Essays on Abroad

INTERNATIONALIZATION OF EDUCATION

There are many facets to the internationalization of education. Exposing children and young adults to more aspects of the world earlier can only be considered a positive impact of globalization; however, there are a number of issues that must be addressed insofar as the internationalization of education is concerned. There are both benefits and downsides to international education, and this discussion will examine both the benefits and downsides; the discussion will also examine the impact of international education on both the host country and the home country of the students involved in the process. There are also different ways that international ...

One of my friends has a friend who came to the US to study abroad for a year -- their third year of college. We recently spent some time together over dinner, and I had the opportunity to learn a lot about how different life is for a visiting student.

The visiting student’s name is Mo El Hakim, and he is 21 years old. He lives with his mother, father and two sisters in Cairo, Egypt and, he attends University at the American University in Cairo. Mo is the oldest of three siblings and, the first person in the family to ...

Vanishing Middle Class: Implications for Management and Business

The middle class person belongs to a social group that falls between the upper and the lower working class, speaking in terms of socio –economic factors. The degree of socio-economic factors varies from one country to another and differs significantly. However, it is seen that, in most parts of the developed world, the middle class has slowly and steadily started to vanish. The issue of vanishing middle class is primarily related to the business, the reasons for this are:

- In countries such as America and UK, several workers are struggling to survive, as rapidly changing markets and technologies ...

Question 1

The IKEA Company has several advantages that make it a favorite among furniture shoppers in the markets that it is operating. The first advantage is its ability to offer modern designs of furniture at a good value compared to other manufactures. Also, due to the huge sizes of its stores and a huge production team, IKEA can match its competitors on prices while undercutting them on costs by up to 30%. In the German market, for example, IKEA was successful due to their lower prices and the fact that their retailers adopted similar formula in their operations.

Question 2

There are several factors that ...

Cao, Wei. (Sep. 2011). “StudyAbroad: Lessons Learned on the Road.” International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol. 1 No. 13 [Special Issue – September 2011]. Available at: http://www.ijhssnet.com/journals/Vol_1_No_13_Special_Issue_September_2011/10.pdf

This journal paper discusses the increase in study abroad programs undertaken by U.S. students and the consequent need for the development of “diverse and high quality programs.” The paper discusses study abroad from the perspective of an insider, including the pitfalls involved.

Donald, James. (26 Nov. 2008). “Studying Abroad: The Benefits.” Quacquarelli Symonds: Top Universities. Available at: http://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/studying-abroad/studying-abroad-benefits

In this article James Donald seeks the opinions of international ...

International trade is the trade that occurs between a country and its trade partners which are foreign countries. Countries practice international trade for various reasons such as to get foreign exchange, to get goods and services that are not found in the home country and so on. The United States of America carries out international trade with many countries worldwide. This involves exporting and importing goods and services to and from these countries. Foreign exchange rates are the rates at which the ...

Executive Summary

Swinburne is an Australian university of technology that is based in Melbourne. The university has several campuses including one in Sarawak, Malaysia. The Malaysian campus is operated in partnership with the Malaysian government from the year 2000. Having a campus abroad was a strategy by Swinburne University, to create more opportunities for its students as well as globalizing its operations. Swinburne Abroad is a program that provides the students with opportunities of working, learning, and living internationally. The Sarawak campus operates the same way as the Australian campuses.

The students study the same courses, and upon graduation they are given Australian awards. ...

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) commonly called the “Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka” is one of the brutal terrorist groups all over the world. The LTTE originated in Sri Lanka and became a full-blown terrorist organization. The group joined its forces with their contacts that came from Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. LTTE made use of standard guerrilla tactics and also created uniformed units to launch terrorism. Decades passed before the Sri Lankan government ended the war with the Tamil Tigers. It was only in May of 2009 when the authorities of Sri Lanka declared their ...

