Essays on The World

The article by Robert Zoellick emphasizes on the importance of the World Bank as an instrument to “use finance to tackle global problems” and develop third world countries. Since its foundation the aim of the World Bank Group was to combat consequences of war and to provide assistance to the developing countries. Zoellick looks back at the history of the World Bank, mentioning challenges on the way of this institution. During the course of establishing of a free enterprise economy and the diffusion of private capital, the World Bank had not been only issuing loans, but fostering growth and ...

IS THE WORLD ECONOMY BECOMING MORE GLOBALIZED, MORE INTERNATIONALISED, MORE WESTERNISED OR MORE NEOLIBERAL? DISCUSS

Introduction The world economy is a contemporary topic of study in the current century because of its uncountable benefits. People need to understand the economic situation of the world to foster local, regional, and international development. There are numerous benefits of understanding the economic trends in the world. Understanding the world’s economic trends enhances an individual’s purchasing powers, economization, and creating a platform of countering the effects of any economic problem such as recession and depression (Cannan, 1976: 34). From the past experiences, it is notable that the world economic recession affected many people and institutions. Although ...

Introduction

Economic consequences are extremely important for the countries across the globe; in fact it is one of those aspects characteristics of an economy from which one can distinguishes easily among economically prosper and ineffective countries of the world. Apart from the basic definition that strides on the main focal point which is economics is the name of earning and consuming the money at a best possible manner, and at a best place, there is yet another important thing that focuses on the main aspect which is to enhance the productivity of the companies accordingly (Askari, p.90). It is a ...

Introduction

Preservation of the natural resources is quite significant for maintaining the world’s community development. Thus, the whole world should embrace the preservation of its natural resources in the broader conception of conserving the earth by ensuring it protect its capacity for self-renewal. Of the most importance is the preservation of the nonrenewable resources that include the oil and the coal, including minerals that are more essential and in strong demand. Thus, this essay develops in presenting the various approaches and techniques the world, as a whole, should employ to protect and preserve their natural resources. Such natural resources ...

Media and the History of Globalization

Introduction Globalization is one of the major forces that is impacting the global economy today. Globalization refers to the tendency of businesses moving out of their home markets and enteringother markets resulting in the interconnectedness of markets around the world. The term globalization is not limited to businesses alone. It also refers to the interchange of ideas, products, world views, and cultural aspects. Even though the term was coined in the recent past, globalization is not a recent phenomenon. The process of globalization of economies has started some thousands of years ago. But the process gained momentum since the ...

- Globalization and burgeoning technology/innovation that shrink product-life-cycles, coupled with global competitor’s quality and price, brings goods to the USA adding to 80-90% mega-competition for most consumer goods sold in USA, compared to <25% in 1950’s. Equally, global companies compete severely and challenge US firms abroad. - The U.S. and Eurozone economies play major roles in the world economy and are crucially important for each other’s prosperity. The two sides combined account for around 40% of world GDP, over 25% of world trade, 60% of world foreign direct investment flows, and 60%-70% of world banking ...

Introduction

There are certain laws which actually supports with the prevailing laws and regulations of economics, and among them there is a name of Economic Life Cycle as well. Likewise Product Life Cycle (PLC), there is a name of Economic Life Cycle (ELC) as well, which is one of the most important aspects that can deliver effectiveness to the market (Brinkman, Holroyd & Gardner, 2013). In the ELC, a country or an economy move towards a specific place and then went down drastically in the market. Most of the times, the ELC have been regarded as the economic crisis (Brinkman, Holroyd & ...

In this paper, I will discuss the present-at-hand and the ready-at-hand in Heidegger’s philosophy. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is a German philosopher who is often thought of in terms of the Existentialist movement in Continental philosophical tradition, but who did not prefer to be classified as an existentialist (McBride 131). Heidegger concerns himself with the deep metaphysical question of being in his book Being and Time — a job he never completed in his lifetime (Blattner 9). Heidegger has an ambitious project in his book — that is fundamentally to investigate being, a project he feels has been forgotten by philosophers ( ...

Introduction

The World War II is the deadliest war that the world has ever faced. Major Powers of this planet fought World War II under flags of axis and allies powers. The world war started in the year 1939 and continued till 1945 but various other battles were fought earlier that caused this war. Millions of soldiers and civilians from both sides lost their lives in this war and hundreds of millions people were directly or indirectly affected by the World War II. Winners of the war, allied forces altered boundaries of nations that lost the war. The world war ...

