...“Cadbury” 1. a) Did the company overreact by stopping its sourcing of ´slave-produced´ cocoa? Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought ad soled, and are forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will to refuse to work. Letting people work on a cocoa plant against their will – treating them like animals – might benefit the values of the company without carrying about the wellbeing of the slaves. But nobody should be forced to work against his own will and a people should not be the owner of another people. Especially nobody should be subordinated to someone else. A company – or a people – has to consider the interest of others, so that we can live in a peaceful world. Without considering the interests of the others, just doing what is your own interest would cause a chaos in the world. b) Why did the company feel the need to act at all? After announcing of the news in the media that Cadbury is using slaves on cocoa plantations in the Portuguese colony, buying slave-farmed cocoa beans from West Africa, and accusations about child labour, the image and reputation of Cadbury was hurt dramatically. So the question was whether it needed to take action, and if so what? In 2002 Cadbury supported a study by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture to investigate the extent of child labour and forced labour, to getting rid unacceptable labour practices in cocoa production. c) Is it not the role of government to regulate how...
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...here” ( pg 79). John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men, shows that people are forced in roles, that become a vital part of society. In society there are people that have to work. George and Lennie are forced to work so that they can own land. For a long period of time women had fewer right than men, and Curley’s wife is expected and told to stay inside the house. Candy is old and does not have a hand, and is seen as useless. People are forced by other people to be in a certain place in society. Throughout life people have to do a certain job, even if they do not want to do the work. George and Lennie travel together and because that travel together they have come to share the same goal. George has argued, “ And when it rains in the winter, we’ll just say the hell, with goin’ to work, …” ( pg 14). So, it is evident that George and Lennie have to be the...
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...and so on. Child labor is childhood destruction; children need to be children, they will have the rest of their lives as adults to work, so why rush that? Childhood is the most innocent stage in a human life. It is that phase of life where a child is nurturing, and is free from all the tensions, and health risks. Child labor existed in throughout the American and British history, as the industrial revolution moved workers from farms and home workshops into urban areas and factory work. Children were often preferred, because factory owners viewed them as more manageable, cheaper, and less likely to strike. But how did that end up? Many children died, many more were tortured and were forced to work, basically forced into slavery. So do we want that again? There is nothing wrong with children doing chores; not all work is bad for children. A child who delivers newspapers before school might actually benefit from learning how to work, gaining responsibility, and a bit of money. But what if the child is forced to work? Not paid or is poorly paid? Forced labor is any work performed against a person’s will under the threat of punishment. According to UNICEF, and Free the Child organizations, work that exceeds the min number of hours will deprive children from school, and is also physically, socially and mentally harmful for the child. Such work should therefore be eliminated.” Forced labor and child labor are closely linked. They happen in the same geographical areas, the...
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...Some questions people ask about PE becoming compulsory are: Why should parents be for it, would it be unconstitutional, how can we change. Today, the obesity rate among children is at 17%. That is unbelievably high! Just a few year ago it was at 12%. There is a whole lot of talk about how we can improve the healthiness of the food in the school system, but there isn’t a whole lot of talk about how we can increase the physical activity of our children. President Kennedy said, “Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.” Why should parents be for law required PE? Well, this is an interesting question. Some parents would automatically be opposed to such a radical idea, just because they don’t like being told what to do. However; some parents would love it. But why should everyone be for this idea? Well first off, it would make their life easier for the parents and the kids. They wouldn’t have to be constantly be nagging their children to get off the couch or computer, and go play outside. Their kids would start to lose weight which leads to a more energized, satisfying life. It has also been proven that increased physical activity help people to focus, and get work done. The requirement of PE would be a huge help to families in more ways the one, and would help people who have trouble focusing. Would the requirement of this be communistic or socialistic? The answer in short...
