...In 1930, the commander in chief Rafael Leonidas Trujillo also known as “el jefe” took power over in the Dominican Republic and ruled the country for over thirty years in one of the most atrocious dictatorships ever seen. The Dominican Republic, which was already dealing with a political and economic crisis of its own, suffered as well from the ramifications of the events transpiring in the United States. Once Trujillo was assassinated in 1961, the situation of the country became unstable. The main source of income was agriculture and without steady buyers and investors, the importation and exportation of goods was the greatest challenge of all. As the political and economic conditions became unbearable, there was only one thought in the minds of most Dominicans: “immigration is the solution to all our problems”. Consequently, a large-scale migration began from the Dominican Republic to the United...
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...The Smart Board Technology System Going Aboard Sandra Rhames-Smith BUS 343 Instructor: Thomas Westover December 1, 2015 The Smart Board Technology System Going Aboard In order to educate children in the world today’s education must move toward introducing and incorporating many of the technology tool that we currently have in place. The products SMART Board® 800 Series, which is a interactive technology Smart Board and software system that enhances students interaction and participation in learning. These technologies tools will help teachers and students using hand-on learning that will help them retain and experience a new and effective ways of learning basic and advance information either individually or in small groups. Teachers will be able to develop better lesson plans while every students will be able participate and learn at their individual pace. The SMART Board is a digital screen that allows images and applications from a smart notebook computer to be displayed on the screen. You are able to modified the information on the screen itself, using a pen, your fingers or a highlighting tool. Its touch screen feature allows teachers to run programs directly from the screen simply by tapping so the application with her finger and even makes scrolling easy. According to the SMART Technologies Company’s website the SMART Board 885ix2 product has the following features and abilities, “It uses the WXGA (16:10) ultra-short-throw...
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...Diamond tells the story of the Viking explorer Erik the Red, who discovered Greeland and Vinland (Terranova, in Canada). Another character is captain Olafsson, a norse sailor who wrote the last news about Greenland in 1410. Another main character is Christopher Columbus, who arrived at Hispaniola in 1492, but now this island is two countries, the Dominican Republic and the Haiti. Diamond studied the politics of two presidents. the dominican Rafael Trujillo, who protected the enviroment and the dictator François, Papa Doc, Duvalier, who decided on politics of deforestatation of his country, Haiti. The author considered the bad politics of another main character, king George II, who was interested in sending merinosheeps from Spain to Australia, an idea which was succesful from 1820 to 1950 but then the farmers understood their lands lost fertility. Another main character is Tokuwaga Jeayasu, a shogun of Japan in 1600, who prohibited Christianity in 1600 and protected his country againt deforestation. The book takes us to a lot of places around the globe: Mayan cities, Rwanda, Viking colonies of Vinland or Greenland, Haiti and Dominican Republic, Easter Island and Polynesian colonies in Pacific, and the Chaco villages in New Mexico (United States). The time period was from 800 AC, when collapsed Mayan cities to 2005. Other locations are the Viking ships, isolated churches in Greenland, ghostly stone heads in Easter Island, sheep farms in Australia or the farmers of Montana (United States)...
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...privately held commercial bank in the Dominican Republic before it collapsed in 2003. BANINTER was facing a lot of issues related to inefficiencies in the system. The business leaders realized that these inefficiencies resulted in unnecessary expenses and dissatisfied customers. In order to solve this problem, the bank took some steps in order to improve its process (Fishel & Conger, 2009). This was done by creating some processes that were common in other companies during that time. However, there was a lacking of systematic implementation and the efforts tended to be isolated (Fishel & Conger, 2009). The result was that most people in the bank dismissed that these changes in the process would help the business. The beginning Banco Intercontinental of BANINTER was created by Ramon Baez in 1986. Mr. Baez was a former industry minister and businessman. Mr. Baez oldest son,Ramon Baez Figueroa took over his small bank. His son built this small bank to the second largest private commercial bank. Baez Figueroa bagan buying up controlling intersest or whole companies that touched every person in the Dominican Republics everyday life using the BANINTER Group. Throught the BANINTER Group he manager to control the countries media group, the leading and oldest newspaper , a television cable company, and more than 70 radio stations. Baez Figueroa became a man of great wealth and power. He threw a lavish wedding for a former Domincan Republic president and signed the wedding certificate...
