... Most people would be interested in this because of what we buy can have an effect on the workers. Even though we don’t see it first-hand here in Indianapolis, Indiana, it does matter us as a human being. With this paper I hope to enlighten my fellow classmates on the core reading. Since the paper is more pro-sweatshops I will give some of the cons to it as my response. I want this paper to help educate the reader so they can make a more informed opinion on the matter. The importance of this is the more people that are aware and talking about it, the more we can help make a positive difference in the world. Is a horrible job better than no job at all? This article from The New York Times, Where Sweatshops Are a Dream by Nicholas Kristof, gives Americans a different perspective on the nature of sweatshops. It comes from somebody who has seen...
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...A Poverty Solution That Starts With a Hug By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF PERHAPS the most widespread peril children face isn’t guns, swimming pools or speeding cars. Rather, scientists are suggesting that it may be “toxic stress” early in life, or even before birth. This month, the American Academy of Pediatrics is issuing a landmark warning that this toxic stress can harm children for life. I’m as skeptical as anyone of headlines from new medical studies (Coffee is good for you! Coffee is bad for you!), but that’s not what this is. Rather, this is a “policy statement” from the premier association of pediatricians, based on two decades of scientific research. This has revolutionary implications for medicine and for how we can more effectively chip away at poverty and crime. Toxic stress might arise from parental abuse of alcohol or drugs. It could occur in a home where children are threatened and beaten. It might derive from chronic neglect — a child cries without being cuddled. Affection seems to defuse toxic stress — keep those hugs and lullabies coming! — suggesting that the stress emerges when a child senses persistent threats but no protector. Cues of a hostile or indifferent environment flood an infant, or even a fetus, with stress hormones like cortisol in ways that can disrupt the body’s metabolism or the architecture of the brain. The upshot is that children are sometimes permanently undermined. Even many years later, as adults, they are more likely to suffer heart disease...
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...articles became easy since it was mostly SOAPS TONE and this will really help on our AP Exams since we use SOAPS TONE to write the rhetorical analysis essay. This assignment will really help us on improving our writing since so you can only write so much about an article in four sentences so it helps us work on our usage of word choice. We began to realize that a single strong word can replace a few small not so strong words. The format of a précis is almost set up like an essay where each of the four sentences represents the beginning of a new paragraph. After looking back and analyzing all of the précis combined, you can characterize Nicholas Kristof as a columnist who isn’t afraid of having his opinions out there and he isn’t afraid of giving in by writing solutions to problems, his bravery might be the reason he is a communist. Kristof focuses on America’s political and economic issues but it isn’t where every article repeats the same things like other columnists might do. For one article he wrote about Iranians wanting their country to go back to being normal, then for another one he wrote about Obama’s foreign policy and the effects of it toward other countries like Yemen, and the for another one he wrote about America downgrading its rank when it comes to economic development and social progress. you can see that a new place and a new issue are mentioned in every article to come. Another great thing he does is that he tries to fit in personal experience, like for one article...
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...Economic globalization benefits worldwide poverty reduction By Hao Fan 02/20/2016 Globalization, the integration of economic networks that span multiple countries, influenced people in many aspects. If you go to a supermarket and able to buy French wines African coffee beans as well as Germany sausages, you are enjoying the convenience of globalization. According to Reem Heakal who wrote What Is International Trade?, he said “International trade allows us to expand our markets for both goods and services that otherwise may not have been available to us. It is the reason why you can pick between a Japanese, German or American car. As a result of international trade, the market contains greater competition and therefore more competitive prices, which brings a cheaper product home to the consumer.” As it does more than this, the economic globalization largely benefits the world wide poverty reduction. The first reason that globalization helps reduce poverty is based on one of the most essential economics concept-comparative advantage. Basically it means when countries are trading with others, they are allowed to specialize in the areas they good at and therefore allocate the resources more efficiently which will result in more benefits for every party involved in trades. Take China and United States as an example, given that china has relatively low cost of labor and the US is more sophisticated at advanced technology, it is natural or beneficial for Apple company to choose design...
