We Are The World

Introduction 2 The Link between Corruption and Business Ethics 2 The Corruption Perceptions Index 3 The Classification: Types and Distinctions 4 Organizations Dealing with Corruption 5 Corruption from the Social Point of View 6 Integrative Social Contracts Theory 6 a) Violating a Microsocial Norm 7 b) Violating an Authentic Norm 8 c) Violating a Hypernorm 9 Corruption from the Legal Point of View 10 The Main Players 11 a) The State 11 b) The Media 11 c) The Society 12…

Readings Case Studies Data CSR Fad or Reality? We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has human face. Between a world which condemns a quarter of the human race to starvation and squalor, and one which offers everyone at least a chance of prosperity, in a healthy environment. Between a selfish freefor-all in which we ignore the fate of the losers, and a future in which the strong and successful accept their…

Christian Revitalization for the Early Twenty First Century. Lexington, Kentucky, USA: Emeth Press. ISBN 978-1-60947-018-0. Revitalization Movements, Social Change, and Justice: Brazil's Toca de Assis in Global Perspective Sílvia R.A. Fernandes Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Bryan T. Froehle Saint Thomas University, Miami, USA Studying trends among Pentecostals, Reformation-based traditions, Catholics, and other major groupings of world…

THE MORAL FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICS by Ian Shapiro (Yale University) Substance of the course: the moral foundations of politics, of political argument. Explore some traditions: Enlightenment and Anti- Enlightenment Enlightenment. Two ideas 1) Basing the theories of politics on SCIENCE. 2) Individual freedom is the most important political good. Three traditions: utilitarian, Marxist and contratualist. Utilitarianism: maximize the greatest happiness of the greatest number.…

Fifty Million Farmers by Richard Heinberg (Note: This is the abbreviated text of a lecture by Richard Heinberg delivered to the E. F. Schumacher Society in Stockbridge, Massachusetts on October 28, 2006) There was a time not so long ago when famine was an expected, if not accepted, part of life. Until the 19th century—whether in China, France, India or Britain—food came almost entirely from local sources and harvests were variable. In good years, there was plenty—enough for seasonal…

The World Is Ugly These are the eyes and the lives of the taken These are their hearts but their hearts don’t beat like ours They burn, cause they are all afraid, for everyone of us There’s an army of them, but you’ll never fight alone Cause I wanted you to know That the world is ugly, but you’re beautiful to me Well are you thinking of me, now? These are the nights and the lights that we faded These are the words, but the words aren’t coming up They burn cause they are hard to say

British x American English "England and America are two countries separated by a common language." (George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer - 1856-1950) Introduction English is spoken differently on both sides of the Atlantic. Over the years, the differences between British and American English have given rise to much heated debate and discussion. Modern British English is heavily influenced by American English, so some contrasts are disappearing. Pronunciation is sometimes very…

biomedicine in the context of a global higher education area Antonio Liras* and Alicia Arenas Abstract The University is tasked with drawing together, transmitting and maintaining knowledge, while creating an area where the ethical "sense" required for working in the field of Biology and Biomedicine can be provided. Although scientific knowledge is present on an overwhelming scale in nature and, therefore, its discovery is unceasing, this does not mean that, as a human being, the…

The Cruise Industry The Cruise Industry Sailing has always been something that attracted the man, to explore new horizons or even to enjoy the charm that is a sea voyage. In the second half of the 19th century, the world has developed an appetite for travel but travelling by sea was nothing new. The first passenger transatlantic happened in the beginning of the 19th century, when a U.S. ship crossed the Atlantic aided by a steam engine. S. S. Savannah, from the U.S. city with the same name

and understand the basic notions of “AXIOLOGY”, (from Greek ἀξίᾱ - axiā-= "value, worth"; and -λόγος -logos -= study). Been the philosophical study of value, it studies mainly two kinds of values: ethics and aesthetics. Ethics investigates the concepts of "right" and "good" in individual and social conduct. Read as much as you can about AXIOLOGY and also FORMAL AXIOLOGY = the attempt to lay out principles regarding value with mathematical rigor. 2- Research and study the…