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Andriana
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| Name: | Andriana Antonucci | | Location: | Westwood, New Jersey | | Occupation: | Student and Sales Associate |
| Date registered | 09.08.2013 |
| Date of birth: | 16. June 1992 |
| Last online: | Mon Dec 02, 2013 12:33 am |
| Sex: |  female |
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| E-mail | aantonucci4@fordham.edu |
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11.19.2013 |
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Tue Nov 19, 2013 12:32 am | jump to post
After reading Reluctant Entrepreneurs and the Parable of the Black Sheep, I can clearly see the key link between fair trade and entrepreneurship. As Reluctant Entrepreneurs began with a story of women scooping dry sand off the road every time a car went buy to sell to other people to clean their dishes, the idea became clearer to me. The line really rung a bell with me as the true definition of entrepreneurship, “If you have very little, use your ingenuity to create something out of nothing.” Th...
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11.11.2013 |
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Mon Nov 11, 2013 11:42 pm | jump to post
After reading a piece of The Blue Sweater, I realized I am most interested in readings that entail fair trade and entrepreneurship. When deciding to take on the project, entrepreneurs, described by an old man, “aren’t necessarily the smartest people in the world, but they are the ones who have the guts and heart to do whatever it takes to made dreams comes real.” It made the author realize it was her dream and what she wanted to do become a reality. It also sparks my entrepreneurial interest to ...
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11.03.2013 |
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Sun Nov 03, 2013 11:59 pm | jump to post
After reading “Colonial Past and Fair Trade Futures,” I was exposed to a downside of fair trade. I can clearly see how Darjeeling tea-plantation owners are co-opting fair trade and using it to solve postcolonial demand problems. Fair Trade was seen as a way to avoid costs and marketing woes. Neoliberals uphold the free market, a market that is free of obstacles to trade such as national government policies and a market that privileges the power of private interests over publicly held institution...
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10.21.2013 |
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Mon Oct 21, 2013 1:17 am | jump to post
After reading Game-playing: rethinking power and empowerment, my definition of power was changed. I used to think of power as having authority over another person, but there were many numerous ways of defining power in this chapter such as hidden power and invisible power. It also helped redefine “empowerment” as a capacity to produce change. It seems less of a control factor, and more of a positive twist on power. An interesting point is made when the chapter describes “constraints- values, nor...
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10.07.2013 |
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Mon Oct 07, 2013 8:03 am | jump to post
After reading “Harnessing Entrepreneurial Energy” I realized there are more opportunities for people in need of fair trade support. Firstly, Shiwahiade doubled her income after they purchased water-efficient processing equipment that in turn lead to her kids going to school and not having to work on the farm. It is amazing to see the standard of living improve so drastically, but many do not have access to this capital, technology, managerial talent, and markets. Root Capital helps make these re...
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09.30.2013 |
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Mon Sep 30, 2013 12:27 am | jump to post
After reading “A Brilliant Idea” from the Fair Trade Revolution, I can see Fair Trade developing and growing by staggering numbers. However, the amount of people that need Fair Trade is also staggering. In this introduction, it states, “fair trade may currently be benefiting more than 7 million people in the developing world.” This is an excessive amount of people. The next shocking statistic is that 2.6 billion people, about 40 percent of humanity, are living on less than 2 dollars a day. These...
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09.23.2013 |
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Mon Sep 23, 2013 4:41 am | jump to post
After reading Fair Trade a Human Journey, I learned that there is more injustice in the world than I was aware of. This explains families in poverty, women selling themselves, and children working hard for little to no pay. This put into perspective just how much Fair Trade can help those in need. The Charity Foundation allowed mothers to put food on the table and send their children to school which enough for the single mothers in Bangladesh. There are many single mothers that have to support t...
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09.16.2013 |
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Mon Sep 16, 2013 4:22 am | jump to post
After watching Blood Coltan, the most surprising fact is that 4 million people died in the Congo. There are many killings, massacres, and kidnappings that happen here. The people that live there cannot even speak about the militia because they are not allowed. The soldiers rip off the workers and make them pay to pass out of the mines. It is shocking to me that the people that work in the mines have no idea what coltan is even used for. Adolescents are slaved for work. For many, the mine is the ...
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09.09.2013 |
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Mon Sep 09, 2013 7:39 am | jump to post
I am a student in Professor Combellick's Fair Trade class at Fordham University. I also watched "The Dark Side of Chocolate" documentary and have a few reactions.
"The Dark Side of Chocolate" documentary allowed me to see the child labor problems present in the chocolate industry on the cocoa plantations. I learned that the Ivory Coast is the world’s largest chocolate producer and there is trafficking from Mali into the Ivory Coast. What surprised me is that at the chocolate convention, so many...
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