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In “The New Rules of the Game” episode of the “Commanding Heights,” it asserts that trade in the context of globalization is uncontrollable. It said that the governments in the third world countries should adapt to the fast developments or else their economies will collapse. The documentary made it appear that after the fall of communism, capitalism flourished through free trade that caused governments’ economies to thrive. Although it presented that the system has further widen the gap between the rich and the poor, it did not suggest solutions that will control the unpredictable ...

Reflection on Globalization: Yesterday and Today

Reflection on Globalization: Yesterday and Today was a talk delivered by known economist Paul Krugman at Princeton University. The talk focused on the phenomena of Globalization and what it did to the world and its role the ‘mess’ it caused. He gave a short history of globalization by saying that it is not new to the world because it was ongoing during the late 19th century. In his talk Reflection on Globalization: Yesterday and Today , Krugman addressed what were the changes, one of the changes he pointed out was technology. People were replaced by machines, he mentioned, because longshoremen were replaced ...

This is a series of six films documentary which elaborates the origin of the industrial revolution. The movie gives the reasons why the island on the coast in the mainland of Europe became a great industrial center while the most promising regions like China lagged behind. The movie initially shows the worst and the best aspects of industrial revolution .the movie goes deeper into many years and millenniums ago in showing the trend of the factors which led to industrial revolution. The movies tries to answer the parable of what the industrial revolution is and when it started as well as ...

Movie Review: Examine the videos of Huang and Pattanaik through the eyes of globalization. Each of the presenters is making the argument that Western industrial development does not overwhelm culture, and that their 'lesser developed' countries have much to teach the West. Do you agree, disagree and why?
- Medical Doctor Devdutt Pattanaik, in his presentation entitled: “East vs. West -- the myths that mystify,” shared his views about the difference between “the world” (logos) and “my world” (mythos). He gave mythological and real-world examples about objective and subjective truths. My personal stance is that I do not ...

In a TED talk, Nic Marks presents a new way of judging the success of countries on a global scale. He and the organization he founded, the New Economics Foundation, believe that GDP is insufficient in the modern world as a measure of which countries are doing well. His system, which he calls the Happy Planet Index, takes two factors into account: the average reported happiness of the people residing in the country, and the average ecological footprint. He believes, based on this data, that an argument could be made that Latin American countries, who tend to have low economic footprints but average ...

The consequences for granting exemptions to U.S. federal labour laws to garment subcontractors operating on Saipan was that they could pay the workers a fraction of the minimum wage, work them harder in poor conditions and for longer hours.
This proves that the neoliberal agenda breeds the growth of inequality as the multinational corporations will naturally move their factories to countries that allow exploitation of third workers, free trade only benefits the one percent, the other ninety nine percent are left without jobs in their own countries because all the factories have moved to third world countries to save ...

Movie Review: 200 countries, 200 years-The Joy of Stats

The movie 200 countries, 200 years shows how countries have gotten richer in the last two centuries and basically covers the economic history of the world. The Income per person (GDP) in nearly all the countries in the world has increased as the countries adjust the differences in the cost of living and the inflation levels. I find it interesting how he enthusiastically uses public data and brings out in a sport’s commentator style to prove that the wealth of more than 200 countries has increased over the last two centuries. It is also interesting that a story depicting the ...

Introduction:

The United States Agency for International Development and the World Bank hosted a debate concerning the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The debate had the following proposition “Behavior change in generalized epidemics has not reduced new HIV infections and is an unwise use of HIV prevention resources.” Panelists supporting the proposal had a number of reasons that they presented. They argued that the individuals carrying out behavior change implementation had not done a thorough evaluation of their work. For this reason, there are many unknowns in this strategy. For instance, scholars involved have not been able to come up with a behavior change model. Such a model ...

The documentary film Mardi Gras: Made in China was directed by David Redmon and won a large number of awards. There are many films about the pros and cons of globalization for the USA and China, but this film is in many ways unique. The director shows how difficult the production process of the beads is and at the same time how meaninglessly the beads are used in New Orleans during the Mardi Grass celebrations. By means of the contrast scenes and focus on the beads, which are useless products, the film makes the viewers sympathize with the Chinese ...

