Thursday, 28 August 2008

2nd draft of globalisation



I changed my draft again. Everyday i recognise a mistake or a lot of mistakes in my first draft. It is difficult to have a good essay with clear idea for everyone to understand, isn't it? I hope it is much better than before so that what i did will be meaningful.


1. Introduction
2. Media
3. Culture
4. Politics
5. Business
6. Economic
7. Conclusion

Essay question:
Summarise the main effects of globalisation and discuss to what extent they are beneficial to your subject area.

From the late 1980s to early 1990s, the financial and investment market was operated largely. Its gradually growing scope started to across the border of a nation. In consequence, the original appearance of what so-called ‘globalisation’ became a new business method as well as a practical solution to run the financial market. According to Collins (Guardian 2002), “Globalisation – whatever that means” (economics editor Evan Davies) is a ‘result of deregulation and improved communications’. Many agreements have been signed between one country and many another ones, many new laws have been issued to follow the current trend of the world. Modern information technology has made our lives more convenience. It is widely believed that globalisation is effective remedy to improve the life quality and to reduce poverty. Contrary to popular beliefs, some people argued that it is unfairly beneficial to everyone and its negative effects are widening the gaps between rich and poor worldwide. This essay will cautiously examine two sides of its main effects on some certain areas, particularly to consider how far its positive impacts on my subject - business and economics.

International trade activities are taking place between company and other company from different countries rather than the scope of the same country. That requires a continuous development of technology to communicate everyone all over the world. The global massive media system was formed and has been improving in recent years.

Diversified culture has been happening and progressively replacing the mere culture in one country. A European people can eat the tropical fruits such as durian, blue dragon, litchis in their countries where they cannot be grown or difficult to grow. Moreover, one people can go abroad easily or even immigrate in another country that never happens without multinational agreement signed among countries.

Some international organisations have been established to link each country’s politics closer. G7, European Nations (EU) and World Trade Organisation (WTO) are the pattern examples. The unstable politics of one country will be intervened or supported dramatically by other countries if this country was a member of these organisations.

Political instability is one of many leading reasons to decide how much the volume of capital investment is in a country. The investors usually estimate when they receive profit back, the level of risk of the capital investment in where its politics is safe as their speculation. Thanks to international integration and such a calculation, world trade including export, import, domestic manufacture has significantly increased more than 100 times (from $95 billion to $12 trillion) since 1955 (BBC News 2007). International business as the engine of globalisation has been brought higher benefits and lower labour-cost for multinational firms.

The important aspects of each country‘s economy has been changing manifestly as a result of trade liberalisation. In recent research of Dollar and Kraay 2001b, annual economic growth rate has remarkably increased among trade liberalizers and better than the non-globalising developing countries. However, there is a steady decline in growth in rich countries.

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

first draft of globalisation



1. Introduction
2. Media
3. Culture
4. Politics
5. Business
6. Economic
7. Conclusion

From the late 1980s to early 1990s, the financial and investment market was operated largely and started to across the border of a nation. It was not a simple problem in a country for government to control in front of the gradually growing scope of capital investment and financial market. In consequence, the original appearance of what so-called ‘globalisation’ became a new business method as well as a practical solution to run the financial market. According to the definition of Wikipedia, ‘“Globalisation – whatever that means” (economics editor Evan Davies) is a combination of economic, technological, socio-cultural and political force’ through ‘trade, direct investment, capital flows and migration’. This combination rose the volume of international trade in total output from 32.3 to 37.9 percent among rich countries; from 33.8 to 48.9 percent for developing countries between 1990 and 2001 (the World Bank’s World Development Indicators 2003). That explains why many people believe on its contributed benefits in each nation, its effective remedy to improve the life quality and to reduce poverty. What was happened in poor countries? Contrary to popular beliefs, some people argued that its negative effects are widening the gaps between rich and poor worldwide. This essay will cautiously examine two sides of its main effects on some certain areas, particular in business and economics.

International trade activities are taking place between company and other company from different countries rather than the scope of the same country. That requires a continuous development of technology to communicate everyone all over the world. The global massive media system was formed and has been improving in recent years.

Diversified culture has been happening and progressively replacing the mere culture in one country. A European people can eat the tropical fruits such as durian, blue dragon, litchis in their countries where they cannot be grown or difficult to grow. Moreover, one people can go abroad easily or even immigrate in another country that never happens without multinational agreement signed among countries.

Some international organisations have been established to link each country’s politics closer. G7, EU (European Nations) and WTO (World Trade Organisation) are the pattern examples. The unstable politics of one country will be intervened or supported dramatically by other countries if this country was a member of these organisations.

Political instability is one of many leading reasons to decide how much the volume of capital investment is in a country. The investors usually estimate when they receive profit back, the level of risk of the capital they invest in countries in which its politics is safe as their speculation. Thanks to international integration and such a calculation, world trade including export, import, domestic manufacture has significantly increased more than 100 times (from $95 billion to $12 trillion) since 1955 (BBC News 2007). International business as the engine of globalisation has been brought higher benefits and lower labour-cost for multinational firms.

The important aspects of each country‘s economy has been changing manifestly as a result of trade liberalisation. In recent research of Dollar and Kraay 2001b, annual economic growth rate has remarkably increased among trade liberalizers and better than the non-globalising developing countries. However, there is a steady decline in growth in rich countries.

essay plan



1. Introduction
2. Education
3. Media
4. Culture
5. Business
6. Economics
7. Conclusion

2. Nowadays everybody can obtain higher level of education on every subject through various course as a result of global educated-cooporation which made them confused to choose a suitable course.

