Relief organisations and aid agencies

Aid agencies

 

This cartoon drawn by "geek and poke" deals with the issue of offshoring.  We can see two guys talking about the fact that they had to "move to the next country" as one of them says. By that he means that he has to change his factories' location because in the country where they are, people wanted to get paid. The cartoonist here mocks the fact that factory owners already give jobs to people in poor countries , but the people ask for too much since they want to get paid which is funny because when you work for someone , you're suppose to get paid( exept if you're doing humanitarian work). I think that the funiest part is the reaction of the second guy , when the first one tells him that the workers asked to get paid , the other guy is astonished as he responds "unbelievable" like if getting paid is something wierd when you work.

This cartoon drawn by Matson also deals with the issue of offshoring , on the left we can see Mitt Romney's grandsons sitting on a giant yatch, and on the right we can see Mitt Romney hiding his money in the Caïman islands as he tells his grandsons to offshore their money .

POST 16: EXCHANGES IN REAL/PHYSICAL SPACES

SPACES & EXCHANGES 

1.INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION

Immigration is the movement of people into a country to which they are not native in order to settle there, especially as permanent residents or future citizens. Immigrants are motivated to leave their native countries for a variety of reasons, including a desire for economic prosperity, political issues, family re-unification, escaping conflict or natural disaster, or simply the wish to change one's surroundings.

2.MIXED/HYBRID LANGUAGES

A mixed language is a language that arises through the fusion of usually two source languages, normally in situations of thorough bilingualism, so that it is not possible to classify the resulting language as belonging to either of the language families that were its sources. Although the concept is frequently encountered in historical linguistics from the early 20th century, attested cases of language mixture, as opposed to code-switching, substrata, or lexical borrowing, are quite rare. Furthermore, a mixed language may mark the appearance of a new ethnic or cultural group.

3. HUMAN INTERACTION/INTERDEPENDENCE

An interpersonal relationship is a strong, deep, or close association or acquaintance between two or more people that may range in duration from brief to enduring. This association may be based on inference, love, solidarity, regular business interactions, or some other type of social commitment. Interpersonal relationships are formed in the context of social, cultural and other influences. The context can vary from family or kinship relations, friendship, marriage, relations with associates, work, clubs, neighborhoods, and places of worship. They may be regulated by law, custom, or mutual agreement, and are the basis of social groups and society as a whole.

4.TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS

Technology transfer, also called transfer of technology (TOT), is the process of transferring skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing and facilities among governments or universities and other institutions to ensure that scientific and technological developments are accessible to a wider range of users who can then further develop and exploit the technology into new products, processes, applications, materials or services. It is closely related to (and may arguably be considered a subset of) knowledge transfer. Horizontal transfer is the movement of technologies from one area to another. At present[when?] transfer of technology (TOT) is primarily horizontal. Vertical transfer occurs when technologies are moved from applied research centers to research and development departments.

5. OUTSOURCING/OFFSHORING

Outsourcing includes both foreign and domestic contracting,[5] and sometimes includes offshoring (relocating a business function to another country).[6] Financial savings from lower international labor rates can provide a major motivation for outsourcing/offshoring.

6. BRAIN DRAIN

Human capital flight is an Economics term equivalent to the Sociology term, brain drain, which refers to the emigration of intelligent, well-educated individuals to somewhere for better pay or conditions, causing the place they came from to lose those skilled people, or "brains." Typically, emigrating brains have learned English and have moved to the United Kingdom, the US or some other English-speaking country. An example is Albert Einstein. Brain drain is common in developing nations, particularly in former African colonies of the United Kingdom,[1] the island nations of the Caribbean,[2] and in centralized economies such as the former East Germany and the Soviet Union. China and India have recently been discovered to be at the top of the list of countries with skilled students of English leaving.

7. INTERNATIONAL/GLOBALIZED TRADE

International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories.[1] In most countries, such trade represents a significant share of gross domestic product (GDP). While international trade has been present throughout much of history (see Silk Road, Amber Road, Salt road), its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries. It is the presupposition of international trade that a sufficient level of geopolitical peace and stability are prevailing in order to allow for the peaceful exchange of trade and commerce to take place between nations.