David Redmon directed the film Mardi Gras: Made in China in 2005. In this film he wanted to show the problem of exploitative manufacturing caused by the outsourcing of production from the developed countries to China and other developing countries. The film is very unusual, because it focuses not on the production of cars or other technically complicated products and instead the director shows the life-cycle of the beads that are produced in China and shipped to New Orleans where they are usually sold in large numbers during the Mardi Gras festival. Those people who watch the film can ...

Foreign aid is still the largest external source investment for most economies. At the recent UN convention on least developed countries in 2011, there were calls from several quarters to increase this type of investment . Has foreign aid encouraged (under)development in Africa? With over a half century since the aid model of foreign investment was introduced in a largely post-colonial Africa, the continent has nothing to show for it economically . An estimated $1 trillion has been injected into the African economy in the period, but the ultimate result has been that the economic situation of African nation is getting worse ...

America and other developed countries are struggling to build democracy. Equality is the foundation of democracy and social equality of women has an important role in the development of society. The website NOW Foundation is aimed to achieve full equality for women all over the world via education and litigation.
America and European countries are the most advanced and loyal towards women. However, even in these countries women's rights very infringed some years ago. Women were not allowed to any decent work. They could only do housework or difficult work, which did not require education, such as work in ...

Assignment # 1

Is Wal-Mart Good for America?

This documentary provides a challenging environment to the economy of America. This documentary shows a competitive relationship between producers and big retailers represented by Wal-Mart, who contribute to some of the American businesses becoming bankrupt and increasing the rate of unemployment. Wal-Mart came up with low-cost shopping at outsourcing at large sellers after lesser local companies. Those who are winners or losers are examined as discussed as shown here;

International retailers have superseded producers in decision making concerning the type, quality of products, and price.

They ensure that the Americans can afford to purchase Chinese goods which are low priced as compared to products made in America. This is a ...

The immigration dilemma in the United States dates back to the time immemorial. Many of those who immigrate to the US do so in search of greener pastures, which they believe to find in the United States. In many cases, people immigrate due to suffering and dissatisfaction with their countries of origin. This may be as a result of war, famine or other inevitable factors. However, many of them end up facing unexpected challenges. Edward Park gives an insight into the dilemma faced by immigrants in the article Friends or Enemies: Generational Politics, in the Korean American Community. The challenges ...

The Name of the Class

Cross-Cultural Experiences in the movie “Outsourced”
The customs and cultures of India were developed by the country’s traditions that date back almost a few thousands of years. The significance most of these cultural behavior and traditions have in the people of India can be elusive to the average American. For instance, the picture of Kaali (the goddess of destruction), carrying the severed head of a man, hung on the wall of Todd’s (the protagonist) bedroom, is quite a disconcerting picture for the average American. But in India, it is a picture of relief. Similarly, the intermittent animal ( ...

Sicko is a documentary film with the focus on depicting cons of the U.S. health care system. The primary theme of this movie is a failure of the U.S. government to create an effective health care system, so all U.S. citizens receive adequate and affordable medical treatment. Moore, the author of the documentary film, shows that in other developed countries, such as Canada, France, Great Britain, health care system is publicly funded, and governments provide various services and reimburse all out-of-pocket payments. Moore states that according to the World Health Organization, health care system of the United States is ...

1- What variables does Rosling use to talk about social well being?

The variables that Rosling use to talk about social well-being are fertility rate, life expectancy at birth, child mortality rate and the length of life.

2- What does he illustrate when he plots social well being variables against economic development (income per capita)?

What Rosling is trying to illustrate in plotting social well-being variables against the GDP per capita is that social well-being factors play a major role in the economic growth of a country. He also points out that there are some countries that are more advanced in terms of health, education and human resources development, than they are economically. He argues that for some countries social progress is more enhanced than economic progress. 3- What is the ...

Identification of Health Issues from the Movie “Sick around the World” and the Reaction

The movie entitled, “Sick around the World” reported by Thomas Roy Reid features the way healthcare system operations occur from five other capitalist nations in the World. Reid visited United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland to help America improve its health care system from the lessons learned from these nations. Health issues that came out evident from the movie include poor management of chronic diseases, low health practitioners’ motivation, high cost of healthcare services, little research in health care system and unequal health care provision amongst citizens. The movie begins by featuring the healthcare system in United Kingdom. ...