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...Of the 73 million children living in the United States, over 32 million are in households considered low-income or below the federal poverty level (“Child Poverty,” 2017). While elementary and secondary public school education are available to all residents under age 18, students from low socioeconomic status (SES) households (under 200 percent of the federal poverty level) have an academic disadvantage when compared to non-poor peers (income over 200 percent of FPL). As the “lottery of birth” of growing up with or without financial stability determines a child’s overall standard of living, it thus also determines the quality of their education (Kristof, 2014). This paper will outline three areas of inequality between low SES and non-poor public...
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...Nicholas d. Kristof “ Where Sweatshops Are Made” addresses the lifestyle of Phnom Penh. The author explains the working system of the poor countries of the world. Kristof uses information from different families to support this thought. He explains the place to be very tough and at the poverty level. Where you see children walking around barefoot searching for cans to make money. Kristof argues that labor standards can improve working conditions but not for poor countries where working in a factory is a dream. The author says, “A job in a sweatshop is a dream, an escalator out of poverty, the kind of gauzy if probably unrealistic ambition that parents everywhere often have for their children.” Factories jobs were looked at to be a better job. Rather than picking up cans in the heat you can work in factories that are inside or in the shade. This is also a dream for parents to want their children to have this future. Kristof mentions a woman name Vath Sam Oeun that wants her son to work in a factory job instead of searching for cans beside her. This woman has seen for her self a child get ran over by a garbage truck. He addresses how hard life is for these people. Children do no not have the opportunity to visit the doctor or even that a bath. The author does not agree with the labor standards that Obama is trying to set because of the fact that factory jobs are good jobs to poorer people. Kristof makes another claim that the poorer people that work in these factories work...
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...sweatshops are dream” writer Nicholas D. Kristof makes a number of points regarding what he sees as an adverse effect of labor standards compliance on the economic development of low-income countries that we feel require some clarification and comment. His purpose in this essay is to let people know that sweatshops can help people. Kristof assumes his readers are Americans that are repulsed by the idea of importing products made by barely paid barely legal workers in dangerous factories. By establishing his credibility, building his case slowly, and appealing to both logic and emotions, Kristof succeeds in writing effective argument. Most of us think that we make our decisions based on rational thought. However, Aristotle points out that emotions such as anger, pity, fear, and their opposites, powerfully influence our rational judgments. Due to this fact, much of our political discourse and much of the advertising we experience is directed toward moving our emotions. Kristof appeals to pathos by using words or images designed to move readers and appeal to the reader’s emotion. Emotional appeals can use sources such as interviews and individual stories to paint a more legitimate and moving picture of reality or illuminate the truth. “The miasma of toxic stink leaves you gasping, breezes batter you with filth, and even the rats look forlorn.” “Many families actually live in shacks on this smoking garbage.” This examples show how Kristof creates a connection between the two sides...
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...go to Africa and become a godlike savior or, at the very least, have his or her emotional needs satisfied. Many have done it under the banner of ‘making a difference’.” * Teju Cole, “The White Savior Industrial Complex.” “When a warlord continues to kill and torture across a swath of Congo and Central African Republic, that’s not a white man’s burden. It’s a human burden. To me, it feels repugnant to suggest that compassion should stop at a national boundary or color line. A common humanity binds us all, whatever the color of our skin — or passport.” * Nicholas Kristof, “Viral Video, Vicious Warlord.” Taken together, the essays cited above work as a marvelous (and heated) example of argument and counterargument. Responding to the Kony 2012 video, Cole and Kristof fundamentally disagree over the effectiveness and appropriateness of humanitarian intervention in third-world countries. For Kristof, “complexity” is an excuse for inaction; he chides “armchair cynics” and praises the “uncertain” efforts of Kony 2012. Cole, on the other hand, sees these efforts as a way to “satisfy the…sentimental needs of white people…” He criticizes American sentimentality and suggests that, if America truly cares about “making a difference,” they might want to examine their money-driven and “villainous” foreign policy. Both directly and indirectly, these authors mention something called “the white savior complex”—also known as “white man’s burden” and “the White Messiah complex.” This...