8. MASS/SUSTAINABLE/ECO TOURISM

Mass tourism : Sustainable tourism is envisaged as leading to management of all resources in such a way that economic, social and aesthetic needs can be fulfilled while maintaining cultural integrity, essential ecological processes, biological diversity and life support systems

Sustainable tourism:Sustainable tourism is envisaged as leading to management of all resources in such a way that economic, social and aesthetic needs can be fulfilled while maintaining cultural integrity, essential ecological processes, biological diversity and life support systems

Ecotourism: Ecotourism, also known as ecological tourism, is responsible travel to fragile, pristine, and usually protected areas that strives to be low-impact and (often) small-scale. It helps educate the traveler; provides funds for conservation; directly benefits the economic development and political empowerment of local communities; and fosters respect for different cultures and for human rights.Take only memories and leave only footprints is a very common slogan in protected areas.[40] Tourist destinations are shifting to low carbon emissions following the trend of visitors more focused in being environmentally responsible adopting a sustainable behavior

9. HUMAN SMUGGLING/TRAFFICKING

Human smuggling: People smuggling (also called human smuggling) is "the facilitation, transportation, attempted transportation or illegal entry of a person or persons across an international border, in violation of one or more countries' laws, either clandestinely or through deception, such as the use of fraudulent documents"

Human trafficking: Human trafficking is the trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extraction of organs or tissues, including for surrogacy and ova removal. Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally.

10. ARMS TRADE/TRAFFICKING

Arms trade: The arms industry is a global business that manufactures weapons and military technology and equipment. It consists of commercial industry involved in research, development, production, and the service of military material, equipment, and facilities. Arms producing companies, also referred to as defense contractors or military industry, produce arms mainly for the armed forces of states. Departments of government also operate in the arms industry, buying and selling weapons, munitions and other military items. Products include guns, ammunition, missiles, military aircraft, military vehicles, ships, electronic systems, and more. The arms industry also conducts significant research and development and provides other logistics and operations support.

Arms trafficking: Arms trafficking, also known as gunrunning, is the illegal trafficking or smuggling of contraband weapons or ammunition. What constitutes legal trade in firearms varies widely, depending on local and national laws.

11. ILLEGAL DRUG TRADE

Drug dealing is the exchange of illegal drugs for payment. The illegal drug trade is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs that are subject to drug prohibition laws. Most jurisdictions prohibit trade, except under license, of many types of drugs through the use of drug prohibition laws.

12. RURAL-URBAN/URBAN-RURAL MIGRATION

Rural-urban migration: Urbanization is a population shift from rural to urban areas, "the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas", and the ways in which each society adapts to the change.

Urban-rural migration: Counterurbanization is a demographic and social process whereby people move from urban areas to rural areas. It first took place as a reaction to inner-city deprivation and overcrowding.

13.  UPWARD SOCIAL/GEOGRAPHIC MOBILITY

Upward social mobility: Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households, or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society. It is a change in social status relative to others' social location within a given society.

Geografic mobility: Geographic mobility is the measure of how populations move over time. Geographic mobility, population mobility, or more simply mobility is also a statistic that measures migration within a population. Commonly used in demography and human geography, it may also be used to describe the movement of animals between populations.

14. RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS/AID AGENCIES

Relief organizations:an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas

Aid agencies: An aid agency is an organisation dedicated to distributing aid. Many professional aid organisations exist, both within government (e.g. AusAID, USAID, DFID, EuropeAid, ECHO), between governments as multilateral donors (e.g. UNDP) and as private voluntary organizations (or non-governmental organisations, (e.g. ActionAid, Ducere Foundation, Oxfam, World Vision). The International Committee of the Red Cross is unique in being mandated by international treaty to uphold the Geneva Conventions.

15. STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAMS

A student exchange program is a program in which students from a secondary school or university study abroad at one of their institution's partner institutions. A student exchange program may involve international travel, but does not necessarily require the student to study outside of his or her home country. For example, the National Student Exchange program (NSE) offers placements throughout the United States and Canada.[2]

16. GLOBAL CITIES/GLOBAL CULTURAL EVENTS

Global cities:A global city, also called world city or sometimes alpha city or world center, is a city generally considered to be an important node in the global economic system. The concept comes from geography and urban studies and rests on the idea that globalization can be understood as largely created, facilitated, and enacted in strategic geographic locales according to a hierarchy of importance to the operation of the global system of finance and trade.

Global cultural events: Nebuta Festival, Japan 

17.GLOBAL WARMING

Global warming and climate change can both refer to the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects, although climate change can also refer to any historic change in climate. Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming

POST 12: School shootings in the USA

This website has a LOT of information about the Columbine High School shooting from the 4/20/1999, the information we can find on this website goes from a resumé of what happened to 911 calls transcripts and videos of the event. I think that the call transcripts and the videos are very interesting because when reading the transcripts for example , you can see the people's reactions to what was happening and you realise that some people don't always react the way we could think they would. This makes me think about how I would react if I were in such a situation and  I think that in such a situation you really learn what kind of person someone is because in your daily life you can pretend to be someone you're not , for instance, in their daily lives some people act like thugs but maybe in a situation like this they would be in shock and cry. The videos are also something I find interesting because you can see how it really happened because in some movie like Zero Day (2003) -which is a film that gives us a good idea of how things happen- still isn't the same as seeing the tapes from the event which are much more shocking.