Introduction:

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IMF Throws Ukraine $27-billion Lifeline as Third Recession in 6 Years Looms

The article that was published in financial post portrays the money crisis Ukraine is going through, where the country is caught up in international debts. Ukraine government owns Washington lenders a loan of US$14 billion, 1.6 billion Euros to European Union and US$3 billion to the Russian government. These debts have weakened international business with a majority of countries as they claim the country is on the verge of bankruptcy and thus they could not involve themselves in business links unless the debts are paid. The situation has attracted the attention of the International Monetary Fund to intervene and ...

Globalization is a term used to explain the enhanced connectivity between nations, institutions, corporations, culture and people. It assumes a borderless world whereby ideas, finances, goods and services move freely across perceived boundaries that include borders, languages, governments and time. Some circles suggest we are in a second wave of globalization following the industrial revolution that emanated from England in the 18th century (Lewellen, 2002). The current wave of globalization has been prompted by the growth in communications, particularly in relation to advancements in, and widespread use of networked technologies.

Modernization can be interpreted as a western conception of industrialization. In a traditional ...

1. The basic idea of Snappy Auctions is to provide for customers an online platform for the sale of any goods from eBay. Snappy Auctions acts only as an intermediary in the contract of sale between the seller and buyer on eBay. Payment of goods and shipment takes place without the participation of the buyer as it is to take place on eBay. For the use of the platform customers pay a fee, usually made up of the percentage of the sale price. Since the profit of Snappy Auctions is directly dependent on the volume of sales, committed to this ...

Although Hofstede has conducted an extensive research in the field of cultural differences, his conclusions can only be considered as suggestions, which generalize and simplify reality. In fact, the concept of culture is much more complex and less rigid than it is described through Hofstede dimensions. Therefore, current globalization trends and rapid development of technology can affect national cultures and lead to their partial convergence in response to the contemporary environment. .

I can derive my conclusions from personal experience. The culture of Nigeria, my native country, is described by Hofstede as highly collectivistic and prone to significant power ...

Globalization brings about the needs of global companies to operate more efficiently with the aim to gain competitive advantages and to face the contemporary issues and challenges in the contemporary world. A critical factor in optimizing organizational efficient operations of these companies is the IHRM (Guest et al., 2000a; Guest et al., 2000b). The HRM operations helps in developing and motivating the workforce of the companies to improve skills, knowledge, and the modernization required for the companies to vie with ...

Raymond Vernon developed the economic theory on the international product lifecycle. It reacted to the failure of the Heckscher-Ohlin model to give an explanation on the international trade pattern. The theory suggests that all the labor and parts associated with a given product, early in its life- cycle, is obtained from the area of its invention (Schueffel & Baldegger, 2008). After the adoption of the product and its use in the market worldwide, production shifts gradually away from the origin. A point may reach when a product becomes one of the items among the original country imports. ...

Most of the people who visit abroad experience culture shock in varying degrees. What then is culture shock? ALERVO OBERG (2006, p. 1) defines culture shock as the feelings associated with the fear of losing the familiar symbols and signs used in the previous social setting. The social intercourse in one’s community or regions gets into the persons trends to the extent that changing these familiar setting creates anxiety. The signs may involve what one does when tone meets people. The relationship between males and female, juniors and seniors, servant and masters (or the boss), how to request ...

The United States, being a world power, has interests across the globe. These interests, along with the interests of their allies, put the U.S. in the position of safeguarding their concerns both far and near. These global interests include business partnerships and maintaining U.S. military presence in territories that require U.S. support. In effect, the U.S. has informally become the “policemen” of the world, adapting its foreign policy in order to protect those interests in the name of peace and democracy.

In the ...

In his speech and article, John Hages is trying to persuade the target audience of taking reality as it is. He does it with a great example that is the movie “Matrix”, where the computer programmer chooses between the red (reality) and the blue pill (the world of dreams). In the speaker’s opinion, all people should make this choice, and realize all threatens as soon as it possible.

