An 

informative speech aims to inform the audience about a specific topic.

Apersuasive speech aims to persuade the audience to perform a certain action or
convince the audience to adopt the belief or opinion of the speaker. Many speeches will
combine features of informative and persuasive speeches.
Brian Tracy suggests that you can Speak to Win in his AMACOM book. The secret lies in
following the advice of Aristotle, breaking down the essential elements of persuasion into three
parts: (1) logos or logic, (2) ethos or ethic, and (3) pathos or emotion.

Logos refers to the logic, the words, and the reasons in your argument. Says Tracy, “It is
important that everything that you say fits together like links in a chain or pieces of a jigsaw
puzzle to form a coherent statement or argument. When you think through and plan your talk,
you organize your various points in a sequence from the general to the particular, from the start
to the conclusion, with each point building on each previous point to form a persuasive
argument.”

The second aspect of persuasion—ethos—refers to your character, ethics, and your

believability when you speak. Increasing your credibility with your audience before and during
your speech increases the likelihood that listeners will accept your arguments and take action
on your recommendations.

Pathos is the emotional content of your presentation and is likely the most important. It is only
when you move people at an emotional level that you can motivate them to change their
thinking and take a particular action.

Let's review. Persuasive speeches are given with the intention of convincing an
audience to have the same point of view as the speaker. There are three types of
persuasive speech that are commonly used: policy persuasive speech, value
persuasive speech, and factual persuasive speech.

The Balagtasan: Debate in Poetic Verse

Balagtasan is a form of debate using poetic verse.  The name of the literary form itself originates from
Francisco Balagtas, a hugely influential Filipino poet from the late 1800’s.  While both the formation of the
balagtasan and the man in which it is named after are slightly outside the scope of our archeological
investigation, it is still very significant because many of the events of the early 1900’s helped to shape the
form into what it is today.
Francisco Baltazar (popularly known as Francisco Balagtas) was born on April 2, 1788 in Bigaa, Bulacan. 
He learned how to write poetry from another famous Filipino poet, José de la Cruz.  Because of him,
Balagtas was constantly pushed to develop and progress his writing.  Considered the Filipino version of
William Shakespeare, most of his early works were, like Shakespeare, comedies.  Also like Shakespeare,
his work gradually matured over time; Balagtas’ masterpiece entitled Florante at Laura is an epic written
when he was imprisoned during the 19thcentury.
This high regard given to Balagtas is the reason why the poetic form, balagtasan, is given its name.  As
stated before, the name of the form itself was coined outside the range of our research; however the
turmoil happening from the early 1900’s were influential in creating the literary form as it is today. 
Balagtasan came about, at least politically, as the manifestation of Filipino sentiment in that a sense of
self and identity was lost due to American rule.  It strives to declare independence from America by
highlighting Filipino culture such as their old customs and traditions
Maliban sa tagisan ng talino at pagbibigay ng aliw sa mga manonood, nagkaroon ang balagtasan ng
isang mas mataas na pampolitika at panlipunang tungkulin.[2] Binibigay ng mga sumasali sa balagtasan
ang kanilang saloobin tungkol sa kasalukuyang pangyayari at suliranin katulad ng ginagawa ng mga
kolumnista at patnugot ng isang pahayagan.[2] Ilan sa mga balagtasan nina De Jesus at Collantes ang
mga pampolitikang paksa katulad ng "Koalisyon at Kontra Koalisyon" na tumutukoy sa masiglang
kampanya ng noong Pangulong Manuel Quezon upang pag-isahin ang lahat ng partidong pampolitika sa
ilalim ng Partido Nacionalista na siyang partido na pamahalaan noon.

