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Brittany Flores
BA 101 02
Dr. Bacon
October 27, 2017
Book Review 2: The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid The "Base of the Pyramid" or the "Bottom of the Pyramid" (BoP) is a phrase that is used to describe a socio-economic classification for the 4-5 billion people who live in developing countries with an annual income that is less than $1,500. It is also a developing field of business strategy that focuses on products, services, and enterprises that serve those 4-5 billion people. The efforts in trying to solve the issue of poverty have been misguided. The thought that countries are poor because they have no resources, or the idea that wealthy countries can end poverty with handouts, are sadly, false. The poor are not poor because they …show more content…

The first tier holds 85% of the world’s wealth, but only 20% of the population is a part of that group; the people in this tier typically earn more than $20,000 per year. Most of today's global companies focus on tier one. The second and third tiers are held by the 1.5 billion people globally, who make an annual income between $1,500 and $20,000. The final tier (the bottom of the pyramid), contains the 4 billion people who make less than $1,500 a year. They do not have access to global markets, and therefore have to pay more for goods and services. Large companies do not see them as a feasible market, but this group actually represents the biggest market opportunity in the world, if companies can offer affordable goods and services more …show more content…

This means they have to pay huge amounts of interest to local money lenders, which makes it practically impossible to generate opportunities to create wealth. If lending organizations are able to consider local customs and networks, they could provide cost effective opportunities for the poor to generate sustainable incomes. In a shantytown near Mumbai, India, for example, local moneylenders charge 600% to 1,000% interest. A bank might charge 25% interest, make a very respectable profit and still offer shantytown residents a superior economic alternative. Grameen Bank started as a small community lending organization, and as of 2011 provides loans to more than 25 million people around the world, with a 95% repayment success rate. The center of their success was their ability to focus on local solutions and

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The factual truth, that the 6,000 members of the “superclass” run the economics worldwide, which misshapes or distorts the entire concept of “merit”. The global stratification structure, has placed these powerful elite, at the top of the ladder. They use their political and economic pressures to control other nations, for additional

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Baek, Y. (2008). What hinders teachers in using computer and video games in the classroom? Exploring factors inhibiting the uptake of computer and video games. Cyberpsychology & behavior: The impact of the internet, multimedia and virtual reality on behavior and society, 11(6), 665-71.

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References ATD | The World's Largest Talent Development Association. (n.d.). Retrieved September 27, 2015, from https://www.td.org The Association for Talent Development (ASTD) is a professional membership organization supporting those who develop the knowledge and skills of employees in organizations around the world. They support the talent development profession by providing trusted content in the form of research, books, webcasts, events, and education programs.

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http://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-014-9329-6 The main purpose of this article was to determine if there was a discrepancy between gays and lesbians raising a child and a man and women raising a child. The key question of this article was, does the wellbeing of a child in a same-sex marriage differ from that of a different-sex marriage? This article was an analysis of the findings and critiques of literature on child wellbeing and same sex parents. Also analyzed were over forty studies on the controversial topic.

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Esea. " No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. " Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. N.p., 01 Jan. 2011. Web. 27 Mar. 2017.

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Type of Article Dobmeier R. A. & Reiner S. M. (2012). Spirituality in the counselor education curriculum: A national survey of student perceptions. Counseling and Values, Apr 2012 57 (1) 47. Type of Research

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1) The stakes of our project are the lives of African-American women who are put behind bars for non-violent offenses, specifically drug offenses. We are directing our podcast towards law students who are looking to become public defenders and district attorneys. With that being said, the average public defender and district attorney are not familiar with the lives of the people they prosecute and defend. Nor are most of them familiar with the hardships drug offenses cause African-American families because of The War on Drugs.

