Humanities

Globalisation is a very complex topic because of the multiple perspectives it could be viewed from. The basic meaning of this word is an interchange of ideas, views and products internationally on a worldly basis. It is true that globalisation has done good for the world but it has done some bad as well which is why in the piece, I will be assessing if it has done more harm than good for the promotion of human rights.

To say that globalisation has done more harm that good is inaccurate because the good does not out way the bad here in the sense that it could be viewed and interpreted in different ways. Some might argue that globalisation is taking aways the diversity and culture of people around the world. Just like this topic came on in our seminar, it was mentioned that in years ago in Pakistan, Iran and other muslim countries women wore these long and black clothes that would cover their bodies from head to toe allowing nobody to know how they look but as time past and our world started to get more and more globalised and civilised, they are starting to change and so are our laws of human rights. Some might even argue that globalisation could possibly be going backwards into communism because bringing the entire world together as one, being equal with each other, and under one ruler or idea.

although globalisation can be a negative impact of the world, it does have it's positive. For example the creation of the UN. They were created to fight against the protection of human rights throughout the world. Because of globalisation, we are capable of knowing what is going on in another country of the world and we are able to help fight for what they deserve and what they need in order to prosper and advance. The spread of educational rights for women and for people around the world, women rights in muslim countries are all changing and they are all benefiting our world because we are constantly advancing in society. Even though it could be moving us backwards into all together as one, it was brought up in the seminar that even though we live together as one, share ideas, and products, we do not lose our diversity. On the other hand we share it with the rest. It's like food. Just because I like to eat certain things and love them, doesn't mean that when I taste your's, that my favourite is going to change. We could still be different but we could be different together. 

  According to my research, it is not completely impossible to live in a coldless world or a world without conflict but there are more variables that show it is impossible to do so. The possibility of existing in a coldless world has to do with the technology that unifies us as a whole but in the other hand, there are such things as equality, and sharing ideas that seem so impossible for our countries, states, and nations to agree on.

  It is possible to live in a coldless world in with some exceptions. The solution would be through all the social networking sites that we have today and all the technology influenced by the space race. One of my sources states that, “Although the space race was fraught with danger, it had many beneficial side effects. Numerous inventions and innovations that have made life easier to live in the modern world can trace their origins back to the Space Race.” This means that even though it is a factor that can create conflict, it does bring us together and the fact that we are all able to trace numerous technologies to the space race, fortifies our connection with the rest of the world therefor again, connecting us.

  Although the technology point of view is a way of looking at a coldless world as a positive point of view, there are some other points of views that are worth arguing for as well. According to one of my teachers I personally interviewed as my source, she believes that, in order for a coldless world to exist, we need to look at the world from an economic point of view and from a political. The reason is because, in her point of view, it is important to take down the issue of poverty and around the world and the only way to achieve that would be to at get the superpowers to agree on working together and sharing information with each other in order to accomplish world piece and poverty. This could never happen because governments are pondering more on the issues that are tackling their country rather than wanting to help others. Additionally, they do not like to share information with each other especially if it has to do with the military, weapons, or any new technology in general. The reason being because, they want their country to be portrayed as the best and the most intelligent. Therefor leading into competition and conflict.

  In conclusion, there are more factors that prove that a coldless world is impossible to obtain than the factors that show it is achievable. A world where leaders are incapable of agreeing on a plan or strategies to solve the major problems we face today, we will be stuck in this problem forever. According to my interviewed source, the economy is the base of everything. If the economy is not happy, then the entire political system would face serious issues. Lastly, whatever we do and wherever you go, opinions are always going to be different and therefor, lead to other ideologies.