Eric and Dylan in the school cafeteria during the event.

Students in the cafeteria running away after being alerted of the threat.

The partially-detonated propane bomb in a duffel bag left behind by the shooters blackened the floor and set off the overhead sprinklers.

As this website shows us the three main reasons for school shootings are :

-They want revenge on the people that hurt them.

-Other kids make fun of them , pick on them or bully them.

-They don't value life.

Out of the three main reasons , the two main ones are because people want to get revenge on bullies, so for all you bullies out there reading this,stop, now. It might make you feel good but it might also get you killed so if you don't do it to have a clean conscience , do it to save your life.

THE US GANG CULTURE

This document is a poster from an anti-gun campain carried out by Bill Brady from 1974 and Dan Gross took over on 2012.  In the poster we can see the number of people murdered by guns in one year in 7 countries. We can see that the first six countries go from 17 deaths in Finland to 200 in Canada and the last one is the shocking with 9,484 in the US.We can also see a gun which is painted with the colors of the American flag. By doing this, the campain wants people to fight against the second amendment which is the right to bear arms since it kills almost 10,000 people every year. But , compared to the poster from the same campain in 2004 we can see the same things but some elements change such as the gun which is diferent , the countries and the numbers, even though the US was at that time the first in the list aswell, the number of deaths was higher, which means that the campain works because the death toll went from 11,344 in 2004 to to the latest one. 

This graph is divided into two parts, the first one is the one on the left where we can see the gun murder by rate in the top 10 countries and we can see that the numbers are really high like in the case of Honduras which is the first, in Honduras almost 70 out of 100,000 people are killed by guns. On the bottom of this list we can see the USA positioned as the 26th country where guns kill the most. It is quite anormal to see a country like the USA in the top 30 of this because it's a developped country and should not have these problems.

The second part of this graph is the right one , where countries are ranked by HDI ( Human Development Index). We see that the USA is 4th on the list but it is the one with most gun murders a year with 3.2 out of 100,000 when a country like Japan ,which is under the USA in the HDI rank , has 0 out of 100,000 people killed a year. 

In this cartoon we can see two people, one who represents the gun lobby and the other one represents the congress and behind them we can see the Capitol with blood going all the way down the stairs. Since the Capitol represents the Congress because it's their seat, we can imagine that the man on the left representing the gun lobby killed all the people in the congress who weren't happy with the gun laws , by doing this the cartoonist wants to criticise the Gun Lobby , we can even see the man on the left bribing the one on the right.

In this cartoon , we can see a statue on the left with a writing next to it that says " Second amendment as defined by the founding fathers" , the statue represents a man from the time of the founding fathers with a rifle in his hands, but on the right side we can see a man which is "fully loaded" ( has a lots of guns) and is standing on a bunch of ammo boxes, next to him we can see the writing " Second amendment as defined by the NRA". 

Here, the cartoonist is critisizing the fact that the NRA made a business out of the right to bear arms, and people no longer have a single gun to protect themselves but they have many , and some of them just collect them for fun , but guns are not suppose to be something fun and something you collect just like baseball cards.

Free post

Today I chose to show you this video because I think it's really funny and in the same time criticizes society very well. The video wants to criticize racism in nowadays society, but instead of doing it in a serious or violent way, Key and Peele do it in a funny way, in case you don't know Key and Peele , they are two comedians from Comedy Central who do funny videos to laugh about anything but never in an offensive way, by dowing this they show we can laugh about anything without ever offensing anyone. At the beginning of the video we can see a white woman and a white man presenting the news, and talking about "black ice" but the whole pun of the video is the fact that "black ice" sounds like "black guys", so after these two anchormen talk negatively about black ice , the weatherman and the reporter who are both afroamericans try to justify the fact that black ice didn't really choose to be there (just like black people didn't choose their lives), meanwhile the anchormen continue talking negatively about black ice making the reporter and the weatherman go crazy. And at the end of the video , when we think everything is over, the anchorwoman switches to the next part of the daily report whith the question: " Why is America being ruined by black people?". This video clearly criticizes racism in society which makes us easly relate it to the notion of social progress"