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...encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Republic of Haiti République d'Haïti Repiblik Ayiti Flag Coat of arms Motto: "L'Union Fait La Force" (French) "Linyon Fe Lafòs" (Haitian Creole) "Strength through Unity" Anthem: La Dessalinienne Capital (and largest city) Port-au-Prince 18°32′N 72°20′W / 18.533°N 72.333°W / 18.533; -72.333 Official languages French, Haitian Creole Ethnic groups Black 95%; Mulatto and White 5%[1] Demonym Haitian Government Presidential republic - President René Préval - Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis Formation - as Saint-Domingue 1697 - Independence from France 1 January 1804 Area - Total 27,751 km2 (147th) 10,714 sq mi - Water (%) 0.7 Population - 2007 estimate 8,706,497[2] (85th) - 2003 census 8,527,817 - Density 335/km2 (38th) 758.1/sq mi GDP (PPP) 2007 estimate - Total $11.150 billion[3] (133th) - Per capita $1,291[3] (154th) GDP (nominal) 2007 estimate - Total $6.031 billion[3] - Per capita $698[3] Gini (2001) 59.2 (high) HDI (2007) ▲ 0.529 (medium) (146th) Currency Gourde (HTG) Time zone (UTC-5) Drives on the right Internet TLD .ht Calling code 509 Haiti (pronounced /ˈheɪtiː/; French Haïti pronounced [aiti]; Haitian Creole: Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti (République d'Haïti ; Repiblik Ayiti), is a Creole- and French-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola...
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...protected them from Europe. Economically wise, the Canal Zone in Panama increased world trade. Although its greatest impact was on Panama; as previously it was a poor, third world country however after the construction of the canal it developed and became infused with income and initiative. The foreign policy also managed to resolve the Russo-Japanese war, and restored political contentment between both nations through the Portsmouth Peace Conference . Additionally, maintained a balance of power in Asia that might uphold the U.S interests. Regarding sociological aspects, the Corollary was able to diffuse in 1907 a diplomatic quarrel caused by an anti-Japanese movement in California; by restricting Japanese immigration. This solution favored both sides, clearing problems associated with the Japanese in the States and the Americans resentment towards them. Overall, I presume this foreign policy was efficacious among the succeeded, as it was thoroughly engaged in world affairs, illustrated advantageous outcomes financially, socially and...
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...britain ’s bruisin g banana wars Why ch threat eap bananas Policy en farmers’ report future s A Fairtrade Foundation Report February 2014 When I sell a box of bananas it’s a product with quality, with incredible taste, so it should be fair that you pay a fair price for it. Horatio Hernandez Coobafrio Co-operative, Magdalena, Colombia January 2014 contents 1 Introduction 4 2 6 Executive Summary Britain’s Bruising Banana Wars 16 16 20 21 4 The banana value chain 4.1 The UK banana market 4.2 The retail price of bananas in Britain 4.3 UK banana imports 2002 – 2013 4.4 Changes in banana supply chain operations 4.5 The impact of supermarket price wars on producers 4.6 Producer prices vs costs of sustainable production 22 22 23 5 The market environment for bananas 5.1 Evolution of the global banana trade 5.2 Consolidation of retailer power and UK price wars 5.3 The impact of competition law on banana prices 38 6 Fairtrade’s alternative approach 6.1 General background to the Fairtrade system 6.2 Fairtrade bananas – scope and scale 6.3 airtrade: the benefits and F constraints for farmers and workers 2 3 About this report 3.1 Fairtrade’s involvement in bananas 3.2 Research objectives and approach 3.3 Methodological note 7 Achieving a sustainable banana industry 7.1 inclusive market An ...