Technology has been welcomed by people across the globe from time immemorial. However, the rate at which thinks happen nowadays creates worries than solutions to the human race. With the rampant increases in the level of technology people are confused whether to appreciate disown technology as far as god’s creation is concerned. People have always argued that god did not intent to create a lazy being thus he gave human beings minds to liberate themselves from their woes. They argue that god’s intention was to restructure the world by insisting that only those who work have to eat. ...

Background

Although there are several similarities between a gay individual living western countries and a gay individual living in countries in Asia, some literature state that there are a lot of differences between the two groups of gay people. In this paper, those differences will be discussed because it can really help society understand more about gay people. Some of the things we could target here are the gay people’s uniqueness, identity, intercultural communication issues between gay people in the West and gay people in Asian countries.

Review of Literature

There were a lot of things that I discovered about gay people. One particular thing I ...

‘Black Gold’ is film about the production of coffee in Ethiopia which is the known to be birthplace of coffee. It focuses on the plight of the Ethiopian workers who spend endless days and nights harvesting a crop that is their only source of income. The coffee industry is a multi billion industry that has seen the GDPs of International countries rise as the major exporters of this treasured commodity continue to remain impoverished (‘Black Gold’).

My take on the movie

With America being the country that consumes the most coffee in the world .This movie was an eye opener for the way the role of ...

The video is a documentary about a team of researchers that are seeking support to clone humans. Their main argument is that they want to help people who cannot have babies even though they also explicitly say it is their ambition to do it and to be rich at any cost. They do not talk about ethical concerns nor values. They only say it will be hard work, and there are risks to be taken.
The main concern that arises at the very beginning of the video is the possibility of deformed babies. The doctor leading the project, Doctor ...

Movie Review: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying

and Love the Bomb and The Long Walk Home
Two history-elucidating films, which are so different at the first glance, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and The Long Walk Home, shed light on the peculiarities of the epoch that followed the Second World War. The events shown in both of them send us back to the middle of the XX century, when people bred hopeful expectations about their bright future in the brand new United States of America.
This period was marked in the history as the years of progress, which ...

Aladdin is a classic Arabian fairy tale that was used as a basis for many movies and cartoons. The main character of the story is a poor young man who achieves the princess and other rewards with the aid of magical powers and own personality. Writers from many countries used similar plots. For example, Danish author Hans Christian Andersen used such characters and situations in his tales The Tinder-box and The Flying Trunk. Stories have many differences, like author, length or plot, but there is always one similarity – focus on main characters. The screen adaptation of the fairy tale ...

The documentary film White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was produced and directed by Steven Okazaki in 2007. This film is full of drama, because it shows personal stories of the people that survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This film is of great importance for understanding the events that took place at the end of the World War II, because it explains the motives of the USA to use the mass destruction weapons and more importantly it shows the devastating consequences of the atomic bombings. Thousands of people were immediately killed, but even ...

Bridge of Spies (2015) is a historical film that was directed by Steven Spielberg. One of the stars in this film is Tom Hanks. This film received a very positive feedback from the viewers and in my opinion it is one of the best films about the confrontation between the USA and the USSR in the past few years. The film is set in 1957 – 1962 and is based on a true story. In 1957, the USA arrested a Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, but a few years later he was swapped for the American pilot that was brought down ...

The following analysis of Persona and Solaris reveals how movies from unlike countries and of different genres portray the development of opposite human personalities while losing or gaining humanity under the external influences and internal self-recognition. The attempts to create a fine movie about internal and external of human life do not often impress much, especially nowadays when we experience an endless flow of visual images. Probably, it inspires people to look back at the classic works that not only represent the unusual transformations in the forms of self but also produce extraordinary rhythms in the scenes (Tarkovsky 113). ...

CRITICAL REVIEW: BUSHIDO THE CRUEL CODE OF THE SAMURAI (1963) MOVIE
Critical review: Bushido the cruel code of the samurai (1963) movie

The film, “Bushido: The cruel code of the samurai” is film full of drama with unique features and high level of character change featured in 1963. Bushido represented samurai’s code of honor, morality and discipline. The samurai who were members of a military status that was powerful in the feudal Japan rose to power to become Japan’s first military dictators. The samurai dominated the government of Japan and even though the system was abolished, they ...

The movie ‘The Greatest Movie Ever Sold’ is so far the best movies created entirely on the subject of marketing. The movie highlights the concept of product placement and advertising in a humorous yet insightful manner. The movie begins when the director Morgan Spurlock actually makes use of several marketing techniques to get sponsors to pay for the cost of filming. Product placement, as we know, is all about creating a perception if the product or service in the eyes of customers. Companies or brands communicate to customers their message which is aimed at molding the perception of customers ...

