Thesis -Finally, the United States appears ready to be a leader rather than a sullen nonparticipant when it comes to global climate policies.
This thesis tends to convey the message that US is now ready to take a leading role in global warming. Currently, it is among one of the two nations who have not signed the Kyoto protocol.
A new leadership at hand will take this initiative.
This article does show the US is taking a step forward to lead the world. The thesis does a fine job. The writer aims the thesis to be broad and as he addresses the issue he narrows it down shrinking the outlook of the readers.
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Wal-Mart
Page 668, question 1.
We live in a free market economy. A capitalist market which encourages people to take risk in hopes of profits. Incentive is the motivating force which makes our economy outperforms the rest of the world, but what if this tendency to make a profit is taken away? Our standard of Living is decreased? The rich becomes richer, while the poor get poorer. Wal-Mart the retail giant is helping to propagate this ideology in order to maximize its profits.
Wal-Mart is largest retail store in the World and also one the biggest threat to the American Economy, Wal-Mart is exporting jobs to other countries to decreased the production cost, causes the local companies out of business, decrease employment, increases government welfare spending, and reduces standard of living by decreasing wages of its worker. Overall, Wal-Mart is one of many causes for poverty in this country.
Wal-Mart is a retail store that is aiming for customers, whose standard of living is well below normal. Less than 6% of people who shop at Wal-Mart have income higher than $100,000, and more than 23% of customers have income of less than $25,000, and around 20% of Wal-Mart’s customers don’t even have bank account. Wal-Mart is employing similar tactics as those used by Henry Ford in order to grow. Wal-Mart pays its employs minimum wages; therefore reducing its employs standard of living and making its employs shop at Wal-Mart. Most of the customers that shop at Wal-Mart are poor; therefore most of them depend on government welfare, as Wal-Mart is causing poverty by decreasing jobs and wages it is also increasing the cost of welfare for the American government. This leads to more taxes of American citizen. A congressional Study data shows that for every 200 people that Wal-Mart employs, the American taxpayers pay $400,000 dollars. Wal-Mart burdens public health care programs. Most jobs at Wal-Mart have little or no health benefits. Therefore, Wal-Mart encourages its workers to seek public assistance for their health care causing the taxpayers and the government to pay for Wal-Mart employs.
Wal-Mart has destroyed reliable jobs by exporting jobs to foreign countries for lower production cost and created fewer jobs with lower pay. It has also caused local business to close, decreased standard of living and forcing people to live in ghettos. No doubt that Wal-Mart’s prices are very low and it can help consumers, but the cost of low prices is very high.
We live in a free market economy. A capitalist market which encourages people to take risk in hopes of profits. Incentive is the motivating force which makes our economy outperforms the rest of the world, but what if this tendency to make a profit is taken away? Our standard of Living is decreased? The rich becomes richer, while the poor get poorer. Wal-Mart the retail giant is helping to propagate this ideology in order to maximize its profits.
Wal-Mart is largest retail store in the World and also one the biggest threat to the American Economy, Wal-Mart is exporting jobs to other countries to decreased the production cost, causes the local companies out of business, decrease employment, increases government welfare spending, and reduces standard of living by decreasing wages of its worker. Overall, Wal-Mart is one of many causes for poverty in this country.
Wal-Mart is a retail store that is aiming for customers, whose standard of living is well below normal. Less than 6% of people who shop at Wal-Mart have income higher than $100,000, and more than 23% of customers have income of less than $25,000, and around 20% of Wal-Mart’s customers don’t even have bank account. Wal-Mart is employing similar tactics as those used by Henry Ford in order to grow. Wal-Mart pays its employs minimum wages; therefore reducing its employs standard of living and making its employs shop at Wal-Mart. Most of the customers that shop at Wal-Mart are poor; therefore most of them depend on government welfare, as Wal-Mart is causing poverty by decreasing jobs and wages it is also increasing the cost of welfare for the American government. This leads to more taxes of American citizen. A congressional Study data shows that for every 200 people that Wal-Mart employs, the American taxpayers pay $400,000 dollars. Wal-Mart burdens public health care programs. Most jobs at Wal-Mart have little or no health benefits. Therefore, Wal-Mart encourages its workers to seek public assistance for their health care causing the taxpayers and the government to pay for Wal-Mart employs.
Wal-Mart has destroyed reliable jobs by exporting jobs to foreign countries for lower production cost and created fewer jobs with lower pay. It has also caused local business to close, decreased standard of living and forcing people to live in ghettos. No doubt that Wal-Mart’s prices are very low and it can help consumers, but the cost of low prices is very high.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Should the draft be reinstated?
Everyone has the right of “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”-Declaration of Independence. But since, when has the government been able to overwrite this natural human rights, and since when is the government able to sanction us to slavery. Yes slavery; to put it mildly - “The Draft”. The draft system is not new to United States, it has been around for a while beginning with the American Revolutionary war. The draft system reached its pinnacle during the civil war, the world wars, and followed Vietnam War, Vietnam war made it this system unpopular. The draft system has been around long enough for us to understand the nuts and bolts of this system. This system is beacon of darkness, unrest, and ciaos.