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...Clean Water Project Report Day 1- “The Balanced Equation” Documentary Notes In the documentary, “The Balanced Equation”, a group of high school girls tells their story of traveling to Kenya and the Dominican Republic to investigate and learn more about issues dealing with water in developing countries. The girls focus primarily on problems with water that exist in these countries and the water filtration systems being provided. According to the video, approximately 3.5 million people die from water-related illnesses each year, and over 800 million people do not have access to clean water today. The girls discover that portable point-of-use filtration devices are given to those in developing countries who don’t have access to clean water. Permanent water solutions, such as digging wells, have been tried, but often fail due to lack of maintenance and education. Wells often become contaminated with runoff water among other issues, so over 50% of these permanent solutions fail after 5 years. Instead, point-of-use water systems are distributed since they are portable and can be used at home. The girl’s spent their first night of their adventure in...
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...for example, rape is a serious problem, approximately 78,000 cases were reported in the year 1982. This figure is more important if it is considered that 40% to 80% of rapes are unreported. In these cases the pregnancies are extremely rare, for several reasons, For example, sexual dysfunctions in the rapists, whose rate is extremely high. Three studies have shown that 39, 48 and 54% of women victims of the attack were not exposed to sperm during the rape. In a series of 3,500 cases of violation in 10 years at the Hospital...
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...The Rules of Being a Woman For many years, women have been looked at as inferior in comparison to men. Our anatomical differences seem to have come with an instruction sheet on how each gender is expected to behave and live their lives. Lorber suggests rather than looking at just the physical sex organs of our body to determine how we are expected to act, people should look at “behavior and only then look for identifying markers of the people likely to enact such behaviors…” (729). Society has constructed multiple gender roles and when they aren’t met, you would be considered straying away from the norm. Women have always been degraded on due to the stereotypes society has created for them. Some of these stereotypes include the idea that women are domestic, sexual objects, and weaker than men. And between society and those women that have been affected by these stereotypes, we have slowly but gradually figured out how women have overcome these gender roles. In Jessica Grose’s article “Cleaning: The Final Feminist Frontier Why men still don’t do their share of the dirty work” she gives us an overview of the amount of men and women who participate in household chores in the following statistic, “…about 55 percent of American mothers employed full time do some housework on an average day, while only 18 percent of employed fathers do.” So although this percentage has gotten better, assuming back then women were more degraded on when it came to housework, women still take the...
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...Max Havelaar France www.maxhavelaarfrance.org The Fairtrade certification impact on small producers: Conclusions of the first studies, April 2009 Synthèse Max Havelaar France : Karine Laroche & Barbara Guittard. From studies carried out by : OREADE BRECHE (République Dominicaine : Conacado et Banelino ; Pérou : Cocla), AVSF (Equateur : Fapecafes ; Pérou : Apromalpi ; Bolivie : Coopératives des Yungas). Synthèse on the impact of Fairtrade Certification FLO PREAMBULE A reflective work around the impact of FTC (Fairtrade Certification)’s activities, on the main group of beneficiaries, has been initiated in 2005 by Max Havelaar France and its federation FLO. Indeed, the substantial work done until now around guarantee (referring to the guarantee of the means (standards, prices, etc.) and the direct results of those means (verified through certification, ie: whether volumes sold have been paid at the defined levels, to democratic organisations, etc.)) only gave an incomplete overview of the sustainable and substantial changes brought by the FTC to organisations and its members. The action taken of measuring the FTC’s impact is thus aiming at better understanding the mechanisms and the reality of the FTC’s impact, in order to 1/ being able to explain it and to have more solid information, and 2/ being able to improve its tools and interventions. Several studies have been carried out in parallel to the elaboration and to the improvement of a common methodological frame...
