Me Against the World

TEXT 2 THE WORLD OUTSIDE My first real encounter with the world outside the United States came in 1962, when I spent several months working for an anti-government newspaper in South Africa [...] The battle against apartheid was my first exposure to serious politics, and to a nineteen-year-old, as I was then, it was overwhelming. Part of the experience was 5 realizing that the USA was on the wrong side. Fine speeches at the United Nations were one thing, but the directory board in the lobby of

[pic] Agenda The Context 1. The firm's domestic and international environment 2. A functional analysis of the firm General policy 1. Study of the objectives, strategy, global policy 2. Analysis of the firm's governance 3. Analysis of the management style and organizational culture, Critical analysis 1. An assessment of the organization 2. Analysis of the results and measurement of the managerial team performance the last five years About “Upstream business

march 2008. The Independence of Kosovo [pic] Kosovo is a little region of 10 887 km² in the Balkans, bordering Serbia to the North, Montenegro and Albania to the west, and Macedonia to the south. Among its 2 200 000 inhabitants (estimations in 2005), 92% is Albanian, and 5,3% Serb. It has just declared its independence from Serbia on 17th of February 2008 but it is not recognized by the whole international community (Russia, Serbia, China and Spain among others do not accept the independence)

Essay In the quarter-century since it has surfaced, AIDS has become a global plague, killing 33M people in the world. Sub-Saharan Africa is suffering a lot from the epidemic, both physically and economically In the 80s: first AIDS cases were diagnosed 25M deaths UN report in 2005 shows limited progress made against the disease. Politics continue to get in the way. Some 40m people are living with HIV, most of them are unaware of this fact. $8 billion spent in developing countries fighting

Why pubs and restaurants should be smoke free in Switzerland Ladies and gentlemen, members of the university committee, are you aware of something that killed 100 Million people in the last century? It neither is World War One with its 17 Million victims, nor World War Two with 60 Million victims I am talking about. Each and every one of you faces this weapon day by day. It's the cigarette. The killing won't stop; furthermore experts say that in 2010 there are going to be another 6 Million dying

led to the development of technological instruments such as the microscope, telescope, computer, telephone, etc. These inventions have improved some aspects of our lives but had negative outcomes at the same time. Various consequences related to these discoveries have created many controversies and arguments against the scientific community. For instance, Margaret Cavendish, an author in the 17th century, wrote in 1668 a book titled The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World as a response

Religious History of the United States • The United States has its origins in religious controversy • First major settlement in the 1620s by religious dissidents called Puritans • The Puritans arrived in the ‘New World’ with a strong sense of historical mission and quickly established a social and cultural life centred around the Church (a theocracy) • John Winthrop “A Modell of Christian Charity” : “wee must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us

DESIGNING AND MANAGING GLOBAL SUPPLY N E T W O R K S - THE NEW BENETTON CASE PARTICIPANTS Arnaldo Camuffo, Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Department of Business Economics and Management, Venice, Italy Pietro Romano, University of Padova, Department of Management and Engineering, Vicenza, Italy Andrea Vinelli, University of Padova, Department of Management and Engineering, Vicenza, Italy Mara Di Giorgio, Benetton Group Investor Relations Manager, Villa Minelli, Ponzano Veneto (TV), Italy Giancarlo

and Danone, the history of a particular joint venture company [pic] [pic] Summary I – Wahaha, a complete Chinese company…………………………………………………3 A – Wahaha’s history……………………………………………………………………….3 B – Main honors…………………………………………………………………………….3 C – Wahaha’s products……………………………………………………………………..4 D – Future exceptations…………………………………………………………………….6 II - The begining of the association…………………………………………………………6 A - Legal aspects……………………………………………………………………………6 B - The situation change:

visit the unusual places of China...   The Great Wall As one of the Seven Wonders of the Medieval World, the Great Wall of China is anunmissable highlight of any tour of China. Just like a gigantic dragon, the Great Wall winds up and down across deserts, grasslands, mountains and plateaus, stretching approximately 8,851 kilometers (5,500 miles) from east to west of China. The long wall  is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in northern China, built originally to protect the northern