Containment Lite

I think this article is telling us how China's neighboring countries don't like America at all.  They don't want China to have any kind of relations with us because they don't like our ways ors customs.  But we need to have good relations with China because we owe them a lot of money.  At anytime they could just say we want our money and we wouldn't have it and we would have a very bad situation on our part.
  
Containment Lite, the title, is saying that China is contained with american customs and ways and although they have the upper hand over us, they could turn at any moment. We are trying to contain them and make sure that doesn't happen.  We have to stay friends with India and China to make sure they will continue to work with the U.S. and our government.  

Hype

This article is about the extremely advanced technology in China and India.  It said that started providing 3G even at the very top of Mount Everest.  People believe that this is just finishing up a 20 year process to release out all of this technology.  That this is just the beginning and we "haven't seen anything yet."


In most Indian neighborhoods they have a small family owned shops that sells drinks, cigarettes, candy and a few groceries.   Some people are thinking that they could turn this into a virtual bank.  In order to do this, they created a software program so that a worker somewhere else could use his cellphone, and prove his identity, then he could open a bank account.  It would be registered on his cellphone texting. The family owned shops would now also be a local banker.  This now has 180,000 users.  This system is being run out of a tiny garage with a few workers, some laptops, and the Internet.  If this is just the beginning what is to come?


Works Cited:
- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/opinion/03friedman.html?_r=2&src=me&ref=homepage

Outsourcing

Outsourcing:  Is contracting with another company or person to do a particular function. Almost every organization outsources in some way. Usually the function being outsourced is considered non-core to the business. 


Some businesses: 

•  Booz & Company
•  Cognizant 
•  Rohm & Haas
•  InfoUSA
•  Motorola
•  Ethan Allen 
•  Dun & Bradstreet 
• PepsiCo 
• Citigroup
•  Standard & Poor's
• Hartford Financial Group
• United Airlines

• USAirways
•  McKinsey & Co. 
• Gupta Corporation
•  Computer Associates 
• EMI International
• Signature Brands
• Arthur Andersen

• ArcelorMittal
•  Vodafone

Works Cited: 

- http://www.sourcingmag.com/content/what_is_outsourcing.asp

- http://www.sajaforum.org/businesschiefs.html

Nova- 9 Tabs

1)  This map shows you how densely populated some areas in the world are.  Its clear that the more densely populated ones are in China, India, Indonesia, and Central Europe.  Are the more populated areas developed or developing countries? Why?

2)  This map shows the rate at which each country's population is growing and when it will double.   Why do you think some countries population will double before others?

3) This map shows the amounts of people living in cities and urbanized areas.  It says that this amount of people is growing considerably, due to the demand for fresh water and sewage.  Why do you think it is expected to increase about 27% in the next 20 years?

4) This map shows which countries receive what amounts of fresh water per year.  This is soon to be the number one global concern of the 21st century.  Why will it take centuries for these developing countries to get proper water irrigation?

5) This map shows the amount of carbon polluting our air.  Since people are starting to live in cities and urban areas, how will the carbon pollution will cause more and more of a threat? How can  we prevent some of the bad consequences of carbon poising?

6) This map shows the amount of heat in different areas in the country.  Since they say the surface temperature will increase 11 degrees in the next hundred years, do you think our future generation should be concerned about global warming? Since carbon pollution plays a big part in this?

7) This map shows the forests that are in the countries.  It tells us that a lot of our forests were lost over the past 30 years.  In the past 30 years, a lot of countries have had more cities and towns.  That is a major way are destroying our forests.  Again since people are urbanizing, how could these pose as a major threat to our forests and plants in the world?

8) This map shows the land and how it is being used.  There is still a lot of land used for farming and other agricultural uses.  How could overuse of the land destroy any further uses for it?

9)  This map shows the temperatures in bodies of water all over the world.  This varies greatly.  It also shows us the bleaching of coral reefs.  If we continue pollution at this rate we could destroy coral reefs and that is where 25% of ocean life lives.  This could put a lot of species endangered.  How could stricter/more policies on fishing affect the wildlife and the fishers who make a living off of it?

Battle of the Billionaires (Assignment 1)

1) This article is saying that China and India are the top two countries with the most people.  As of now, China and India contain nearly two out of every five people in the world and is the same as the world population in 1950.  I think we should care how many people are in India and China because the children are going to grow up and have to support themselves and their families.  To do this, most of them are going to have leave their home country and go to another to work and get education to support their families.  Most of them would probably come to the U.S for better opportunities.  This could prevent people that live in the U.S jobs that they need too.  Since there are so many children now, massive amounts could come to the U.S and it could become a major problem. 


