Summary of the Book Start up Nation The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle Written by Dan Senor and Saul Singer Part 1 Introduction The first chapter relates the story of Shimon Peres and Shai Agassi pitching Better Place to auto manufacturers – Better Place is re-thinking electric vehicles by making fuel stations swap out your battery with a charged one instead of pumping petrol or diesel into the car‚ highly ambitious‚ executed first in Israel‚ now in China‚ etc. Persistence This chapter
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The United Nations was an organization created after World War II. There United Nations plan was to have intergovernmental organization. They wanted this because they wanted all the nations to cooperate with everyone and all the other Nations so that there will be no problems. Now there are problems even though they came up with this idea not everyone was up for it. like some Nations were totally for it and were ready as well. Then there was others that were not so much as into it but they thought
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Dropout Nation/Five-year Plan What are my attitude and feelings toward the video? Well‚ my attitude toward it was non relatable. Thankfully I don’t go through the things they do and don’t have to worry about what they worry about. My feelings toward it is that I know that people go through this everyday. I’m very lucky I’m not one of those kids that doesn’t know if they’re getting food that night‚ where they are going to sleep‚ and if they are going to see their parents ever again. Some of the
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Inoculation Nation 1796 was a year of illness; pox-plagued people lay on their deathbed‚ gasping for their last breath. Bodies littered the streets‚ and the dead did not always receive a proper burial. With that magnitude of mortality‚ many were searching for an answer. Immunity would be the solution. However‚ the first inkling of a thought that immunity was acquired from exposure to disease originated with Thucydides in Athens‚ circa 430 B.C. He stated‚ “the sick and the dying were tended by the
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Cherokee Nation is a book written in 1830 by what appears to be someone who sympathized with the tribes in the south east. It is evident that the author of Cherokee Nation is an Indian telling the Native Americans’ story with everything that happened during the westward expansion of the White Americans in the 19TH century. Former president of the United States Thomas Jefferson thought the nation’s future depended on its westward expansion and with the Louisiana Purchase that took place in 1803‚ it
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technology; these are becoming a distraction‚ threat‚ and crutch to society. Is technology becoming so distracting that we can’t see the big picture to even know when it’s too much and can become dangerous? Are we so dependent on technology that we cannot live without it? What has technology brought us to? Not only just distraction to day-to-day tasks but it puts a wall between human connection in communicating to friends‚ associated‚ family‚ or others. Across the board‚ the average amount of time that
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The Weight of the nation #5 The movie we watched is called “The weight of the nation”. I learned that: >Worldwide obesity has nearly doubled since 1980. In 2008‚ more than 1.4 billion adults‚ 20 and older‚ were overweight. Of these over 200 million men and nearly 300 million women were obese. >35% of adults aged 20 and over were overweight in 2008‚ and 11% were obese. >65% of the world’s population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more
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Digital Nation or Digital Disaster? In the Frontline video titled Digital Nation‚ Rachel Dretzin and Douglas Rushkoff explored the impact of digital media on today’s society. In the video they cover everything from it’s impact on the brain‚ to it’s impact on students‚ to it’s impact on the military. Nothing is spared in this investigation on the effect of digital media‚ and growing up in a wired world. However the main thing I managed to take away from this film was it has had a dramatic effect
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In The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are so Rich and some are so Poor‚ David Landes sets out to elucidate the causes of the divergent destinies of different economies. In doing so‚ he presents economic history as a profoundly Eurocentric anecdote. He posits that Europe’s industrial revolution is the epicenter of modernity and the means of how some--largely western Europe and northwest Europe’s settler ex-colonies--have grown rich. He also conceives‚ that relative poverty elsewhere is
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Analysis of the BRIC Nations In his 2001 technical paper “Building Better Economic BRICs‚” Jim O’Neill‚ an economist in the Global Economic Department of Goldman Sachs‚ coined the term BRIC‚ an acronym for Brazil‚ Russia‚ India and China. According to research conducted by O’Neill‚ the BRIC nations are unique in their accelerated growth compared to other developing nations in the world. The four BRIC nations have the potential to overtake many of the more mature economies of the world
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