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system of global governance and its relationship with other global actors. Sea Shepherd’s role is to investigate, document and take action when necessary to expose and confront illegal activities at sea. They worked with the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to come to a resolution with support from the United States and Australia in 2014. This, and Australia taking Japan to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) lead to Japan losing their whaling permits. Discuss the extent and…

Introduction The rise of the internet has led to the creation of an industry based solely in gathering and selling mass amounts of user data. The companies who work in this industry are called data brokers. This term can be used to describe companies that only work in this business, such as Epsilon or Acxiom, but it can also be used to describe other companies that collect data like Facebook and Google. They collect and distribute information on consumers, and lately a lot of that collecting…

native to North America (McQuail & Siune, 1998). Other countries liberal democracies such as the United Kingdom have been threatened by a small number of conglomerates. In the UK, 80% of the media is held in the hands of just six companies (Johnston Press, Garnett UK, Tindle News, Local World, TMR, Archant, and KM group) (Sweney, 2016) . Rupert Murdoch, global media mogul, and owner of 21st Century Fox seeks to take control of Sky, the biggest broadcaster in the UK. This would give Murdoch a…

Lately there has been a lot of media coverage about organizations behaving badly, and this news may be new to some but it is old news to individuals that are involved in the wrong doing or the individuals that are hurt by the organization’s bad behaviors. According to usatoday (2014) there are numerous organizations that can be placed on Santa’s naughty list, such as General Motor and banking giants Credit Suisse. Both of these organizations have been accused of poor judgements towards their…

We The People Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers wrote this document that unified the thirteen colonies. It stated, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” This quote proves that for the country to be successful, all men have to be treated the same way so that we are unified. Jim Crow Laws…

Taiji with an intervention of high-technology equipment to drive the dolphins towards the coast. The only established and well-recognised international organisation responsible for the protection and welfare of cetaceans is the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Even though IWC aims to protect a variety of cetaceans, it fails to protect small cetaceans such as dolphins…

Everyone in this room uses the internet, probably daily, but many of you may not realise a threat which could harm the way our internet works, net neutrality intends to protect us consumers from the threats. Net Neutrality is often mistaken to be related to censorship, or other seemingly unethical act, that's just a small part, the idea of Net Neutrality is, in a nutshell, that all data carried over the internet should be treated equally. This means that any organisation, government or corporate…

wipe out the whole whale species. “Whaling is still carried out by Japan, Norway and Iceland, who kill 2000 whales between them each year and also continue to trade in whale products. It has to stop!” (BBC Whale Hunt) The International Whaling Commission, IWC, has already put a ban on catching these poor harmless whales, but that isn’t enough or at least hasn’t been, since whales continue to be decimated more and more. Two great solutions to the whaling problem would be to put a ban on the…

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A couple weeks after the accident President Carter put together a commission of 12 members called the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. They concluded the workers were not at fault because they were following their training. The reason this accident played out was the improper training of the power plant workers, specifically, their emergency procedures. The commission formed the INPO, which promotes the safe and reliable operation of nuclear power plants…