3. Globalisation not only creats a new education system, but also improves the mere kinds of advertisment to connect people in both possitive and negative way.

4. Thanks to the means of massive media, people know the changing cultural divertsification such as traditional customs, family value, language from the process of globalisation.

5. The significantly increased volume of exchanged commodity made authorities difficult to control the overload of goods in the market.

6. In addition to the huge benefit of business, many aspects of the economy is improved dramatically in each country as well as suffering from the drawback of globaisation.

Friday, 22 August 2008

Summary of lecture 2: RISK HONGKONG



1. The concept of risk:

when? appeared in 16th - 17th centuries
Who? by Western explorers
Where? Their voyages across the world
How? It refers to sailing into uncharted waters --> banking and investment--> a wide range of ohter situations of uncertainty
Which language? Spanish or Portuguese --> English

* Risk = hazard or danger= future possibilities (future-oriented)
* Risk = the condition of excitement and adventure
* Risk = involedd a number of unknowns
2. Two aspects of risk:
A- Negative: affect health--> to reduce as far as possible --> insurance
B- Positive: It is involed in modernity --> a way to regulating the future--> attemps to control the future --> force us to look for different ways of relating uncertainty
3. Types of risk:
A- Extenal risk:
risk experienced as coming from the outside, from the fixities of tradition or nature.
risk from external nature: bad harvests, floods, plagues, famines (environmental risk)
B- Manufactured risk: created by the very impact of our developing knowledge upon the world.
Risk situations which we don't have much historical experience to deal with.

ex: environmental risk<-- global warming<-- globalisation red wine: although many people know that red wine is harmful for their health, they still drink. That is a risk created by themselves. --> To cope (reduce) the rise of manufactured risk: to limit responsibility by adopting 'precautionary principle' (copying with problems of risk and responsibility)
4. Conclusion:
- Our age isn't more dangerous (not more risky) than those of ealier generations.
- The balance of risks and dangers has shifted.
- Risks (hazards) we creat are more threatenting than those from outside.
- Some of these affect us as individuals much more directly.
- Active risk-taking is a core element of dynamic economy and an innovative society.

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Lecture of globallisation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith1999/lecture5.shtml

Monday, 18 August 2008

what is globalisation?





I found some reliable website for this topic:

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/oct/31/globalisation.simonjeffery>

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6279679.stm>

<http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2001/09/dollar.htm>

<http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=108&subsecID=206&contentID=2201>

Globalisation could connect to some areas:

1. Accountability (responsibility, awareness)

2. Terrorism (violent action for political purposes)

3. Shrinking world

4. Technology/ the internet

5. Free trade

6. Culture

7. Capitalism (successful organizations and people in both politics and economics)

8. Monopoly Power (completely control of something)

9. Environment

10. Integration of economics

11. Equality/ Inequality

12. Communication

13. Recognition

14. Trade versus aid (trade comepared to aid-help)

15. Outsourcing (out of source?)

16. Brands

17. Exploitation (using someone/ som unfairly for their own advantage)

18. Growth

19. Poverty

Sunday, 10 August 2008

Final writing 2


Essay Question:

‘The advantages of a “surveillance society” far outweigh the drawbacks’. to what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Burglary, car theft, assault, drug use, drunkenness, and even decimation are unavoidable social evils in each country. These problems seem to suggest the crime and social control policy in both theory and practice and to be the reason of the exceptional development of technology and science such as CCTV, DNA databases, biometrics. The modern technology is a means of crime prevention and standard of measurement the level of crime for responsible authorities to govern society logically. The ‘surveillance society’ is absolutely supervised by a large number of cameras every where. A sophisticated technology connected to these cameras system can record the process of dangerous criminals’ transgression as un-refutable evidence. Some people consider that they obtain more benefit than drawback from a surveillance society. It partly explains for the Britain‘s goal of being ‘the surveillance capital of the Western World’ (Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, 2006). However, he also said that we were saturated in a world of surveillance. What did he mean “saturated”? So that the question is how much effective these modern technologies work in scrutiny society and whether so-called society is really proficient for the people or not. This essay will weigh up two aspects of a “surveillance society” in detail and answer the above mentioned questions.

Many people complain how much inconvenience they feel under ten thousands of cameras installed in public place such as: on the street, in supermarket, shop, car park, workplace...They have to be very cautious every time, every where and even at their owned home. Nevertheless, we must recognise that the social evils have been decreased significantly since the system of cameras is operated in residential areas (Survey 2002, Home Office). The more CCTV is installed, the safer they feel. Moreover, it is very beneficial in favour of companies who want to monitor their employees from a far distance to eliminate wasted time, cut necessary cost to do business more efficiently.

(320 words)

References:

  1. Adam Harcourt (Webster), 2006, ‘Is business a real Big Brother?’, viewed August 10th 2008, <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5015826.stm>
  2. BBC News Channel, 2007, ‘Home Secretary hails CCTV usage’, viewed August 10th 2008, <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6900807.stm>
  3. Privacy International, 1997, ‘CCTV Frequently Asked Questions’, viewed July 31st 2008, <http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-61925&als[the>
  4. BBC News Channel, 2005, ‘DNA database Big Brother warning’, viewed July 31st 2008, < http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4166559.stm>
  5. Angela Spriggs et al., Home Office on-line report October 2005, ‘Public attitudes towards CCTV: results from the Pre-intervention Public Attitude Survey’, viewed August 10th 2008, <http://www.crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/cctv/cctv43.htm>