...What are the differences and similarities between ethnic tensions and conflict in the United States and ethnic divisions in the developing world? Ethnic tensions and conflict in the United States and ethnic divisions in the developing world are similar in that it is a profound social problem in both places. It is different because the population of America is more heterogeneous than in most developing nations, which leads to different ethnic dynamics. Discuss the effect that modernization has had on ethnic identification and ethnic conflict. Early modernization theorists, who were quite optimistic about the positive effects of literacy, urbanization, and modern values, clearly underestimated the extent to which these factors might mobilize various ethnic groups and set them against each other (Handelman, 2011). Modernization challenged traditional religious, national, and tribal identities by undercutting traditional ethnic practices and values. A huge part of current modernization is globalization, which pose an even greater challenge (Handelman, 2011). Globalized culture can create a backlash and increase tensions between neighboring communities as not everyone can ethically identify with each other. It may be argued that the spread of western world brands will eventually reduce or eliminate the differences of dress, food, and customs that currently separate different ethnic groups. (Handelman, 2011) What are some reasons that might explain why major civil strife related...
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...A SOC 1 report contains five components: (Grant Thorton, 2012). 1. The external auditor’s report: The section would define the scope of the audit that specifies what the audit area is and the audit period at Apple. It also expresses the external auditor’s opinions on the test conclusions. This section may not cover the services that are outsourced by the service organization (Grant Thorton, 2012). Since Amazon is certified in SOC compliance standards, this report may skip the audit report for Amazon. 2. Management assertion: The section would include a fair presentation of the description about the company (Grant Thorton, 2012), including the working of iCloud and the outsourcing of some components to Amazon Web Services. It would also state the controls that are included in the description are suitably designed and they are implemented during the audit period. A Type-II report would also contain effectiveness of the iCloud system, and the outsourcing; and any changes made to the system during that period. 3. System description of the service organization: The section would include the services provided by iCloud. It consists of a description of the IT environment and the systems in use, the related IT general computer controls, and risk assessment in certain aspects such as physical and logical access to the system (Grant Thorton, 2012). 4. Control objectives and control activities: The section would list all the control objectives at Apple, along with all...
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...CRITICAL ANALYSIS: HOTEL RWANDA: Sociology of Developing Countries (SOC300) Professor: Hotel Rwanda: Introduction Hotel Rwanda is a story about a country in central Africa that turned violent after their president is assassinated. Throughout all of this a man by the name of Paul Rusesabagina who was a Hutu and a hotel manager, would find himself giving refuge and saving thousand of lives at the expense of his own. Critical Analysis The event takes place in the county of Rwanda located in the central part of Africa. The events occur in the year 2004 from the month of April to June. The Main character in the movie is Paul Rusesabagina a Hutu and manager of The Hotel Mille Collines located in Kagali. The secondary characters in the movie are Tatiana Rusesabagina the wife of Paul and the General of the UN Army that was doing everything he could to assist Paul and the refuge. The origin of the conflict takes places on April 6, 1994 when it been discovered that Rwanda’s Hutu president has been assassinated when his jet was shot from the sky. Rumors would be begin to circulate that the Tutsi are responsible and immediately the Hutu army and the militia set about systematically slaughtering the minority Tutsi. This would force Paul to gather his family and neighbors into their vehicles and fled to the hotel. Over the next 100 days, Paul would put his own life on the line by protecting not only his wife and children but also other refuge that are Tutsi...
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...Short Essay Assignment # 2 Summary of #39 The world’s water challenge: Erik R. Peterson and Rachel A. Posner Deborah Phillpotts Professor Beth Stewart SOC300: Sociology of Developing Countries June 12, 2011 Article 39: The World’s Water Challenge: Erik R. Patterson & Rachel Posner Summary of Article This article was about The world’s water challenge. It addressed the dimensions and features that contribute to the world’s water crisis. According to the article “These factors suggest that even at current levels of global population, resource consumption, and economic activity, we may have already passed the threshold of water sustainability” (Griffiths, 2011) . So basically globally we are running out of water. Also the demand for water is so high and there is an insufficient amount of water supply to meet this. The dimensions of that the water challenges will affect include: healthcare, politics, our social lives, the economy, because the water supply is not sufficient and not easily sustained. This article also discussed the changes that are necessary to handle the challenge of shrinking water assets, the changes that I found very useful to implement are first and foremost educating the public about the water crisis, the government investing money into finding means to preserve the water supply we have today. There has to be more precautions taken when it comes to the ecosystems, even though it is inconceivable to maintain the water supply a stand has...
