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Global Benefits of New Technology, 2002.
A study of the positive aspects of new global technologies.
1,070 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper argues that the negative aspects of globalization are countered by the positive benefits of global technologies. It addresses the positive effects in the areas of satellite, health, agricultural and communications technologies. and their positive impact on the third world. The paper identifies the potential for global technologies to promote equity and justice on a large scale.
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"The idea that at present there has been no global advantages of the new technology is one that is debatable. There have been countless applications of technology world wide and these have translated in many cases to positive progress. Take for example global communications and satellite technologies. These have serves to remove the boundaries of time and space in order to enable a free flow of information. While these technologies are not available to everyone in the world (in particular to those who are citizens of the Third World), most people have felt their effects, and to a large extent these effects have been positive. In terms of communications technologies, for example, Third World nations must necessarily benefit from wireless technologies which eliminate the need for an established infrastructure. This is evident in the report titled ?New Generation Technology Meets Third World Health Needs? (http://allafrica.com/stories/200103010191), in which the authors describe the benefits of cellular and digital technology in remote areas of Africa, ?Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) enabled cellphones to allow doctors to receive detailed laboratory test results on the same day that samples were sent off. This was reportedly a first for the area, which is not serves by power or telephone lines. The doctors at the six clinics involved in the pilot project are now using the cellphones extensively? (http:// allafrica.com/stories/200103010191). This is true progress, in which the technology developed in industrialized countries are being applied in ways that transcend the barriers that confront people trying to make a difference in the Third World."
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Global Benefits of New Technologies, 2001.
This paper looks at the advantages of new modern technologies.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 8 sources, $ 49.95
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This 5-page essay describes some of the ?new? technologies and their global benefits. It also attempts to look at ways in which it can become possible for these technologies to benefit each and everyone of us living on this planet, and not just a privileged few. The IT revolution has changed the way we store and transmit data; the Internet has revolutionized the way we can access information; breakthroughs in bio-technology promise new hope for medical cures and nano-technology will change the way medicine is practiced.
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"Technology has played a crucial role in human development and progress throughout history. Ever since our first human ancestors fashioned the rudimentary stone tools used for hunting about 2.5 million years ago, man has striven to use technology for his benefit. Over the centuries, tremendous innovations were made in agriculture, medicine, energy, manufacturing, and communications?but none of these innovations had quite prepared us for the astonishing pace of development in technology that has been witnessed in the last few decades. Rapid strides made recently in ?new technologies? such as information and communications technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology have opened up possibilities for development and increase in quality of life never imagined before."
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Global Outsourcing Benefits Everyone, 2005.
Argues that outsourcing on a global scale is beneficial to everyone, although precautions should be taken.
1,380 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 47.95
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This paper contends that when companies in wealthy countries take advantage of the lower cost of labor in poorer countries, everyone benefits. Such outsourcing increases jobs in the poorer countries, focuses the resources of rich countries on more profitable industries, and enhances the spending power of everyone's income by producing goods and services at a lower cost.
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"Changes in industry that leave people jobless have never been popular. From an individual's standpoint the cost savings that result from outsourcing American jobs to countries where the cost of labor is lower ..."
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Benefits & Costs of Globalization, 2007.
This paper examines the benefits and costs of globalization.
1,455 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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In this article, the writer notes that in the past few decades, rapid advancements in technology have emerged, boasting new levels of global interconnectedness. The writer points out that this globalization has sparked a revolution in information technology, dramatically and irreversibly changing both society and civilization. Globalization has brought about numerous benefits, such as the availability of information to anyone in the entire world, for a small fee. However, the writer maintains that this global interconnectedness has not come without high costs to society; it has widened the gap between the information-rich and the information-deprived. The writer discusses that it has brought about growing disparities in income, health care facilities and other measures of well being. The writer argues that globalization has come to symbolize a threat for underdeveloped nations, while economically advantaged nations have already benefited from it in ways previously thought unimaginable. This paper analyzes both the benefits and costs of globalization, and concludes with a few of the writer's own thoughts on the issue.
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Introduction
Benefits of Globalization
Costs of Globalization
Conclusion
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"Globalization has revealed many important benefits to society; for example, it has changed ideas about democracy, and global political movements have led to debt relief for poorer countries. Theorists have stated that globalization has helped hundreds of millions of people attain higher standards of living, beyond what they though imaginable a short while ago. The globalization of the economy has benefited countries that took advantage of it by seeking new markets for their exports and welcoming foreign investment. Furthermore, countries that have benefited the most have been those that took charge of their own destiny and recognized the role government can play in development rather than relying on the notion of a self-regulated market that would fix its own problems. In addition, many of the benefits of globalization come from the Internet, which has come to serve as a bridge between cultures and countries. The Internet is open to all at relatively low prices, and as a result, even some of the poorest countries have some access to the Internet."
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The Benefits of Globalization, 2006.
