...Could traditional skills survival in the age of world globalization? Homer (Wu Hao) -Introduction Plan: According to Barber(2010) “Globalization has tendency to move that process forward at alarmingly dispiriting rates.” -P105，line 28-29 Thesis statement: modern technological products destroy traditional skills and handicraft Despite the fact that there are much more job opportunities in the age of world globalization, there is a sense in which it can be argued that modern technological products destroy traditional skills and handicraft in recent years. According to Barber(2010) “Globalization has tendency to move that process forward at alarmingly dispiriting rates.” -P105，line 28-29 China opened up its market and adapted to the world globalization in..... -Counter argument Plan: Reference from T.N.Srinivasa/ Positive effects in the world globalization According to T.N.Srinivasan（2002） “Globalization is, in essence, a process that creates opportunities for faster growth and more rapid poverty reduction in those poor countries in which the domestic economic and political environment is conducive” Though the force of globalization refers to the positive effects in building transnational companies and creating much more opportunities for local people there. -Example 1 Plan: Example of a scissors company in China / hand-made scissors and kitchen knifes / go broke because of globalization (Zwilling...
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...The Ghana National Traditional Healers Association in collaboration with regulatory bodies is working assiduously to open up its market share to capture the international community, particularly the USA, by June 2015. According to the Association, a consultancy firm has revealed that the African community in places like Maryland and Washington D.C., both in the USA, holds herbal medicines from Ghana in high esteem, hence its [Ghana National Traditional Healers Association] keen interest to penetrate those markets to augment foreign exchange earnings from non-traditional exports. The dream has been rekindled by a 30-day intensive “Training in Quality Herbal Products Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship for Improved Productivity and Competitiveness” for a selected 100 practitioners, Baffour Agyapong, Brong Ahafo Regional Association Chairman, has told the B&FT in an interview. The training workshop was facilitated by the Department of Herbal Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), with sponsorship from the Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET) and Skills Development Fund (SDF). He said the training has bequeathed to practitioners the needed technical know-how to produce herbal medicines that meet international standard conformity: including bottling; label requirements such as ingredients, dosage, batch numbers, undesirable effects, clinical particulars among others. “Hitherto, some practitioners were collecting...
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...INTRODUCTION Education aims to provide learning and knowledge, also to enhance the skills and abilities of every student, to bring competence, and guide them with positive attitudes and values. Quality education is considered as an important factor to produce globally competitive professionals in order to build a strong nation and to bring out the best way to get along with global competition. Education is facing challenges in terms of worldwide movement of international students mostly from the Asian and African continents to universities in the West to provide an important source of income to those receiving universities (Biggs and Tang, 2010). In trying to strengthen the quality assurance system in Philippine higher education, institutions of higher learning were mandated to upgrade higher education curricular offerings to international standards (Valdez, 2012). There is a growing worldwide concern among the stakeholders of education that the present educational system does not prepare students adequately for life and work in the 21st century. (ncrel.org) In order to remain responsive to these challenges, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) need to continuously assess correctly the organization’s strategic needs and ever-evolving business process requirements in terms of core, operational and management competencies. This has prompted many educators across the globe to explore new ways of designing education including a review of the curriculum, the instructional processes...
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...Chapter1 Q1. What do ethnomusicologists mean when they say, “Music is universal, but it is not a universal language?” A1. “Ethnomusicologists use this phrase to bring cultures together. The problems with the metaphor are many. First, music is not a language, at least not in the sense of conveying specific meanings through specific symbols, in standard patterns analogies to syntax, and governed by rules of structure analogies to grammar. While attempts have been made to analyze music in liquistic terms, these ultimately failed because music is a totally different realm. Second, it is questionable whether music really can transcend linguistic barriers and culturally determined behaviors, through some forms of emotional communication, such as crying, are so fundamentally human that irrationally all perceive it the same way. What we see with music does not support the motion that music is a universal language, unfortunately, and we do not believe such a concept to be useful in examining the world’s music.”(3) Q5. In what ways does world music study require an interdisciplinary approach? A5. “World music causes have no such canon, and certainly no list of great composers. The world is too large and there are too many choices consensus to form. Therefore, one must consider not only how to organize such a course but what to include. What should every world music student knew? If the organization is geographical, what genres and particular examples should ‘represent’ a country or...
