...The Case of Patagonia Company Patagonia was founded in 1957 by Yvon Chouinard, an avid and renowned outdoorsman. With the superiority of Yvon’s designs, by the late 1960s Chouinard Equipment had an estimated 80% of the US market for climbing hardware.In the late 1960s Yvon shifted his attention to the sale of quality outdoor clothes. His company continued to grow slowly until 1972 when the clothing line took off.(Merchant,Stead 2012) We began to grow at a rapid pace; at one point we made Inc. Magazine's list of the fastest-growing privately held companies. That rapid growth came to a halt in the summer of 1991, when our sales crimped during a recession and our bankers, themselves in trouble and up for sale, called in our revolving loan. To pay off the debt, we had to drastically cut costs and dump inventory. We laid off 20% of our work force–many of them friends and friends of friends. And we nearly lost our independence as a company. That taught us a major lesson. We have kept growth – and borrowing – to a modest scale ever since.(Patagonia,2014) "Rapid growth and maximization of corporate profits were not among Patagonia’s goals. Yvon Chouinard explained publicly that the only reason he and Malinda had not sold the company was that they were “pessimistic about the fate of the world and felt a responsibility to do something about it.".(Merchant/Van der Stead/2013,pg.342) 1. The objective of Patagonia, Inc. seems not to be...
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...moving. Volcanoes are generally found where these plates converge or diverge. Not only are volcanoes found in these areas but also where the Earth’s crust is stretching or thinning. There are volcanoes that form away from plate boundaries in areas that are called “hot-spots”. An example of “hot-spot” volcano formation is the Hawaiian Islands. Figure 1: (Kreger, 2010) The image above shows that volcanoes are created by hot magma that rises from the Earth’s core and expels through the cracks of the upper mantle and ocean crust. The movement of the Earth’s plates forms these cracks on the surface of the ocean crust. Every Island is made of one or more volcanoes that have erupted many times and emerged above sea level. A seamount is a mountain that rises above the Ocean floor that is of volcanic origin and does not rise above sea level. Most seamounts are formed from extinct volcanoes that have been eroded and grounded back down by waves. Loihi is an example of an active seamount that is currently being studied because of its assumed Island formation. Because Loihi is located before the Island of Hawaii, it is believed that it will become an Island soon enough. Loihi is slowly moving across the hot spot and growing from its continuous eruptions. By observing the growth of Loihi and the patterns of eruptive activity of older seamounts, geologists can study the growth of the Hawaiian Islands more extensively. (Normark, 1982) Figure 2: (Rowland) The image above shows a picture...
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...In the book Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond a man by the name Yali was walking along a beach as was Jared Diamond. As they were walking together, Yali asked Diamond, “Why is it you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea but we black people had little cargo of our own.” This questioned could be answered in many different ways. One explanation could be genes. Many people believe Europeans have the best genes, that they are “biologically different.” Diamond believes genes has nothing to do with it. He says how stone age people can be smarter than industrialists. Also Europeans have many forms of entertainment, while places like New Guinea have no passive entertainment. Another explanation is climate. Yali believes...
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...(administrative); Cape Town (legislative); Bloemfontein (judicial) 1 Natural Resources Only 12 % of South Africa’s land area is cultivated 8 % is forested South Africa is the world’s largest producer of gold, Witwatersrand Gold is mined to depths below (10,000 ft) Diamonds are another important source of South Africa’s mineral wealth. diamond fields are located in the Kimberley area of Northern Cape. South Africa also has large reserves of chromite, vanadium, andalusite, manganese, platinum, nickel, and fluorite Cape of Good hope from cape point Climate South Africa enjoys a generally warm, temperate climate. Most of the country experiences light rainfall and long hours of sunshine Gamskapoortdam, dry lands, Little Karoo De Beers diamond mines, Kimberley Table Mountain, South Africa 2 Natural RegionsHighest peak-Njesuthi, a peak of the Drakensberg(11,306 ft). The plateau region – The High Veld (southern continuation of the great African plateau that stretches north to the Sahara. The Middle Veld The Bush Veld. Rivers and Lakes- Orange, Vaal, and Limpopo. The Orange is the longest, stretching about 2,100 km (about 1,300 mi). Washing sand for diamonds on the banks of the Vaal River orange river Baobab Tree, Limpopo, Musina 3 3 million years -Area inhabited by early humans. 5th century AD -Bantu-speaking people 1600s -Europeans known as Boers or Afrikaners began to dispossess and enslave...
