Essays on Global Citizenship

Corporations have been blamed for so many problems in the world. Chief among these is air, land and water pollution. Mining firms and oil companies have also been blamed for vast, environmental degradation. Not only have they abused nature, but also they have abused people as well. To lower costs, they exploit impoverished workers in developing countries. Corporations clearly have a great influence on government, the entire community and even the environment. Unfortunately, this influence has been used in a bad way, mainly for the benefit of the corporations especially their owners and senior officers, leading to the abuse ...

Citizens, by definition, are the participatory members of a particular nation who enjoy some rights by adhering to set standards and laws of the government. They must be 'willfully' concerned to defend the State and make it better in all possible ways. Taking a cue from that, the idea of global citizenship must entail roles and responsibilities for global issues as terrorism, global warming, trafficking, civil war, genocide, and the like. As far as the definition of global citizenship is concerned, it must include the rights and responsibilities of people towards the environment, society, and the world as a ...

Management

Analysis of Abbott’s Citizenship Report This paper is devoted to the American company Abbott that is a well-known actor in the international pharmaceutical and related markets. Its diverse business is divided into four main directions: nutrition, medical devices, diagnostics and pharmaceuticals. During the last seventeen years the company prepares the citizenship report that shows the company’s strategy, standards, goals and results. Let’s analyze the company’s report of 2014 in order to analyze the ethical standards, environmental impact and human resources policy of the company.

The citizenship report shows the company’s code of ethics that ...

EDITORIAL RESPONSE ON A.G. HOPKINS - GLOBALIZATION IN WORLD HISTORY

Introduction

In Hopkins’s first edition, he chooses to focus on Globalization and brings out the importance of varying histories to Eurasia and Africa. Moreover, he brings out the modern version of America and the diversified ways that people appear to understand it. In the second volume, he attempts to put up some level of uniqueness that can be embarrassed by other higher learning institutions. It is through it that many levels of expertise are portrayed such as economic and intellectual history. In these collections, essays are discussed and in ...

The Future of Higher Education in U.S.A Vocational education and training in the USA represent the product of an extension of the evolutionary progression. The economic, educational, and social aspects have on many occasions been exerting pressure and influencing on how vocational education is defined, as well as defining when, where, how and to whom this education should be provided. One can define vocational education that teaches students to be practical with attempts of equipping them job or career skill instruction. In this regard, various components are subject to the classification under the umbrella of vocational education. These components ...

Future of Higher Education in the U.S.

Implications

Defining education as primarily vocational training and avoiding important factors such as intercultural learning would mean that students in America would not learn to adapt to the changing world. As our world becomes more diverse, it becomes important that students are taught about other cultures and the way others behave through the education system. This would prepare them for global citizenship that seems likely in coming years as our world open up to other cultures and different way of thinking that come with it (King). Therefore, it would be a problem if ...