screen and virtual keyboards were new features that pushed companies to match their smartphones with iPhone to meet global consumerism. With Apple’s aggressive marketing through their communicative channels, it caused a cultural diversity in shaping smartphones in the 21st century. Statistics from Statistica has shown that in 2014, there are 1.57billion smartphone users in the world. Statisca forecasted to have a growing increase of smartphone users worldwide and by 2020, there will be an…
business. In 1995, Canada placed a brand-new tax on all magazine revenue regarded as split-run. To avoid this the publication needed to have eighty percent Canadian content. The U.S. charged this action as a discriminatory practice and launched a World Trade Organization trade dispute (Globalization101,…
Global warming is literally a hot topic for today. According to the numerous researches, average global temperature has increased by more than 0.7 °C throughout the last century. This rise do not seems to be significantly high. However, millions of people around the world as well as the representatives of wild nature suffer from the negative impact of this abnormal tendency. Generally, global warming is presented by the high amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The primary reasons for…
Climate Study IEGD 210 Surya Raut Dr. Helene Krauthammer Climate Change Various activities can cause climate change in the world. When climate change occurs; temperatures can increase a dramatically. When the temperature rises, many different variations can happen on the Earth. For instance, it can result in more floods, storms, droughts, or intense rain, landslides as well as more severe and persistent heat waves. Oceans and glaciers have…
The Western world is a term referring to different nations depending on the context the understanding of the Western world is placed under. There is no inherently agreed upon definition about what Western nations all have in common. This is because the influence of Westernization can be found in an array of societies all around the global world, it would be evidently impossible to analyze what they all share in common with one…
With an ever strengthening global economy, here in California, we’re not strangers to the life of privileged consumption. Most of us have grown so accustomed to this reality that we frivolously go about our day to day lives without a question as to where the products that we’re purchasing are actually coming from. One example of this, is something as simple as the chocolate that is pumped into our extravagant Starbucks mocha. This is where things becomes critically important, because the vast…
outbreaks in Sudan. Since then there have been an additional ten outbreaks of the virus worldwide. As of 2014, The West African Ebola outbreak was the largest and deadliest recorded in history, killing over 11,000 people. The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) is responsible for the global urgent call response. The troubling question is, at what extent will GHSA respond to aid a disease epidemic? Many lives could have been saved in West Africa if there was an urgent response to the virus…
What are the risks of climate change and global warming? Global Warming refers to a rise in the average temperature of the air on Earth. Whether the air near the Earth's surface and the oceans. Cause of global warming because of greenhouse gases increased by human activities. Whether burning coal and fuel. Including the chemical ingredients of greenhouse gases that humans use. And many more as a result, these greenhouse gases rise to unite the Earth's atmosphere. The sun's radiation…
Three years ago I co-founded a non-profit organization, “One Jersey. One Goal.” (www.onejerseyonegoal.com), with my younger sister. I believe this type of initiative makes me an ideal candidate for the UC system. I am a go getter. I saw a problem (soccer jerseys being thrown away year after year), came up with a solution (donate them to underserved kids worldwide), and implemented my plan (started my own non profit foundation). Networking has been my steepest learning curve. Discovering early…