BA 3300 – BUSINESS CORNERSTONE Assessing Sweatshirts from Sweatshop 1. “According to the recent report by the WorldWeave Foundation, a nonprofit organization funded by American garment workers’ unions, Transterra owns five factories in Third World countries……” Author violates one of the Universal Intellectual standards, clarity. He states that the WorldWeave Foundation recently reported some details about Transterra Textile’s operations. Not every reader knows about that
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“Sweatshops are more than just labor abuse. When you find a sweatshop, you will also find social injustice, poverty, discrimination, abuse of women, and environmental damage” (Goldberg 2). Sweatshop conditions have been present for centuries, but people are just now starting to raise awareness for the workers working in them. Workers in sweatshops are treated similar to how slaves were treated. People are suffering while working in sweatshops and the anti-sweatshop movement is trying to raise awareness
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A sweatshop can be defined simply as a shop or factory that employs workers at very low wages, working for long hours and in poor working conditions. Most of the workers employed in sweatshops are not offered benefits, and in most cases, are illiterate. Sweatshops are not only bad for the workers and the countries they are located in but also bad for America and the rest of the world. The common argument put forward by supporters of sweatshops, like that in the article by Nicholas Kristof (2009)
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“It’s a painful fact that boycotting goods made by sweatshop labor only hurts the workers, not the factory owners.” This statement from Human Rights is proven true by many revealing facts. Because of this, Americans should buy sweatshop made products. In fact, articles such as document 1 explains how unemployed children turn to prostitution in hopes of not starving out on the streets. Also, document 4 states that not only should we not boycott sweatshop made goods, but we should be adding more workers
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单薄的一句承诺，终其一生的等待 ——《狼族少年》影评 这是一部讲述狼族少年与普通少女爱情故事的影片，或许情节略显老套，但是没有猜忌，没有误会，没有撕心裂肺，只有纯粹的感动，却是直戳人心底最柔软的角落。《狼族少年》塑造了一个温情的氛围。像是旧时期的家庭剧，昏黄色调的画面中，大人孩子围坐一桌吃着热腾腾的饭菜。 他，本是茹毛饮血、野性难驯的狼孩，是需要被掩盖的实验半残品，他不懂规矩，为了觅食，闯入她们家。当众人避之不及，警局不予过问时，是她善良的姐姐收留了他，给他人的待遇，面对他的抢食，姐姐只是温暖的抚慰抱怨的三个孩子，下顿我多做点，他那么可怜，你们多同情下他。 她，本是身体孱弱、性格孤僻的小孩，被一个无耻的爱慕者苦苦纠缠，对突然闯进的他，最初她看不惯他的粗鲁和愚笨，很是排斥。可是只会像狼“哼哼”的他，会帮她搬重物，会为她驱赶骚扰者，会在钢筋掉落时，护住她和家人，由于他一点一滴的介入，她开始走出孤僻的世界，融入孩子们各种各样的游戏，重拾欢笑。 她拿着训狗书慢慢学习，用食物做饵，教他如何细嚼慢咽，如何刷牙、
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Sweatshops and Third World Living Standards: The article “Sweatshops and Third World Living Standards: Are the Jobs Worth the Sweat?” analyzes the meaning of sweatshops in Third World countries from different point of views. The authors gives us a little bit of understanding around the meaning of the word and also try to address and compare the different wages in the apparel industry with the wages of other individual firms accused of being sweatshops as well as their influence on the
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his New York Times essay, “Where Sweatshops are a Dream,” writer Nicholas Kristof uses the beginning talks on labor standards between President Obama and his team to expose the dark side of extremely poor nations—sweatshops being dream jobs. Kristof explains to his readers why taking away sweatshops from undeveloped nations would lead to destroying the one of the few ways out of poverty and deplorable living situations. His first goal is to establish that sweatshops are an “escalator out of poverty
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accessory that has been produced in a human sweatshop. A Sweatshop is an unfit working environment considered to be too dangerous and difficult to work in. Their widespread outbreak happened in the mid 1800’s where clothing could be produced faster and inexpensive without regulations from overseers’. PURPOSE: (relate topic to this audience and establish credibility): The purpose of this topic is to inform the audience about the history of the sweatshops, companies impacted because of allegations
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Running head: Nike: A SWEATSHOP DEBATE Nike: A Sweatshop Debate University of Phoenix MGT/448 Instructor J. Ryan April 17, 2012 Nike: A sweatshop debate. Nike, a multi-billion dollar corporation, is the world’s primary supplier of athletic shoes and attire. Over the past several years, Nike has been involved in much controversy over its possible sweatshops. The following will address the legal, cultural, ethical, strategic and operational challenges Nike faces because of this controversy
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Nike: The Sweatshop Debate Summary: Nike is one of the foremost marketers of athletic shoes and apparel on the world. It established in 1972 with a handshake between two visionary Oregonians-Bowerman and his university runner Phil knight. It has annual revenue of $10 billion and it sells in total 140 countries. Nike does not do any manufacturing process only it designs and markets its products. It has 600 factories around the world that employ some 550,000 people. Nike is recognizable for its “swoosh”
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