...“with power comes great responsibility before” but we are not talking about super powers here we are talking about the power of the rich and leaders around the world. In the book The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer shows how power can go to your head, she makes them have everything even if it’s not always nice things. She shows it can change you, how it can turn you into a dreadful person when you least expect it to, How its horrible to have power. All that power: can give you control over other human beings, makes others fear you, gives you more unequal power over anyone else. Nancy Farmer shows you how there is such thing as too much power and too...
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...riGild- to cover boring base metal with a nice precious metal “gilded age” credited to mark twain The great leap forward- the prosperous economic times @ end of gilded age. The great leap forward was mainly concentrated in the north. The main cause of the GLF was the industrialization Throughout the gilded age the north accounted for 80precent of the industrial advancements. Until the 1800’s the only 2 components of the American economy was agriculture and overseas commerce. Then during the war of 1812 that began to change. The north started to do more manufacturing. 3 industries at the core of GLF steel industry railroad industry coal industry steel industry- over 400 steel companies. But only produced 200,000 tons of steel In 1900 – fewer than 80 steel companies But they produce 10million tons of steel Railroad industry – customers of steel coal and timber industry Government realized that railroad was so important So they gave it a lot of land. Coal Industry – Saudi Arabia of coal More here than anyone in the world. The Working People of The Gilded Age. Category A workers – white collar people. Had higher status Doctors Lawyers Ministers Journalists Needed higher education. **category A&B =Middle Class Category B workers – Skilled workers Worked with hands Did not dress nicely to work Got paid very well due to their skills Sometimes more than category A’s Carpenters Plumbers ...
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...What are the main arguments for and against the CAP? Which do you agree with, and why? The common agricultural policy (CAP) is a system of programmes and subsidies paid to EU farmers, which represents about half of the EU's budget, however, this number continues to decrease over the years. Initially, CAP was established to increase agricultural productivity in the EU and secure availability of food supplies after World War II . The CAP offered subsidies and systems guaranteeing high prices to farmers, who were encouraged to produce in response to consumer demand. This helped reduce Europe's dependence on imported food and quickly made Western Europe self-sufficient in food, but at the same time led to over-production of those agricultural products that were subsidised. Due to the fact that was produced more than could be sold, there was creation of "mountains" and "lakes" of surplus food and drink, which often had to be resold at a loss on world markets.The CAP has been altered several times in order to reduce costs and tackle over-production but there has been only limited success. The CAP have undergone major changes in the past several years. Since 2005 farmers are no longer subsidised, but instead receive a lump-sum called the Single Farm Payment (SFP). Over time agricultural priorities have shifted, with concern over food safety, quality, environmental, plant health, animal health and welfare standards. However, Throughout its lifetime, the CAP has come under heavy criticism...
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...profitable situation at his current job and committing to a new and less certain endeavor. With reports implying that demand for corn will soar the farming proposition may seem like a good idea; however, our potential farmer needs to consider other factors. The costs associated with acquiring the land are known and estimated to be $800,000.00, but there are other costs involved that are considerable and quite fixed. He will need to purchase farming equipment and machinery, which will require much more cash upfront in addition to the land. These fixed costs definitely need to be factored into the decision but are omitted in the text. If he has a lot more of that bonus money remaining, he could purchase the machinery outright. If paying cash is not possible he will need to take up a loan, lease, or rent; either option resulting in additional expenses incurred each period. Based on an article published by the University of Illinois in 2014, corn farmers in Illinois paid an average of $600 in input costs per acre of land (Mitchell, 2014). These input costs included things like seeds, chemicals, fertilizer, labor, and equipment. Some estimates of these expenses are even as high as $700 per acre, but in this example we will assume the cost is $600 (Lipovsky, 2014). The average farmer made about $900 in revenue per acre which leaves about $300 in profit after...
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...fluctuates from year to year depending on the level of output affecting both the famers’ income and ability to make long term plans. In some cases this has led to setting up buffer stocks to ensure consistent supply and income to farmers. The authorities sell from the stock when harvests are poor and buy in stock when harvests are good. This prevents huge price increases in bad times and low famers’ incomes when harvests are good. One reason why using a buffer stock scheme to stabilise the price of a commodity such as sugar or tin is a good idea is that it prevents fluctuations in the price of a commodity. This is because when the output of a commodity increases or decreases the government will be able to buy the excess stock and store it, or release the stock that they have stored. This means that, in the case of sugar and tin, there will not be a shortage causing an increase in price because the government will be able to release stock that they have previously stored to maintain the output and price, therefore leading to no fluctuations in the price of sugar and tin. Another reason why using a buffer stock scheme to stabilise the price of a commodity such as sugar or tin is a good idea is that it stabilises famers’ incomes. This is because if farmers’ crops were damaged due to a natural disaster for example, they would have no output to sell to consumers. This means that their income would decrease and the price of their commodity would rise. However, using buffer stocks...