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...“De’Jon, did you go to the market and get the chicken feed?” shouted my mama. My life sucks, those words that forever etched in my mind were playing over and over again, like a bad song I couldn’t forget. “No Mama!” I yelled in response, wincing as I waited for the unavoidable and inevitable lecture I could sense approaching. Approaching like a scorpion ready to strike. I yelled out in pain as I trumbled off the shabby hellhole we called home. So let get everything out on the floor... my name is De’Jon Lee; I’m what greeks would call a poor demos. I (much to my disappointment) claim the ranking ‘must bullied.’ Me and my family been exempted from any festivals. It would be a shame, a curse for some poor or rich folk to get robbed by a filth like me or rob a filth like me. ‘I will find a cave of gold, it is the will of Ra!” I shouted while walking the path to the market. I wasn’t alone because Macy was up in a tree chowing down on some loaf of bread wearing ripped up clothes. She was dirty from top to toe and she replied so rudely. “You don’t exactly fellow the will of Ra because if you did” she begin pointing the loaf of bread at me “you wouldn’t still be alive.” I will find it, I thought to myself knowing very well that it would take a miracle. Here I thought my life couldn’t get any worse, in this case there is only one thing worse then being right is being wrong. I was walking home with the basket of food and some other low live tried to mug me. Knowing what...
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...According to Jared Diamond, Eurasian people dominate the world now because of geography. Europe and the Middle East had good soil, plenty of easily domesticated animals and plants, and a main axis running east-west, instead of north-south – meaning that crops, livestock and tools could spread easily, without confronting big changes in climate or day length. The world’s first farming societies emerged, leading to bigger settlements— meaning that people did not need to travel to find food. Instead, they began to live in settled communities, and grew crops and/or raised animals on nearby land. They built stronger, more permanent homes and surrounded their settlements with walls to protect themselves; one of the largest settlements in the Middle East was called Catal Huyuk which became wealthy (because of a glassy rock made from volcanos) from its farming and trading which meant the needs for markets, the need for protection and the concentration of political power. Meanwhile, humans living among farm animals developed immunity to the diseases they carried. By the time they encountered other societies, their military power, metal tools and, above all, their deadly germs gave them the decisive advantage. But Diamond is not really talking about axes; mostly he is making a rather subtle argument about the climatic advantages that (in his view) mid-latitude regions have over tropical regions. The world's largest continuous zone of "temperate" climates lies in a belt stretching across...
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...I stand atop the icy crest of the trail’s entrance, 3,200 feet in the air. The freezing wind is biting at any exposed patches of skin it can find. There is a trail mark sign to my left with its two black diamonds signifying its expert difficulty, and a beautiful view of miles of untouched Vermont wilderness to my right. I start my run down the mountain. I see an entrance into the glades. There is something dangerous about being hundreds of feet deep in the woods. I weave in and out of enormous snow-covered pines and birch trees with bark peeling down their sides. The woods are untouched except for an occasional moose track imprinted in the snow. I’m completely cut off from the outside world and am focused solely on the trail in front of me. Any situation or issue pertaining to my life outside of skiing is temporarily discarded while I focus on the treacherous terrain stretched out before me....
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...TheNew Blood Diamonds IvyPhillips, Samantha Haney, Alex Vance, Jeffrey Watkins Globalization& Population April30, 2012 Boone,2012 Africa, known by many to be the “cradle of life,” has seen more violence, death, and destruction than any other continent in the history of the world. Today were seeing more and more human rights violations being committed by men with no ideology, no clear goal, nor a sovereign country backing their activities. What is it that makes the continent of Africa so volatile? The cause of these social and political issues can be seen everywhere in western civilizations. Westerners wear them around their arms and necks in the form of jewelry or use them as the driving material that allows the capabilities to run their cellphones, Mac books, and Mp3 players. The cause of the violence and destruction in Africa is one of both economic and political incentives: valuable raw resources and materials native to Africa. Valuable raw resources being the common denominator for violence and human rights violations in Africa is as true today as it has been since western nations sought to colonize African states back in the nineteenth century. The industrial revolution and capitalism took the world by storm; it promoted the expansion of developed nations to reach out in order to finance and maintain their newly found power. The imperatives of capitalist industrialization —including the demand for assured sources of raw materials...
