The Bornean orang-utan species has about 40,000 animals left in the wild, a much healthier number then the Sumatran orang-utan but still not ideal. While there are millions of acres of degraded land that could be used for plantations, many oil palm companies choose to use rainforest land to gain additional funds by logging the timber first. They also use uncontrolled burning to clear land, resulting in hundreds of orang-utans being burned to death and those who survive are left with nothing to eat. Approximately the area equivalent to 300 football fields per hour is being destroyed of the rainforests where the orang-utans reside, through the conversion to
Further, if the lumber mill was closed, it would add additional power to suppliers, who would be supplying 100% of the bark, instead of their current supply of approximately 50%. If the saw mill was closed, then the whole tree would not be used, therefore going against MacTara’s Corporate Social Responsibility strategy. 5. MacTara should expand their product line to reduce reliance on local sale of lumber and volatile commodity prices . They already have the necessary equipment in order to accomplish this task and there is a demand for value-added products in both Canadian and British market.
Financial issues were discussed during the formation of the constitution and amendments in the early years of the United States. As Regan stated in his speech, taxes and trade, amongst other things, was a major concern for the country. But the Articles of Confederation which was established in 1781 did not allow the government to collect taxes or regulate trade. “No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income,” says Regan (Oct. 27, 1964), “today, 37 cents out of every dollar earned in this country is the tax collector’s share, and yet our government continues to spend 17 million dollars a day more than the government takes in.” The 16th Amendment allows the federal government to collect income tax, an issue that Regan discussed as part of the country’s formation. The Constitution gave the federal government the right to collect taxes and regulate trade.
HRLR 820 Case #25: Employee Layoffs at St. Mary’s Hospital Kim, Jungtai 1. Background St. Mary’s Hospital, which was established in 1908, is now the third largest hospital in a northwestern city. The management status had been stable since the hospital was founded, but in the recent year they encountered critical financial symptoms and met serious environmental challenges. These things have given rise to a crisis at the hospital. The Board of Directors recommended Robert Barry who has been the CEO of the hospital for 11 years that he consider laying off up to 10% of the hospital’s employees.
The New Right argue that the decline of the traditional nuclear family and the growth of family diversity are the cause of many social problems, such as higher crime rates and educational failure. They see lone-parent families as both unnatural and harmful, especially to children and they disapprove of mothers going out to work because they believe women should make caring for their family their first priority. Harry Benson’s (2006) analysis of data on the parents of over 15,000 babies born in 2000-01 found that nearly 3,000 of the mothers had become lone parents during the first three years of their child’s life. Robert Chester, also a New Right sociologist, recognises that there is a modern type of nuclear family called the ‘neo-conventional family’. He defines this family type as a dual-earner family in which both spouses go out to work.
This caused the government to layer revise the policy to allow rural couples to have two children with out loosing benefits. Chinas cultural preference for boys also caused big problem; when a couple, marries the woman enters her husbands family, this causes parents to want male children so they have someone to look after them in old age. This preference cause millions of baby girls to either be aborted, killed at birth or abandoned in orphanages where 9/10 children wouldn't live past their first year. Recent figures suggest that for every 100girls there are 127boys, this has lead to around 40million men being left with out a wife causing some extreme measures such as kidnapping and forced marriages to become common practice. The dramatic drop in population has also caused a mass imbalance of working age to dependant, china has an increasingly ageing population who
No One to Throw a Party for the People Those with power tend to dictate the social norms, rules and laws of society. This is the basis of many sociological studies. When sociologists speak about power it is mostly referring to politics and more so not referring to the common man or “day-laborer.” In this chapter that we read this week, “The 1890’s: Economic Depression and Political Crisis” this reoccurring motif of the man in power controlling how the common man lives is very evident. The 1890’s was a time when most people would hear about America as the land of opportunity and not think of a place with high unemployment rates and monopolists taking advantage of simple people just trying to feed their families. However, it was the
That created a debate between loggers and the United States government. This debate was about how the loggers needed the cut down trees to keep their jobs and how the United States government didn’t want to lose another species due to habitat destruction. Scientists had said that if they cut down all of the forest, it would take them 40 to 100 years just to rebuild how it
The full committee may then accept the recommendation of the subcommittee or hold its own hearings and prepare its own amendments. (Ginsberg, Lowi, Weir, Champagne & Harpham p. 457) The committees can also rewrite or make modifications on the legislation. Many bills that are submitted to the committee are not even considered and are left to “die”. There are times that a legislation is introduced that Congress neither expects nor wants to see become a law but they present it just to please a constituency group. Many bills are never reported out of the committee, in a typical congressional session 95 percent of the roughly 8,000 bills introduced die in committee.
It is estimated that 125,000 children are adopted domestically each year, but only 20,000 children are adopted internationally in the same amount of time. We understand the need to help the American children that have been abandoned or left behind, but what about the other children around the world? The most common answer would be, let their own people take them in, but when a country is struggling to keep their own family alive in poverty who will adopt those children? How will they survive when there is no one to care for them? The answer is they wont survive, it is estimated that 15,000 orphans die every day due to malnutrition which is completely preventable.