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Katie Mericle
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| Name: | Katie Mericle |
| Date registered | 09.09.2013 |
| Last online: | Tue Nov 26, 2013 1:14 am |
| Sex: |  female |
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11.20.2013 |
 Katie Mericle
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Wed Nov 20, 2013 4:02 am | jump to post
The reading “Reluctant Entrepreneurs” was an interesting one. My favorite quote from the reading was: “Use your ingenuity to create something out of nothing.” I think this is so true of entrepreneurship, especially in the case of these people with very little. If you use your creativity, you can come up with a simple entrepreneurial idea to support yourself. For example, the article had one story where the women would go to the seashore and collect the wet sand. They used the sand later to scru...
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10.22.2013 |
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Tue Oct 22, 2013 2:16 am | jump to post
Reading “Game Playing: Rethinking Power and Empowerment” gave me new insight into power and the different types. I never thought about power in great detail, and that there are different types of power. All of the different kinds apply to the different players in fair trade. For example, “Power over” makes me think of the cocoa farmers from Ivory Coast from the “Dark Side of Chocolate” documentary. These people exert their power and exploit others despite resistance from the young children and ...
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10.08.2013 |
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Tue Oct 08, 2013 2:03 am | jump to post
“Harnessing Entrepreneurial Energy” proved to be a very interesting read. The story about Shiwahiade from Tanzania made me optimistic about how fair trade can help so many people in the world in situations like hers. She went from making $2 a day and not being able to educate her two sons to being self sufficient. She doubled her income and was able to invest in buying farm animals like cows, goats, and a new chicken coup. Through joining Root Capital’s association she was able to completely ch...
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10.01.2013 |
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Tue Oct 01, 2013 3:31 am | jump to post
“A Brilliant Idea” certainly opened my eyes to how much more needs to be done to move the fair trade movement along. In the beginning of the article, one statistics really shocked me and made a big impact. It is estimated that 1.4 billion people, which is one fifth of the world’s population, are trying to survive at or below the World Bank’s official poverty line of just $1.25 a day. This really shocked me, because for Americans, $1.25 is so minimal. We definitely take for granted how lucky we ...
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09.23.2013 |
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Mon Sep 23, 2013 5:29 am | jump to post
Reading “Fair Trade: a Human Journey” really opened my eyes to how important it is for fair trade to exist. So many people, particularly women have no rights and cannot provide for themselves. It is so important for organizations like the MCC to reach out to the oppressed people in communities around the world to enable them to make money to be self-sufficient. I enjoyed reading about the different artisan organizations the MCC has set up around the world. It gives me hope that more women can go...
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09.16.2013 |
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Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:24 am | jump to post
I enjoyed watching the Ted video on the issue of tantalum mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It brought this very important issue to my attention, and I never realized how much suffering has occurred as a result of cell phone and computer production. Companies like Apple and Nokia can really take a stand and insure that the sourcing of the tantalum is mined according to fair trade standards. I was happy to hear that Nokia recently released a statement about their policies on acquiri...
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09.09.2013 |
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Mon Sep 09, 2013 8:01 pm | jump to post
Hi. My name is Katie Mericle and I am a student in Kate Combellick's Fair Trade and Entrepreneurship class.
The Dark Side of Chocolate” really opened my eyes to the problem of child labor and trafficking. It was difficult for me to watch some of the scenes of the children being taken away and forced to work in such conditions. It made me angry that this is happening when I know the companies should be putting an end to it. Forty two percent of the world’s cocoa production is from the Ivory Coas...
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