This paper explores the situation of modern labour, with reference to three films.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 3 sources, $ 133.95
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The paper discusses how the three films; "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices," "The Corporation" and "Manufacturing Consent" together offer extensive insights into the plight of modern labor within the context of the globalizing economy. Globalization is vaunted by its proponents as being good for everyone; a wonderful win-win situation for corporations, labor, capital consumers, the Global North and the Global South.
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Financial Benefits of Analyzing Emerging Technology, 1997.
Case analysis of a fictional small research company technology manager who must purchase a LAN system that provides both Intranet & Internet service.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 11 sources, $ 87.95
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" Financial Benefits of Analyzing Emerging Technology
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There is one primary question most business executives ask when considering the adoption of emerging technology: what kind of economic return will I get in proportion to the expenditure? That question is of paramount concern to businesses ranging from sole proprietorships to Multi-National Corporations (Rheingold, 1994, 32-28). Answering that question has given rise to a new profession -- technology managers, or TMs (Chesbrough & Teece, 1996, 68).
In a commercial situation, TMs are responsible, as a rule, for five main areas: a) keeping upper management informed about new technologies that might improve profitability, b) keeping all.."
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The Global South and the Global North, 2007.
An analysis of the impact of globalization on the inequality between the global north and the global south.
1,402 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper looks at globalization and discusses how it has exacerbated the pre-existing inequalities between the poor global south and the wealthy global north. It illustrates how globalization forces some people (predominantly in the southern regions of the planet) to work while permitting other people (predominantly individuals residing in the global north) to become wealthy.
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"To start with, it is commonly known that powerful multinational corporations in the global north habitually take their manufacturing operations from Europe and/or America and deposit those aforementioned manufacturing operations in global south countries where they can avoid the onerous regulatory regimes, high corporate taxes, and high wage costs they associate with the north. At the same time, the movement of jobs and plants to the south has the unhappy effect of not only costing workers jobs in the north but also of reducing the south to the subordinate position of being "hewers of wood and drawers of water" for multinationals that are looking for cheap human resources that can be utilized in a working environment that is more permissive than the highly-regulated work environments of America and/or Europe. A good example of this phenomenon can be found in the IT sector where skilled U.S. workers are losing jobs to individuals overseas (Sosbe, 4) - presumably because the "cost of doing business" vis-a-vis wage expenses is lower in global south nations which do not have a strong tradition of labor activism or of government involvement in employee-employer relations."
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Globalization and Global Labour Patterns, 2005.
An analysis of the factors leading to globalization and global labour patterns.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 10 sources, $ 106.95
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This paper discusses globalization and global labour patterns. The paper argues that in a globalized world corporations are determining the labour conditions in both developed and developing countries. It suggests that the corporations are essentially making cheap, unskilled and flexible labourers.
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"Globalization and Global Labour Patterns Globalization is one of the most controversial issues in politics and economics. In "Note on Terminalogy" David McNally defines globalization as, "The mainstream term for the new world Economy of the past twenty years" (McNally 9). How exactly has the world economy changed? While discussing the political and economic changes that have occurred over the last three decades Teeple explains, A system of highly integrated world trade was an irreversible fact by the end of the 1970s, confirmed and hastened by the new means of transportation and communications, whose increased productivity were transforming the worldwide distribution of products and hence the global conditions for valorization (Teeple 71)."
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Processes of Globalization and Shared Global Culture, 2005.
A discussion on whether the processes of globalization are producing a shared global culture.
2,028 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 64.95
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The paper states that it is not complicated to find some globalized places such as airline terminals, international hotels or CNN business news revealing the effects of globalization and its repercussions on our understanding of culture in the modern world. The paper relates that through the growing of global interconnections and the processes of ideas and global goods crossing national borders, cultures fuse across the globe. The paper also discusses the presence of English as an international language, and a homogenization of culture. The paper confirms that, culture is a set of values and practices characterized by its particularity, which nevertheless needs universal criteria as a reference to justify this particularity. It is also crucial to define culture as an "encompassing" concept and to keep in mind that it is difficult to know what is cultural.
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"In addition, a shared global culture is also relevant as a global dissemination of an American or Western culture. Indeed the processes of globalization are providing fuel for a cultural imperialism, that is to say a global culture liable to be a hegemonic culture. Thus the assertion of a shared global culture seems to be linked to what Friedman describes as "the increasing hegemony of particular central cultures, the diffusion of American values, consumers goods and lifestyles" (Friedman, 1994: 195). The diffusion of dominant standard icons and references such as MacDonald's, Coca-Cola leads to think about an obvious Americanization. In a word, cultures are both confronted by a global dominance of the western culture and by the practices of global capitalism. The result is probably a decrease of cultural differences: a process which undeniably worked to the advantage of the USA and others Western nations. A striking example of this tendency of cultural imperialism is the United Nations Educations Scientific and Cultural Organization's call for a "new world information and communication order" and its politics on global culture."
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Globalization and Global Survival, 2005.