The speaker is a missioner who helps poor people in the name of God. He travelled all around the world, and he has seen many things, especially that in many countries ...

General Purpose: To persuade

Specific Purpose: To persuade my classmates studying abroad has many negative effects. Organizational Pattern: Problem-Solution Introduction

I. Attention Getting Device (Narrative): I received a call in the middle of the night from my cousin the last week. She was in tears and was in need of help. Staying away from home, in a milieu that is totally alien to her has taken a huge toll on her. She wanted to leave her studies in the midway in come back. I tried to console her, but all went in vain.

II. Adaptation (Relating topic to audience): The ...

1. Please list two goals that you have for yourself right now.

The reason why I want to study supply chain management is not only because this program is ranked at number one position in the US but also because this is the field that I really want to work in. It is my aim to excel in the supply management field. Time management is the key to success in all fields today. The firm that ships materials on time or better even before time gets the edge. For some people who are not familiar with SCM, they ...

Weaknesses

Competition One weakness to opening an online derma-cosmetic business is the competition. This industry is not new and many are already successfully running their own businesses. It can then be hard to enter this market.

Inability of Customers to Sample Products

Still, another weakness is that unlike brick-and-mortar stores where customers can sample products, this can’t be easily done with online stores. This becomes a weakness in that the store will not be able to easily promote new products as customers won’t have the chance to try them or even see them in their actual form.

Difficulty in becoming a Reseller for Large Brands

In addition, it may be quite ...

After the enacting of the Simon Study Abroad Bill in 2009, the issue of studying abroad and foreign education have been an in issue in concern. Fundamentally, the bill focuses to not only support the students who study in abroad, but also the conditions and challenges that hampers the student’s ability to study in a foreign country. A major issue that represent these factors is the lack of money (Byram & Feng, 2006). This is the reason why the bill engages itself in providing funds to the student who are studying abroad. Although, the bill stipulates that it provides these ...

The early 1900s was a turbulent era for America. As World War I raged in Europe, the Spanish flu ravaged nations and communities around the world, leading to the death of millions, and becoming one of the deadliest natural disasters in the history of mankind. While America dealt with the aftermath of prohibition and the Great Depression, Russia and Ireland were engulfed in civil war, leading to major political shifts that reverberated throughout the Western hemisphere. It is no wonder, then, that some historians and scholars refer to this decade as “The Crazy Years” (Lamb 195). The sentiments of ...

One example of a terrorist group that supported nationalistic and ethnic separatist terrorism is the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) commonly called the “Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka” was known for being one of the most brutal and active terrorist organization in the international community (Pickert, 2009). The group originated from Sri Lanka with their group leader, Vellupillai Prabhakaran. They started engaging in warfare in when they detached the group from the Tamil homeland (Pickert, 2009). LTTE engaged in ground and sea attacks by using grenade launchers, rockets and other deadly weapons. In the article of Pickert (2009), ...

Expatriates face a myriad of cultural issues as they conduct their business internationally and employ certain adjustment mechanisms. In general, expatriates face cultural and identity issues of temporariness, uncertainty, gender inequality, differing language skills, alienation from the corporate culture, “nomadic” family issues. This view has been supported in the works of McNulty and Inkson (2013), Hocking, Brown, and Harzing (2007), and Benson and Pattie (2009). Cross-cultural adjustment necessitates traits, skills, and capacities such as open-mindedness, cross-cultural awareness and sensitivity, flexibility, patience, and a sincere interest in other cultures. Those who may not readily adjust to new cultural surroundings may need ...

It is the aim of any company to expand its commercial activities across its national borders despite the many risks associated with the same. The main risk may be changes in political systems, which mainly occur when the party in power loses the elections. For example, in 1977 in India when the opposition party won the elections, there were some changes in policies, and this action negatively affected the Coca-Cola company operations in the country. Other risks include the loss of assets due to fighting or nationalizations and financial factors that may affect wages, commodity prices, exchange rates and ...