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...Great Depression The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn of the twentieth century. The federal government took unprecedented action to provide relief, recovery and reform. No group was harder hit by the Great Depression than African Americans. The New Deal was slow to deal with the unique situation faced by African Americans. The struggles of the Great Depression laid the foundation for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Art would play an important role in influencing the future. Despite its limitations, the New Deal, through the Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) Federal Arts Program (FAP), was responsible for reshaping the cultural agenda and “marked a significant turning point in the production of black culture.”1 The artists of the Great Depression built upon the work done during the Harlem Renaissance. New Deal art extended and affirmed art that translated “politics into cultural terms.”2 The FAP looked for a “new sense of authentic American culture – one that championed national values and traditions by celebrating regional and racial diversity.”3 As a result, many artists worked to place African Americans in the historical narrative of the United States while combating long held stereotypes. None were less important than Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Dox Trash, and the creators of the Harlem Hospital murals. Throughout the decade, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples (NAACP) continued its struggles...
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...EN1320 Composition I | Christmas in Colorado | Module 4 Essay: Write a Memoir | | Jeff Stucker | 4/29/2014 | | Last year my family and I decided to do something different for Christmas and go to Gunnison, Colorado to go skiing for a family Christmas trip. This would include me, my brother, my mom, my dad, and my grandparents. I was so excited ever since I had heard the news in October. I had only been to Colorado in the summer before and I had never spent Christmas away from home before. My grandparents had retired to their summer home in Colorado the year before to live full time. My story begins at the threshold of my trip the night before we left for Colorado. We were all at my house so we could open our presents from each other, but my brother and I would not open our presents from our parents until Christmas morning in Gunnison even though we had opened the presents from the rest of our family that night. This was one of my favorite parts of Christmas, opening presents. I got a lot of cool stuff including a new be spread, a new bed comforter, some new books, some new VHS tapes and a lot more. Finally, it was time for the big present which was from my dad. It was huge! My mind raced with ideas of what it could have been. But to give me and my brother a hint of what it was, they brought us out a smaller present. It was an Atari controller! So that must have meant…yes! It was an Atari 2600! After that, my brother and I decided to try it out and then we...
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...per year Rate of Inflation: +14.47% per year Currency Name: Kz1 (Angolan kwanza) Response Questions 1. Describe the climate and geography of this country. Be sure to include all significant geographic features. The climate in Angola is very predictable and reliable. The temperature ranges from the high 70’s and 80’s in the hot, rainy season, November to April, and the 60’s to the low 70’s in the cool, dry season, May to October. The lowest point in Angola is the Atlantic Ocean, zero feet, and the highest point is Morro de Moco, 7329 feet. Morro de Moco is the largest mountain in Angola and it lies in Provincia do Huambo. 2. Describe the natural resources that this country possesses. Are there any other countries involved in the mining/harvesting/exploitation of these resources? Angola is one of the richest natural resource bearing countries in Africa. It possesses petroleum, diamonds, iron ore, phosphates, copper, feldspar, gold, bauxite, and uranium. Angola is now one of the largest exporters of petroleum in the sub-Saharan Africa, and...
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...an adult my fears get the best of me, and I am scared to be my own person in a world so wide and full of choices. Any decision I have to make, whether the simplest task or the most gut wrenching, I try to conform out of fear of making the wrong one. The only place where I was even a little sure of myself was on the ski mountain.. When I was younger my dad would take me to ski every weekend. As I grew up it was our ritual instead of going to church we went skiing. Always being in my skies I became more comfortable with them then making decisions. When I was finally forced to make a real decision about what I was going to do with my life I chose to become a ski instructor. This job even still hard for me is the only thing where I am learning to make my own decisions. One fateful day, I had no lessons to teach, because of extremely cold, intolerable weather. My friend Zoey and I were asked to ski through each closed trail to see if they could be opened. About 6 inches of snow came down last night and the powder on the hill was amazing. As we ascended the mountain in the frigid chair lift we...