This paper discusses the effects and dangers of globalization.
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This article examines the cultural, commercial, political and environmental effects of globalization. The writer then looks at the related challenges and dangers. The writer discusses how the existence of international monopolies together with the third world sweat shops and additional factors endanger global survival. The writer further discusses that globalization's exportation of environmentally and perhaps socially unsustainable Western materialism to populous developing nations such as India and China is also worrying for the future of the planet.
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"Evidence of increasing hegemony by an ever shrinking number of multinational conglomerates is fuelling increasing concern regarding global cultural, commercial, political and environmental effects from such inequitable distribution of power. The creation of international industrial monopolies and massive fortunes of unprecedented size, accompanied as it is by equally massive down-sizing, unemployment, environmental degradation and the exponential increase of Third World sweat shops and child labor, seems to be leading to disaster on a global scale."
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The Effects of Technology, 2002.
This paper discusses the effects and benefits of technology on today's society.
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After a review of the history of technology, this paper discusses how technology affects the social, political and economic status of a nation. The author goes on to look at whether technology in each of these advanced stages of development are beneficial or non-beneficial to man.
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"Technology is a term used to refer to the inventions and innovations that are introduced in our society as human needs and wants increase. In fact, technology is technically defined as, ?the ways people use their inventions and discoveries to satisfy their needs and desires? (Beaver 1991 76). Although technology was said to have advanced when the Industrial Revolution came into being. However, it can be observed that even in ancient times, technology was already practiced and applied in the everyday activities of the ancient man. The crude tools and weapons that the earliest man had used for his food-hunting and gathering activities show how technology was already in practice, only, it is crude in form and somewhat a lower level in development as compared to technology today. When man discovered how to make fire, technology was advanced further from its ?prehistoric level,? since fire is the essential discovery man has learned to apply as technology because fire is man?s ultimate form of survival from the cold climate and food-making of men during earlier times. Through time, as man became more sophisticated, and man?s needs and wants increased, the level of advancement in technology also increased."
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Wireless Technology in Hospitals, 2003.
Study of the benefits of wireless technology in a hospital setting, as well as its disadvantages.
9,164 words (approx. 36.7 pages), 20 sources, APA, $ 189.95
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This paper examines wireless device technology within clinical settings in hospitals and considers whether the use of this technology delivers information properly and in a timely manner, or whether this type of system might actually be detrimental to the patients within the hospital. The paper analyzes the data available regarding the use of wireless technology in the hospital in an effort to determine how secure and helpful this technology will actually be, or whether there is still a great deal that needs to be discovered about it before it is fully utilized in the clinical setting.
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Review of the Literature
Methodology
Analysis of the Data
Summary, Recommendations, and Conclusion
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"Wireless devices have been around for some time, but they have only recently begun to see use in hospital settings. This is largely because of the convenience factor that they have and as hospitals have realized that they are helpful for many aspects of patient care, they have been increasingly interested in utilizing them for that purpose. The problem with getting doctors to use this technology is that they are so used to the way that things work now that they often do not want to make changes that might end up having an adverse impact on what goes on in their interactions with patients."
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Wireless Technology in the Hospital, 2005.
Examines the benefits of using wireless technology in a hospital setting.
1,429 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 47.95
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This paper covers numerous ways that wireless technology can simplify health care. It shows that both doctors and patients can benefit from its use in hospitals and ambulances. It not only makes communication within medical facilities easier and faster, but more efficient as well. Patient convenience is increased, while physician stress is reduced. The paper shows that its use is also a cost-effective solution, requiring very little effort to install. An overall improvement to health care could be achieved through the use of wireless technology in the medical field.
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"Accuracy is also increased by the use of wireless networks. According to Samuel Greengard, hospitals that have adopted wireless networks have reduced errors by as much as fifty percent. Less errors, means less chance for malpractice suits and better quality of care for the patient. Hospitals are often among the last to adapt new technologies because they work in a high-risk field were errors could cost someone?s life. But since this technology has been around long enough to prove its reliability, more hospitals should make the move to adopt this technology."
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Technology and the Elderly, 2002.
This paper examines the ways that technology has benefited the lives of the elderly.
1,135 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper explains that one of the earliest evidences of technology benefiting the elderly was the advent of reading glasses. The author relates that improving vision at night is an important safety advancement; therefore, Cadillac has created a night vision program that provides additional information to what the eyes can see. The paper stresses that another possible technology for the future would be robots that can perform basic housework tasks.
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Introduction
Past
Present
Future
Conclusion
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"Another excellent technological invention from the past was the invention of the wheelchair. The wheelchair allows mobility. In the same way the aging process reduces the ability to see, it often reduces the ability to be mobile. Whether it is arthritis, a broken bone, or other physical problems, causing the inability to get around, a wheelchair can assist. Using a wheelchair allowed those who would otherwise have been bed bound to continue their lives. Past wheelchairs were large and bulky so the elderly who used them still had restrictions about where they could go."
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