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averym222
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| Name: | Avery McCaffrey | | Location: | Bronx, NY |
| Date registered | 09.09.2013 |
| Date of birth: | 20. January 1995 |
| Last online: | Tue Dec 03, 2013 11:39 pm |
| Sex: |  female |
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11.19.2013 |
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Tue Nov 19, 2013 2:43 am | jump to post
I found the Reluctant Entrepreneurs reading to be interesting because it explained why most of the poor remains the poor. It explained the Paradox of the poor and their businesses by stating, “They are energetic and resourceful and manage to make a lot out of very little. But most of this energy is spent on business that are too small and utterly undifferentiated from the many others around them. As a result, their operators have no chance to earn a reasonable living.” And on the same note, i...
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11.11.2013 |
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Mon Nov 11, 2013 11:29 pm | jump to post
The Blue Sweater excerpt we read was very interesting to read, as a student in the business school. I found Jaqueline Novogratz’s business aspirations to be similar to mine in the sense that I want to help social causes though a business perspective—which is why I want to be a social entrepreneur. I found it encouraging that there are people like her see the importance of social entrepreneurship and it is great that she is dedicated to raising money and funding entrepreneurs. Her mission to “rei...
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11.04.2013 |
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Mon Nov 04, 2013 11:44 pm | jump to post
This reading, “Colonial Pasts and Fair Trade Futures: Changing Modes of Production and Regulation on Darjeeling Tea Plantations” was interesting because it was the first reading we have had that shed a negative light on Fair Trade.
The author, Sarah Besky, stated, “Fair Trade certification attracts owners because (1) Fair Trade standards are more flexible than labor law, and since there is minimal oversight, owners can often cut corners on labor practices and still keep Fair Trade certificatio...
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10.21.2013 |
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Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:11 pm | jump to post
I found this reading to be beneficial because it discussed the various types and forms of power. The writing claimed these differences were: power over, power with, power to, and power within. Power over was said to be “a process by which a person, organization or group restricts the opinions, abilities and capacities of others through certain mechanisms.” Power with refers to “a process by which individual people, organizations and groups together create capacity in order to bring about certain...
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10.07.2013 |
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Mon Oct 07, 2013 8:35 am | jump to post
William Foote’s story behind his company, Root Capital was inspiring to hear. One of the main points that jumped out at me was when he said that Root Capital’s loan to Shiwahiade improved the quality of her coffee, which in turn, attracted buyers like Starbucks to purchase her coffee. Because of this, Shiwahiade was “able to double her income and reinvested part of her earnings in four cows, six goats, and a new chicken coop, with which she now runs her micro poultry business.” And because of h...
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09.30.2013 |
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Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:13 am | jump to post
After reading “A Brilliant Idea” from the book Fair Trade Revolution, I found some of the statistics to be particularly thought provoking.
One of the facts that jumped out most to me was that 1.4 billion are trying to survive at or below the World Bank’s poverty line and are living off of approximately $1.25 a day. Additionally, 2.6 billion, which is 40% of human is living under less than $2 a day.
It is simply astonishing to me that such a large amount of people are living in poverty, yet onl...
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09.23.2013 |
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Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:34 pm | jump to post
I found our reading of “Fair Trade: a Human Journey” to be extremely impactful in its way of providing detailed personal accounts of people pertaining to the fair trade world, informative data about successful fair trade businesses and interesting statistics about growth rates, etc. With the combination of these factors, I found myself extremely impacted at times; however, the two most impactful moments of the reading were as follows:
I loved reading about the slogan, “Trade, not Aid,” which em...
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09.09.2013 |
averym222
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Mon Sep 09, 2013 8:16 pm | jump to post
Hello,
I am also a student in Professor Combellick's Fair Trade: Entrepreneurship class at Fordham University in NY. The following paragraphs discuss my reaction to the "The Dark Side of Chocolate" documentary.
One of the most startling moments for me was when they mentioned that, “A child from Burkina Faso can be bought for 230 euros.” At that moment, I was really impacted by the realization that these innocent children were being exchanged for money like slave trade. Additionally, the tone ...
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