Illicit: The Dark Trade

Introduction
Illicit: The Dark Trade is a documentary about the growth of illicit trade throughout the world. The movie highlights how trafficking in men, dirty and counterfeit money, drugs and money laundering is changing the world. Also, how illicit trade is able to undermine government’s authority, killing or injuring people, overcome regulatory barriers through a corrupt system of bribes. Illicit trade has become monstrosity globally that is considered a transnational problem. Since no country can tackle the issue alone, illicit trade keeps growing as they become a source of employment for the locals and revenue (tax and bribes) ...

Part 1

In the movie 13 days, one can identify ten skills and behaviours of leadership amongst certain characters. The first skill of leadership that can be identified in the movie is, in some parts, certain leaders seem to take upon themselves to encourage others when situations get out of hand. Through direct eye contact, they relay a friendly message and warm response to the other within the group. One can identify a unique skill of leadership that some characters seem to portray in influencing courage within the groups. It is important for leaders to take into account others feeling, and in the ...

The 1970s was a decade of the public’s disappointment with the government and its policies, domestic and foreign, social and economic. It was the time of counterculture and various movements and protests that followed the example of the civil rights movement. The most important topics for the American people were the distrust for the government after the long-lasting Vietnam War that weakened not only the United States, whose economic situation was already devastating, but other countries, including Vietnam, Cambodia and their neighbors; the Watergate scandal that made Americans doubt that the county is in fact a democratic one, the state ...

Though not always elitist, movies are excellent at reflecting the reality and human history, just as poetry and prose are. The movie industry was being developed over the 20th century while the human civilization was being shaken by major military collisions, be they regional or conflicts of world proportions. There was no way the movie industry could sit sluggish in the circumstances, with film directors addressing the most vital social issues of the day. Genocide is one of grimmest crimes committed during the conflicts. Atrocious was the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and Jews in Nazi Germany – ...

Fracknation, a documentary movie by Phelim McAleer is an attempt to explain people that Fracking does not cause contamination of water and air. The movie tries to prove its authenticity to the anti-frackers about the importance of fracking, and how essential it is for any nation to generate energy and gas. McAleer provokes Joshua fox, the director of Gasland; a documentary that released in 2010, to prove fracking can have dangerous and ill effects on the people living the areas that have gas stations. Fracknation also contains a few clippings from the Gasland movie that are used to show how non-authentic are ...

Race and ethnicity have become rampant in most of the countries; thereby fuelling hatred and conflicts among the people. It has become a norm to identifying a person not by his name that on the basis of the ethnic community where they come from. However, it should be noted that ethnicity and racism have enormous effects on both the country and the individuals. It slows the economic growth of a country due to the uneven distribution of the natural resources and wealth. The vice comes about with an element of discrimination where a certain race is favored and developed at the expense of ...

The movie “Hunger Games” has the best sociological perspective that is visible right from the start of the movie (The Hunger Games 2012). A sense of poverty prevails in District Twelve. Katniss Everdeen shoots a deer sells it off and gets some bread for the family to survive. People of District Twelve live under the hardships and are oppressed by the capitol forces. The children of the District assemble at one place for selection through draws, for the Seventy-fifth hunger games. Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are selected to participate and are privileged to visit the capitol. A class changes ...

The movies Mr. baseball and Gung Ho are very insightful as far as cultural interaction is concerned. The movies provide a clear and vivid description about the differences between American culture and Japanese culture.mr. Baseball is basically the embodiment of American culture trying to coexist with Japanese culture while gung ho is the mirror opposite in that it is the depiction of Japanese culture trying to inculcate itself into the American culture. Both movies are very important in terms of understanding both American culture and Japanese culture. These movies present the perfect juxtaposition of these two cultures that exist at ...

Appearing on TED Talk, Stavridis “A Navy Admiral's Thoughts on Global Security” offers a substantive review on various issues aligned with global security. A reflection on Stavridis talks indicates that his opinion on how to global security can be maintained aligns with the need to advocate for connectedness and transparency on various matters. Having been a leader with the United Sates Department of Defense, and the NATO, his opinion advocates for the need to streamline these two bodies since they contribute immensely to the security at the global level. Worth noting is the fact that the Admiral’s main point is ...