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...What If Hillary Clinton Had Won? David C. Grof Strayer University SOC300 What If Hillary Clinton Had Won? There’s no denying, if any woman was to run for president, it should be Hillary Clinton. More women actively listened to the debates and paid attention now that there was a woman standing before them running for president. If Hillary Clinton won the presidential election of 2008, she would have shattered the glass ceiling that has kept so many women from running for president before her. The United States Congress has a low number of women in its ranks. This is partially because we don’t have quotas and actually vote (instead of women being appointed). However, I think Hillary Clinton would have motivated more women to become Senators and Representatives. I believe even in the local sector we would have found more women stepping up to take on roles such as governor or mayor. Right now, all the hype is about ObamaCare, but I do believe Hillary Clinton would have been just as concerned with a healthcare system for the country. The modern idea of having a female president would have been great for the future. Modernization isn’t always good for the present but in the long run it shows prosperity Women leaders are more likely to pass “women friendly” legislation. Being a woman, she probably would have focused on issues such as child care, abortion, education and divorce laws. She would have made women more aware of their rights and opportunities. Hillary Clinton...
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...Chechen Rebellions in the former Soviet Union Kathrine D. Nepon Strayer University Donald Anderson SOC300 August 20, 2011 Chechnya has long been under the thumb of another, first Imperial Russia and then the Soviet Union. They were annexed by Imperial Russia in 1870 after long resistance during the Caucasian War (1817-1864). With the fall of the Russian Empire they attempted to gain independence but were thwarted, and in 1922 Chechnya was incorporated into Bolshevist Russia, what would later evolve into the Soviet Union (USSR). The Chechen people had to endure many hardships under Russian rule. In 1936 Joseph Stalin created the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, making them an autonomous republic of the state. But in subsequent years, though they fought on the side of the Red Army in World War II, Stalin dismantled the republic and had more than 1 million Chechens deported to Central Asia and Siberia for their alleged collaboration with Germany. Though in 1956 many were allowed to return home, there wasn’t much to return to in a war ravaged state. Also Chechnya is mostly Muslim and in Communist Russia religion was not a freedom that the people enjoyed. During the Soviet rule so many independent states and countries were swallowed, their boundaries erased and many nationalities that were never friends to begin with were forced to live and work together. With the fall of the USSR, Chechnya once again bid for independence, along with many other Soviet...
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...Assignment 1: The Effects of War and Peace on Foreign Aid SOC300 – Sociology of Developing Countries Stacy Moon Dr. Roderick Linzie Bus 375 May 12, 2015 The Effects of War and Peace on Foreign Aid Malawi has made great strides sociologically through financial aid from external countries, conditionality, and democratization. Financial aid has both positive and negative effects. It can help a country get back on their feet and help them thrive, or it could help them just barely get by, creating aid dependency. N.G. Emmanuel defines aid dependency, as a country that cannot perform many of the core functions of government or delivery of basic public services without foreign aid funding and expertise. Aid dependent countries, generally, are not at fault for this dependency because they are not able to stabilize their economy because of factors like a lack of resources, location, climate, or other factors they're unable to control. 90 percent of Malawians live off of an average of $2 a day. Financial aid is aimed to improve government, food and food security, healthcare, education, and peace keeping. In order to improve food security, the World Bank donated $3.3 million in agriculture loans to grow crops and The International Monetary Fund trained 187,000 farmers to grow these crops. To aid education reforms, the U.S. invested $100,000,000. In order to keep the peace, 2000 men were trained in order to form a militia. To aid healthcare reforms, 436 doctors, nurses...
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...George Baker SOC300-023 August 21, 2011 Case: Country A “The Agrarian” Sociology has helped us to understand why different groups of the human race act the way they do, as well as introduces us to other cultures, and different backgrounds. The case study gives a good example of the different roles culture plays in the attitudes of the different groups and how everyday lives are affected. When we look at Case Study A, we must first examine the measurements of underdevelopment, socially, economically and politically. We must also know what defines a undeveloped country and its main theories of underdevelopment. These two theories respectively are the modernization theory and the dependency theory. Almost one half of third world families depend on agriculture to feed there families. One billion of the rural poor live in dangerous conditions. A large percent of the population relys on agriculture for its survival. Agrarian reform is what we are dealing...
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...SOCIALISM Student Edward Hawkins Instructor: Professor Muhammed Sohna SOC300 – Sociology of Developing Countries May 5, 2013 SOCIALISM Definition Socialism – Socialism is a political term applied to an economic system in which property us held in common and not individually, and relationships are governed by a political hierarchy. Common ownership doesn’t mean decisions are made collectively, however. Instead, individuals in positions of authority make decisions in the name of the collective group. Also, socialism is a social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources. History The history of socialism has its origins in the French Revolution of 1789 and the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution, although it has its precedents in earlier movements and ideas. The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848 just before the Revolutions of 1848 swept Europe, expressing what they termed ‘scientific socialism’. In the last third of the 19th century in Europe social democratic parties arose in Europe drawing mainly from Marxism. The Australian Labor Party was the world’s first elected socialist party when the party won the 1899 Queensland state election. In the first half of the twentieth century, the Soviet Uniion and the Communist parties of the Third International Around the world mainly came to represent socialism in terms...