In the present social setting in the world, women play a very vital role in the field of politics. The roles that women play are diverse in the sense that women are both at the forefront in the political arena and they also constitute the most vulnerable and marginalised victims of political related adversities and atrocities. Many political decisions in the world today are influenced to some extent be feminist principles. In the same way, the dynamics of the world’s politics affect women in a great way. For instance, during wars, women are the majority of the victims. ...

Human beings are always in search of finding new ways to know the world and of learning new things. When it comes to learning a new language, people show more curiosity to learn, speak and to write. People feel happiness or enjoy interacting with others, rejoice in knowing about others. The best way to interact with a person of other custom, culture or nation or to know about the culture of others, their thoughts, and ways of living is to learn their language. Learning a new language provides an opportunity to the learners not only to know about others ...

Summary

The worldwide bestselling book by Thomas L. Friedman “The Word is Flat. A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century” examines globalization in the start of the 21st century. In the entire book, Friedman assists the reader to perceive the globe as a level playing stage, whereby traditional issues of geographical, as well as historical divisions, are becoming inappropriate, and all the competitors have an equal chance. In his book, Friedman depicts the way globalization has broken the boundaries of countries and is transforming the globe into an interconnected, flat world. The author looks at influences that shape businesses and ...

Essay 1: The nature of globalization

Globalization entails the process of integration that come as a result of interchange of products, views, ideas and cultural aspects. The economy all over the world has become global in recent times. For instance, international trade has been an important aspect in the economies of various countries all over the world. A good example here is Microsoft Company that relies heavily on international trade in order for them to reap huge benefits. The fact that their products are conveyed all over the world leads to huge sales for the company’s products. Another example is oil exports in Saudi ...

Human beings seem to have done all that they can to destroy the world that they live in. Over the millennia, the world has seen some radical changes to become worse than it ever was. From climatic, to environmental, to social aspects, the world seems to get worse and worse as the time goes by. Not all the changes made have been bad, human have done all that they deem necessary to make the world a better and more effective place for them to live in. However, in so doing, they have depleted resources that are finite in nature, ...

It is hard for an ordinary person to understand some of the aspects with regard to a foreign culture, for instance, religion language, gender roles, and the strategies that are employed in other foreign cultures when it comes to problem solving (Balio, 2005). With this in mind, the rationale of the paper is to evaluate how Hollywood movies influence the national culture of other nations beyond the United States. In addition, focus will be put on evaluating the different aspects of the United States culture that are promoted through Hollywood movies to other parts of the world. The other ...

In the most general sense, the United States will remain the leading hegemony, as the concept is understood as the leadership of one country over others in an international framework. The hegemony of the U.S., as a particular kind of international social and political structure, is recognized most when compared to non-hegemonic structures (Stivachtis, 2012). These non-hegemonic countries are constantly at the mercy of powerful, autocratic, rival countries, which often results in conflict since no one country has established and maintained the legitimacy of its control over the non-hegemonic countries (Stivachtis, 2012). This is where the U.S. steps in ...

This year, Brazil will see itself hosting the 20th tournament of the FIFA world cup for the second time. Brazil hosted the match for the first time back in 1950. Having played at every World Cup, and being one of the most successful teams in the tournaments history, the Brazilian team is under pressure. The fans have huge expectations that the team will perform better in this tournament as they will be the hosts; they are expected to succeed on home soil (Hurley, 2014). Apart from the pressure of performing well on their home soil, the public relations issues ...

Importance of Teaching History and Geography to Children in the Primary Years

Importance of Teaching History and Geography to Children in the Primary Years

Introduction

History and Geography are one of the key subjects taught in the primary level of education to equip a student with different aspects of life and the surrounding environment. A person has to learn how he or she exists, why the existences of certain features differ in size and location and how the past influences the present and the future. The principle and objectives set in the two subjects have elaborate goals that need to be achieved in order to enhance the manner in which the given ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is one of the most prominent philosophers of the twentieth century. His philosophy influenced not only the various sections of philosophical knowledge, thereby extending its reach and scope, but also the development of such sciences as logic, mathematics, linguistics, the list of which is not complete. Moreover, if the twentieth century largely passed under the sign of the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche, in Wittgenstein's philosophy this century got its most profound understanding. It is all the more ironic that the philosopher did not leave a special essay on social philosophy and philosophy of ...