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...A drought is a period of dry weather, especially a long one that is injurious to crops. The market for produce is projected to increase in the upcoming months. A few crops such as lettuce, avocados, and tomatoes could see significant increases. The price of lettuce could go to $2.44 per head, a 62 cent increase. The price for avocados could increase to $1.60 each, a 32 cent raise. And tomatoes could cost up to $2.84 per pound, increasing the price by 45 cents. The following price changes are a brief overview on how the market is going to change. Consumers aren’t hurting as bad as the farmers. Having a job in agriculture in California is difficult to maintain. California could be faced with up to 800,000 acres of land abandoned due to the long standing drought. The vacant land is accumulating money that is being lost because there are no farmers on that land. Unfortunately, even if farmers can’t grow produce they can’t even raise livestock. The livestock requires an efficient amount of food, water, and vegetative available land. Unemployment is going rise regionally and nationally. A premade salad package would only go up 13% in comparison to the 62 cent increase on a full head of lettuce. This luxury good will cause a stir in what consumers are willing to pay for all premade products. Since the market is going to have...
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...people in the United States uses a lot. Corn is used in many products, because corn is cheap and easy to produce. Pollan claims three things that are related to the growth of corn crops which are agricultural act, ecological act and last of all a political act. These three things are what keep farmers to keep growing corn crops and for the government to keep subsidizing them. Eating has become an agricultural act. People keep agriculture moving when they go ahead and buy their favorite groceries. They support the farmers and the government when buying their products. About Five decades ago “Crop yields in agricultural systems depended mainly on internal resources… (Altieri, M.A. 1998). An internal resource means that no chemicals were added to the soil to create the nutrients that corn needs; it all depended on the soil to create its own nutrients. The growing of crops changed, because most of the farmers change to monoculture which only one kind of crop gets planted every year such as corn crops. As crops get planted every year on the same field, the soil’s nutrients starts to decrease and stops giving the nutrients that the corn needs to keep growing bigger and stronger. So the farmers had to find other ways for the soil to keep having the same nutrients or even more than the corn needs. That is when the technology was introduced to experiment with the corn and takes it to the next level. The way technology was used in corn was by adding large amounts of fertilizers...
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...For three years now California has been in a severe drought. It’s so bad that there is a women named Angelica Gallegos hasn’t showered in five months. She says “It’s been terribly rough.” According to officils, 1,300 people in and around the East Porterville area have lost water. The California legislature is trying to create a law to help the situation. Farmers and people and in general will pump water from underground to get enough water for their crops or for everyday lifestyle. People will pump to much of the underground water and over the years, the water has slowly been disappearing. The law states that citizens will not be able to pump water from underground. I believe the law should be in place because this not only will help the drought, but we will be able to access water if we need it....
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...Cattle CAFOs Need To Be Banned The average cow can live up to twenty years. But, actually if those cows are put with a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations(CAFO) their expected lifespan is about five months. This is why CAFOs need to be banned for cows. Although Concentrated animal feeding operations are an efficient way to raise animals, they need to be stopped because it’s inhumane and the living conditions are poor for the cattle. The inhumanity these cows through is not normal. One reason why this is because, “These animals have evolved to eat grass, but in CAFOs they’re forced to eat corn”(49). This shows that the operations don’t care about what the cows eat but they care about them just eating in general. Another reason that the CAFOs...
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...the innovation is good or bad. Vern Grubinger, author of the article “Concerns about Transgenic Crops,” affirms that transgenic crops are created when genes are artificially inserted into a plant from another species, instead of the plant acquiring them by itself. According to the article “The Good, Bad, and Ugly about GMOs” written by Quinn Wendland, there are many positive and negative aspects regarding the production of transgenic crops. Wendland discusses some of the positive aspects of transgenic crops, which include a decrease in pesticide and herbicide use, a rapid increase in crop productivity to reduce world hunger, improvements in the nutritive value of crops to combat malnutrition, inexpensive production of medicine, and a reduction in the use of fossil fuel. However, production of transgenic crops comes with many possible risks. Genetically engineered genes introduced into wild plants could reduce biodiversity and create super-weeds (Grubinger 1). Transgenic crops can interfere with the natural environment. Contamination of organic farms and food can occur. In the article “Can a Growing World Feed Itself Without Genetically Modified Crops?”, Brian Heap suggests that the production of transgenic crops can have a big economic impact on farmers, as an increase in seed cost can lower farmers’ profit margins. Thus, “the rapid adoption of transgenic crops possesses some significant risks to ecosystems, as well as some economic risks to farmers” (Grubinger 1). This new...