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...Lending Institutions, Health Care, and Human Capital Monique Johnson Professor Cathey SOC300 Explore whether or not funding from international lending institutions like the World Bank and the IMF are helping or hindering the social, economic, or political development of the country that you have selected. Support your response with examples. The policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have systematically undermined democratic principles and eroded human rights protections in dozens of countries around the globe. By insisting that national leaders place the interests of international financial investors above the needs of their own citizens, the IMF and the World Bank have short circuited the accountability at the heart of self-governance, thereby corrupting the democratic process. The subordination of social needs to the concerns of financial markets has, in turn, made it more difficult for national governments to ensure that their people receive food, health care, and education -- basic human rights as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Bank's and the Fund's erosion of basic human rights and their perversion of the democratic process have made the institutions a clear and present threat to the well-being of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. The institutions, Global Exchange strongly believes, must be abolished and redesigned from scratch through a genuinely democratic, inclusive and transparent process involving all...
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...CAROLINA GARCIA SOC300 Sociology of Developing Countries DATE: 04-28-05 The Mexican Development I. INTRODUCTION During the last decade Mexico's economic performance has been positive. In 2001 Mexico became Latin America’s largest economy according to the IMF. The implementation of economic policies have strengthened Mexico's fundamentals and increased its resilience to external shocks. Due to the GDP1 growth (25.7% percent higher than the Brazilian) Mexico is considered the fourth fastest growing economy among the 30 largest economies in the world and it is expect that the economy will growth 3% and soon It could become the first and that is why further lending needs to occur. Mexico has also achieved political and social developments in the past 10 years. The administration of President Vicente Fox is an example of transparency and his government has fulfilled almost all of his commitments that he promised at the beginning of his campaign. Thru this easy we will mention some of the many of the projects that have changed Mexico’s history. II. CONTENTS I. Introduction …………………………………………………… II. Contents ……………………………………………………… III. Economic Performance ……………………………………… IV. Economic Program. …………………………………………. a) Fiscal Policy ……………………………………… b) Exchange rate policy …………………………… c) Debt management ……………………………… V. Structural Reforms ……………………………………………… a) Private Sector involvement in the economy ……… b) Tax system …………………………………………… ...
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...Malaria in Rural Tanzania Monica Thompson SOC300 August 29, 2012 Dr. Mark Perry Introduction Approximately half of the world's population is at risk for contracting malaria, particularly those living in lower-income countries” (WHO, 2013). It is a major public health issue that plagues developing countries around the world; however, “more than seventy percent of the total morbidity is in Africa” (Snow et al., 2005). Although both preventive measures and treatments exist, malaria prevails as one of the biggest killers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Children, pregnant women and HIV-infected individuals are most susceptible to contracting the illness. Tanzania, located in east Africa, is among one of the poorest of countries in the world and is burdened with malaria. There are several factors that contribute to the malaria endemic in Tanzania, including: poverty, environmental and special factors, and access to healthcare. Background Malaria has been in existence since 2700 B.C. (Lambert, 2003). In fact, the ancient Chinese wrote about its symptoms in their medical writings. It is believed to have originated in Western-Africa. In 1879 Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, a Public Health researcher began his studies on malaria in an Algerian hospital. He noticed that there was a pigment in the blood of people who suffered from malaria, but he was unsure of what that pigment was. After ten years of extensive...
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...Free eChapters (FALL 2012) eChapters offer students immediate access to the first few chapters of their textbooks while they are waiting for the print book to arrive. eChapters help students to keep up with required reading and assignments until they receive their course material, without having to pay expedited shipping costs. eChapters that are available from the publisher are attainable free of charge. How do students gain access to free eChapters? Not all courses or textbooks have eChapters available. For all courses where eChapters are available, the files are located in the student’s Blackboard course shell under the Student Center. Below is a list of courses with eChapters loaded into the course shells, giving students free access as of the first day of classes. * = eChapters are forthcoming Course ID ACC100 ACC206 ACC303 ACC304 ACC305 ACC306 Text Title Accounting Principles – 9th edition Accounting Principles – 9th edition Intermediate Accounting 14e Intermediate Accounting 14e Intermediate Accounting 14e Microcomputer Applications for Accounting Excel 2010 Microsoft® Excel 2010: A Case Approach, Complete, 1st Edition, copyright 2011 SOUTH WESTERN FEDERAL TAXATION 2012: COMPREHENSIVE, 36th ed. South-Western Federal Taxation 2013: Corporations, Partnerships, Estates and Trusts, 36th Edition Cost Accounting 13th 09 ed. Advanced Accounting 4th 10th ed. Auditing & Assurance Services 13th 10 ed. Core Concepts of Government and Not for Profit Accounting 2nd ed., 2011 ed ACC...
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