2) I think it is wrong to force families to have small families.  Although the government is just looking out for the future and trying to do the best thing too prevent too many people, it is just not right.  It is the family's decision on the amount of children they want.  It may not be what the government wants, but each person feels differently.  The women should have control of their body and be able to have the amount of children that she wants.    

Israel vs. Palestinian

        The article I chose was clearly pro- Palestinian.  I chose this because you don’t often see the Palestinian view on the oppression they are suffering and why.  And if they do it is doesn’t always tell the whole story.  This article is from the prospective of a journalist that was held in captivity and about what she experiences.  While she was being questioned by the Israeli officials she asked her interrogator if he believed he was above International Law and he replied “Of course; we are the Law.”    He also showed her pictures of people he had beaten, and was bragging of how he was so violent and was glad his son was following in his footsteps.  He was telling her how he loved doing anything that involved violence.  The journalist had also worked with prisoner rights organizations and listened to all the stories of the unthinkable treatment of Palestinian prisoners their families by the Israeli government. She also tells of how Israel is incapable of trying their soldiers and that it is obvious they will never try the officials.  She says that if the UK gives in to Israeli pressure and amends the law that tries Israeli officials that enforce these horrifying attacks, no one would be safe.  It is happening already.  

Cited Source:
Bowyer,  Renee. 2010, October 11.  Exclusive eye-witness account: Universal Jurisdiction on trial.  Middle East Monitor.  Retreived From: http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/articles/middle-east/1613-exclusive-eye-witness-account-universal-jurisdiction-on-trial

Sunni or Shiite?

I think it is very important to know the difference between the Sunni and Shiite.  It’s a shame many high officials don’t know the difference.  If they are supposed to be protecting us from Al Qaeda and protecting others from them, they should at least know a little about the religion that they are all based on.  Knowing your enemy is the key to getting ahead.  You should know that they are different in some of their basic and core beliefs.  Some of it goes back to who they follow and what they believe in.  That one is a little bit more extreme that the other.  The more extreme one is the Sunni.  That is what the Al Qaeda bases their practices on. 

That would be like someone that is a British official righting against Northern Ireland. Should they know the difference between Catholic and Protestant?  That is the same question as I said above.  I think they should, for the same reasons.  You should know you enemy well.  Know everything about them and then you might be better prepared than if you hadn’t.  I think too many people that are in charge and have responsibilities dealing with the Al Qaeda and other groups like that should at least have an understanding about what the types of religions and beliefs they are dealing with.  This will probably help them in the long run.  And maybe even  help them advance in their knowledge of the enemy. 

Sources:

• Stein, Jeff. "Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite? " The New York Times.  17 Oct. 2006. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/opinion/17stein.html.  4 Oct. 2010. 

9-11 effects

9-11 had a big impact on American airline policies, economy, and most importantly American citizens.  I think that before 9-11 airlines were not very strict about what you could bring on airplanes, who can get on airplanes, and what you could do on airplanes.  No one had ever thought of using the airplane itself as a weapon of destruction let alone by terrorists, intended to threaten and kill many in the United States.  When 9-11 occurred the airlines were already in a bad state because of the recession and this certainly did not help them.  In fact some airlines had to declare bankruptcy because no one was buying tickets or flying because they were scared it might happen again.  Even the agriculture and food companies were struggling alot.  This was because of the stop of trading and delayed shipments due to the fact that no planes were flying and that is the main way for shipping products to other regions of the world.  All of the businesses around the world trade centers were destroyed, and if not went out of business.  Wall Street was affected by tragedy too.  The stock market went down severely and put more people with no money and the economy went down. 

After 9-11, security heightened extremely.  There are so many restrictions and policies about flying and airlines.  There is a huge list of things you can’t bring on an airplane.  Some things on the list you would be surprised at but others just seem logical.  At airports before 9-11 there were hardly any lines or crowds at all. You could show up right before your flight and have plenty of time to get on.   Nodaway’s they have extremely long lines for security, baggage, tickets, etc.  The use of flying for leisure went down.  I think that people fly more for business and only when they have to.  It may be because people are still afraid of what happened, and that it could possibly happen again.  It may also be that they hate the crowds and long waiting.  There was a study done that showed that about 41 million trips over the past 12 months at a cost of more than $26 billion to the U.S. economy were lost because of people that avoided flying because of the amount of frustration it brings to them.  Most people seem to think that this issue will not get better.  A lot of businesses are starting to become more high-tech.  Instead of having business men and business women from all around the country or world constantly flying for just brief meetings, they are using the internet.  Businesses realized that, yes, they could spend lots of extra time and money on flying people around they could just have webcam conferences.  Although it saved money for the businesses it does not help the airline companies.  As if the airlines weren’t already in a bad economic condition this new technology is not helping the current situation. 