Canadian Feed the Children. Education: the basic building block of every society. 2014. Web. http://www.canadianfeedthechildren.ca/what/education

In this article, the importance of education in economic and social growth in any country is discussed. The Canadian Feed the Children Organization, which is the writer of the article, helped the readers to understand how the education helps people. It shows how the education can improve the economic stability of the nation. It also suggests that education has a large factor for the food security of every family. The article also focused on what are the main problems in education and how could everyone help in ensuring proper education for every children.

In this website, the main issues for ...

During the Second World War, women played very important roles in their capacity in different spheres of life. Their role was important on account of writing the history of the war as their work helped educating the audience about the horrors of war and war related menaces. This case study will compare and contrast the work of three women who performed gallantly during the Second World War and had their share of writing the transparent history of the biggest war in the history of mankind. The three women are from different fields of journalism and performed bravely during the ...

Introduction

There are numerous multinational enterprises (MNEs), which dominate the global market and operate in different regions, but proliferation of MNEs has existed for more than 200 years now. Initially, multinational enterprises represented a segment of direct foreign investments in various states as they did not form joint investments with local firms. However, with the introduction of globalization coupled market liberalization, MNEs have had an opportunity to expand their market niche and enhance efficiency and productivity; a move that has propelled them to become key players in the business arena. Although MNEs dominant global markets, they have experienced several global financial crisis ...

South Africa

South Africa is one of the esteemed and has been projected for growth in the African continent. The Republic of South Africa is geographically located at the southern part of the vast Africa content neighbored by Swaziland and Mozambique to the east and Zimbabwe Namibia and Botswana to the north. Its coastline extends along the Indian oceans and the south Atlantic. On estimation, it measures approximately 2798 kilometers. The country measures an area of about 1,221,037 square kilometers (Feinstein, 2005). According to the national statistics, the country had a population of 52,981,991 citizens and ranked as ...

Introduction

Risk is very common in any business. According to the definition given by Knight (1999), risk is measurable ambiguity of outcome whose impact may be either optimistic or pessimistic. Usually, risk is measured and expressed in terms of strong index. Many researchers think risk as unwanted event and this risk have statistical expectation value for ranking the seriousness too. Risk analysis can be defined as mathematical product value of strong and disutility. Procurement management offers advantages on economies of scale in purchasing and delivering the goods and services at right time and right place in order to minimize the risk involved ...

1. Imagine that you were born black in 1860 and lived until 1920. Would you have any faith in the U.S. legal system? In the “American way of life”? Why or why not?

No, I would have no faith in the legal system because the legal system offered nothing for me to have faith in. Specifically, although the Constitution demands that all people, regardless of their skin color, are treated equally under the law, the establishment of Jim Crow laws it their affirmation under the Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” principle made equality true in ...

There are different reasons that a government has when it decides to send some students abroad for further studies. Most governments always have the aim of improving the quality of education that its students receive and in most cases its most exceptional students who portray exceptional abilities in studies are sent abroad to receive the said education. The destinations where the students receive the education are directly dependent on the progress the destination country has made both educationally as well as economically. However, there are a few disadvantages that are experienced in internationalization of education. There are countries where the educational ...

The deployment of American troops to foreign lands is not solely at the President’s discretion. The Congress must approve any decision to deploy troops abroad for war or for peace maintenance purposes. This is clearly indicated in the US constitution under Article I, section 8, clause 11. This clause gives the Congress power to declare war. Consequently, it emanates that the Congress must be involved in any decision to deploy American troops abroad and must indeed approve the decision when the proposal has been made by another part such as the President. Examples of where a sitting President has ...

In Yo-Yo Ma’s talk, which he gave in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2008, the famous cellist gives his opinion on globalisation (19).

