Social Welfare Institutions

It is the belief of many that Wal-Mart is God’s gift to mankind, well shopping wise at least but there are many things concerning WAL-Mart that they refuse to highlight. Over the years, there has been several lawsuits filed against them for discriminating against women: refusing to promote and pay equal wage to men and […]

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There is no doubt that the economic situation in Jamaica is not the best in the world and this movie has brought it to light. It is extremely hard for the people of Jamaica to survive when the country is so fa in debt and borrowing more every day. Most of the countries foreign exchange comes about […]

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The second film I chose to watch is on media. ” Fox News” The role of media in a democratic society is important as air is for birds. Without media, there’s no democracy. Certain people consider media as the fourth branch after the executive, legislative and the judiciary. But the role of Fox News in […]

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The movie I chose to watch is “The battle of Algeria”
The movie is very interesting because it reminds me the difficulties that most colonized countries specially in Africa went trough to achieved their political independence but not economical because until now the economy of the colonized countries still controlled by the the colonizer. I’m going to specifically […]

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(sent by Jonathan M)
Alain Deneault, a post-doctoral student at UQAM (University of Quebec in
Montreal), is being sued by Barrick Gold because he mentionned in his book
reports by official organizations and NGOs alleging that, in Tanzania, the
appropriation of a mine by the company resulted in death of many workers. In
this academic work, the author also mentions […]

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After watching Life & Debt, I’m a little more appreciative of the rights and lifestyle that I have living in America.  We can travel with pretty much more ease than the people in Jamaica since they have to go through extensive searches and questioning before they can leave the country.  For us tourists, it’s easy […]

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I felt so sorry for those people who were hired to work for such low pay. 30 us dollars for two weeks! Thats crazy. Americans are paid at least more than 100 us dollars per week. It is really unfair how they don’t even get near our minimum wage amount. That is why those countries […]

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Even though I already had an idea of the completely different views of tourists and the residents living in Jamaica, I didn’t realize that it’s really that bad.  It seems like those people have no real way out.  They are barely surviving, and the whole country is in debt.  Because of globalization, which is great for the […]

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I don’t know what else Wal-Mart can do, besides buying back all the tapes. Yes, it might be a ludicrous amount of money to buy them all back, but I think it’s better than actually closing down all Wal-Marts. Like the government, businesses keep a lot of secrets from the public. This is shouldn’t be […]

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this article is interesting, it is an example of how the laws governing deebt defaults can be structured to either help the lender or the borrower…  in this case, maryland is passing legislation that greatly helps borrowers - people who own houses and face forclosure (debt default):
Maryland Greatly Lengthens Foreclosure Process
from naked capitalism by Yves […]

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This is intersting:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/for-sale-the-video-archive-walmart-should-have-erased-807813.html
I wonder what is going to happen, but it makes you realize how much information is usually kept under tight control - and how dangerous it can be (for some) when information becomes available to the public…  What will happen? Will Wal Mart eventually just buy back all the footage for an insane […]

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So today in class we discussed bankruptcy and what some of the new laws were so since I wasn’t really sure of what they were I thought it would be a good idea to look them up and to see  what happens to your credit after your 7 years is up and this is what […]

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The ugly side of Micro-Lending Micro- Lending is the extension of very small loans to people needing to borrow money. Micro- lending is given to the poor, people out of work, people with bad credit or anyone who does not qualify for traditional bank loans. Micro-lending originated in developing countries where it has successfully enabled impoverished […]

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What is wrong with our Country? Lots of things! We are far from perfect but we certainly do live a comfortable life compared to everyone else.  A major issue is our Country’s obsession with being a “Super” power.  Why must we be the most powerful and the richest Nation in the world.  Politicians may say […]

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Hey Prof. It’s so funny that you discussed the fact that the reporters have a certain story line to stick to in order to basically recieve higher ratings. I always said that the way they tell a story sounds like BS, but I wanted to add that race and class also play a role in […]

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Wal-mart has become such a powerful empire that when it opens a store in a new location of affects a lot of things in that location.  It adds more jobs but takes some away, it may offer cheaper goods but may limit where you are able to shop and it may even take part in […]

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Well I am not sure if Capital is a bad or good thing. Sometimes I feel that us as Human we born with capital ideas within us. We bought toys so we can have them by ourselves. We went to school so we can have the best grades in our class. We bought ipods so […]

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         Can  the international community stop the Iranian nuclear  program?                     I personally believe that every nation of the world should or must have the rights to protect itself against enemies and protect its citizens like every other nation in the world. We must not forget the Iran- Iraq war in the 8o’s where Saddam ordered […]

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A while ago we talked about colonization and the obvious detrimental effects it has on society. But then again we never even acknowledged that our country wouldn’t have even been founded if it wasn’t for colonization.
Furthermore in the case of India….
Before the British colonized India there was a great division among the people. There wasn’t […]

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