*MGSC 1205* MIDTERM EXAM Winter 2013 Wednesday Feb. 27‚ 2013 TIME ALLOWED 75 min. Please read the questions carefully! Show your methodology‚ final answers carry near zero points. There are 6 pages including the cover page in this exam. Please make sure all pages are attached. TURN YOUR CELL PHONE OFF!! Student Name: ___________________________________________ Student number: ____________________________ Section: _____ Question | Maximum mark |
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Did you know that name Venezuela is from the italian name “Venezuelio” which means “pinnola venizio” and that translates to “Venice”. Have you ever wanted to travel to another country? Venezuela perhaps? Venezuela is a interesting and beautiful place to visit and live. The culture‚ weather‚ animals and people of Venezuela are like nothing else in the world. The land in Venezuela is very beautiful yet majestic and mysterious. It has a lot of different landforms. It has things ranging from volcanoes
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better than the other. Which is better for individuals? Which is better for people as a whole‚ or as a country? Many countries have had different results. Some countries have had socialism and failed miserably. Yugoslavia or a more recent example‚ Venezuela have shown that socialism does not work for the most part. Countries such as China‚ or ourselves have shown that capitalism or a “free market” system works...right? Truth is‚ it is highly debatable. After all‚ most Americans can not even afford
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Venezuela is amidst a parlous social‚ political‚ and economic crisis marked by severe food and medicine shortages‚ soaring crime rates‚ and a quasi-dictatorship. Patricia C. Marquez‚ an Associate Professor in the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA) in Caracas‚ Venezuela‚ wrote The Street is My Home: Youth and Violence in Caracas with the intent of suffusing information about the Venezuelan Crisis in order to create global attention
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class rift played part in frustrating the members of the Creole Elite towards action‚ for example‚ Simon Bolivar. It created a foundation of tension that helped lead people like Bolivar to liberate Venezuela‚ Colombia‚ and Ecuador and gain the independence of Gran Colombia. The liberation of Venezuela and Colombia was a war against royalists and patriots‚ with the peninsular Spaniards almost always falling into the category of Royalist and the Creole people falling in either category‚ usually depending
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“The devil himself is in the house. The devil came here yesterday and it smells of sulfur still today." Hugo Chávez said on September 10th‚ 2006; defying President Bush in the United Nations (U.N.) assembly. Chávez as president of Venezuela since 1999‚ he defied the world by insulting Bush and other high rank political leaders. He has influenced governments of other countries by the power gained by oil such as Bolivia‚ Peru and Iran that has also defied the U.S. by selling military supplies to Iraqis
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The economy of Venezuela is surprising well for a South American country. Typically‚ when you think of the economies of South American countries you think that they are poor and dismal with high unemployment rates and squander. However‚ Venezuela has an upper middleclass economy due to the oil production of the country. In fact‚ oil revenues account for approximately ninety-five percent of export revenue for the entire country. Oil is also twelve percent of Venezuela’s gross domestic product‚ or
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Wednesday‚ for instance‚ we gave the Venezuelan flag to the 555 athletes representing our country at the XVI Bolivarian Games in Sucre‚ there in our beloved Bolivia. I am more than convinced that they will continue heightening and dignifying the name of Venezuela. It is a new moral force‚ a sacred fire burning in the hearts of these brothers and sisters of the homeland. The unpatriotic scoundrels wanted to distort an order I gave last Sunday to the honorable soldiers of our Bolivarian National Armed Force
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CASE 12: CONSIDERATION OF DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT 1. Introduction to Direct Foreign Investment (DFI) and its benefits 2.1 Introduction to DFI 1.1.1 DFI is an integral part of an open and effective international economic system and is seen as a source of economic development‚ income growth and employment. A firm which obtains DFI would be beneficial by new marketing channels‚ cheaper production facilities‚ access to new technology‚ products‚ skills and financing. 1.1.2 For all of
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role in Hispanic America’s successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire‚ and is today considered one of the most influential politicians in the history of the Americas. Simon Bolivar is an influential leader not only to people in Venezuela but to all the other leaders that wants to free their country from other rulers. Simon Bolivar was an excellent military commander‚ a firm man‚ an inspirational leader‚ and a political thinker. Above all he was a man of action. He promised to free
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