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...examples as to how this would be done, he concludes that through the process of distributive justice many people will benefit off the success of others. The next premise for this argument says that by acquiring wealth from someone else’s labor is equivalent to taking their time. This means that the principles of distributive justice, directs people to work harder so that others may benefit. This premise means that distributive justice takes more from those who have achieved success and redistributes their success to someone who...
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...Franchesca Borras PS203 March 19, 2016 Child Prostitution as a Form of Work: An Analysis of “Neneng” by Merlinda Bobis I. Introduction Background of the study Child is as innocent as water during spring time but nowadays children are typically faced to what reality is, that many people are poor, they are now faced to this problem that they tend to shoulder what an adult is experiencing. Poverty is the typical problem known by them, they saw their parents suffering at work just to make an everyday living because of this some help their parents to work even if it means not going to school and not being able to play like any other children at their age, some were forced by their parents to work so that these children would be able to go to school and have their own money without suffering the budget for the family. Prostitution is rampant not only here in the Philippines but around the world, though every country were fighting against it still the cases grew larger and larger each year and some people involved in this case are children. It is a wide spread illness that can’t be easily eliminated and some people blame poverty as the reason why they engage in this kind of activity, it became their source of income whether they like it or not. It seem that this kind of activity is not only present in today’s generation rather its presence is as old as time, it doesn’t cease to exist even if many years have pass and the cases became more severe as time goes by. Children are...
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...For instance, kids are forced to take part in wars, forced to kill, and commit other acts of violence. In addition,the children are used as cooks, porters, messengers, informants, spies or anything their commanders want them to do. Many people believe that child soldiers should not be given amnesty, however, I believe that these juveniles should because they are forced to take part in the military, are also not old enough to know how to make the right decisions. Also these adolescents do not have 100% control over their...
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...Embedded assessment Do you think college is a privilege or a necessity? Well today in our society college is not an option anymore more like a necessity. “College may be worth it to some people, but the majority of the people that haven't even stepped foot into a college are doing better that the people that have gone to college for a masters degree.” stated in the article(Is college worth it?) by . Just because your parents and family expect you to go to college and get a degree doesn't really mean you have to, unless you think it's the right thing to do. Parents Know a days expect their child or student to go to college, So it is more like pressured/forced then actually expecting or wanting to do it. Going to college and getting a degree does not necessarily guarantee that an individual is gonna get a good hard working job afterwards. But it's all up to the person and what they want to achieve in life. Personally college is something i might look forward to in life but just seem like i can do my dream job without so i'm not too worried. There are valid arguments for both sides....
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...“I would like to give you a message. Please do your best to tell the world what is happening to us, the children. So that other children don’t have to pass through this violence.”-Mary, Age 13. Children, like Mary, from Northern Uganda, have fough tin wars for centuries.They are forced to become soldiers in a war that they rarely understand, let alone believe in. These children are labeled as criminals because murder is murder, but the effect of war causes people, and especially children to do unspeakable crimes. That is why is is important for readers to understand what happened how children are forced to be soldiers and why their story’s need to be told. First off, it is important to know how children are manipulated into picking up a gun....
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...Abstract This paper will discuss will discuss rating system that judge employees on job performance. The rating systems that will discuss in this paper are the following: forced-ranking, absolute-rating and relative-rating system. The author will discuss weather forced ranking is a good performance management system, the different between the absolute-rating and relative-rating systems, an what would the author rely on as a rating system and can a absolute-rating system be devise that would guarantee differentiation among workers, Rank & Yank: Legitimate Performance Improvement Tool Or Ruthless and Unfair Management 1. Do you think forced ranking is a good performance management system? Why or Why not. The forced ranking system is not a good performance management system because it’s been proven to discriminate against workers, it fails to promote inclusiveness and teamwork among workers, and it is costly because it increases employee turnover. According to Gomez “the intent of the forced-ranking system is to improve the performance level of an operation by getting rid of the bottom ten percent of performers and hiring replacements that will perform at a higher level” (p. 231). Forced ranking has been employed by a number of companies but some legal challenges have been made (Gomez-Mejia, Balkin, & Cardy, 2007). For example, a lawsuit contends that Microsoft’s grading system is discriminatory. A class-action suit brought on behalf of African Americans and women states...