Real Madrid CF

Real Madrid is a Spanish, professional football club founded in 1897, and with upwards of thirty Spanish League (La Liga) titles, seventeen Spanish Cups, nine European Championship Cups and two UEFA trophies, it is easily one of the most successful football clubs in the world ( Real Madrid, 2012). It was voted the 20th Century’s most successful club by FIFA and by the close of 2011; it was the richest club in the world, with annual revenues reaching upwards of $695 million and $204.0 million in operating revenues. The club, which is entirely owned and controlled by its members, ...

Introduction

The world ‘evil” in general terms refers to profound immorality. Evil usually goes hand in hand with religion and thus, it becomes very hard to talk about evil without making reference to religion. The world’ major religions have varying definitions of evil, particular in regards to its root causes and motives. However, these religions generally agree that evil is composed of unbalanced behaviour elements that include: selfishness, neglect, expediency and ignorance (Drees 2003). The aim of this paper is to explore the concept of evil in great detail and show that it is virtually impossible for the world to ...

FIFAWorld Cup: The Economic Effects on Brazil

Introduction In 1930, the first Federation Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA, World Cup was held in Uruguay. The World Cup is a much-awaited event that takes place every four years, except in 1942 and 1946, which did not hold the contest because of the Second World War. Senior male football players who are members of FIFA join the international contest. For the year 2014, Brazil plays host for the 20th FIFA World Cup, which happens from June 12 to July 13. This becomes Brazil's second chance to host the tournament, ranking among countries such as Italy, Mexico, and ...

The state of the world order has often changed throughout history due to various events that redefined which region or country held immense influence around the globe. Since the end of the great wars, the West – led by the United States – held immense power as to the course of international politics and determined the standards of the rest of the world. In recent years, Western dominance was close to being invincible in every aspect of the world. However, when the Global Financial Crisis struck, the public and experts alike noticed a significant change within the world order. A few ...

Abstract

The paper shall introduce the issue of racialism in the world as well as defining racialism. In the paper, various challenges that stakeholders who are campaigning against racialism and especially in the United States among the blacks and the whites shall be discussed. Among the reasons discussed in the paper are failures of the blacks to do away with the history of slavery, the blacks believing on the notion of police brutality and profiling, the black referring to themselves as niggers as well dressing in a suspicious way. In addition, white failure to accept the culture and practises of ...

This paper envisions a conversation between Gautama Buddha (B), Mahavira (Ma), Shri Adi Shankara (A), Moses (Mo), Mohammed (Moh), Confucius (Co), Lao Tzu (L), and Mutsuhito (Mu). In spite of small differences in their doctrines, all these religious leaders propounded beliefs and lifestyles that would eventually lead to the betterment of the human condition. The importance placed on maintaining simplicity in life was among the basic tenets of all the religious leaders’ philosophies. The fact that human life has grown complex and difficult because of the human beings’ endeavour to develop the world according to their needs would distress ...

Introduction

Inevitably, the topic of economics is the most astounding and effective one for the economies, as the main crux of an economy and economic factors are always be effective for their future growth and effectiveness. Economics is a core subject that associated with almost every walk of life, and it can be used for different purpose all over the world. Economics is a subject that specifically associated with the earning and consuming the money accordingly and effectively at the same time. The two broad types of economics, on which the entire broad definition and outlook would be depending, are ...

- How successful were the programs of the New Deal in solving the problems of the Great Depression? Assess with respect to two of the following: Relief, Recovery, Reform. The Great Depression is a title of the economic depression in the world in the decade before the World War II. It was the longest and the deepest economic decline in 20th century. The Great Depression in the United States started in August, 1929, when economic recession was first observed in the country. The Wall Street Crash in 1929, the biggest stock market crash in the US history, signaled the ...

Impact of Macroeconomic Variables on My Business

Abstract I examined in this report the impact that the changes on the different macroeconomic variables e.g., price level, interest rate, and exchange rate have on the economy. Also, an analysis of how fiscal and monetary policies of the Australian government are presented as these policies and variables influence the success or failure of my business, the CadsBerri. Then my analysis dwell on the net value model by Brandenburger and Nalebuff to show that rational strategy could help my business survive despite the uncertainties posed by the macroeconomic environment.

Introduction

My business is on manufacturing and exporting of good and ...

The Cold War is a phenomenon in international relations, a tense period of confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that took place since the end of the World War II till the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Its prehistory, according to some historians, dates back to the very beginning of the 20th century, when the Russian revolution led to the Bolsheviks overtaking the power in the former tsarist Russian Empire and promoting similar revolutions all over the world with the aim of creating a society, which would be an alternative to capitalism, the ruling ...

