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    Someone once said, “ Safety isn’t expensive, it's priceless.”  This means people should be teaching everyone about safety because it is free.  People should take advantage of these free opportunities.  Young children that are not informed of safety are getting killed by vehicles because they do not understand road safety.  According to the Auto Channel website in the year of 1999, 733 children under the age of 14 died from accidents with cars. Also, in the year of 2000, nearly 44,600 children were

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    The technological progress increased the production of computers and internet usage started to become prevalent, and this in turn reduced the communication barriers between people. The reduced cost of communicating increased the openness to international trade. The economic system shifted from planned to more of market economy. The minimum government intervention created a greater competition between firms and hence a better output (Santarelli, 2002). There are certain factors of globalization

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    Introduction Nowadays, people share their ideas and expertise more easily due the revolution of technology. They became using same Clothes, watching same movies, and reading same books. Cuisines were before considered as a part of countries’ culture, however; variety of Asian, Indian, Arab, and others cuisines are found now easily and almost everywhere in the western region. That leads to the term of Globalisation, BBC website defines Globalisation as: “the process by which the world is becoming

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    Introduction Nowadays, people share their ideas and expertise more easily due the revolution of technology. They became using same Clothes, watching same movies, and reading same books. Cuisines were before considered as a part of countries’ culture, however; variety of Asian, Indian, Arab, and others cuisines are found now easily and almost everywhere in the western region. That leads to the term of Globalisation, BBC website defines Globalisation as: “the process by which the world is becoming

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    Liberals see the international system develops in the system of anarchy, and recognizes that the individual is always selfish and compete against something, but they also believe that individuals have a lot of interest and thus may be involved in social action that is collaborative and cooperative, both domestic and international. So here liberals not only regard the state as the supreme force in international relations but further more liberal view state can be

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    compete with it. By using international relations theories to analyze US-China relations, there are three main stream theories commonly using to explain this case: Realism, Liberalism, and Constructivism. In addition, in the article “The Future of US-China Relations” composed by Aaron L. Friedberg, professor of politics and international affairs, he comments that people predict US-China relations with two different views – optimistic or pessimistic. However, which international relation theory applies

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    Global Market Research Case Study Analysis: Sperry/MacLennan The Business Dictionary defines opportunity as an “exploitable set of circumstances with uncertain outcome, requiring commitment of resources and involving exposure to risk” (Opportunity, 2012, para. 1). To grow and prosper, an organization needs to seek continually opportunities to do so; thus the subject of the case study “Sperry/MacLennan Architects and Planners” (Aaker, Kumar, & Day, 2007, pp. 72-75). In this case study, Sperry/MacLennan

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    Another theory, which explains the gains from trade, is specific-factors model. It is similar to the Ricardian Model, but it is more complicated since it takes into account two more factors of production: land and capital. This model assumes there is two-country world, in which only two goods are traded. It is assumed that labour and capital are used in the manufacturing industry. Moreover, labour and land are used in the agricultural industry. Specific-factors model is short run model, because the

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    United States acts as the global hegemon. However, China’s recent rise to power has lead international relations experts, Ikenberry, Mearsheimer, Subramanian, and Friedberg, to predict an upcoming power shift in the international system. China’s increasing control over the Asia-Pacific region has threatened U.S. power. According to Waltz, the realism paradigm interprets the anarchic structure of the international community, as a constant power struggle. Although each country may be different, to survive

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    The Relationship between the Nuclear Weapons and the Bargaining Power Introduction Does the possession of nuclear weapons have an impact on bargaining? Does it influence to international relation? This question is important in both academics and policy makers. In the United States, the top foreign policy agenda is national security. Since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Second World War, there are few nations that possess nuclear weapons or are suspected of seeking nuclear weapons

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