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375 days ago
Reaping the Fruit of Globalization Link on Helium.com Wearing a made-in-China T-shirt, he came out from his Toyota SUV and merged into the crowd that was gathered by an anti-globalization organization through its website. This is an ironic cartoon that I have seen before. Numerous arguments are raised against globalization nowadays. Some argue that free trade will eliminate jobs and cause loss in their domestic economy, and others argue that globalization causes degradations of environmental and labor standards. (Wikipedia.org, 2008) However, they mainly focus on the cost of globalization; they do not consider the benefits or possible alternatives for reducing the cost while still reaping the benefits. Globalization benefits us in at least two ways: it will create wealth and will eventually promote environmental and labor standards. First of all, international trade will create more wealth and lead to benefits for all. According to ...
403 days ago
Link on Helium.com Some heroes serve as noble examples and have great impact on public , such as Mahatma Gandhi. Some heroes are just ordinary people come from our family, neighbors, and community. Some possess respect for human life and faith in one’s ability, while others show physical and mental courage, influence public and unpublic, as Miriam Polster (2001) writes in “Eve’s Daughters”. What makes a hero great? Heroes are sharing two basic common grounds in their great behaviors: dedicating to others with an unconditional love, and making a difference in others’ life. Dedicating to others with a conditional love is the most basic and important trait of a hero. People regard a person as a hero because he has done something important to others at the cost of something valuable to himself. Without a caring love, one would not be willing to sacrifice himself, and then would not be thought as a hero by others. According to Carnegie Hero ...