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...paper I will be discussing the article titled, “It’s Not Just About Bad Choices” by Nicholas Kristof, written for the New York Times. I found this article incredibly interesting and very relevant to a lot of class discussions in regards to opportunity in the United States in terms of jobs, education, and income. The movie Dakota 38 that we watched together as a class also discussed this over arching idea of opportunity based on background, race, religion, and various belief systems. This article although very different to film Dakota 38, shared similar ideas in explaining the impact that poverty can have for generations. In the beginning of the article Kristof addresses common explanations that Republicans offer to explain poverty and homelessness. According to Kristof, Republicans say that, “people are poor because of individual failings as to say the reason is lack of opportunity”. Kristof goes against this idea through the story young man named Andrew Jackson Phillips Jr. He is 28 years old and has been homeless for the past eight years. Phillip acknowledges making poor choices in his life, but many of these choices were linked to the complexity of his family situation. His mother was a drug addict, his siblings suffered from acute lead poisoning, and his brother passed...
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...Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management Unit Code: MAR 602-6 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Mr. Pradeep Kashyap MART consultancy Submitted by: Jayesh Kannan – 1221961 Abin Jacob - 1133828 1|Page Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management Unit Code: MAR 602-6 About Pradeep Kashyap Pradeep kashyap, the CEO and the founder of MART, is known as the father of rural marketing in India. He is currently the marketing consultant of the Ministry of Rural Development and has worked with the Prime Minister’s Office and Chief Minister Committees on rural development. He has also worked as a consultant in the World Bank and United Nations and was the Chairman of Khadi Commission National Marketing Committee and a member of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) national advisory committees. Pradeep Kashyap has 20 years of history, working with multinational companies like EXIDE, BOSCH & DENSO, and another 20 years as the guide for the rural development and marketing committees. Mr. Kashyap is a regular speaker at various CEO forums both within the county and outside India. He is very well known as a leader and an entrepreneur. In 2008 at Cannes Lions in France, he was the only speaker from India among the 50 global speakers all around the world who addressed 24 seminars. Mr. Kashyap is often invited by top business schools in India as a guest speaker. Pradeep Kashyap also...
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...Table of Contents Abstract iii CHAPTER ONE 1 INTRODUCTION 1 Problem Statement 2 Rationale for the choice of topic 2 CHAPTER TWO 3 LITERATURE REVIEW 3 HOUSE FINANCE GLOBAL VIEW 3 HOUSING STRATEGY 4 CONDITIONS TO FACILITATE LENDING 8 DEMAND AND SUPPLY FOR HOUSING 8 TANZANIA HOUSING FINANCE THEORY 10 CHAPTER THREE 12 FINDINGS 12 Demand for housing finance 12 Current Condition in Tanzania 12 Access to Housing Finance 13 HOUSING POLICY AND HOUSING MARKET 14 ACCESS TO HOUSING FINANCE MAIN CHALLENGES 18 CHAPTER FOUR 21 CONCLUSIONS 21 References; 22 Abstract We examine the extent to which markets enable the provision of housing finance across a wide range of Regions in Tanzania. Housing is a major purchase requiring long-term financing, and the factors that are associated with well functioning housing finance systems are those that enable the provision of long-term finance. Across all countries, controlling for country size, we find that countries with stronger legal rights for borrowers and lenders (through collateral and bankruptcy laws), deeper credit information systems, and a more stable macroeconomic environment have deeper housing finance systems. These same factors also help explain the variation in housing finance across emerging market economies. Across developed countries, which tend to have low macroeconomic volatility and relatively extensive credit information systems, variation in the strength of legal rights helps explain the extent of housing finance...