One passage in particular made me think about what globalization means for the culture of different people around the world. As a musician, Yo-Yo Ma has had many opportunities to travel the world and listen to and play all kinds of music from all kinds of cultures. He explains that this helps him, and all the other international musicians he plays with, to learn about the culture and the music of another country, and so they stop ...

Studying abroad helps one to gain new knowledge and expertise in their field. At the postgraduate level, particularly, it expands the field of view of an individual and helps them to understand problems and analyze them from a global perspective. When studying abroad, the chances of acquiring new knowledge are high. This normally occurs when students from different countries share their experiences, and then together come up with different solutions to these problems. Foreign students also get the opportunity to learn and improve on their language skills. This has both short term and long term benefits. In the short term, ...

Born in 1982 in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, my interest in library and information science dates back to my studies in high school. During this time, I excelled in library and research and earned a full marks. Due to this growing interest, I decided to pursue a career in information studies.

When I began my undergraduate studies, I successfully passed with honors. I was very keen to complete my postgraduate studies, which would allow me to teach at the university. I was deeply impressed by the challenging lecturers and their desire to develop creativity. My goals, inspired by the lecturers, where to ...

The objective of this ethnographic interview is to be able to familiarize the interviewer with the culture, beliefs, traditions and language of one of the care givers from the Philippines. The role of care givers around the world is significant because they provide care to people who are impaired by sickness, illness or old age. Even young children are dependent on care givers to provide assistance in their daily sustenance such as taking a bath, eating and dressing up. The person that I decided to interview is a care giver who is a Filipino, married and have 3 children of her own ...

Every single phenomenon in this world is based on the figures – either this is the simplest electronic device, or the money in a wallet, or logistics, or even a boiling kettle. Absolutely everything we are surrounded by is all about figures. No wonder that the first time I closely got acquainted with the world of figures was when I was a child. Thanks to my family I was able to realize a significant importance of those amusing hooks scratched on the paper very early and thus, it helped me shape my life and career aspirations before I actually could think them over.

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Question One

- You should then summarize, in a short paragraph, which parts of the business you need to strengthen.

The business needs to strengthen its use of the website. They should try to make it an easy method of selling directly to customers. This will enable it to compete with their competitors in a better way. People love to visit the business -a business heritage-, however, it is costly to maintain and thus they need to break away from it. In addition, the business needs to uses technologically advanced production methods since, it still uses labour intensive methods of production. The business ...

My intellectual love affair with chemistry and forensic science began in my high school years. I was lucky, during this formative period of my life, to have a series of excellent chemistry instructors and classes; my enthusiasm for chemistry grew throughout these years. I became more and more interested in the discipline; in my free time, I read chemistry books and learned the history of the subject. It was clear to me that I wanted to build a career out of this interest. After I graduated high school, I was accepted into the Abu Dhabi police force academy to complete a study ...

When I tell people I am from China, I think they often think of a big city, like Shanghai or Beijing; my home city is different, though. I am from central China, in the Henan province. My home city is called Luoyang, and it is rich with history. It took me a long time to understand the history of my home and how it came to make me who I am today.

Luoyang is a beautiful city, situated on the northern side of a river. It was home to Lao Tzu, the founder of Daoism and Zhao Kuangyin, the first member of the ...

When people think of China, I think they often think of places like Beijing and Shanghai, these sprawling metropolitan places packed tight with millions and millions of people. Or maybe they think of the cold, gray country that exists to the west. My birth city, Guilin, is nothing like these places. I come from the southern part of China, from the Guangxi province, where everything is warm, green, and beautiful. I was lucky to be born in Guilin. My family was lucky also, and were quite prosperous in the years before I was born. Still, I was the first ...

For each and every human being, there comes a time when they have to make some important personal decisions in their lives. These decisions may vary from issues such as education, careers, social and political affiliations and even economic related issues. I have made many personal decisions in my life. However, the most important decision I made was to choose USA as the country where I would pursue my education. I lived in my home country during my whole childhood. I even schooled there for all my junior education until I was ready to go to college. By then, I ...

