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produces. This creates a gap where they North is always expanding its economy and the Southern Hemisphere is currently staying in the same place. This system favors the countries that have the ability to produce those raw products, thus selling them back to the Southern hemisphere. The majority of the Southern Hemisphere’s countries are formerly European colonies that left them to rebuild. The North-South problem is becoming a more modern problem due to…

The article “Andreas Gursky and the Contemporary Sublime” by Alix Ohlin, does a nice job illustration the work and purpose of Andreas Gursky’s artwork. His ability to display the human experience in our modern age globalized world is something that should be admired. One of Andreas Gursky’s creativity is his ability to display his artwork in a micro-macro perspective to give the viewer a different feel for the image. “This tension between micro and macro, one of the operating principles of his…

Have you ever thought about the past? Well these 5 things are connected. Dalton Rapattoni, was born in Miley Cyrus’ hometown, which is close to Georgetown, Illinois. Miley Cyrus could know the History of Music and the History of makeup, because she sings and wears makeup. Dalton Rapattoni and Miley Cyrus are both singers. Georgetown is a city in Illinois (Jones). Illinois is the state west of Indiana (Jones). Georgetown was known for all timber, which attracted settlement (Jones).…

wherein the richer and developed nations benefit the most as they are instrumental in forming all the policies and the international bodies, while those countries that are underdeveloped/developing are struggling to benefit from these efforts which were designed to help them. The benefits of Globalization need to be uniformly extended to all countries and the process that should be implemented is one that needs to be…

agreement plan from another organization in a given community. Frequently these organizations will share a boundary with the said country or nation. A case of this will be, if a similar organization stated above chose to get some of its object from Mexico or Canada. This will be referred to as nearshore outsourcing considering the fact that America connects to both countries by means of borders. Just as stated above, that is only an instance and no longer straightforwardly identified with this…

When Colden “Cole” Rainey Swindell was young, he never dreamed of being a famous country artist. He wanted to play sports. As he grew older, he attended Georgia Southern University. He majored in marketing. At a party one night, someone was playing a guitar and Cole decided to sing. His friend said, “You are very good at singing.” He took it seriously and he decided to start his music career by selling merchandise for his friend Luke Bryan. He was influenced by Bryan and moved to…

Today the definition of the word consumption is commonly known as eating, drinking or ingesting something. But the definition that is not too commonly know is the using up of resources. This is due to the lack of education on the consumption of our natural resources. In Thomas L. Friedman’s “Our Carbon Copies (or, Too Many Americans)” and the written debate between Robert W. Kates and J. Anthony Cassils in “Is Limiting Consumption Rather Than Limiting population The Key To Sustainability”, they…

Two things country music star Hank Williams, Sr. did right was to become a legend and to have a famous song named Hank Williams, Jr. One thing he did terribly wrong was to drink to excess and die very young. The debut of Hank Williams, Sr. at the Grand Ole Opry was a great triumph. The debut remains the most famous in the history of live country music performance program broadcast on WSN Nashville weekly since 1925. When Williams grabbed the microphone on June 11, 1949 on the Grand Ole Opry…

People are agents of change and it is this change that is viewed as progress which can be in the form of economic growth, cultural pluralism, or sustainable development for example. Schweder values progress in the form of cultural pluralism which looks at how humanity views progress and that growth should not be the way progress is defined. “Pluralism does not imply the rejection of the ideas of progress and decline, [instead] progress means having more and more of something that is ‘desirable’…

In the article, “Some Question the Social Cost of Mexican Mall Boom” by Alex Schmidt, Schmidt discusses the social issues that malls in Mexico face and how these issues affect the mall business. The author mentions the new development of Oasis mall in Mexico City and how it is such a huge attraction. He states that a new mall like Oasis shows signs of good economic health and growth in commerce. In 2015 alone, there were 16 malls built in the Mexico City area. Although these new developments are…