Book Report on Sun Tzu: Art of War and Management

Times have changed, and so has the family, the community and our environment. And these changes have impacted our lives and earth immeasurably. This is where the factor greed comes in to play, the need for more. This need for more called for extensive measures, measures like fertilizers, pesticides and equipment to work the ground and harvest the crops became necessity. Agriculture became a booming business that did not and still does not promote the well-being of the employee nor the individual let alone the family unit and community. Since 1950 an average farm size has doubled, but the number of laborers decreased substantially and the number of small local farmers has been cut in half. Farmers have been forced to become more efficient and there 's been a reliance on greater chemicals and technology, which has become very extensive and expensive. Sadly, what has been short term expansion has become a long-term threat (Trautmann, 2012). This greed driven increase has led to subtle damaging ramifications that most people are ignorant to. Their needs are being met as quality is being forsaken. Our environment is being squandered. Selfishness abounds.

Today, no one seems to give much value of literary works or reading. Not because it doesn’t give anything beneficiary, but because not everyone had the urged to at least finish a book. We now live in a world where social medias almost dominates our daily activities. It’s unlikely to have a place for us to consume a non-fiction or fiction book. As absurd as it sounds but that’s how people often think. We now live in an egalitarian society, where everyone is given the freedom and right of its own.

1 Farmers may not totally understand the product value. They may not easily accept new product that they have never heard about.

The author initiates her first argument to be that in reality we are all consumers of war, thus connected to war. We are connected through our investment practices,

New mechanized farming techniques led farmers to be able to increase their profits (Document C). With the help of the new technology for farming, farmers produced more crops than ever. However, the overproduction of wheat and the Great Depression is what unfortunately led to the reduced market prices. As a result, the wheat market was swamped, and people were too poor to buy. Furthermore, due to the great loss, farmers were unable to earn back what they produced, so instead they expanded their fields in an effort to turn their unfortunate circumstance into a profit. However, the prairies they covered with wheat caused the grass to slowly disappear and the fields were left bare (Document

Mature company, has been around for more than 15 years, simple business structure – manufacturing and merchandising, heavily based on inventory sales, however it is highly prone to competition in this industry. The intensity of rivalry is very high in this industry.

thing, but this was bad for the farmer, lower prices meant that the farmer had to grow enormous

Many of the people who physically and/or tortured other people during the Cultural Revolution were never actually punished or judged for what they did after the Cultural Revolution ended. At the end of the memoir, Ji-li wrote “Those who persecuted others, even beat or tortured them, were victims too, after all.” (page: 270) This quote is very important because it might’ve been weird for some people because the torturers were not punished.

As a farmer you need to watch the changing prices for the products. They use different actions to keep themselves safe from unpredictable changes in the markets. Farmers also track disease and weather conditions closely, because disease and bad weather may have a bad blow on crops or animal health. When farmers plan ahead they may be able to store their crops or keep their animals to take

farmers, and the reduced use of herbicides and pesticides. It is a completely different method

Meanwhile, agricultural reformers advised farmers to rotate their crops, conserve the soil, use fertilizers, adopt new crops, improve livestock breeds, and use the latest machinery. Although a few farmers practiced soil conservation by rotating crops or growing legumes, they just simply plowed up new lands when the fertility of their fields declined. Of the three main components of production—land, labor, and capital—land was the cheapest, so it made economic sense in the short run to exploit the soil to the fullest (Fite 28).

Today that push of farmers to leave their rural areas and move to the city can be associated with an inability to compete with large corporations. These large companies have the resources and ability to undercut and

Throughout the ages of history, there were many wars that were fought. For every victory and defeat, what was it that really determined the outcome of the war? Which army leader had the better or worse battle plan? With the plan they had, did it increase their chances of victory? Were there key factors in an army leader’s plan that lead to their defeat? Or, was the best decision made to completely avoid war? For a lot of the wars that took place and the ones that were avoided many years ago, the mystery still remains unsolved on how and why certain army leaders were victorious or gained a certain advantage because of the choices they made. On the other hand, it is also unknown on how or why an army leader failed to a certain extent

Lessons from the Sun Tzu theory of war about potential war between Vietnam and China in 21st Century

Between the independence and the end of the twentieth century, the CMDT acted as “the state within the state” in the cotton zone by managing all agricultural policies, and even public health, education and general infrastructures as roads (Serra 2014). The policies of the CMDT reshaped the agricultural practices. The cultivable lands increased as occasional slash-and-burn method was replaced by a permanent growing fueled by inputs (Dufumier and Bainville 2006). The CMDT have supplied credits for peasants to allow them to increase their capital (mainly cattle, machinery remains rare) and inputs’ supplies. The CMDT also channeled the supply of chemical fertilizers produced by French and European companies. However, most of the increases in yielding are due to organic fertilizers produced by the peasants’ cattle as