Assignment nr. 1 K. Toufarova Globalization at General Electric 1. Why do you think GE invested so aggressively in foreign expansion? Because GE tries to achieve its main goal: To be number 1 or 2 globally in every business in which it participates. Nowadays GE is not just an American company doing business abroad‚ but it had become a true global company. The revenues from international sales are growing significantly. This expansion is being powered by growing economies of Asia (particularly
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“assess the view that in todays society the family is losing its functions” (24 marks) There are many different sociologists who look in the families place in today’s society and assess the level of function to family has today. From Murdock to parsons‚ feminist and warm bath theory there is many different views and opinions on this statement. One of the more famous sociologists who looked at the family is G.P.Murdock; he compared over 250 societies and claimed that the nuclear family was universal
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Explain what is meant by “The Population Bomb” and to what extent do you agree that this bomb has been diffused. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”- Paul Ehrlich‚ Stanford University biologist The population bomb theory was made popular by Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 book “The Population Bomb”‚ Ehrlich posited
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article‚ The Second Shift‚ Arlie Hochschild explains that the household responsibilities that a wife and mother takes care of‚ aside from working her paid job‚ roughly adds up to fifteen hours longer each week than men( Hochschild‚ 259). The article asserts that even though both parents have careers‚ it’s usually the mom who also works the second shift at home. The second shift included household chores in addition of working outside the home (Hochschild‚ 260). One reason why women feel the need
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the livelihoods of low income families those living below the absolute poverty line through promotion of micro-enterprises and employment generation. The target groups of the programme are Women‚ Socially Excluded such as Dalits‚ Indigenous Nationalities (Adivashi-Janajatis)‚ Religious Minorities‚ Unemployed Youths‚ People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHA)‚ Injecting Drug Users (IDUs) and Ex-Combatants Discharged from Maoist Cantonments. MEDEP has been working in several commodity sub sectors
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cartel in existence today is OPEC‚ Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Its members are some (but not all) of the most important oil producing countries including Saudi Arabia and Mexico. Most cartels try to raise prices at the expense of consumers. The aim of this essay is to determine whether OPEC has been a successful cartel‚ this will mean I have to examine the strengths and weaknesses of OPEC which have been present throughout their existence of supplying oil. This should allow me to
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Criminology has been Gender-blind’ rather than Gender neutral’. Discuss It has been argued that the gaze of criminology has been primarily focused on male offenders‚ Cain (1989) argues that criminology is in fact incapable of speaking in gender neutral terms (cited in Walklate 2001: 19). A reason for this includes that history has been prepared to offer universal explanations of crime achieved by the study of the male offender. Feminists such as (Naffine 1997: 18) believe that criminology has been
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Introduction The term “shift” commonly refers to changes which occur or may occur in the process of translating. As long as translating is a language use‚ the notion of shift belongs to the notion of linguistic performance as opposed to that of theories of competence. Although the term “shift” was initially adopted by Catford as “departures from formal correspondence in the process of from the Source Text (ST) to the Target Text (TT)‚ other scholars like Levy‚ Popovic‚ Blum-Kulka‚ Hatim‚ M. Shlesinger
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Job Workforce Shifts Thomas Foster Grantham University Job Workforce Shifts From 1900 to 1999 the United States has witnessed a major workforce shift that is still evolving today and Human Resource Managers are playing even a bigger role within companies today. With the competitive market environment today‚ Human Resource Managers need to keep evolving with and roll with the many changes within the workforce. Company’s big or small better realize that they are playing a more strategic role
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questions. PART ONE: JUST THE FACTS: 1. Why did the Ohio Valley become the arena of conflict between the French and British in America? 2. How did the French and Indian War help bring about the American Revolution? 3. Describe salutary neglect. How and why did it come to an end? 4. Describe the economic philosophy of mercantilism. 5. What was the Sugar Act and what was it significance? 6. Describe the Stamp Act and the colonial reaction. 7. Describe the philosophy of the American Revolution
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