that will cost China dearly. It will mark the end of an unprecedented run of growth and opportunity that began in 1978, and for the past 25 years it has averaged 10% growth per year. The record stops this year, sadly. It really is a pity--China's growth has done more to reduce world poverty than any program, aid...
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