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...made to verify the accuracy of the information contained in this report. All information was believed to be correct as of December 2012. Nevertheless, Transparency International cannot accept responsibility for the consequences of its use for other purposes or in other contexts. ©2012 Transparency International. All rights reserved. Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2012 1 About the index Corruption can happen anywhere. When politicians put their own interests above those of the public. When officials demand money and favors from citizens for services that should be free. Corruption is not just an envelope filled with money though — these people make decisions that affect our lives. We know corruption is a problem around the world. But how bad is it and what can be done? The Corruption Perceptions Index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption in countries worldwide. Based on...
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...Product A number of products are offered including • FedEx Express is the second largest civil fleet around the world providing services across U.S. mainland, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and other Caribbean islands. • FedEx ground provides services around America and Canada. • Home delivery and smart posts are also offered. • FedEx trade networks provide custom and insurance. • A toll free help line is provided to the customers at FedEx TechConnect. • Other products include FedEx Supply Chain Services, FedEx Corporate Services, FedEx Office and Print Centers, and FedEx Ship Centers. •Customer care centers are always alert for criticism. Price • FedEx offers its discount program on FedEx ground specifically. • Pick up services are provided with $6 as its additional cost. • FedEx Ground will provide pickup service to business locations, upon request, for an additional charge of $6 per week. Placement Mainly located in United States and is catering the services with in America and Canada but also approaches to the destinations worldwide through its air fleet. Promotion • FedEx campaigns runs in the print media throughout the year. • Spends heavy amounts on Commercial ads, that’s why high quality ads are formulated and remembered for years like John Moschitta ad. • The company ahs been a chief and sometime sole sponsor of motor sports, football and a number of sports being played at a junior level. • One major reason of its success is political lobbying...
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...kills millions of males and females every year. It iscaused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis. The bacteria may stay in the lymph system for years before becoming active, then likely will infect the lungs and possibly other organs in the body and damage them, if the lung mucus and immune system fails to defend in the first place. [1] The infection caused worldwide 1.7 million deaths in 2007. [2] An infected person will spread the bacteria in the air with tiny droplets by coughing, talking or even breathing. The main problem is in developing countries as the disease is spread due to unhygienic air, food or drinks. Young people in their productive years are especially vulnerable due to a weaker immune system. Although the mortality rate due to tuberculosis in western countries is much lower than a decade ago, tuberculosis cases are increasing all over the world and especially developing countries still face huge problems. “Among the 15 countries with the highest estimated TB incidence rates, 13 are in Africa, while a third of all new cases are in India and China.” [3] Biological methods and processes By carrying out a case control study, biologists collect data from a group of individuals with the disease that are followed and studied during or after their treatment. The biologists observe the data and compare the results of the group of individuals who had one type of treatment with a group of individuals who had a different type, or no treatment....
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...Nicaragua: A Nation in Crisis Marbely L. Robison Strayer University Abstract Nicaragua suffers from serious social problems, aggravated by warfare and economic crises. The economic crisis of the 1980s, coupled with the Contra War, has worsened the greatest social problems Nicaragua has faced in the past few decades, namely unemployment, poverty and starvation. Widespread poverty and unemployment have lead to housing shortages, malnutrition and rising crime and illiteracy. More than half of Nicaraguans live in poverty; the statistics for unemployment and underemployment are just as high. Nicaragua – A Nation in Crisis Nicaragua is a land of lakes and volcanoes. The country also boasts the longest rivers, vast coastal lagoons, and hundreds of miles of sea coast. Although a beautiful country, Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with Haiti being the first. Nicaragua faces three main social problems: unemployment, poverty, and starvation. Unemployment Nicaragua's unemployment hovers around 70 percent, the highest in Latin America. Because of the uneven distribution of wealth, as well as the economic and political commotions, the poor have even suffered during periods of economic growth. Nicaragua’s economic crisis left the country in terrible straits. After years of hyperinflation, salaries have become nonexistent. Many Nicaraguans are forced to supplement their so-called salaries by working in the black...
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