The draft system is a double edge sword, this system has helped in the past by providing men for war, however, this reason is not enough. The draft system should not be reinstated because ordinary citizens are forced into servitude by their country, without concern for their qualification, suitability, or own will and there are enough number of volunteer based men who are want to fight for their country.
The effects of forced labor on military efficiency have been shown in the fighting spirit, efficiency, and professionalism of the military. When ordinary men are forced to work in military, these men serve the country by doing bare minimum. Due to there no prior experience and the lack dedication compared to the ones who has voluntary given them to a cause, this labor tend to cause more trouble to the volunteered soldiers instead of helping them out.
Finally, some people in the government thinks that young adults mature in the military, and are better equipped to face the world. This theory may be true because today's youth have grown up in a society that no longer knows hardship or even hard work, and this kind of event give young adults a much better view of their life and will force them to rethink their life. None the less, the benefits do not automatically mean that the government has the right to force these young adults in to service because there are many other ways to improve this peoples’ life, which will not include a chance to get killed in wars.
Today, there are enough volunteer based soldiers in army. There is no need to reinstate draft because this goes against all the moral that this country stand for and reinstating draft will just cause more trouble for the citizen of this country. Needless to say, the benefits of service do not justify reinstating the draft.
The draft system is a double edge sword, this system has helped in the past by providing men for war, however, this reason is not enough. The draft system should not be reinstated because ordinary citizens are forced into servitude by their country, without concern for their qualification, suitability, or own will and there are enough number of volunteer based men who are want to fight for their country.
The effects of forced labor on military efficiency have been shown in the fighting spirit, efficiency, and professionalism of the military. When ordinary men are forced to work in military, these men serve the country by doing bare minimum. Due to there no prior experience and the lack dedication compared to the ones who has voluntary given them to a cause, this labor tend to cause more trouble to the volunteered soldiers instead of helping them out.
Finally, some people in the government thinks that young adults mature in the military, and are better equipped to face the world. This theory may be true because today's youth have grown up in a society that no longer knows hardship or even hard work, and this kind of event give young adults a much better view of their life and will force them to rethink their life. None the less, the benefits do not automatically mean that the government has the right to force these young adults in to service because there are many other ways to improve this peoples’ life, which will not include a chance to get killed in wars.
Today, there are enough volunteer based soldiers in army. There is no need to reinstate draft because this goes against all the moral that this country stand for and reinstating draft will just cause more trouble for the citizen of this country. Needless to say, the benefits of service do not justify reinstating the draft.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Setting the Context
Writing about anger is a becoming more and more crucial with passage of time. In this technological age, we live in a world that has made our live more facilitated and at the same time more stressful. The topic I am dealing with applies to almost all part of the society. This emotion is a piece of the puzzle called life which most have to figure it out. Most of us don’t deal with this emotion; while other configure it instinctively, and as far as the remaining go which are only a few of us tend to consciously try to gain the command of this emotion.
Anger has been brought to major attention in the last two or three decades in US. There have been cases when stressed, frustrated husbands have bitten their wives; as a result the courts have ordered to send theses husbands for rehabilitation instead of sending them right of to jail. People have started becoming more and more impatient and are prey to anger. This emotion is made us see life from a different point of view. This new era has also emerged a new word associated with anger known as Anger management. Control of one's anger, esp. when the emotion is frequently felt and is likely to result in violent behavior; freq. attrib., esp. designating a course, support group, etc., which helps achieve this control.(OED)
The latest example of anger which has been lifted by the media is Chris Brown-Rihanna case. Chris beats her girlfriend to plum. Because of this his life is going to take an unexpected turn for the worse. This just shows that the true form of this emotion should not be undermined. The only solution is teaching children to deal with this emotion from their childhood and allow them to gain experience to control this fire. if one gain control it can result in a life changing experience.
This emotion is a positive thing but people rarely see that point .This emotion is good if it does not have any negative social economic outcome. When it makes your word get through, or make you get past your fear. It is a double edged sword if wisely it can protect otherwise it can also cut its wielder. Humanity has been dealing with this emotion since it existence , but right now we have the resource need to change our life for better.
Anger has been brought to major attention in the last two or three decades in US. There have been cases when stressed, frustrated husbands have bitten their wives; as a result the courts have ordered to send theses husbands for rehabilitation instead of sending them right of to jail. People have started becoming more and more impatient and are prey to anger. This emotion is made us see life from a different point of view. This new era has also emerged a new word associated with anger known as Anger management. Control of one's anger, esp. when the emotion is frequently felt and is likely to result in violent behavior; freq. attrib., esp. designating a course, support group, etc., which helps achieve this control.(OED)
The latest example of anger which has been lifted by the media is Chris Brown-Rihanna case. Chris beats her girlfriend to plum. Because of this his life is going to take an unexpected turn for the worse. This just shows that the true form of this emotion should not be undermined. The only solution is teaching children to deal with this emotion from their childhood and allow them to gain experience to control this fire. if one gain control it can result in a life changing experience.
This emotion is a positive thing but people rarely see that point .This emotion is good if it does not have any negative social economic outcome. When it makes your word get through, or make you get past your fear. It is a double edged sword if wisely it can protect otherwise it can also cut its wielder. Humanity has been dealing with this emotion since it existence , but right now we have the resource need to change our life for better.
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