Human Development Index

The Gallup World Poll, created in 2005, tracks the world’s most important issues by conducting studies worldwide that include 99% of the adult population. Some of the issues, for example, include “food access, employment, leadership performance, and well-being”(Gallup). The survey used consists of 100 questions, which are mostly global-based, but some “region-specific” questions. The same questions are asked for every country so statisticians can compare the data in each country every year.…

Katwe, which is in Kampala Uganda, where the movie Queen of Katwe takes place, is one of the most crime ridden places in Uganda. This is one surprising fact in an area where there is little information to go by. In the film, Queen of Katwe, director Mira Nair kept some events of Phiona Mutesi’s life the same but changed some details because she wanted to add excitement and story depth. In the film Queen of Katwe, there are many similarities and differences between the movie and the real Phiona…

I have been learning about the effects that humans have on the environment since elementary school. We were taught "reduce, reuse, recycle", and to turn off the sink while brushing our teeth. It has never occurred to me until reading these past week 's readings that humans were having such an effect on the earth that it warranted a whole new era: the Anthropocene. John McNeil was an author in both of this week 's readings, and I felt his style to be an practical one when communicating with his…

and our improper use of them are a cause of the problems we are having in the environment both directly and indirectly. All of these products like the iPod that Jason throws away can create toxic waste harmful to both nature and humans. They are also making us, as humans, increasingly lazy. These days, there are devices for younger people that prevent them from having to walk even though they are more than able. The more we rely on technology, the lazier we…

Primitive accumulation is the development of capitalist products by a means of precapitalist modes of production. Primitive accumulation of capital was the driving force behind European wealth and power. These precapitalist modes of production, consisted of stealing and slavery, which allowed countries to develop a large quantity of capital production. This accumulation of wealth, allowed some countries to flourish and develop relations between capital and labour. Uruguayan journalist, Eduardo…

Forests and Environmental Values Forestry is a profession related to resource management that is primarily about the art and science of creating, maintaining, using, and protecting the forest and its resources. The usefulness of the forest is vast, and its value in the world’s societies can be quite large. The people of the world value forests for their economic value primarily, for the forest provides important resources such as timber, medicines, and ecotourism revenue. This economic benefit…

showed about “A recent issue of the Courier, the magazine of ACP-EU development, looks in some detail at intellectual property and especially at its contrasted implications for developed and developing countries. There is an underlying recognition that Intellectual Property benefits the industrially developed world more than lesser developed countries (LDCs). LDCs generally feel that the IP Rights cannot stimulate invention where the human and material capacity is lacking, and that the increased…

African Culture: From Corruption to Change According to Transparency International, within the continent of Africa, the majority of countries (vast majority) slant towards the bottom of the scale of corruption, with Somalia and South Sudan having the lowest ratings of all the countries, yet other countries are thriving such as Batswana and Namibia. (Transparency International, 2014) Among the issues facing many of these countries is the issues of abject poverty, poor government infrastructure,…

Introduction When Dr. Gerald Lauria walked into a town hospital in Congo in 2005, he was stunned. Coming from working in a large hospital in the United States consisting of many doctors per specialty, he was shocked to find this hospital run by just one physician. Dr. Lauria described the hospital as “sparse” and “primitive”, ridden with x-ray machines outdated by at least twenty years and empty medicine cabinets. Dr. Lauria’s experience is not an outlier. The dysfunctional and unsophisticated…

of people we have to think about. Martha Nussbaum(2011) calls such capabilities as Capability Approach to Human Development. Amartya Sen was the first who pioneered this wheel chaired example and now Nussbaum has applied this approach to issue of justice for poor, disabled and animals(Lamey,2001).According to Nussbaum(2011), Capability approach is a set of human entitlements, similar to human rights, as a minimum of what justice requires for all(p 4).The following table gives a clear…