Introduction

Islam is the next largest religion worldwide after Christianity, and the second largest religion in the United States. In the United States, Islam is the fastest growing religion in the country. In any part of the world, Muslims are everywhere as neighbors, co–workers and fellow citizens. Some Americans and Europeans think that Muslims are different, strange, and frightening, even worst, they are associated as terrorist individuals. It is necessary that people change their perceptions of the Muslims. This is will only happen if the public will be provided with better information and deeper understanding especially in the teachings ...

Abstract

Introduction The thing through which a country gets appreciation is its core expertise and appreciation in the economic function, because the economic functions usually have the tradeoff of two important things known as earning and consumption. In fact the father of economics, Alfred Marshal and Adam Smith found the same tradeoff in the market for their economic consequences particularly. This is an important aspect that delivers the best services in town for the country in all over the world (Gaisford & Kerr, 2001). The concept of economics is an important one for the countries and economies from all over the ...

Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited:

The airline started with the Aircraft Transport and Travel founded by George Holt Thomas in the year 1916.The development of the military airlines led to the growth in the use of airlines in America and Europe. The modification of the military planes led to the growth of the airline in various ways. The modification of the capacity of the planes also helped to improve the airline services as well as encouraging the people to use airlines in carrying out their business activities across the remote parts of the world. The airline industry expansion of the airline companies like gained ...

English 0812

However, many cultural critics, such as Pico Iyer, provide an opposing view point. According to Iyer, even though the American culture is dominant, its spread to other parts of the world is just an important part of globalization bringing various cultural influences together to create a multicultural world. Hence, the worldwide spread of American culture will not homogenize other cultures in the world. Therefore, keeping both the viewpoints in perspective, I will argue in this paper that the spread of the American culture around the world, in fact, has caused the global culture to become Americanized and is slowly ...

The world we are living today involves much technology that requires us to share our thoughts and situations with the world. It has become a daily routine among people to get up every day and share our experiences with millions of people across the world on how we spend our lives. Social networks such as twitter, Facebook, MySpace just to mention but a few enable us to connect with the world and find out what is happening. On a day to day activities people read about new developments and things that happen in their lives and end up writing ...

Middle East is a region that covers the Western Side of Asia which has and remains to be a center of world affairs. Its history dates back in the ancient times and it has various contributions to the world we live in today. The region is associated with the origin of most religious groups in the world such as Mandaiesm, Islam, Druze, Bahai faith among many other religions. Generally, the Middle East is an arid place with a hot climate and despite the climatic conditions it is a big Agricultural contributor in the world (Sorenson, 2010, p.122). Most Agricultural ...

Introduction

Japan has stood significantly as one of the most powerful nations in contemporary times, particularly due to its strong political and economic foundations and technological advancements that have since led it to become a strong innovator. Although Japan took only less than three decades to rebuild itself following the devastation brought by its defeat in the Second World War, one could not simply ignore the fact that it has also went through a vast series of historical maladies and errors (Mason & Caiger 361-374). The intriguing circumstances behind the formation of Japan as one of the most politically and economically ...

Current Economic State and 2008-2009

It is about six years since the world experienced the worst global financial crisis in the history of the world economy, however, considerable improvement can be seen by looking at economy of various states all over the world (Irwin, 2013). The economy had a continuous increase of risk in all sector following the failure in housing prices and weak monetary policy of key economies of the world. Risky economy resulted to the sudden change in the lending rates and spending by the households. The effect of these was manifested in the sudden but steady decline in the world per ...

Google is a company that has created a road map for what IT companies should be like; explain how Google can be considered to be one of the world’s best companies and at the same time one of the world’s most secretive organizations.

Introduction

Google is one of the best IT companies in the world. The company has earned web domination in terms of content search. The company has dominated web search for a long time. Apart from the strategy they have used to win users, it is also one of the best companies to work for. The ...

Is Death Bad?

IS DEATH BAD? Introduction Death is the scariest word for almost every individual and unfortunately it is inevitable. It is truly scary for us because there is no scientific information explaining the happenings after death. Considering that death means a complete loss of our consciousness, unknown things in the human life scares us. Every individual on the world, from the beginning of the history to the last generation on the world, develops a lifestyle and social relations during their lives, and death ends all of them. Also breathing and being able to move around and run after passion on ...

Introduction

Economics is name and the field of the social sciences that specifically associated with the activities of economic used to understand the process that used for the production, consumption of goods and distribution of the services in the economy. The economy of a country depends heavily upon some of the dominating aspects, as economics is the field which specifically associated with the earning and spending of money at a perfect place in a best possible manner (Mayer, p.12). The term economics comes specifically from the ancient times of Greek, and according to them it is a science of management ...

