IBUS 3510 : international business
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Thompson Rivers University
international business (IBUS 3510)
Added on 2020-04-21
IBUS 3510 : international business
Thompson Rivers University
international business (IBUS 3510)
Added on 2020-04-21
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......... (Assignment name)Submitted by:Date:Combination:1.Case: Plastic Paradise video2.Current Events:Ocean Cleanup finds 5 TRILLION pieces of plastic are currently polluting the ocean - and theworld's rivers are to blameBlue Planet academic consultants: the message humanity cannot afford toignoreConcepts:Industrial dumpsMoral obligationsEnvironmental pollutionIrresponsible behaviour of customersInnovation
Running head: PLASTIC AND ECOLOGYTable of Contents1. Introduction:...........................................................................................................................12. Analysis and discussion of the combination:.....................................................................2a. Differences and similarities between the three literary sources:............................................2Differences between the three literary sources:.....................................................................2Similarities between the literary sources:..............................................................................3b) Political orientation behind the perspective of the materials originator:...............................5c) Development of awareness and knowledge about the video, article and book:................63. Learning outcomes:................................................................................................................7Plastic debris is harmful to marine life:.................................................................................7The FMCG companies and the consumers should use and dispose plastic responsibly:.......7Plastic causes harmful impact on the human body:...............................................................7Conclusion:................................................................................................................................8References:.................................................................................................................................9
1PLASTIC AND ECOLOGY1. Introduction:The aim of the assignment is to study the impact of plastic debris on the marineecosystem. The study is based on three literary sources. The first source is the video titled‘Plastic Paradise’ by media journalist Angela Sun, which speaks about the Midway Inlands inthe Pacific Ocean and the devastating level of plastic debris, which collect on and around itsshores. The second literary case is an article published in the English newspaper the DailyMail by Liberatore which speaks about the immense quantities of plastics which reach theocean along the biggest rivers in the world (dailymail.co.uk, 2017). The book by Charles W.Hill mentions current events like globalisation and international trade. An analysis of thesethree cases shows that though they look unrelated, they are heavily related to each other. It isthis relatedness between these three literary sources, which make it important to combinethem to realise the full meaning and benefit from them. Sun in her article speaks about thedevastating impact plastic debris has on the marine ecosystem. She states that birds, fishesand other marine mammals due to suffocation and poisoning by the plastic. These havedevastating impact on the industries like fishing and restaurant, which obtain raw materialsfrom these marine animals. The plastic break down into minute pieces, which are embeddedinto the bodies of the marine animals, and finally the human beings who eat these animals.Moreover, the nets of nylon destroy coral reefs, which form sources of food for theecosystem and medicines for fatal diseases like cancer (Holm, Eriksson & Johanson, 2015).The minute pieces of plastic enter human bodies and causes hormonal imbalances, braindamage and finally death. It is thus huge scale of pollution by plastic and its devastatingimpacts on all living things including man make the matter through the literary sourcesimportant to study (Arora et al., 2017). Thus, the impact of this large-scale pollution due toplastic and plastic nets is poisoning of the coral reefs. Fishes that in turn get the minute
2PLASTIC AND ECOLOGYplastic pieces in their bodies consume the poisonous corals. These minute pieces enter thehuman bodies when they these fishes. The plastic damages the physiological systems in thebody leading towards death. Thus, the impact of the plastic pollution in the oceans is nemesisfor all the living creatures on earth including man (Padhy & Mishra, 2015). An analysis of the video by Sun and the article by Liberatore shows that a majorportion of debris is composed of bottles, air condition parts, boxes and other packages. It canbe pointed out that this immense amount of packages belongs to goods produced by theFMCG companies all round the world. The consumers of the fast moving consumer goods(FMCG) consume the products and dump their plastic packages into rivers. These excessiveapplications of plastic in the FMCG goods have made the FMCG industry to the targetindustry for the study on impact of plastic on the oceans (Zheng, 2013).2. Current events:The current events mentioned of the three literary sources consists of a videoavailable Youtube called ‘Plastic Paradise’, a newspaper article from the internationalEnglish language daily, the Daily Mail on river pollution caused due to plastic and a book.The name of the book is ‘International Business’ by Charles W. Hill, University ofWashington. The sections that follow would analyse and discuss the similarities anddifferences between the book, the video and the newspaper article.a. Differences and similarities between the three literary sources:There are several similarities and differences between the three literary sources theauthor has chosen namely, the video, the newspaper article and the book. The following twosections would analyse these differences and similarities:
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