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...In the modern world today activities are becoming faster, closer, and easier than they had ever been. At the click of a button people are able to exchange information almost instantly. Not only is the rate of information becoming faster, but also the rate of exchange of goods, services, and money. With all this exchange of information, what helps the people who is away from each other be unified into a single society like a minimized village? This distribution and pulling together of the world is referred as globalization that is believed by many people as the revolution of the future. However, globalization has positive and negative views upon it. These various aspects affect my life in several different ways. First of all, globalization makes the mass media today be an essential part of everyday life. Almost all of us are affected by the media in different forms, whether it is television, radio, films, music, magazines or even the internet. Basically, media has a connection all over the world that is a mass communication technique that entertains, informs and influences people without even realizing it. Personally, I can easily download a video of the performance of a small group on the other side of the planet. Obviously, without globalization, I would never have heard of them, and they would have never had the opportunity to sell me a CD. Also, the acquirement of knowledge from various sources of information on the internet, which helps me positively in the way of study...
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...Chinese History(herbal) The first traditionally recognized herbalist is Shénnóng (, lit. "Divine Farmer"), a mythical god-like figure, who is said to have lived around 2800 BC.[2] He allegedly tasted hundreds of herbs and imparted his knowledge of medicinal and poisonous plants to farmers. His Shénnóng Běn Cǎo Jīng, Shennong's Materia Medica) is considered as the oldest book on Chinese herbal medicine. It classifies 365 species of roots, grass, woods, furs, animals and stones into three categories of herbal medicine: 1. The "superior" category, which includes herbs effective for multiple diseases and are mostly responsible for maintaining and restoring the body balance. They have almost no unfavorable side-effects. 2. A category comprising tonics and boosters, whose consumption must not be prolonged. 3. A category of substances which must usually be taken in small doses, and for the treatment of specific diseases only. Egyptian History(herbal) The original text of Shennong's Materia Medica has been lost; however, there are extant translations.[3] The true date of origin is believed to fall into the late Western Han dynasty[2] (i.e., the first century BC). The ancient Greeks didn't invent the art of medicine; rather, they had a large body of preexisting medical lore and knowledge to draw on. Their distinctive genius lay in their ability to distill and refine all this medical knowledge into a new systematization and synthesis. Most medical historians now...
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...yoga,unani,siddha and homeopathy. Ayurveda is the oldest system of medicine in India which uses diet, herbal treatment and breathing. Yoga involves simple breathing exercises and breathing control,simple meditation,relaxation of the body and mind. Unani is based on the concept of phlegm,blood,yellow bile and black bile. Correct balance of these 4 must be maintained to be in god health and free of disease. Siddha -according to Siddha medicine sytem ,diet and lifestyle play a major role not only in health but also in curing disease. Homeopathy is a system of medicine for the treatment of disease by minute doses of natural substances that in a healthy person would produce symptoms similar to those of the disease. These traditional systems have age old age acceptance in the communities in India and in most places they form the first line of treatment in case of common ailments. Nowadays the practice of Yoga has become a part of everyday life.practice of Yoga improves a person's resistance to disease and promotes healthy living. These AYUSH systems of medicine a well accepted by the communities particularly in the rural areas because these are socially acceptable ,comparatively safe and readily available which can be prepared locally . Therefore it is possible to make these systems accessible to the people in general and patients in particular. I would like to share an example. I have an aunt in north India.all her life for simple ailments she has taken homeopathic...