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...We should improve child labor laws, so children can have the chance at a normal childhood. Child labor is a form of indentured servitude and child slavery, where children have no say in what work they do. From working in sweatshops to having low wages, child labor is a form of crime against humanity, and even a form of dehumanization. Child labor is why many people live in poverty today. This is why we need to enforce more laws on child labor. The sanitation that these kids are put in, is unsafe and the children are put at high risk. In “Child Labor and Sweatshops” by Charles Clark it says, “American shoppers may not know it, but many of the name-brand products they purchase - from clothing to carpets to sports equipment - were made under appalling...
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...Imagine, if you were in a desperate situation, like in an abusive home, and this one random guy from the street told you all these things. Things like you’ll have a great life, you’ll have a great future, you’ll have everything you wanted, but you have to do just one thing for him which turns into human trafficking, where they mistreat you, abuse you, hit you. Now that’s happening because they tricked you, and told you all these lies that weren't true. Laura Abasi became one of the girls of human trafficking when she was just 18 years old. She says, “If they told you she was going to kill you, and she actually started fighting. They had to almost kill you, to beg them not to kill you,” (Fisher, 2014). Some don’t even want to do this but they...
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...“Take up the White Man's burden— / Ye dare not stoop to less—/ Nor call too loud on Freedom / To cloak your weariness. / By all ye will or whisper, / By all ye leave or do, / The silent sullen peoples/ Shall weigh your God and you.” reads Ruyard Kipling’s poem, “The White Man’s Burden.” Rudyard Kipling, who was a well-known author around the turn of the century. He was a prestigious college graduate who had won many awards, including the Nobel Prize for writing. This tells us, the readers, that he is a very credible writer. Now, academically, there is much discourse and disagreement in regards to weather the poem is satirical. Many scholars believe that Kipling’s sentiment expressed about Imperialism as genuine, especially considering some of his other work. However, some do believe the poem is satire, and that Kipling is mocking the concept of “The White Man’s Burden.” Regardless of whether or not the poem is satirical, and while disregarding that the poem is directly about the Philippine-American War, “The White Man’s Burden” still shows what pro-Imperialists believed. “The White Man’s Burden” shows modern readers the thought process that lead many Western forces to go to lands they had never been before and systematically destroy a people’s way of life....
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...put on the front lines each day. Their lives put at risk for values most of they don't even believe in. We don’t allow child soldiers in the U.S., let alone, capturing and beating children to become soldiers. Child soldiers have been around for hundreds of years. Why has it taken us so long to notice that we should do something. So why have we let other countries capture kids and use them on the battlefield? Ten-year-olds in the U.S. are running around on the playground, playing cars and enjoying childhood while other ten-year-olds are being scarred for life with gruesome images of war. Child soldiers are robbed of their childhood and of their childlike qualities; one of the...
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...Why are these children working in the first place? The children are working for many reasons. In most cases people would think that these children are forced into working; Although in some cases children go to work because their family is extremely poor and they feel they need to help get money. In other cases these children are physically forced into doing the work that no one else will. In other cases a child's family could all die or just plane out leave him and they will be adopted and forced to do the work. Some children get sold to a manufacture and they are forced into working. Most of these children have no choice but to work. These children aren't always forced into doing all this work. That dose not mean that they like the work it means that the family might need the money or they might have no where else to go. Some of these children work for simple room and board. In the countries that are overrun with child labour are filled with a high poverty level. These children have no choice but to go and work because if they don’t they will starve and die. Child labour for these children is survival,there are no other chances for them. None of these children have the privilege of going to school and being able to go to a house at the end of a day. Most of these children work from the crack of dawn and don’t stop working till late into the night. The main fact of all this is that if these children don't work they will die and there family might too. Some of these children...
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