Review of Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World by Leif Wenar By: Alexis Nicole Thrasher Professor Unislawa Williams International Organizations April 18, 2016 “Divide and rule, the politician cries; Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.” -Goethe The following review of Leif Wenar’s book about the unhappy rules of free trade in natural resources, Blood Oil, will show how citizens, consumers, and leaders can act today to avert tomorrow’s
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Media has revolutionised tremendously since the past century. Before the era of social media, only recognised news authorities with distinctive powers could report and spread the word of information to the general public. It helps to shape people’s thoughts and perceptions by providing information across the lands and seas. The mass media industry as stated by Steinberg (2007) is “involved in the production and distribution of messages to large audiences” (p. 253). Mass media includes platforms
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The Purchase of Moral Satisfaction ( Richard O. Zerbe Jr. Abstract The debate over whether moral sentiments should be included in normative economic analysis offers the arguments that inclusion is unnecessary as results are the same, that inclusion can result in double counting and will result in acceptance of projects that fail to pass a potential compensation test. I show that these arguments are unpersuasive or incorrect. Instead the inclusion of moral sentiments has potential
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Human Resources We live in a world of explosive technological change and of intense global competition. More than ever before, these pressures are forcing organizations to become more effective and efficient. Top managers are beginning to realize that organizational success depends upon careful attention to human resources. Within today's business world the focus on human resources has increased tremendously in recent years. Companies have realized the importance of human resource to
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There once was a proud race of very spiritual people that were later known to us as Native Americans. Native American people were indigenous to the country we now refer to as the United States of America. The Native American people will later be called the American Indian. There is documentation to show Indians have inhabited North America as far back as 150000 B.C. Native Americans are a culture of proud spiritual nations with strong values and heritage. They were once free
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Fatima Mansuri student Id: 49050 Reflection diary Week 2: Cultural Lens Looking through a cultural lens means understanding that my background, values, and experiences dictate it and hence has an element of bias inherently to it in the way I look at things. Biases will prevail in the way I interpret, communicate, and decide on something. For instance, I can be partially blind to perspectives which are not in my cultural norms and hence overlook or misinterpret them. Understanding such biases goes
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Introduction Deutsche Brauerei (DB) is a German company owned by 16 Schweitzer family members. It was founded in 1737, and has been in the family for 12 generations. DB manufactures two types of beer; light and dark. Both are well known and have won quality awards. The case centers around the financing of the company’s expansion into the Ukrainian market (and possibly further into Eastern Europe) and its impact on financial planning, future dividends and employee compensation. Background
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The Reconstruction Period And it’s Impact Following the Civil War History 121: American History to 1877 10 December 2011 The Reconstruction era was the attempt to restore the Union after the Civil War or The War for Southern Independence. Its perception was viewed differently by Southerners, Northerners, and newly freed former slaves. After the Union won the war in 1865, their job was to begin the reconstruction of the Unites States. This era started at the end of the Civil War in
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Emiliano Zapata and Francisco “Pancho” Villa shared many things in their short lives, but more than anything they were men who saw and experienced the injustices in their homeland and gave their lives to change their country. Both men were revolutionaries, not politicians; in fact they both felt better leading men and women in battle than in fighting political battles. Both were born into small farming communities, whose inhabitants were mostly landless serfs working the lands of large haciendas
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Economy of India The economy of India is the tenth largest in the world by nominal GDP and the third largest by purchasing power parity (PPP).[1] The country is one of the G-20 major economies and a member of BRICS. On a per capita income basis, India ranked 140th by nominal GDP and 129th by GDP (PPP) in 2011, according to the IMF.[13] The independence-era Indian economy (from 1947 to 1991) was based on a mixed economy combining the worst features of capitalism and socialism, resulting in an inward-looking
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