Although the most publicly well-known counterterrorist agencies in the United States are the CIA and Homeland Security, but the Department of State has also been playing an equally important role in counterterrorism for decades. Over the years, especially after the September 11 attacks, the role of the Department of State has gotten bigger and has become more visible ("State dept. official" 2012). Today, the Department of State is the leading federal agency that deals with and handles terrorist in foreign countries where the interests of the United States are involved. The Department of State takes the head role ...

The general purpose of this essay is to try to persuade people to start learning foreign languages. I am specifically going to focus on scenarios where the knowledge of foreign language is required an also on the benefits of studying a foreign language. The central idea here is to show how people can gain from the knowledge of a foreign language and the situations in which that knowledge might come in handy.

Introduction

Learning a foreign language opens unimaginable opportunities for an individual in terms of economic, career and social and even political aspects. Remaining monolingual hinders one’s educational development, restricts thinking ...

Introduction

Cross-cultural decision making skills have been recognized to be increasingly vital to military and defense operations (Johnson & Friedland, 2009). The day-to-day operations of international military forces, in their interaction with different cultures as they work overseas, require intercultural competence to make decisions that are both appropriate and culturally sensitive (Johnson & Friedland, 2009). Cross cultural competency (3C) is accomplished through three unique steps: Cultural self-awareness, suspension of judgments and biases, and the development of skills that fit within domains of a new culture (Selmeski, 2009). Already, educational measures are being implemented by military colleges to promote 3C in military ...

Cultural differences exist in every society in the world. These cultures manifest in various institutions such as industrial work places, business areas, and most important school institutions. Notable cultural differences included; the language difference the Americans and British speak English, the South Americans speak Spanish with those international students from Spain. There were French speaking students from native France as well as African countries e.g. Gambians and Cameroonians. Some cultures establish bureaucratic systems that are highly respected such that bypassing your superior is insubordination mostly in Latin American societies and African cultures. However, in the United States of America ...

Cookbooks are products that are thought to create health problems to many people. As a result, the government has resulted in taxing the product as a way of reducing the consumption of the cookbooks. This type of tax is called sin tax. It is a tax that is usually imposed on products that are thought to be harmful to the people. Similar tax is levied on cigarettes and alcohol. When sin tax is levied, the supply of the cookbooks reduces. This is because the price increases hence the demand reduces because the consumers shift to other similar products. Therefore the producers are ...

Cross-cultural decision making skills have been recognized to be increasingly vital to military and defense operations (Johnson &Friedland, 2009). The day-to-day operations of international military forces, in their interaction with different cultures as they work overseas, require intercultural competence to make decisions that are both appropriate and culturally sensitive (Johnson & Friedland, 2009). Cross cultural competency (3C) is accomplished through three unique steps: Cultural self-awareness, suspension of judgments and biases, and the development of skills that fit within domains of a new culture (Selmeski, 2009). Already, educational measures are being implemented by military colleges to promote 3C in military ...

Heath offers insights for use in the dissertation study for investigating any difficulties in the area of Americans learning Arabic. This study specifically addresses the learner and his/her creativity in Arabic communicative competence as it applies toward competently completing both the DLI course and the OPI (Heath, 1987).

Alptekin (2002) discusses the notion of communicative competence that suggests that native-speaker competence is the metric by which communicative competence is decided. Alptekin argues that this particular norm creates an unrealistic and utopian model for language learning that makes it impossible for SLA to be considered complete or sufficient. Native speakership ...

One of the most successful companies to set up business abroad is the famous shoe and sports apparel manufacturing and marketing company Nike. The Oregon-based company does business in 45 countries, employing nearly a million people, outsourcing products from more than 500 factories worldwide. The company reaps the benefits of this global strategy by the billions, with Nike’s revenues for 2010 reached US$ 19.014 billion and a net income of approximately $2 billion in the same year.

