European Economic Area

The system as a whole contributes to a steady economic growth and shows its efficiency through a low unemployment level (only 4.8%) for a population of 5.3 million people. 3.2. Sweden Environmental issues are present everywhere nowadays, including in Sweden, despite its low density population. These concernshave a strong international focus due to Sweden’s international interdependencies prompted by its entry into the European Union and other Nordic cooperative initiatives. One of the…

Kenneth Pomeranz goes into excruciating detail of the economic separation of the Western and Eastern world in his book, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. While the book is intended to cover the entire Western and Eastern world, Pomeranz primarily focuses on the similarities of England and China, yet England was able to make a “great divergence” economically. Nevertheless, Europe and Asia seem to have economically separated due to a surplus of…

American-made athletic shoes annually (Platzer, 2016, p. 2). Germany Germany is a democratic republic country operating under the Grundgesetz. It is the member of the G8, the G20, NATO, OECD and European Union, being one of the major political and economic leaders in the world (Slideshare, 2012, p. 4). 2. Economic Factors Country Analysis…

Germany is Europe's largest economy and fourth place in the gross domestic product and the fifth GDP (purchasing power parity) in the world. Germany is one of the founders of the European Union and the euro area. [1] The economic position of this country in the world after the industrial revolution and its formation simultaneously has been named as a leading and innovative country as well as an…

Africa’s culture has impacted the country today through colonialism and decolonization, militarization, and economics. In Sub Saharan Africa colonialism is somewhat responsible for what responsible for the difficulties there are today. In the 19th century, many european powers drew political boundaries dividing up the african counties. In the division large sums of land were taken over by europeans. In this process most africans became laborers and migrant workers. This colonial period ended…

At a glance, hypnosis is a fun way to see your friends do ridiculous things that they’d never do in their right mind. But there’s much more to hypnosis than making chicken noises and dancing in front of a crowd of people. By definition, hypnosis “is a trance-like state in which you have heightened focus and concentration” (Mayo). Hypnosis has been proven to be helpful in coping with anxiety or pain that one is experiencing. In this process called hypnotherapy, also known as medical hypnosis, a…

three very important facts relating to Chicago that Cronon emphasizes; the combination of economic and environmental history, the symbiotic relationship between city and country, and the difference between “first” and “second” nature. I will begin by discussing the combination of economic and environmental history, and how these three commodities played a vital role in that combination. The combination of economic and environmental history is very closely related to the idea of the symbiotic…

established urban areas at specific topographical locales where ecological conditions (water and atmosphere) were ideal and where financial variables would guarantee a measure of success. Other human needs political, religious, instructive, and financial assumed a parts in finding urban communities also. Spatial area of urban areas likewise comes about because of their distinctive sorts intersection focuses, break-of-mass focuses and enhancement, legislative, or religious substances. Mechanical…

a huge expansion in US cities, and a high demand for single-family houses while the supply was low. Urban cities expanded rapidly in the US to cover the demand on housing. Transportation was another helpful reason for people to live outside urban areas. A lot of agriculture lands and forests turned to be residential suburbans. Some people name this act as the “Housing Boom.” (Bhatta 2010, P.7). All these factors caused what is named “Urban Sprawl” which caused a negative effect to the natural…

Reflection 1: Lost in the City Artistic representations of life allow for a visceral expression of concepts that are commonly known. Anonymity is a feeling that most urban dwellers experience. This can be seen on any form of public transit where hundreds of people will be crammed into a train and yet there will be silence. As Tonkiss notes, this requires a sort of "special urban trick" that urban dwellers perform to keep their distance socially despite being in close physical proximity (2003,…