The post–World War II economic expansion, also known as the postwar economic boom, the long
boom, and the Golden Age of Capitalism, was a period of strong economic growth beginning
after World War II and ending with the 1973–75 recession.[1] The United States, Soviet Union, Western
European and East Asian countries in particular experienced unusually high and sustained growth,
together with full employment. Contrary to early predictions, this high growth also included many countries
that had been devastated by the war, such as Japan (Japanese post-war economic miracle), West
Germany and Austria (Wirtschaftswunder), France (Trente Glorieuses), Italy (Italian economic
miracle), Greece (Greek economic miracle), Taiwan(Taiwan Miracle) and South Korea (Miracle of the
Han River).

Multinational corporation
Replica of an East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company/United East India Company (VOC). The VOC is often
considered by many to be the world's first formally listed public company and the first historical model of the
multinational corporation (or transnational corporation) in its modern sense.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Most of the most notable and
influential companies of the modern-day world are publicly traded multinational corporations, including Forbes Global
2000companies.
A multinational corporation (MNC) or worldwide enterprise[9] is a corporate organization that owns or
controls production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country.[10]
A multinational corporation can also be referred to as a multinational enterprise (MNE), a transnational
enterprise (TNE), a transnational corporation (TNC), an international corporation, or a stateless
corporation.[11] There are subtle but real differences between these three labels, as well as multinational
corporation and worldwide enterprise.
Multinational corporations are subject to criticisms for lacking ethical standards, and that this shows up in
how they evade ethical laws and leverage their own business agenda with capital, and even the military
backing of their own wealthy host nation-states. They have also become associated with multinational tax
havens and base erosion and profit shifting tax avoidance activities.
A multinational corporation (MNC) is usually a large corporation incorporated in one country which
produces or sells goods or services in various countries.[12] The two main characteristics of MNCs are their
large size and the fact that their worldwide activities are centrally controlled by the parent companies.[13]
 Importing and exporting goods and services
 Making significant investments in a foreign country
 Buying and selling licenses in foreign markets
 Engaging in contract manufacturing—permitting a local manufacturer in a foreign country to
produce their products
  Opening manufacturing facilities or assembly operations in foreign countries
MNCs may gain from their global presence in a variety of ways. First of all, MNCs can benefit from
the economy of scale by spreading R&D expenditures and advertising costs over their global sales,
pooling global purchasing power over suppliers, and utilizing their technological and managerial know-
how globally with minimal additional costs. Furthermore, MNCs can use their global presence to take
advantage of underpriced labor services available in certain developing countries, and gain access to
special R&D capabilities residing in advanced foreign countries.[14]
The problem of moral and legal constraints upon the behavior of multinational corporations, given that
they are effectively "stateless" actors, is one of several urgent global socioeconomic problems that
emerged during the late twentieth century.[15]
Potentially, the best concept for analyzing society's governance limitations over modern corporations is
the concept of "stateless corporations". Coined at least as early as 1990 in Business Week, the
conception was theoretically clarified in 1992: that an empirical strategy for defining a stateless
corporation is with analytical tools at the intersection between demographic analysis and transportation
research. This intersection is known as logistics management, and it describes the importance of rapidly
increasing global mobility of resources. In a long history of analysis of multinational corporations we are
some quarter century into an era of stateless corporations - corporations which meet the realities of the
needs of source materials on a worldwide basis and to produce and customize products for individual
countries.[16]
One of the first multinational business organizations, the East India Company, arose in 1600.[17] After the
East India Company, came the Dutch East India Company, founded March 20, 1602, which would
become the largest company in the world for nearly 200 years.[18]
The main characteristics of multinational companies are:
 In general, there is a national strength of large companies as the main body, in the way of foreign
direct investment or acquire local enterprises, established subsidiaries or branches in many
countries;
 It usually has a complete decision-making system and the highest decision-making center, each
subsidiary or branch has its own decision-making body, according to their different features and
operations to make decisions, but its decision must be subordinated to the highest decision-
making center;
 MNCs seek markets in worldwide and rational production layout, professional fixed-point
production, fixed-point sales products, in order to achieve maximum profit;
 Due to strong economic and technical strength, with fast information transmission, as well as
funding for rapid cross-border transfers, the multinational has stronger competitiveness in the
world;
 Many large multinational companies have varying degrees of monopoly in some area, due to
economic and technical strength or production advantages.

