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What is Cultural Revitalization and what is an example?
The process of affirming and promoting people’s
individual and collective cultural identity.
Ex. Reservation Dogs, Indigenous Fashion
What is Mercantilism?
An economic theory and policy from the 16th–18th centuries that aimed to maximize a nation's wealth (gold/silver) by exporting more than it imported.
Who were the Allied Powers? Who were the Axis Powers? (WW2)
• Allies: Britain, USA, Soviet Union
• Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan
What are Inalienable Rights?
Rights cannot be taken away or transferred.
What is Communism?
A political theory advocating for class equality leading to a society where all property is publicly owned and each person is paid according to their abilities and needs.
- Rejected capitalism and capitalist countries
What is Media Concentration vs Media Convergence?
Media Concentration: The vast majority of media being owned by a select few transnational corporations.
Media Convergence: Various pieces of media technology being combined into one device.
Industrial Revolution led this system to become this other system.
Previously, most goods were made by hand (Cottage Industry) but The “Factory System” relied on employing workers to run large machines, typically in anassembly line.
Who was in the Triple Entente? Who was in the Triple Alliance? (WW1)
➢ Triple Entente: Britain, France, Russia
➢ Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, Austria Hungary
Finland, Norway, New Zealand, and Sweden are the best countries for this, whereas Pakistan, South Sudan, and Iran are among the worst.
What is the Gender Gap?
Ecological Footprint…
...describes the impact people or communities have on the environment.
○ Area of earth’s surface required to sustain the amount of resources used and waste created
○ How much biologically productive land and water resources needed to survive
Techno-isolationism.
Although technology enables people to pursue their own interests, this can reduce their sense of community.
Swadeshi is...
...a call to the consumer to be aware of the violence he is causing by supporting those industries that result in poverty, harm to workers and to humans and other creatures.
What are three reasons Russia left WW1?
• Russians were ill equipped with poor quality weapons and leadership
• 4 million killed, wounded or taken prisoner after the first year
• Food and fuel shortages
• Worker rebellions; soldiers desert to join rebellions…economy collapses
Union participation is on the decline around the globe over the last number of decades due to...
...increasing reliance on outsourcing to countries that are non-unionized.
List three things the WTO does.
● Established in 1995 to increase international trade by lowering trade barriers and making trade more predictable
● Ensures that the terms of trade agreements are followed
● Settles trade disputes between governments
● Conducts trade negotiation
Companies can achieve this by increasing production and lowering costs (per unit cost).
What is Economies of Scale?
These are the two types of land claims.
Comprehensive (where treaties were never signed) and Specific (related to treaty conditions that had not been met).
List 4 of the 5 factors of Economic growth.
What is the Ingenuity Gap?
The gap between people's need for new and innovative solutions to problems and their ability to supply those solution.
What does the MAPL System stand for?
• M (music): the music is composed entirely by a Canadian
• A (artist): the music is, or the lyrics are, performed principally by a Canadian
• P (performance): the musical selection consists of a live performance that is recorded wholly in Canada, or performed wholly in Canada and broadcast live in Canada
• L (lyrics): the lyrics are written entirely by a Canadian
Acculturation is this, Hybridization is this, and Accommodation is this.
These are the three eras of globalization.
Silk Road Globalization: 325 BCE - 1400 CE
Historical Globalization: 1492 - WWII (1945)
Modern Globalization: WWII (1945) - Present
Shipbreaking - PEES
These are the four things that the ILO works to improve:
List five major changes in Europe (after 1347).