The video talks about enabling the poor rural people to overcome poverty through revitalizing of agriculture.Agriculture is the main economic activity of the rural society.70% of the people in the rural area depend directly on agriculture,for example most people benefit directly from agriculture,while 13% depend indirectly from agriculture and the rest depend on commercial activities and government jobs.
The International Fund for Agriculture Development(IFAD),a specialized agency of the United nations was established in 1977 to serve as a financial institution for agricultural sector after 1974 world food conference.This specialized agency is used to assist farmers financially ...

Trade Liberalization in Jamaica began in the 1970s following the International Monetary Fund stabilization programs and further accelerated by the World Bank structural programs in the 1980s. During this period, the Jamaican government six agreements with the World Bank and eight with the International Monetary fund. In the 1990s, the trade liberalization in the country continued because of modification of CET (the common external tariff) and pressure from the World Trade Organization to comply with the international trade regime (Witter, “Trade Liberalization; the Jamaican Experience”).
During the post-world war two period, Jamaica’s main exports were the agricultural ...

Abstract

Health is a problem that concerns everyone in the population. Weather it is the ethical aspects regarding IVF treatment or medical engineering, or the fact that health care costs are on the rise and the number of doctors are decreasing. The first set of documentaries viewed concerning healthcare ethics, brought up points for and against the practices in regards to the medical community, the people involved, and the religious aspects of it all. The news documentary viewed brought up many aspects on why healthcare costs are rising, and what is going on now in our state and federal legislature as ...

I think that the film provides a well-detailed and comprehensive analysis of the causes of the global financial crisis. Ferguson says that at a figure of $20 trillion, the financial crisis almost lead to another great depression akin to the 1929 depression. There is a global connection to the crisis that spans geography. The crisis extends from the United States, China, France, Singapore, Iceland and England. Ferguson uses research from politicians, journalists, scholars and financial insiders to present a mind-blowing assessment of the financial crisis. Ferguson’s documentary the Inside Job is an accurate depiction of the causes of the financial meltdown that ...

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The earliest known form of writing was the Sumerian language. The Kish tablet is the oldest extant document from that time period with writing on it, but the largest early collection of Sumerian writings were found at Jemdet Nasr. Writing developed as a set of logographic signs that later were changed into a logosyllabic script that had a few hundred signs; researchers found 468 different signs used in documents found at Sumerian Lagash. The period from the 26th through the 24th centuries BCE are considered the classical period of Sumerian cuneiform writing. Anthropologists were able to decipher the Sumerian from Akkadian glossaries, ...

The 2006 film Babel, directed by Alejandro Gonzales Innarito, was written by Guillermo Arriaga from his own story idea. The film stars an ensemble cast, including Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, Adriana Barraza, Elle Fanning, and others. The music features an Academy Award-winning original score by Gustavo Santaolalla, featuring both incidental music and original songs.

This film is a straightforward, gritty drama, which takes place in many different countries, including the United States, Morocco, Japan and Mexico, demonstrating several characters' seemingly interrelated lives and conflicts in the present day. In Morocco, an American couple (Pitt and Blanchett) are ...

Introduction:

Bringing Down a Dictator is a classic documentary featuring how the Serb dictator, Slobodan Milosevic was eventually overthrown not through force of arms but eventually through non violent opposition spearheaded by student groups mainly with the backing of The United Nations and other NGO’s.
It is a powerful film featuring some great filming and focuses on the ruthless brutality of the dictator paired with the intrinsic bravery of the opposition groups who faced considerable obstacles in attempting to get what they wanted. They used rock concerts, general banter and other methods to achieve their ultimate goal although it has to ...

Introduction

In 1998, Steven Spielberg directed a World War 2 film showing the events that happened during the Normandy invasion. The film was called “saving Private Ryan” and was based in Normandy and some parts of France. Screen play for the film was done by Rodat Robert with main actors being Tom Hanks as Captain John Miller, Tom Sizemore as Mike Hovarth, Barry Pepper as Daniel Jackson, Adam Goldberg as Stanley ‘Fish’ Mellish, Vin Diesel as Adrian Carpazo, Giovanni Ribisi as Irwin Wade, Jeremy Davis as Timothy Upham, and Matt Damon as Private James Rayan. The movie was produced to depict a ...