When the statistics began to show that people were slowly beginning to fly more often another situation occurred which made the numbers of people flying plummet again.  That was when the “shoe-bomber” incident occurred.  A man boarded a flight in about 2003.  He was armed with explosive powder in his shoes.  He was going to attempt to take over the plane or explode it, but his plan didn’t work.  When someone saw that he was lighting something up they realized something was happening and took him down before it got worse.  The bomber only managed to harm himself but it certainly harmed our economy again.  People were just staring to fly and feel safe again, and they figured with all the new policies and regulations etc. that nothing could really happen again, especially so soon. 

People from Mexico and Canada account for about 56% of American airline travelers. It was 18.9 million Canadians and 13.7 million Mexicans.  If the U.S government is looking to narrow security searches they should more closely examine the other 44% from the possible countries where terrorists would arise from.  This could eliminate a lot of extra time spent on security or other things related to that.  They had a list of people that cannot even buy a ticket from an American airline because they are from a certain country.  Some may think that this is prejudiced and not fair.  Others would argue that it’s just safer to eliminate all possible terrorist countries and it would help in making the people feel safer again. 

Citations:

1.      “Travel Facts and Statistics”. U.S Travel Association.  2010. Web. 15 Sept.

2010. http://www.ustravel.org/news/press-kit/travel-facts-and-statistics .

2.      Cornwell, Derekh and  Roberts, Bryan. “The 9/11 Terrorist Attack and Overseas Travel to the United States: Initial Impacts and Longer-Run Recovery”. Working Paper. March, 2010. Web. 15 Sept. 2010. http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ois_ni_911_wp.pdf

3.      Makinen, Gail. “Report for Congress”. CRS Web.September 27, 2002. Web. 15 Sept. 2010. <http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL31617.pdf>  

Mozambique

I see Globalization in this story,  since Mozambique depends on Russia for their bread, when Russia's prices go up the cost for the bread must go up and it affects all the people of Mozambique. 

Population:    21,669,278

Life Expectancy:   41.18 years

TFR:   5.13 children born/woman (2010 est.)

Religion:   Catholic 23.8%, Muslim 17.8%, Zionist Christian 17.5%, other 17.8%, none 23.1% (1997 census)

Literacy:   47.8%

Independence:  25 June 1975 (from Portugal)

Labor Force by Occupation:   agriculture: 81%, industry: 6%, services: 13% (1997 est.)

Population below poverty line:  70% (2001 est.)

% of land that is arable:  5.43%

5 Country Analysis's

Plate- China

• Population- 1,338,612,968 (July 2010 est.)
• Labor force by Occupation- agriculture: 39.5%, industry: 27.2%, services: 33.2% (2008 est.)
• Unemployment-   4.3% (September 2009 est.)
• % below poverty line-  .8% (2007)

Calculator- Malaysia

• Population-  25,715,819 (July 2010 est.)
• Labor force by Occupation- agriculture: 13%, industry: 36%, services: 51% (2005 est.)

• Unemployment-  3.7% (2009 est.)

• % below poverty line-   5.1% (2002 est.)

Coffee- Columbia

• Population-  43,677,372 (July 2010 est.)
• Labor force by Occupation- agriculture: 18%, industry: 18.9%, services: 63.1% (2009 est.)
• Unemployment- 12% (2009 est.)
• % below poverty line-  46.8% (2008)

 

Vase- Thailand

• Population- 65,998,436
• Labor force by Occupation- agriculture: 42.4%, industry: 19.7%, services: 37.9% (2008 est.)
• Unemployment-  1.5% (2009 est.)
• % below poverty line-   9.6% (2006 est.)

Laptop- Japan

• Population-  127,078,679 (July 2010 est.)
• Labor force by Occupation- agriculture: 4%, industry: 28%, services: 68% (2009 est.)
• Unemployment-  5.1% (2009 est.)
• % below poverty line-   NA%