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...Categorical Syllogism I. Definition II. Three categorical propositions III. General Rules 1) Number of terms in the syllogism. 2) How to determine the three terms in the syllogism. 3) Distribution of the major and minor terms in the syllogism. 4) Distribution of the major and minor terms in the syllogism. 5) The quality of the premises. 6) The quality of the premises. 7) The quality of the premises. 8) The quantity of the premises. 9) The quantity of the premises. IV. Figure 1) SUB-PRE (Subject-predicate) 2) PRE-PRE (Predicate-predicate) 3) SUB-SUB (Subject-subject) 4) PRE-SUB (Predicate-subject) V. Moods 1) SUB-PRE (AA, AI, EA, EI) (AAA) 2) PRE-PRE (AE, AO,EA, EI) (AEE) 3) SUB-SUB (AA, AI, EA, EI, IA, OA) (AAI) 4) PRE-SUB (AA, AE, EA, EI, IA) (EAO) Categorical Syllogism I. Definition Syllogism is a mediate inference because the agreement or disagreement between two ideas or propositions is known through the mediation of a third idea or proposition. It is a process of reasoning or inference where one can determine the agreement or disagreement between two ideas with the third idea and from which deductively/inductively form a conclusion. II. Three categorical propositions 1) Major Premise- is the predicate of the conclusion and is also found in the major premise.. 2) Minor Premise- is the subject of the conclusion and appear in...
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...“Ladies and Gentleman, Garfield and Friends. Friends are there to help you get started, to give you a push on your way. Friends are there turn you around, get your feet on the ground for a brand new dayyyyy….”, if your small tube television never sung this tune, or any other tune that opened up for an animated series, in the morning during breakfast, then I must say I’m quite sorry for you since you basically missed out on one of the best things of childhood: animated cartoons. Except for anything on PBS KIDS, the big and mean adults always criticized the early animated cartoons deeming them as “not educational” and that they “ruin the minds of kids” but that can be contradicted with today’s animations. When South Park was first broadcasted on television, I thought the running gag of the show was “ OMG (shortened for those know text language), they just killed Kenny!” Let me tell you how Lil’ Johnny corrected my thought when his incident became the number gossip in elementary school. It’s just one in the afternoon and everybody’s in their assigned seats acting like pure angels except for Johnny whose lately been given an attitude to everybody. The poor teacher’s frustrated face and expressions can be easily compared to my mom’s when I stayed up past twelve. Time out seemed like the most lenient punishment for this disobeying buckaroo. The problem being was Johnny didn’t cooperate so the only option left was the principal’s office. Johnny-once again- refused and called the teacher...
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...In the world right now, thousands or millions of different diseases are affecting humans. A cure for the diseases that humans suffer is vital and important for humans, to stop the suffering and reduce the number of death. A lot of medicines that used to cure diseases affecting humans come from plants. Science and knowledge is why humans can find ways to cure a disease and one of the discoveries that human made to find a cure to a disease is from a plant. Plants can also be used to help humans to stay healthy. It is estimated that 75%-80% people all over the world used plants as medicine either only in parts or use entirely (WHO-World Health Organization). It was widely chosen because of the cheap cost of these plant medicines and the lower risks of side effects it has than drug medicines. Plants medicines are not only cheap, but it also has a lot of benefits and lower side effects that make it really effective. Plants have been used for treating injuries and diseases since prehistoric time. Since then, discoveries were made and more and more plants are used to cure people. Egyptian Pharaohs selected a few plants for the afterlife and this included a good selection of medicinal plants. The Greeks and Romans used lots of herbs , developing one of the earliest systems of medicine and recording the usage of many herbs. In the East, the Chinese developed their form of herbal medicine with acupuncture and the Indians worked on a system, which we now know as Ayurvedic medicine, which...
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...There are also newer forms of exploitation of indigenous peoples, and their cultures such as the theft and patenting of traditional knowledge and biological and genetic resources through the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and other mechanisms. Global economic restructuring such as trade lib- eralization, privatization, ‘free trade’ and deregulation has also considerably increased the pressure on indigenous territories. The dominant global economic system is based on continuous growth and thus requires an insatiable supply of natural resources and the world’s remaining and diminished resources are often located on indigenous territories. Deregulation of national resource extraction laws and regulations has resulted in a serious undermining of international instruments, constitutional provisions, national laws and policies safeguarding indigenous rights. The most central of these rights, the right to self-determi- nation of indigenous peoples has been questioned and undermined as national governments bind themselves to new global economic treaties. Many scholars have pointed out the links between the processes of global economic restructuring and rising levels of violence. Some have even suggested ‘a new paradigm of violence’ which is particularly evident in ten- sions and conflicts where ethnic and religious identities are or can be employed as a resource to propel into violence for political ends (Wieviorka 2003). Discussions of globalization and violence...
