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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honesty‚ integrity‚ and bluntness that they displayed cause people to view them with honor which in turn is most likely responsible for their popularity. The qualities of a cowboy (however real they might actually be) are important to America as a nation because they symbolize what most people believe are the traits of the true American spirit—strength‚ independence‚ and self-reliance. In essence‚ it tells us that ideally we want to possess these qualities just like a cowboy since they were sort of
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unavailability of basic needs for people such as food‚ housing‚ clothes‚ rising rates of unemployment‚ worsening of the balance of payment position and the list goes on and on. It is time that someone comes up with solutions to these problems or the nation for which our ancestors fought would be lost somewhere in the midst. Terrorism has been of growing concern over the past few years. After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre‚ Pakistan agreed to join U.S in the war on terror. But who
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text book‚ Posner analyzes the work of “A Nation at Risk.” This report tells of how a curriculum is developed around economy‚ society‚ and our values in education. Posner (2003) states‚ “Americans were engaged in a bitter economic competition with foreign countries‚ and education was the key to success in that competition” (p.37). 2.
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V. The Competitive Advantage of Nations A. Overview Porter is a famous Harvard business professor. He conducted a comprehensive study of 10 nations to learn what leads to success. Recently his company was commissioned to study Canada in a report called "Canada at the Crossroads". Porter believes standard classical theories on comparative advantage are inadequate (or even wrong). According to Porter‚ a nation attains a competitive advantage if its firms are competitive. Firms become
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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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truth. And so does the Native Americans‚ “it is a struggle for clean water and sustainability. It is a struggle to leave a planet in good shape for the generations to come. It is also a struggle for the sovereignty and treaty rights of the First Nations.” They stood up for what they believe in. The months long protests at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline have proven to be victorious for the Native Americans. Or at least for now. I am pleased to hear that the Army Corp of Engineers
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technology that it is becoming a crutch. Simple day-to-day tasks are now dependent on technology in order to get the job done. Not to say that technology is a bad thing but too much of it and misusing it can be harmful. When typing or texting now a days‚ no one is worried about misspelling because of autocorrect corrects it for us. What happens when you must write physically for a job application or essay and there is no spell check software? In the classroom‚ teachers are having a
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11-13-13 Yaroslav Luchko 611 Health Homework 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
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Fast Food Nation Fast Food Nation‚ by Eric Schlosser‚ is a stark and unrelenting look into the fast food industry that has ingrained itself in not only American culture‚ but in culture around the world. There is almost no place on earth that the golden arches has not entered. Aside from Antarctica‚ there is a McDonalds on every continent‚ and the number of countries that have fast food restaurants is growing on a daily basis. Schlosser describes in detail what happens behind the scenes‚ before
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