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...GLOBALIZATION AND ITS IMPACT ON INFORMAL SECTOR Submitted By: Ameen Gupta- 2009tt10774 Parvej- 2009tt10813 Siddarth Sachdeva- 2009ph10746 INTRODUCTION Globalization comes up with the process of more interconnection between various entities like nations, organizations, individuals, etc. This interaction creates the migration of human resources, technology transfer, capital flow, etc. Thereby, this process of globalization results in the increase in quality, quantity or production and thus makes various organizations profitable. In the race of survival, it enhances the competition level among various players in terms of their brand value set according to the needs of the people. This phenomenon of competition plays a crucial role for these existing service providing players as well as for the end consumer or public at large. For service providing players, it decides the cost benefit analysis and makes it less generally due to the presence of various other players simultaneously. For public, it makes things easily available and at comparatively low prices of varied varieties. The phenomenon of globalization also generates employment. These jobs are largely created in formal sectors. It also results in employment increase in the informal sector. The formal sector is directly visible in a country and is under scrutiny and supervision of the government through various trade and tax laws. This sector provides people the job security, standard working conditions and wage...
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...David Turks Burke-8 American Lit May 3, 2013 Child Soldiers What accounts for the phenomenon of child soldiers in Africa? The primary cause contributing to the recruitment of child soldiers in Africa is poverty. While other factors such as ‘war’ itself, proliferation of small arms, lack of education, displacement all inevitably lead to child soldier recruitment, it is however poverty at the root of these circumstances. Therefore this essay shall argue this case by examining how Africa has come to have such high levels of poverty and by showing the association between other factors and that of poverty. To establish what is meant by the term ‘child soldier’ it must first be defined and a brief description offered that explains the recruitment practices used. This in turn allows the reader to better comprehend the devastating outcomes when underlying causes such as extreme poverty are not addressed. Subsequently this essay examines the factors that account for the phenomenon of child soldiers in Africa and through this examination of causal factors it will become apparent that poverty is a recurring theme. Once it has been established that poverty is indeed the major cause of child soldier recruitment attention is then given to what is being done to stop it. Finally consideration must be given to the problems that arise when addressing the issues of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of the child soldier back into the community, to avoid a replication of the...
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...Homelessness is reaching epidemic proportions in the United States (American Medical Student Organization [AMSO], 2008, p.1). Problems inherent to homelessness are lack of shelter, food, clothing, and lack of health care. Living conditions of the homeless in and of themselves predispose the homeless population to a plethora of health problems. The problems associated with homelessness and healthcare have far reaching effects for a special subset of the homeless population – the population of homeless youth. Each year, more than 1.35 million children and youth experience life without a home, and one out of seven of all individuals treated by homeless health care projects is a child under age 15 (National Healthcare for the Homeless Council [NHCHC], 2003, p.1). Homeless children face the same illnesses faced by children in the general population, but their health issues are exacerbated by the circumstances inherent in their homeless status. Homelessness in and of itself is an independent predictor of poor health status among children (Kern Medical Center, 2003, p.3). Some of the health care issues especially prevalent in the homeless youth population are: psychosocial issues, nutrition and issues related to physical development, communicable diseases, dermatological disorders, respiratory disorders, dental health issues, sexual health issues, substance abuse issues, and issues related to medication use and adherence. Multiple studies have identified the adverse effects of homelessness...
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...Some pros and cons involving today’s debate about the policies: Pros include: The no child left behind act. This is where no child is left behind for their education. Each child is given the right for further education help and is given an opportunity for success for their future using the available programs that’s proven to work. Only 1 percent is not required to take a test which is the children who cannot speak fluent English. A test children must take is standardized by the state and is also known as the “teaching the test”. This test not only proves what each child does not know but what the teacher’s must focus on in order to make the children become successful for their further education learning’s. The national school lunch program. This is a program where it was very important for low income families. I believe this was a very good idea. “At the President's direction, the Food and Nutrition Service was created as a new agency within the Department of Agriculture exclusively to administer Federal food programs, including the school lunch program, and other agencies involved were directed to coordinate their activities with those of the Department of Agriculture” (Gunderson, 2013). Children with the proper food in their stomachs will help them live better and grasp what they learn every day in school. It keeps them away from being sick and missing days of school and this program helps them stay focused with full attention using their brain. Cons include: The no child left...
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