GAC028 Assessment Event 1: Written Assignment SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL GLOBAL ASSESSMENT CERTIFICATE Global Issues Student Name: Luong Vien Tai Student ID: KKPS16535 Teacher: Ms Diana Sorobey Due Date: 08/04/2016 Word Count: 1868 Table of Contents Introduction 1 Body 1 Full-body Scanners at Airports 1 The Health Effects of Genetically Modified Foods 2 Scarcity of clean drinking water 3 Introducing technology into the classroom to support learning 3 Conclusion
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Full control ensures shoe retailer never misses a step By RACHAEL BOON THE success of shoe label and fashion retailer Charles & Keith International on the global front can be attributed to its ability to have a firm grip of its operations across its vast network of stores and factories. This unwavering commitment has put the company in good stead to weather the major crises it had faced, dating back to the days when the retailer was operating out of a small store in Ang Mo Kio in 1990
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during different stage of economic. Extensions using a graph reveal the impact of real interest rate in ASEAN-5 and thus mainly reflect heightened concerns to national savings amid the Asian financial crisis and the global financial crisis. Keywords: real interest rate, national saving, financial crisis 1.0 Introduction The world’s average saving rate has been declining since the first oil shock and through the early 1990s. However this trend conceals a large and increasing dispersion of
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‘movement which was significant in marking the point when Britain started to get rid of its empire. As Britain used the empire as a symbol of its power the loss of it could therefore symbolise Britain losing the title of a world power. Secondly, the Suez crisis of 1956 resulted in many consequences for Britain causing her to no longer be viewed as a world power. Nasser the president of Egypt called for the nationalisation of the Suez Canal which meant foreign ships would have to pay to
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The earth is now facing many problems such as climate change and droughts, and all of them result from human activity. Water scarcity is one of the biggest challenges because safe drinking water is reducing year by year. Nothing can survive without water as well as human beings so it is necessary to protect clean water from decreasing from now on. In this essay, three causes of water scarcity will be identified. It will also pay attention to the measures to solve the problem. The major cause of
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carry the overall message of an organization into a stage of visible outcome. An organization's public relations department amongst many other tasks must build awareness, research and analyze public attitudes and perceptions, strategize, and implement crisis plans. Social media provides a way for organizations to do these things on a scale not known in earlier times when messages had to first bypass the filter of the media "gatekeepers". As stated by Rupert Murdoch, "Technology is shifting the power away
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Some parts of the Horn of Africa have been hit by the worst drought in 60 years, the UN says. Large areas of Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya are in a crisis or an emergency. The Sahel region of Africa has been suffering from drought since the early 1980s. The land is marginal in Sahel regions over cultivation, overgrazing are human activities can lead to desertification especially when it is combined with drought. Drought is a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall for a specific area
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There are a number of players involved in global energy security; they are Trans-National Corporations Organisations such as OPEC, National Governments and Consumers. All of these players are stakeholders in the energy market and have varying degrees of importance and influence.Energy resources are not evenly distributed across the globe, certain factors such as geographic location/relief of the land, economic ability for extraction, technology available and demand for said resource. The Middle East
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1. Read Case: Coca-Cola’s Water Neutrality Initiative and answer the following questions: • What was the public issue facing The Coca-Cola Company? Who were stakeholders, what were their concerns and how did their expectations differ from what company was doing? o The public issues facing the Coca-Cola Company were: The quality of water the company was using, Concerns of how safe the water was for consumers, and The company was using so much water that it was causing water shortages
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Financial Crisis Introduction In recent decades, financial crises have stopped the momentum of economic development of many countries around the world. In some cases, they have destroyed almost completely different financial systems. The term financial crisis is applied broadly to a variety of situations in which some financial assets suddenly lose a large part of their nominal value. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many financial crises were associated with banking panics, and many recessions
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