RPE Fact

Question 1

what is globalization

Answer 1

The geographic dispersion of industrial and service activities leads to the interconnection of business throughout the world.

Question 2

Three advantages of globalization

Answer 2

1. Encourages producers and consumers to reap benefits from deeper division of labour and economies of scale
2. Enhanced growth has led to higher per capita incomes – and helped many of the poorest countries to achieve higher growth and reduce extreme poverty
3. Consumers have a greater and cheaper choice

Question 3

Three disadvantages of globalisation

Answer 3

1 Threats to the Global Commons e.g. threats of irreversible damage to ecosystems, land degradation, deforestation, loss of bio-diversity and the fears of a permanent shortage of water.
2. Poor behaviour of some global multinationals – exploitative conditions for low wage workers, tax avoidance, failure to address environmental issues. (lead to inequality)
3. Higher Structural Unemployment in countries where production has shifted to lower cost centres and affect loacal buisness.

Question 4

Proper implementation of CSR could lead to?

Answer 4

Sales enhanced 20% and productivity increased 13% IO consultancy firm.

Question 5

Costco wholesale

Answer 5

34.7 billion dollar

Question 6

BP oil Spill

Answer 6

54% of the stock (2010)

Question 7

Reinhardt

Answer 7

could only sustain supernormal profit, if and only if it could prevent competitors from imitating its strategy.

Question 8

Amazon profit

Answer 8

514 billion

Question 9

US buyer that prefer amazon

Answer 9

89%

Question 10

Messick and Bazerman

Answer 10

Good ethical program will encourage a climate where employees can make better decision.

Question 11

Ford Pinto

Answer 11

Fuel tank fault leading to fires if rear-ended
Grush/Saunby Report

Question 12

Enron

Answer 12

“Mark to market” future anticipation of profit

Question 13

Enron Whistle-Blowing

Answer 13

2001 Sherron Watkins Vice-President of Corporate developments at Enron (Empty Shell Company)
Alert CEO Internal Inquiry
2002 Testified

Question 14

Four Element of CSR

Answer 14

Legal within law
Economic- responsible use of finance
Ethical- Act in accordance to ethical standard in other countries, even if it is legal
Philanthropic- Charitable Contribution

Question 15

Fair trade product rose by

Answer 15

19% consistently throughout different year

Question 16

What is tone at the top

Answer 16

General ethical climate created by the top executive

Question 17

Triple Bottom Line

Answer 17

Social ,economics and Environmental

Question 18

Amazon Workload

Answer 18

42% reported physical pain in their day-to-day duties – usually in the feet and lower back.

Question 19

the top 20 fossil fuel companies contribute

Answer 19

over 35% of greenhouse gas emissions in the world.

Question 20

Success in boycott

Answer 20

Nike stop working with Saga Sport, because of bad track record.

Question 21

Cop28

Answer 21

COP28 came at a crucial time for the key target to limit long-term global temperature rises to 1.5C.

Question 22

Kant The three postulates (A postulate is something you have to assume to be true in order to have a basis for reasoning about something.)

Answer 22

God.
Immortality (of the soul in an afterlife).
Free will.
‘summum bonum’

Question 23

Hedonic Calculator

Answer 23

Intensity: How strong is the pleasure?
Duration: How long will the pleasure last?
Certainty or uncertainty: How likely or unlikely is it that the pleasure will occur?
Propinquity or remoteness: How soon will the pleasure occur?
Fecundity: The probability that the action will be followed by sensations of the same kind.
Purity: The probability that it will not be followed by sensations of the opposite kind.
Extent: How many people will be affected?

Question 24

The Economist on evidence that legalising euthanasia can avoid tragedy.

Answer 24

A desperate Spanish 83-year-old threw herself out of her window after her requests for euthanasia were denied.

Question 25

US statistics on the people taking the prescription for Euthanasia

Answer 25

The Economist evidences Oregon, claiming that 1/3 of people given a prescription to be euthanised do not take it.

Question 26

Jonathan Glover three rules

Answer 26

The decision must be serious – “it must be properly thought out, not merely the result of a temporary emotional state”.

