Around the World

Soccer is played around the world in many different countries and is known as “futbol” outside the United States. The oldest soccer club in the world is Sheffield, which is in South Yorkshire, England. This soccer club was created in 1857, 6 years before soccer rules were even created. When the rules were finally established in 1863, there were 11 teams. (“9 Oldest Soccer Clubs in the World”.) Soccer is the most played sport around the world and is watched and played by at least 1.3 billion…

The main idea of this article was that the world population is increasing and we will need to approximately double the amount of crops we produce globally by 2050 in order to feed everyone adequately. This issue has been causing much debate and has pretty much split people into two groups, those who believe we need to implement more conventional large-scale agricultural practices and the opposition who believe we should focus on more local, smaller-scale organic agricultural practices. The…

hurricane was coming and you didn't know where to go or what to do? Hurricanes are tropical storms which cause a lot of damage around the world. Hurricanes are very strong, very destructive and kill many people each year. II. First of all, there are many facts to understand about hurricanes. A) Hurricanes develop in areas of unsettled air. when hurricane winds begin spinning around a central pocket of low pressure. The hurricanes eye Develops when the wind spins rapidly. hurricane winds can…

In the US, the health care system is under much debate, at one extreme, there are people stating that the US has the best system in the world, while at the other, there are people that state it is inefficient and excessively costly. The US spends almost double the amount of money on health care when compared to its superpower counterparts such has Great Britain, Japan, Germany, and other up and rising countries. The health care system of these countries are observed and data is collected to see…

In Sick Around the World, T.R Reid partnered up with FRONTLINE to do a documentary on health care systems in various different countries. The countries whose healthcare policies were viewed are the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, and Taiwan. This documentary was done to show what these countries are doing that’s causing them to have success in their healthcare systems and what the United States can do to become more successful with its healthcare system. Each of these countries took…

After watching Frontline’s documentary, Sick Around the World, I was left stunned by the differences of health care systems in five capitalist, democratic countries much like the United States of America. I am not familiar with health care systems in other parts of the world, nor am I a US citizen therefore learning about the system here was also new information. I found that the countries were great examples of a fair system in their own way. For example, Germany’s tax equity where the wealthy…

Human trafficking has been around for a long time all over the world. Human trafficking is when someone is controlled by manipulation, violence and threats ("Modern Slavery.") and is forced to do any type of work they are told to do. Trafficking can be done by one or a large group of people. But police can 't consider human trafficking unless it 's has an Action, Mean, or Purpose also know as the AMP model. The AMP model is a system to see if a case can be considered human trafficking. An…

the world. The spread of culture is making countries across the world multicultural countries through the migration of people with same culture settling in different countries in massive quantities. Culture is the root to knowledge, experience, and it puts the meanings in the world for ideas and issues that educated today. Culture is an important part of education and culture is a way to express people’s beliefs, value, and ideas in order to show the world that those people exist in the world…

Punk Around the World – Maria Luiza Perez Chavez Sometimes over analyzing something is incorrect, or not quite right, in Daft Punks "around the world" music video I found my self at a loss as to what to analyze. I was trying to think critically like what do the colors mean? What are they meaning to say? Is there a pattern that I should be following? Or a hidden meaning? Then I watched it for fun and I was thinking what if it is just a clear and to the point video of going around the world. The…

All around the world, children are put into child labor where there lives are put in danger. Children in child labor live in dangerous conditions, even though they produce products that we use daily. These children work for billion dollar companies like Hershey and Nike, but the children are treated horribly. People around the world agree that this is wrong and that it has to stop, but not much change has been made. In child labor, children are deprived of a life with school and in replace they…