Task #4 - Solutions - Red Cross

Task #4 - Solutions - Red Cross


Red cross is an organization that helps out people or countries that have had problems and they try to get back what they had, if it is from a house fire to a country being destroyed like Haiti.

The impact of the Canadian Red Cross is to develop its Facing Fear school prevention program in 2002 in response to young people’s growing anxiety concerning the war in Iraq and the increasing number of terrorist attacks happening all over the world. The program was adapted from the American Red Cross Facing Fear program and translated to help youth deal with the psychological impact of conflicts and terrorism.

There are many of ways you can get involved; you can donate money, clothing, anything you have in your home that you do not use regularly to help out the people who have lost their belongings or anything that was special to them such as children, sometimes they loose their special stuffed animal and they want to have it back again, so you sometimes have to give stuffed animals. You can volunteer your time or even go and be an employee and be there everyday to go and help make different things and to help cook food for the ones that have nothing to eat, some people have nothing to do so you can make different games for them to do during the day to make them have fun and let them know that you are there if they do need anything. You can donor your blood for the people who do have life threatening things in their life and you can help by giving them your blood to help clear up some of those things.



http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=29503&tid=082

Task #3 - The Gap

The Gap

• Based in San Francisco , California.
• Founded in 1969.
• The company has five primary brands: the namesake Gap banner, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Piperlime and Athleta.
• has approximately 150,000 employees and operates 3,465 stores worldwide.
• largest specialty apparel retailer in the U.S
• Donald Fisher is the chairman of the Gap.
• Founders Donald Fisher, Doris F. Fisher
• Products Clothing
• Revenue ▲ US$14.5 Billion (FY 2009)[2]
• Operating income ▲ US$1.58 Billion (FY 2009)[2]
• Net income ▲ US$967 Million (FY 2009)[2]
• Total assets ▼ US$7.56 Billion (FY 2009)[3]
• Total equity ▲ US$4.39 Billion (FY 2009)[3]
• Divisions Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Piperlime, Athleta
• In 2003, Gap, along with 21 other companies, was involved in a class action lawsuit filed by sweatshop workers in Saipan.
• A settlement of 20 million dollars was reached whereby The Gap did not admit liability.
• In spring 2006, they released a special RED collection, including a T-shirt manufactured in Lesotho from African cotton.

 

Task #2 - Decolonization- Africa

Decolonization of Africa

      

       European powers divided Africa and its resources. After the war, African colonies were still considered "children" and "immature" therefore democratic government was only introduced at the local levels.

      As a result of colonialism and imperialism, Africa suffered long term effects, such as the loss of important natural resources like gold and rubber, economic devastation, cultural confusion, geopolitical division, and political subjugation.
       Europeans often justified this using the concept of the White Mans Burden an obligation to "civilize" the peoples of Africa.

Developing & Developed Cartoon

Task #1 - Global Economy Today

There are four different classifications in the developed and developing countries. The first two classifications are in the developed sections, the first is the richest of them all such as USA, Japan, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. All these countries in the first developed country are capitalist. In the second developed countries are Cuba and Yugoslavia, they still have a lot. They are socialist nations of former USSR and Eastern Europe. Mixed economies and wealthy, they are managed by the government and they are also experimenting with free market economies.

The next couple places are in the developing section, the third is the ones that are poor and they are struggling to use their resources to raise their economic levels, these countries are Mexico and Saudi Arabia. Most of these people are poor and uneducated. The fourth and the last one of them all are the "poorest of the poor" they have lack of natural and human resources. The country wants to achieve higher dreams of living up in the second world, these countries that the poorest of the poor are Ethiopia and Haiti.