A company of this size and reach would not set up shop in one country in the same manner as it would in ...

Starting from 1920 RCA had been an electronic giant produced radios, and later, televisions, located in Philadelphia, a city of Camden. Aiming at profit maximization the company moved the parts of operating process several times inside of the US, and then abroad seeking for cheap workforce.

The major reason for moving a significant part of RCA operations is that the company intended to save labor costs by hiring people in rural areas, poor, young, uneducated, single, female and immigrants. Another fact that gives the evidence of this tendency is that RCA moved its plants several times during seventy years of its ...

Question one

When multinational enterprises invest in any foreign country, they should consider the legal compensation laws of that country. The compensation practices differ from one country to another. Multinational firms should understand these foreign country compensation practices so that, when they invest in any country, they are able to carry out the compensation practice according to the law of that country.Multinational firms have their own compensation procedure and are also guided by the international policies of human resource management. The study of a foreign country’s compensation laws helps the firms to harmonize the three aspects of compensation. It also helps ...

1. In order to decide whether to engage into trade with a foreign country, business usually assesses market for their products, access to resources needed, the opportunities for making distribution systems and production more efficient and the ways to reduce the dependence on one economy, thus spreading business risks. Participating in the information economy on a global scale requires the consideration of the large number of people, who are currently employed in the local industries. It is necessary to understand the internationalisation of the information economy and to the increase of the labour force in the foreign countries with lower ...

The Birthright Lottery by Ayelet Shachar

The Canadian government has recently taken steps towards what they deem will make Canadian citizenship valuable. In 2009, a law was passed limiting or restricting people in obtaining Canadian citizenship. Children born abroad on the date 17 April 2009 and after would only obtain Canadian citizenship if at least one of the parents was a Canadian citizen by birth or by naturalisation. Canadian parents are therefore limited in passing citizenship to children born abroad after one generation. These restrictions have raised concern over which state children born abroad fall into and the implications one has to think of when they choose ...

Question 1 In the mid 19th century, after the Second World War, Jews in the Arab countries faced the gravest ever case of human rights violation. The Arab regimes in the Middle East and northern part of Africa forced Jews to leave their homes or be held like political hostages. The Arabs came up with official statements that completely subordinated the Jews and threatened their civil, political, economic, and human rights. These actions contradicted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Part II and Article2.1 of the covenant states that “each state party to the present ...

Introduction

“Season of Migration to the North” suggests instantaneously by its sheer heading that something is either going or has gone awry. Environment gets distorted, and immigration instead of heading south heads for the North. During drought, in the ancient times, birds would be seen fleeing to other areas with favorable climatic conditions in search for food just like animals would, for greener pastures. The story is about Mustafa Saeed, a Sudanese prodigy who goes to pursue higher education first in Cairo, and later in London, where he engages in a search for women and eventually falls for one. After matrimony ...

Industrial Revolution

Thesis: Industrial revolution has shaped the world history by causing a changeover in technologic, political and social effects. Initial accumulation of capital and the formation of manufacturing industry represented the initial stage of the development of capitalist relations. This was the period during which the preconditions for the transition to an industrial economy were prepared. The condition of this transition was the industrial revolution, during which there was a radical restructuring of the technical base of production, forms of organization of production and the whole system of socio-economic relations. The industrial revolution is a fundamental qualitative restructuring of the material ...

Introduction

Globalization has opened up borders and rendered it possible for globally competitive companies such as Khmer Foods Group (KFG) to leverage the best that this new reality presents. However, mounting global operations necessitates managing difficult geopolitical, regulatory and cultural challenges, which, fortunately for KFG, should not be a challenge, given the company’s long experience and high standards. This report gives a detailed account of Brazil’s business environment, and assessment of its suitability for KFG’s purposes. The report includes an analysis of the economic, political, legal, cultural and ethical factors relevant to KFG’s possible operations in the country, ...