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...be the Ghanian communities which would be the people living in Ghana such as families and local businesses, Kuapa Kokoo which would be the farmers who harvest the coco beans and communities around the UK and Germany which again would be people living there and businesses run. Other communities would be regional and national which would be UK and Ghanaian governments. The final community would be international this would look at fair-trade organisations such as (FTO), United nation, European Union and finally pressure groups such as green piece. Ethical Concerns The main ethical concerns which I will be using will be globalisation, cultural imperialism, ecological issues, fair trade, child labour and exploitation. I will give a brief description of each ethical concern first and then cover how they affect different communities in which Divine operates in. Globalisation – This ethical concern allows businesses and people from all over the world to communicate with each other and do business as technology is always developing. It gives businesses the opportunity to sell products and make a profit at the same time as building business relationships to help expand businesses into new markets and countries. This ethical concern would affect local communities in which Divine operate for example within the Ghanaian communities such as the farmers that work with Kuapa Kokoo it allows the business to build relationships giving them the opportunity to trade with which can result in them...
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...1. In the Xia case, if the WTO were to rule in favor of Brazil, which of the WTO trade agreements would contain the justification and why? Brazil banned Xia goods because they manufactured from harmful ingredients. These goods might be caused of health issues. However, the Chinese government refused this claim. If WTO were to decide for Brazil, it would be a justified basis of Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement (TBT). In this agreement, the privilege of Members to take administrative measures to accomplish its objectives such as national security, human health safety animal health and environment protection. The TBT agreement applies to Technical regulation, which is measured that the features of the product and the manufacturing process method. Standards body follows the rule and regulation and measure that the product should be approved or not. The procedures for conformity assessment use to evaluate that the all requirements has fulfilled by technical regulation and standard or not. These measures apply to protect human, animal and plant's life. It stated that the Xia goods have health risks, so it was justified that temporary ban to import till it was provided the proof that the goods are free of health risk. 2. If the details of the Xia case were indeed presented to the WTO, explain what the WTO ruling would most likely be and why. If it is proved that Xia manufactured its products with "hazardous materials such as lead paint, potentially carcinogenic plastic...
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...As Martin Luther King said “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people”. King teaches, spreads that it is just as horrible to witness oppression and let it continue uncontested. Cesar Chavez expands on this idea in an article he wrote that argues how non-violence resistance to oppression is more powerful than violence. In his argument he uses many convincing rhetorical devices to develop his argument such as ethos and rhetorical questions. Chavez uses pathos to appeal to the audience’s emotions and their compass of basic rights and wrongs. He does this by weaving his writing with phrases that create an emotional response in the reader. Phrases such as “The burdens of...
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...Group Project Case Study #1 1 Table of content Executive Summary ......................................................................................... 3 Benefit of the “Big 4....................................................................................... 3-4 Moral and Human Rights Infractions ............................................................. 4-5 Recommendation........................................................................................... 6-7 Challenges.........................................................................................................7 References.........................................................................................................8 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Chocolate is really extremely delicious and many people are addicted to it, But did they have a background that this chocolate are coming from the worst conditions of children suffer. In our report we present some of main elements of slavery in the chocolate industry which they are, Firstly the benefit that cocoa industry get from the US big 4. Moreover, we are going to explain the moral and human right infraction in the farms and the difficulty they are faced. In additional, there is section for the recommendation that we applied to solve the problem in cocoa industry and improve the situation. And the results of these recommendations have some challenges that will affect to cocoa industry. BENEFIT OF THE “BIG...
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...Plains for a decade. The drought damaged the agriculture and the environment in a detrimental way. Because of the drought and the farmers not using dry land farming methods at the time to prevent wind erosion during the dust bowl. The farmers had plowed the soil before the dust bowl disrupting the grasses that would have normally kept the soil in place during high winds. Excessive cultivation of the land in the 1930s exposed dry soil to the wind. The water that was in the ground no longer soaked in it just ran off because there were no roots to help it soak into the ground. When the winds blew it turned the soil into dust that blew everywhere. The dust storms were called “black blizzards”. Visibility was greatly reduced during these times of high wind and made it very hard for people to see in front of them. The drought and erosion of the Dust Bowl affected many people and a lot of land was compromised. The dust storms greatly degraded the productivity of the soil. People’s health was hindered greatly by breathing in all of the dust and particles in it. The air quality was horrible making it unbearable to live in those circumstances. Families had to leave their homes because they couldn’t breathe with the dust getting into their lungs. They were getting pneumonia from the dust in their lungs. This made life unbearable for them. The methods that farmers used during the time of the dust bowl put the soil in conditions that were prone to massive erosion. They plowed the land too...
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