Friday, April 30, 2010

Task #4 ~ Solutions


In the world today, the gap between North and South continues to grow but thanks to groups such as The World Bank and other major names such as, Amnesty International and UNICEF. In terms of what The World Bank does is, they are a organization that will lend money to another country on strict grounds of what they need to be able to apply to get this funding. The World Bank is part of the U.N so they try to create peace and better living conditions for countries around the world. An up-to-date act The World Bank and other organizations has taken, was the right for women to own land and have a certificate proving they do in Ethiopia. After a 2-year agreement, the rights for women to own land finally came through making them feel equal to the men, and be a happy citizen in Ethiopia. Below is the link to The World Bank's official site.

http://www.worldbank.org/

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Task #3 ~ Impacts of Decolonization~Multi Nation corporation


The creation of Volkswagen motors, came about in May of 1937 and was named Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH (Or, Society for the preparation of the German Volkswagens mbH). In Sept. of 38' the company was renamed, Volkswagenwerk GmbH (Or, Volkswagen Work Gmbh). As of 2007, Volkswagen had 6.189 million vehicles in circulation and in that same year, the company was worth 108.9 billion Euros. The massively popular group is made up of nine different vehicle brands, Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, Skoda, Scania and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. In 90', the first 3L TDI engine was installed in the Lupo Volkswagen cars, which gave an impressive 3L per 100 Kms. Volkswagen now has a whole array of vehicles including many such as, Jetta, Polo, Golf, Beetle, Fox, Scirocco, Eos, Passat and many others. The commercial line up for Volkswagen consists of vehicles such as, Multivans,Caddy, Amarok, Transporter, Caravelle and other Heavy commercial trucks (either Volkswagen 18 wheelers, or under their other name Scania)

Task #2 ~ Decolonization


East India Company was formed by the British in a time when disorganized kings fought amongst themselves and this left the golden opportunity to Britain to take large chunks of land, and gain wealth. Britain gained higher wealth from these kings, helping one fight the other by offering to train new soldiers, better, stronger and faster, offer money to get supplies and offered all Indian soldiers employment in the British regiments. With all this, the British had the kings sign treaties that they never hesitated to sign. When the British did this, they were making Indian skills and crafts people sell stuff to Britain for low prices and them buy it back for higher. This would lead to the mightiest revolt in the 19th century. The reasons Britain decolonized India was because, India was no longer providing the wealth Britain had gone there for, India wanted independence, and Britain was still in major debt due to fighting in WWI and WWII

Monday, April 19, 2010

task #1 ~ Global Economics






In the world today, countries are classified as either Developed or Developing countries, the wealthy and the poor. They are further classified in first, second, third and fourth world places with first world being of the most power in terms of global, economic, technological and social powers, they have education, medical care, and a higher life expectancy and a fourth world country being of the least developed, with no real standing in the powers of the world today, have little or no education, medical care and they struggle for life because they lack the essential items to live on.
If one were to look at a map showing all MDC's LDC's and LLDC's we would find that basically all of the LLDC's are in the southern parts of the world with the MDC's in the northern part.(Legend for map) Darker green, Most Advanced (First), Light green, In transition (Second), Orange, Less developed (Third), and Red, least developed (Fourth)