A miracle cannot be explained with the laws of sciences or the ordinary human understanding, attributed to supernatural forces that exist in the world. The Bible provided GOD’S teaching, instructions and His will on humankind. The performance of miracles started in the Old Testament with the prophets and believers such as MOSES who were anointed by GOD to lead the children of Israel. GOD proved HIS existence to the people through performing miracles that an ordinary man would not perform. Those who doubted the existence of GOD in the Old Testament were convinced that there was a true ...

Executive Summary

Technology is one of the best scientific developments that have brought about economic, social, and political change in most of the world’s economies. Nevertheless, there are varied reactions on the effect of technology on the environment, the economy, religion, culture, and politics among a host of many social, economic, and political phenomena. Conversely, these factors also affect technology in different ways as will be discussed in this paper. Nevertheless, selecting technology for a specific situation depends on a list factors that either support or oppose such incentives.

Introduction

Science and technology are the current century’s most influential challenges ...

World Bank organization

The World Bank was founded in 1944 as a single institution but in current times, it has expanded its wings and it’s associated with five development institutions. The institutions include: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Finance Corporation, Multilateral Guarantee Agency, International Center for the Settlement and Disputes. Initially, the World Bank had financial analysts and engineers who lived in Washington, D.C but today the organization accommodates a divergent workforce who includes: economists, public policy experts, the social scientist and sector experts. The main function of World Bank is to reduce the poverty levels in the ...

Find a building or structure constructed –Eiffel tower Art and architecture from the ancient times to date has played a key role that have made many appreciate the beauty in the natural environment. Buildings and structures in many regions and places are designed differently that depict and tell dissimilar stories with varied messages. In the recent times, art and architecture have grown tremendously in many institutions of learning across the globe, and this shows the emphasis and benefits that society has realized arising from the industry. Buildings among other structures made by artists and architects have portrayed different meanings ...

Abstract

Revolution refers to the drastic changes in the governmental institution, which is carried out by the non-institutional forces. According to Theda Skocpol’s model of revolutions, the revolutions begin with the “Crisis of State” that is initiated by diverse international factors including the security and economic competition from the world. This condition of “crisis of state” is augmented by a second factor that involves the “Class Dominance” that identifies that which group will exploit the situation of revolution. These two basic factors bring about the social revolution. This research will highlight that the model elucidated by Skocpol is an ...

Background:

The history of Demonology is an evolving explanation of two Christian theological understandings. The first is one is that the world was created good by God who is all-good and there is pain in the world. Cancer, war, natural disasters, poverty and other woes and evils are is difficult to reconcile with a cosmos created by an all-good God who created the world and agents within it out of love. That evil entered early on with the fall of Adam and Eve. This first understanding concerns human life and endeavor while bound up within the temporal confines of time ...

Indeed the United States of America is becoming a rogue superpower all thanks to it loosing the high moral standing that it has enjoyed for a couple of decades in the past. This can mainly be attributed to its foreign policy, political, judicial and even diplomatic standing on issues that are affecting not only the US but other nations that it relates with (Blum 13). This is true because the US has always wanted to use its status as a yardstick with which other nations of the world are measured, something that does not resonate well with the rest ...

Globalization has made drastic changes in the world. Globalization has encouraged investors to capitalize on opportunities regardless of geographic borders and cultural differences. Expanding a business to other parts of the world and offering goods and services to consumers around the world have become a reality today with globalization. Different organizations and government have capitalized on different opportunities to its fullest created by globalization. Globalization has created many new opportunities that have been exploited by different local as well as foreign investors in different parts of the world. Globalization has several benefits and it has helped the world economy ...

Literature

Introduction Since the beginning of the world, the female gender has faced suppression from the male section of the society. This has reflected in the literature, as well. Many authors, writers and poets, have used hard language to point out the wrong done against the women. The tailored language due to the dictatorial system by the mail dominance has been used in the literature works to give a message for the Literature, on the other hand, has been the part of the world since its inception. Right from the beginning of the world, literary works have been proving elemental ...

Introduction

Unemployment refers to the inability to get an opportunity of active employment when they are searching for one. Unemployment is one of the measures of the economic health of a particular country because it determines the level of productivity that a particular country has. Frequently, the most usable measure of unemployment is the rate of unemployment. The rate of unemployment can help to determine the amount of idle labor in the economy. When computing the unemployment rate, economists often divide the number of persons who do not have active employment against the number of people in the workforce. Based ...