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This topic can fit many different sociological theories, but the theory of stratification fits this topic very well. Stratification is the ranking of people and their rewards they receive based on wealth, power or prestige. Money fits this theory because the status of how much money a person makes places them into hierarchy’s. There are three main classes that represent the economic standings of people are the high, middle and low classes. Due to the ideology that money runs the world, wealth can influence the other two aspects of stratification.

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Power, A et al (2011) Family Futures; Childhood and poverty in urban neighborhoods, 1 edn., Bristol: The Policy Press. This book is based on research that focused on over 200 families who live in low income areas. These type of neighbourhoods have been poor, working class areas for a long time. New Labour (1998) promised to the communities that no one would be disadvantaged by where they live.

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A study done by authors, Faye Mishna, Marion Bogo, and Jami-Leigh Sawyer, examines student interns and undergraduate student clients who utilized cyber counseling. They were asked to discuss the benefits and challenges that emerged from cyber counseling. The authors stated that the cyber world provides young people with unprecedented opportunities for communication with others both in and out of their existing face-to-face social networks (Mishna, Marion, and Sawyer, 2015). Research has shown that online therapies are more effective and satisfying than face-to-face therapy. Cyber counseling offers greater accessibility and flexibility.

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In this article, Ferriter (2009) reveals many benefits from the use of technology in the classroom with our 21st-century learners. The resources and suggestions mentioned throughout this reading will assist teachers in ways to avoid problems and becoming engaging instructors by using technology in innovative ways. What I found was so innovative by this approach was by creating a network of innovative co-learners where collaboration takes place regularly, Ferriter (2009), is able to experiment with digital connections without ever meeting other teachers in person. Not only is this beneficial for students and teachers all over the world, but also simple. What I found was unique and useful was the worldwide collaboration that helps teachers explore skills and dispositions that assisted with the network cooperation by creating shared content.

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Perihan Amged Dr. Salwa Youssef ENG 102 18 April, 2015 Terrorism: Powerful Education is One Efficient Tool to Fight Terrorism: A Research Paper Outline I. Abstract: II. Introduction: A. Topic sentence: Terrorism is the danger alert of the century, which draws people’s attention nowadays to a very big extent. Terrorism is the unauthorized use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. B. Historical background: a) Terrorism act actually began after the French revolution by Maxmilien Robespierre.

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The textbook reviewed was Pearson’s World History, The Modern Era, 2016 edition. The textbook and additional programs included were created through collaborative efforts between educators, social studies experts, and students (Ellis & Esler, 2016). The Hazleton Area School is a district that educates a student population of almost 10,900 students. The district employs more than 700 teachers (Hazleton Area School District, 2017). So needless to say the purchase of new text books at the beginning of the 2016-2017 school was an enormous undertaking and a relief for educators to be able to utilize an up to date textbook that incorporates technological opportunities for the student, bringing social studies into the digital era (Sedon, 2017).

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Monetarily this is a world of extremes. Some people have billions of dollars, as well as those who have nothing. Chapter 6 discusses the fact that in 2013, one in five people on this planet lives in extreme poverty (making less than $1.25 a day), while there are 1,426 billionaires (173). There are many consequences of poverty and economic

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Indisputably, a great number of high income countries are in this position because of MNCs, which have existed since the 17th century; a 2017 report shows that eight people, all of whom are founders or CEOs of MNCs, own the same amount of wealth as the bottom half of the global population, and are mostly from countries of high development. Indeed, a country must be moderately well developed economically to create the safety net needed to form a just society. Verily, this expresses a vast amount of inequality within the global economic system, as to imagine that this wealth difference is just is absurd; one must question how it is possible for eight people to collectively hold as much merit as 3.6 billion people. In comparison, in 2014 the 85 richest people held the same amount of wealth as the bottom half of the population; therefore it is manifest that inequality is a dominant trend. Furthermore, this injustice rings greater when one considers that, for a majority of vastly successful MNCs, this amount of wealth has been created partly due to the labour of those 3.6 billion people, 1.6 billion of whom are in absolute poverty.

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