The fall of the Berlin Wall. The shredding of the Iron Curtain. The end of the Cold War.
When Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the reins of power in the Soviet Union in 1985, no
one predicted the revolution he would bring.

The collapse of the Soviet Union started in the late 1980s and was complete when the
country broke up into 15 independent states on December 25, 1991. This signaled the
end of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. Mikhail
Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the Soviet Union in 1985.
Definition of epoch
1a : an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or
development

b : a memorable event or date

2a : an extended period of time usually characterized by a distinctive

development or by a memorable series of events

b : a division of geologic time less than a period and greater than an age

3: an instant of time or a date selected as a point of reference (as in astronomy)

As the world is getting more and more connected, will human be uni-cultural in
the near future? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share
knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the
world.

Answer by Balaji Viswanathan, CEO of Invento Robotics, on Quora:

The homogenizing forces are as strong as the heterogenizing forces. In short, in

the globally connected world, we might not be as homogenized as we assume to
be.

For instance, the Internet enables the homogenizing force of English as the
world’s common language. At the same time, it enables the speakers of various
small languages to get connected and build common content [like various
regional Wikipedia] like never before. Fifty years ago, were there encyclopedias
in all the regional languages? No. Most were in English. Now, you have a diverse
set of language in Wikipedia that allows knowledge creation in small languages.

In a globalized world, we tend to see McDonalds and Starbucks everywhere in

the world. But, the same globalization allows for cuisines of various nations to be
explored by people across the world. Think of all the quality Thai, Chinese, Indian
or Mexican restaurants sprouting across the world over the past twenty years.

Again, a connected world also allows one to explore different religions and
spiritual paths that were previously out of reach due to geography. You could be
sitting in Jakarta and exploring Taoism, Shintoism, Hinduism or various
African/native American religions. In the past, your choices would have been very
limited to what the local spiritual teachers could teach and what the local
publishers could print.

Globalization/interconnections are also giving a voice to people from various

cultures. In the past, you would have had to rely on the equivalent of The New
York Times or the BBC to develop your opinions and those would be the majority
opinions - highly slanted towards one culture. Now, you have the option of getting
a lot more diverse voices heard as the major filters [publishing houses
and newspaper editors] are getting replaced by more democratic forms.

Cultural Homogeneity is a measure (between zero and one) of how similar agents are
across an entire population. Cultural homogeneity is defined as the number of shared
facts across all possible pairs of agents divided by the total possible number of shared
facts across all agents in a population.
Cultural Homogeneity
The paper on which this tutorial is based is concerned with the stability of a society. To
investigate this idea, we need tools to observe the society with. One such tool, introduced
by Carley, is cultural homogeneity. Cultural Homogeneity is a measure (between zero
and one) of how similar agents are across an entire population.
Cultural homogeneity is defined as the number of shared facts across all possible pairs of
agents divided by the total possible number of shared facts across all agents in a
population. Cultural homogeneity is equal to one only if all agents know precisely the
same facts.
A society that achieves a cultural homogeneity of one is "perfectly stable."* Perfect
stability means that the society is in a steady state and no further connections can change
any agent's knowledge.
* It should be noted that perfect stability does not necessarily imply that cultural
homogeneity is equal to one. A society can also be perfectly stable because it is
composed of distinct groups of agents that do not share any facts in common and thus
cannot ever interact. In such a situation, cultural homogeneity will be less than one. Such
a society is known as disjoint. However, we will primarily be concerned with societies
that are connected, that is, not disjoint.

"Cultural heterogeneity refers to differences in cultural identity related to, for instance,

class, ethnicity, language, traditions, religion, sense of place, and many
other cultural aspects.