Nuclear weapons and safety of the world is one of much debated issues. Different people have different opinions on nuclear weapons. Some argue that nuclear weapons are responsible for mass murders and they are absolutely irrelevant in a civilized world. Several others, on the other hand, argue that nuclear weapons are necessary for the safety of the world. The difference of opinion among people on the issue of nuclear weapons is not new and exists since the making of atom bombs. Even this difference of opinion existed among scientists who invented atom bombs. Scientists used to believe that atom ...

Americanization is the United States’ influence on other countries’ cultures. The world’s culture will eventually turn out to have its reference on the American culture. Practically, the world’s business practices, cuisine, and even the political techniques tend to approach that of the American culture. The American media, art, fashion and education system have become adopted by many countries of the world. The American entertainment culture is very wide. It ranges from television programs, music, writing and other forms of art. The TV listings, radio presentations and the videos playing in the local cinemas are mostly American regardless ...

Introduction

The concept of marketing is extremely broad; in fact it has such dominating options in it that deem extremely significant as far as managing a company accordingly. Marketing specifically means to market the products in a market using different aspects and knowledge management system (KMS). An organization which has a powerful and effective marketing function and workability effectiveness and position would be more worthwhile and effective as compared to the companies which are unable to apply the relevant technique of the marketing management in particular. In the field of marketing, enhancement in the brand is the core specific value ...

Thesis Proposal

Thesis: The economic, social, and political, changes witnessed in China today could be the proof of the impact that international organizations have on the nations of the world, today. Prior to China’s rapid growth, it had not witnessed the fast economic, political, and economic growth it does today. The developments could be a result of the country’s move to join the World Trade organization.

The main question of research focuses on the reason China did not join the World Trade Organization earlier regardless of the prosperity it brings to other nations. It emanates from the academic debate ...

Introduction

Understanding your child is one of the most important things that one should learn as a parent. It is extremely important in becoming effective in the nurturing of the child while growing up. With time, parents understand that every child has a unique trait that stays with them throughout the life. Study of these traits of the children, right from prenatal development through the adolescence is called child psychology. It deals with not just the physical growth of the children, but also their mental, social and emotional development. Over the recent times, child psychology has developed scientifically to encompass “ ...

Final- social media

Social media refers to an interaction between two or more individual where they are able to create and share ideas and information in virtual network or community. The mode of network is usually on the internet and other service provider. A social media can also be defined as an internet based application that helps people to create and share ideas on the same platform. The application mostly depends on mobile and web technologies to facilitate its interactions. The social media has expanded in many countries around the world and it’s very common with the generation Y. it incorporates ...

Introduction

The American Red Cross is a nonprofit making organization that helps vulnerable people around the world to prepare for, prevent and respond to disasters. The American Red Cross also teaches people how to respond to complex humanitarian emergencies and life threatening health conditions ( Suen, 2002). The American Red Cross has also embarked on global initiatives and community based programs that will help to implement such initiatives. The organization also provides rapid, effective and large-scale humanitarian assistance to all the people perceived to be in great need through their continued focus on disaster preparedness and response, global health, restoring family ...

International Terrorism

Introduction

Terrorism is a word that has been widely used to mean many things. It is not internationally agreed upon definition for terrorism (Williamson, 2009, p. 33). The oxford English Dictionary defines terrorism as the unauthorized use of violence and intimidation to achieve political aims. This definition, however, does not even scratch the surface of the issues referred to by the use of the word terrorism. The term is used to refer to actions of many radical groups which carry out violent crimes with an ulterior motive of influencing change in certain institutions. Religion is perhaps the most used ...

Globalization for Canada

The environment is an intercool part of the economy. Any future examination of Canada’s prospects within globalization will be skewed when there is no more cheap oil. The toaster from China will no longer make any sense. The fact is that we are relying on burning oil at 3 times the carbon footprints in the case of the tar sands compared to conventional oil. Therefore the real cost of globalization must factor in, the real cost of climate change. It is imperative to understand the concept of globalization in order to ascertain the effect it has in the ...

The US Subprime mortgage crisis was a banking and financial emergency situation that led to a recession not only in the US but spread to many parts of the world. The disastrous effects of a crisis in the domestic subprime market on the rest of the world beg questions about the interconnectability and interdependence of the international economy as well as the financial institutions. The international financial crisis also revealed how vulnerable the global financial system was. Not only did the subprime crisis have a direct effect on global markets and countries that held a huge number of US ...