Essays on Economic Consequences

The economic and political partnership known as the European Union was established following World War II in order to foster cooperation among European nations. Today, the EU is made up of 28 member countries which all share in various economic agreements regarding their relationships with one another. The political union was established with the goal of not only promoting trade in order to reduce the likelihood for war to break out once more within Europe, but also to establish a basis by which the member nations could work with one another in order to increase their overall prosperity. The ...

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Generally, terrorism is understood as the use of threats and violence that aims to achieve political objectives. According to The Global Terrorism Index, in 2014, the level of the terrorist attacks across the world increased by 80% (Bender, 2015). Despite the fact that regions that mostly suffer from the threats of terrorism include the ones in the Middle East, Africa, and Russia, the fight against terror is an international issue. The United States of America experiences the middle impact of terrorism and ranks 35 among 124 positions in the Global Terrorism Index 2015 Map (Bender, 2015). However, the middle ...

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Stroke is among the key healthcare problems that is associated with severe long-term disabilities, increased morbidity. In addition, stroke is associated with higher incidences of death in the United States as well as the world in its entirety. In the recent years, incidences of stroke especially among the high risk middle age adults have escalated raising serious concerns among the healthcare professionals as well as the entire public. According to CDC, stroke is among the key causes of adult disabilities and is associated with higher incidences of death as well as increased morbidity among this population (Centers for Disease ...

Fast food is cheap, mostly accessible around the corner, and available around the clock. People coming home tired after work, children whose parents are at work when they get back from school, college kids living on a low budget and individuals who don't know to cook or just too tired to cook all go to a fast food place as the waiting time is less and they get food that is cheap and filling. However, this cheap and convenient food has been linked to a lot of adverse health effects such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes and in some ...

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Concerns with avoiding the adverse consequences of Global Warming and the effects of Climate Change has increased significantly over the past decades (Deutch et al.). The leading economies such as the United States are still reluctant to adopt comprehensive climate change policies despite pledging to do so. Nor has there been an agreement with the emerging rapidly-growing economies such as India, South Korea, China, Indonesia, and Mexico on the mechanisms to adopt Greenhouse Gas (GHGs) emission constraints (US Energy Information Administration [EIA]). With Global emissions of GHGs projected to continue to increase, there is the added urgency to not ...

Sony is an electronics and entertainment large size organization based out of Japan. There have been two major hacks against Sony. The first one was in 2011where an unknown user hacked the play station network accounts and accessed all the user IDs and passwords. This was a very big risk for the users as there was a threat of access to other personal information like credit cards, email and physical address, telephone numbers etc. Second was according to a published work by Biddle, (2014), there is a very famous and big hacking ‘tragedy’ with this company. In the year ...

Trump is the leading presidential candidate of the Republican Party, and he is campaigning under the slogan of make America great again. His campaign slogan is based on several extreme economic and social policies. The economic policies of a president are mainly macroeconomics policies that affect all the components of the country’s gross domestic product. His main economic policies touch on taxes, labor supply, investments, and international trade. He looks forward to cutting individual and cooperate taxes, increasing the volume of exports, decreasing imports and increasing private investment (Trump, 1). The most popular and extreme economic policy that ...