• It must be reasonable – i.e., the life should be deemed not worth living by other people.
• The circumstances that make assistance necessary must be permanent. This means that assisted suicide or regular suicide must not be a possibility in the future – the person’s need for voluntary euthanasia must remain a need.

Question 27

The Euthanasia Doctor

Answer 27

Jack Kevorkian
Janet Adkins did this, he reported it to the police once it had happened, and was charged with murder but the judge stopped it from going to trial.

Question 28

Tony Bland

Answer 28

someone who was injured in the Hillsborough football stadium disaster. He was placed on life support and was in a deep coma. After a lengthy legal debate, this was turned off. This demonstrates that the law acknowledges that doctors cannot be expected to sustain a life at all costs. (1993)

Question 29

PVS

Answer 29

Persistent Vegetative State

Question 30

Scotland

Answer 30

Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill is drafted by the Lib Dem MSP

Question 31

Daniel James

Answer 31

A 23-year-old former rugby player for England, Daniel James, committed suicide in a Swiss euthanasia clinic after becoming paralyzed from the chest down in a training accident. James had felt his body became a “prison” after the accident in 2007

Question 32

prosecution

Answer 32

14 years

Question 33

Our Brother of the Redeemer

Answer 33

The title given to visions of Mary, the mother of Jesus, which began in 1981 to six Herzegovinian Croat teenagers in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Question 34

Miracle of Fátima

Answer 34

1917 Sun appears to “dance” or zig-zag in the sky, careen towards the Earth, or emit multi-coloured light and radiant colors. According to these reports, the event lasted approximately ten minutes.
Bishop José da Silva declared the miracle “worthy of belief” on 13 October 1930

Question 35

Toronto Blessing

Answer 35

A group experience in Toronto Airport chapel in 1994 in which various phenomena were reported among the congregation.
This included laughter, falling over, crying, shaking uncontrollably, roaring, a feeling of intoxicating joy, and experiences of being uncoordinated. Evangelical charismatic

Question 36

Augustine

Answer 36

While Augustine was certainly filled with a sense of incompleteness and what he called “soul sickness” before the conversion, and while his conversion did lead to a sort of resolution of these feelings, St Augustine was 30 and so no adolescent at the time of his conversion. Further, the fruits of Augustine’s conversion demonstrate that it was not an adolescent phase or a flash-in-the-pan… it changed Christianity and so changed the world

Question 37

Nicky Cruz

Answer 37

His parents sent him to live with his brother in New York City when he was 15, and Cruz soon ran away and started living on the streets of the city. He became a member of the Mau Maus street gang, and about six months later Cruz was selected Warlord of the gang. He quickly rose to become their president.
Shortly after Cruz became the gang leader, David Wilkerson was preaching in the neighborhood when Cruz encountered him. The preacher told Cruz that “Jesus loved him and would never stop loving him”. Cruz responded by slapping Wilkerson and threatening to kill him. Wilkerson attempted again later to convert Cruz, and received the same response.
Later, Wilkerson organised an evangelistic meeting in the neighborhood with the intent of converting the Mau Maus. When Cruz heard about it, he headed with some of the members of his gang for the boxing arena where the meeting was being held, on a bus sent specially by Wilkerson. According to Cruz, when he arrived at the arena, he “felt guilty about the things that he had done” and began to pray.

Question 38

St Paul

Answer 38

St Paul on the road to Damascus saw Jesus and was converted from a Jewish persecutor of Christianity to a Christian.
Criticism of the case of St Paul: However arguably it could still be explained by mental illness. Much of Paul’s description of his experience – eg seeing a bright light, falling to the floor, being paralysed, are symptoms of epileptic seizures

Question 39

Bertrand Russell

Answer 39

“No distinction between the man who eats little and sees heaven and the man who drinks much and sees snakes”

Question 40

William James

Answer 40

“individual men in their solitude”

Question 41

Slippery Slope

Answer 41

Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering
Zoraya ter Beek, who has chronic depression, anxiety, trauma and unspecified personality disorder, expected to end her life soon

Question 42

Psuedo-Dionyisus

Answer 42

“inactivity of all knowledge”

Question 43

Dutch experience

Answer 43

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