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...Christian Stiers Human Geography Linguists Film Analysis 1. Why do linguists study languages, and what is lost when a language dies? Figure out possible ways the human mind can make sense of the world around it. Some unique way of seeing the world could be lost. 2. What areas do Gregory and David choose when they are looking for languages to research? Areas most in need and areas with history of colonization. India, Bolivia, and Siberia are some examples. 3. Who typically stops speaking the indigenous language, and why do you think that is? Often children, because they integrate into a more popular language. They do this for an economic advantage. 4. What has been the role of boarding schools on the use of indigenous languages? Provide some examples. Mitigated disaster. Kalinga Institute in India has 60 indigenous minority groups are educated in English and taught Hindu religion, which puts pressure on their individuality. 5. What is the conflict between education for indigenous groups and preservation of language? Is there a way to resolve this conflict to the benefit of the indigenous groups? Many different indigenous groups are brought together and educated in a common language like English. They should continue to practice their indigenous tongue when they are young so they have high elasticity and will retain their culture. 6. Since many tribal people are not Hindu, where do they fit within the Hindu paradigm...
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...CHAPTER IRAS AND SEPS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. What is the limit on contributions to an IRA for 2014? The following chart depicts the combined contribution limits for traditional and Roth IRAs. In addition, individuals who have attained the age of 50 before the end of the current taxable year are also eligible to make catch-up contributions, thereby increasing the annual IRA contribution limits. Year 2014 Annual Limit $5,500 Catch-Up Limit (for those over age 50) $1,000 Maximum Contribution $6,500 2. 3. What is a spousal IRA? An IRA for a spouse who has no earned income is generally referred to as a spousal IRA and can be established provided the other spouse has sufficient earned income. The necessary level of compensation is equal to the total amount that is to be contributed to both IRAs. Spousal IRAs can be established up to the contribution limit for the year in question ($5,500 for 2014) the catch-up contribution is also available for those individuals age 50 and over). 4. Why is age 70½ significant to traditional IRA contributions? Contributions to a traditional IRA are not permitted in the year, or any years after the year, in which an individual attains age 70½. This limitation for traditional IRAs does not apply to Roth IRAs. Individuals who have sufficient earned income may continue to contribute to a Roth IRA after the attainment of age 70½. 5. 132 List items of income that are considered earned income...
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...My favourite film genre is animated movies but for adults. I love animated movies in general but I am more sensibilized by adults'films. In those animated films, there is always a kind of morals but more complicated than in animated cartoon for children. I think about one of my cult animated film : Paprika ( directed by Satoshi Kon) which is a reference in animation, all the film is a thinking about the border between reality and fiction. It's an idea that children cannot really understand and even if the graphism is really advanced and touching, they loose an half of the film's interest. This kind of movies offers also a research about characters which is more intersting (for me) than in infant films because the directors work about the human's complexity whith accuracy. I think it's important for adults and teenagers to recognize themselves throught the characters in the film. They can play with stereotypes because adults can understand them. For example, if adults are more intersted by Silvain Chaumet's films than children, it's (in part) because of the numerous strereotypes which people and give life in his films. We understand his message, his society critical, things which don't really exist in children films. Moreover, make this kind of movie it's more free because there is not "youth protection" or things like that. Directors can use violence, shock, delicate society subjects to exprim their ideas and I think it's very interesting to mix this freedom of expression and...
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...One type of herbal eye drop is called Murine Tears. There are six ingredients that are found in real tears and these are also found in this brand of eye drops. Using these eye drops will help stop any irritation that has been caused by itchy or dry eyes. Since herbal eye drops are made to resemble human tears, they can offer immediate relief from itchy eyes. However, there are many different herbal eye drops for purchase online. But it is important to understand what kind to look for before you make your decision. Herbal eye drops will have certain types of ingredients in them that will help certain eye issues. The following are herbs that one should look for when searching for a quality herbal eye drop. Ginkgo biloba is an herb that has...
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