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...+ Onion + Riceballs + Oil | Dry Curry | Riceballs + Curry Powder | Cooking Pot: 41 Recipes Hot Milk | Milk | Hot Chocolate | Milk + Chocolate | Wild Grape Wine | (wild) Grape + Wine + Purple Grass | Pumpkin Stew | Pumpkin | Fish Stew | Medium Fish or Large Fish | Boiled Spinach | Spinach | Boiled Egg | Egg | Candied Potato | Yam | Dumplings | Cabbage + Onion + Flour + Oil | Strawberry Jam | Strawberry | Apple Jam | Apple | Grape Jam | (wild) Grape | Marmalade | Orange | Cheese Fondue | Cheese + Bread | Noodles | Flour | Curry Noodles | Noodles + Curry Powder | Tempura Noodles | Tempura + Noodles | Buckwheat Noodles | Buckwheat Flour | Tempura Buckwheat Noodles | Buckwheat Noodles + Tempura | Mountain Stew | Carrot + Bamboo Shoots + shiitake | Rice Soup | Riceballs | Porridge | Milk + Riceballs | Tempura Rice | Riceballs + Tempura | Egg Over Rice | Egg + Riceballs | Stew | Milk + Flour | Curry Rice | Riceballs + Curry Powder | Blue Curry | Riceballs + Curry Powder + Blue Grass | Green Curry | Riceballs +...
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...Ecosystem of the Mojave Desert Bio/101 March 5, 2012 Ecosystem of the Mojave Desert The Mojave Desert is 54,000 square miles of its own special brand of diversity; it is one desert - rather than a series of separate entities. By becoming aware of the combined identity, appreciation and better understanding of the issues that affect the Mojave Desert can occur on a holistic level. Generally, at the edges of the Mojave are areas where dominant plant and animal species change from one to another and both, to various degrees may be possibly found on the fringes of the other. The Mojave Desert ecosystem evolves from plants and animals which are resources within each other. Adaption to the rough temperatures and little water, these ecosystems finds many ways to survive. This ecosystem plays host to a wide variety of plants and animals living in an environment that humans may think are harsh conditions. Many animals get their energy by eating plants, but desert plants give up the fruit of their production very reluctantly. Sharp spines, such as a cactus, discourage plant-eaters. The Mule deer avoids these obstacles by eating seeds, although safe to eat, they can be hard to find. Many are small and look like grains of sand. The plant's solar energy flows through the ecosystem as Mule deer, and other herbivores like jackrabbits, fall prey to carnivores like great horned owls, coyotes, bobcats, or snakes (Townsend, Harper & Begon, 2000). Survival in the desert cannot occur...
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...History * The early inhabitants * The early colonial period * The British colonial era * The mineral revolution * The Anglo-Boer/South African War (October 1899 – May 1902) and its aftermath * Segregation * Apartheid * The end of apartheid * The First Decade of Freedom * Into the Second Decade of FreedomThe early inhabitantsThe discovery of the skull of a Taung child in 1924; discoveries of hominid fossils at Sterkfontein caves, a world heritage site; and the ground-breaking work done at Blombos Cave in the southern Cape, have all put South Africa at the forefront of palaeontological research into the origins of humanity. Modern humans have lived in the region for over 100 000 years.The latest discovery is a new species of hominid, Australopithecus sediba, almost two million years old. It was discovered in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, 40 kilometres from Johannesburg, South Africa in 2010. The small, mobile bands of Stone-Age hunter- gatherers, who created a wealth of rock art, were the ancestors of the Khoikhoi and San of historical times. The Khoikhoin and San (the "Hottentots" and "Bushmen" of early European terminology), although collectively known as the Khoisan, are often thought of as distinct peoples.The former were those who, some 2 000 years ago, adopted a pastoralist lifestyle herding sheep and, later, cattle. Whereas the hunter-gatherers adapted to local environments and were scattered across the subcontinent, the herders sought out...
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