Sources:

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/america-and-russia-has-the-cold-war-really-ended/16221

  http://www.ted.com/conversations/19876/imagine_a_world_with_no_geogra.html

  http://www.gentleaction.org

  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/davos-diary-a-new-sense-of-dread-is-settling-over-the-worlds-elites/article16500943/?page=1

  http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/111414/the-space-race-of-the-1960s-between-the-united-states-and-the-soviet

2013 was a year of excitement and exploration by trying new things and seeing how they turned out. I surprised myself when I tried to do things that were either out of my comfort zone or when i achieved what I was hoping for. In 2013, the one word that could be used to describe me would be curious. 2014 is a year where I am going to be even more curious, focused, engaged, and more observant. I want to be this because I know my mind is capable of being such things but, i just haven't given it a chance yet and I think a new year and a new beginning would give me a chance to try. The way I am going to achieve this is by being more quiet not just in class but outside as well to see if i could focus and observe more hoping that it would change the way I think and engage in curtain activities. A source that I know will always help me to be more focused and observant in what I want to do or what I am looking for in life is Ted talks technology

(http://www.ted.com/searchcat=ss_all&q=technology) because they always have interesting inventions that lead curious people such as myself to imagine what might come up next prior to the previous invention and in what was it might impact our world. At the end of 2014 I want to use the word successful to describe my year. 

In the past 3 weeks I have learned that minimum wage in the U.S and in other places as well are still debating about if it should actually be raised. People keep organizing marches against the government, and not coming to work. I have also learned that when president Obama was competing for presidency against Mitt Romney, Obama wanted to raise the minimum wage to $10 per hour but up until today nothing happened.

  Surprisingly, my understanding of the topic still stayed the same because; a topic like this can be predicted well enough. You know what the people want in the topic so therefor you are capable of predicting what would happen next judging by their opinions and how they feel about the situations. One of my predictions about this topic actually came true which was, people were going to keep organizing marches to convince the government to raise the minimum wage up to $10 per hour at least. Even though people still say it’s too little, it’s an improvement.

  The other source in the other hand has a place for the people’s opinion because after all it has to address them as well as the government. It actually has some evidence about the president Obama claiming to say he was going to increase the minimum wage in 2011 and Mitt Romney saying he was going to level up the minimum wage but doesn’t say exactly how he was going to do that.

  I would say that that the second one seems more reliable because it tells us that Barack Obama was actually thinking about that issue and was planning to raise it to the price people wanted it to be which is $10 per hour. This gives us proof that they actually thought about it and not only ignored it the idea.

  I find the second source more interesting because not only it contains other people’s opinions, which could give me a sense of what people are thinking about, but also that it gives the presidents opinions (Obama, and Romney).  

The bias language used in both of them known as word choice is just to grab the reader’s attention to keep them reading. Technically word choice is used everywhere because the use of big, fancy words to describe a small event would get the reader to think they are talking about something more than just a little thing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/business/bill-pushes-for-increase-in-wages.html

Summary:

The latest update of minimum wage in the U.S was on July 24, 2009. It increased to $2.75 per hour. Today in the political system it would be hard to obtain a minimum wage of $10.55 per hour, but still people claim to find $10.55 per hour way too small. Many people grew up on the idea of America being a nation of progress and compared to the minimum wage we have today, we don’t seem to making progress. Even If we had to make the minimum wage higher up to 21.16 it still wouldn’t represent progress.

  It must be more than 21.16 to say we have progressed as a nation. In 1968, the benchmark for the minimum wage states that the low wage Americans are making today, should be the same as back then which is preposterous because of our advancements in almost everything these days it would just be impossible to live because of everything you would have to pay like water, electricity, school, and more.

  What is interesting about this issue is that people start complaining about minimum wage today, I tried to picture what it would be like in the future in the 22nd century. In order to do so I needed to get information about what people thought about in now to try predicting how it could possibly turn out in the future and that numerous amounts of jobs created everyday. Another interesting issue is that it’s spreading across the United States in mostly fast food restaurants.

  MacDonald’s employees have been complaining the most because they feel like the money being used only for the benefits of the food and not for the employees. Currently in the U.S the employees are protesting for a high payment. Some other fast food restaurant like burger king if said in order to keep their employees, they pay them at a reasonable price which keeps them working well.