...state of being. Further factors include outside aggressors such as foreign chemicals and one’s own self. (PTSD) or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can only be developed if one has been exposed to a very traumatic event evolving an actual threat or serious injury, or a threat to a physical integrity of oneself or others. Most importantly a clinical experience with PTSD diagnosis has shown that most people who have been exposed to a horrific event do not necessarily acquire PTSD although that is the main cause of it; there was a vast amount of individual differences regarding the capacity or threshold to take a traumatic event. Very many illnesses have an effect on American literature, and this is because of how Agent Orange, Gulf War Syndrome, and PTSD came about. They affect literature by the way the media novels and authors portray them. Different people react to events differently; no one person is the same as one another. Like pain the traumatic experience is filtered through a cognitive and emotional process called appraisal. PTSD can take a very psychological and emotional toll on ones personal life, such as resentment and possibly force one to act out in odd ways. There are three different categories: pre-traumatic, traumatic and post traumatic factors. Pre traumatic could be anything from familiar psychiatric illness, parental poverty, childhood trauma, neuroticism, introversion, divorced parents before age 10, Etc. Post traumatic environment have also been known to...
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...Maddison Braun ANT: 350 Medical Anthropology “Diabetes from the War” March 31, 2015 Type 2 diabetes is a condition the affects the way the body processes blood sugar or glucose. Unlike type 1 diabetes the body does produce insulin, but either the pancreas does not produce enough of it or the body cannot use the insulin efficiently. This is why type 2 diabetics are called insulin resistant. It is often called adult onset diabetes as most of the symptoms do not present themselves until well into adulthood. However, many people who have type 2 diabetes will show no symptoms at all. Many things have been said to cause diabetes such as being overweight, living an unhealthy lifestyle and even over exposure to some chemicals. There is currently no cure for type 2 diabetes but it can be managed with proper treatment. This treatment mainly involves living a healthy lifestyle and maintaining a healthy weight. Without proper treatment, diabetes can be a very serious disease. Over time, the high glucose levels in the blood can damage the nerves and small blood vessels of the eyes, kidneys and heart. This, in turn, can lead to atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries and can cause a heart attack, stroke or loss of vision. In some cases, it can result in death of the host when the diabetes reaches its most advanced stages. No two people on this earth are the same. This is especially true when it comes to diseases. No one on this entire earth is going to experience the...
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...Business Plan 1. Strategic Analysis 2. Marketing plan 3. Financial plan III. Task conducted IV. Participants Introduction Consumer Trends for Fruit and Vegetable Products looks at the STEEP model to analyze factors that affect the marketplace. It explores consumer trends in Vietnam using the statistics on food consumption, how Vietnamese are spending their food money, demographics and growth in produce sales. Retail trends are explored, which include specialty foods, packaging, branding, organics, convenience foods and the ethnic market in their relation to fruit and vegetables. Finally, this information is applied to the Alberta situation, suggesting market research activities that producers and processors may consider. Fruit and vegetable consumption has grown over the last few years for a number of reasons. In general, people are more concerned about staying healthy and eating right, and research into nutraceuticals and functional food has highlighted the health compounds found in fruits and vegetables. There has also been an increase in vegetarian diets and a stronger demand for exotic produce, resulting in a wider variety of imports, during all seasons of the year. The Financial condition in Vietnam has been improved a lot for many years. With that development, the demand in people’s life, especially in special celebration such as Tet Holiday...
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...when it established a presence in Europe by partnering with a company based there to produce salicylic acid, aspirin, and eventually rubber with them. Starting in the 1920’s, Monsanto International began to produce and distribute basic industrial chemicals such as sulfuric acid, and by the time the 1940’s arrived, the company was the leading manufacturer of some chemical plastics and synthetic fibers. Since, Monsanto has maintained a position as one of the top 10 chemical companies in the United States. Other noteworthy products that have yielded from the Monsanto Corporation are the artificial sweetener aspartame (NutraSweet), the insecticide DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) which was later banned, the toxic chemical “Agent Orange” used in the Vietnam War, the controversial Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH), many Nuclear Weapons, and the pesticide “Roundup” also found to have toxic effects on humans and the environment (Robin, 2008). The Roundup product is central to the focus and content of this report on the Monsanto Corporation and it’s attempts to monopolize the agriculture/crop farming industry. Monsanto has long been criticized for pursuing profits without any concern for potential hazards it may be causing; likewise, the government is also criticized for failing to...
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...EL RINCON DEL MUNDO The small town of Guadalupe has Spanish history, as does most of the southwest region of the USA. Most of Guadalupe’s jobs center around agriculture. “El Rincon del mundo” which is what the region was thought of, literally mean the edge of the world in English. The name of Guadalupe is derived from either “La virgen de Guadalupe” or “Rancho de Guadalupe”. THE SKINNY BEAR Oso Flaco or (skinny bear) is a salt water lake near Guadalupe, gets it’s name from a story of a Spanish adventurer who kills a bear then eats its meat not knowing that the bear had been poisoned by the local Native Americans. The teens of Guadalupe organize a youth group called “Thee Group B”. “The Group B” has it’s own house band called “Soul Explosion” which eventually changes it’s name to “Congress”. Soul Explosion and Thee Group B have bonfires and party at the outskirts of town. THE DUNE THAT NEVER MOVES In 1923 The Ten Commandments a silent movie by Cecil B. DeMille is shot at the southern end of Guadalupe. A gigantic set is created for the film, complete with 20-ton pharaoh statues and a “City of Pharaohs”. After completion of the film the set is bulldozed with sand giving it term “The Dune that never moves”. To big city folk like those whom make movies there, Guadalupe and her surrounding area looks very different from what they are used to, from it’s farmland, to the fact that in the whole town there is not a single traffic light, to it’s cities building’s...
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...A CORPORATE PROFILE About Food & Water Watch Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. So we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of where their food comes from, keep clean, affordable, public tap water flowing freely to our homes, protect the environmental quality of oceans, force government to do its job protecting citizens, and educate about the importance of keeping shared resources under public control. Food & Water Watch 1616 P St. NW, Ste. 300 Washington, DC 20036 tel: (202) 683-2500 fax: (202) 683-2501 info@fwwatch.org California Office 25 Stillman St., Ste. 200 San Francisco, CA 94107 tel: (415) 293-9900 fax: (415) 293-8394 info-ca@fwwatch.org www.foodandwaterwatch.org Copyright © 2013 by Food & Water Watch. All rights reserved. This report can be viewed or downloaded at www.foodandwaterwatch.org. A CORPORATE PROFILE Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Company History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Modern-Day Monsanto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Monsanto’s Environmental Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Market Share . . . . . . . . . . ....
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...Bovine Growth Hormone Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone or BGH is a drug manufactured by the Monsanto Company. This drug was produced to increase milk production in cows. The FDA approved BGH in 1993 for use in dairy farming, the usage of BGH began in 1994. After the first batch of milking it was seen that cows began to die (Wade, 1). The BGH was forcing the dairy cows to create milk faster then they could eat. This was causing their milk producing glands to extract calcium from the bones of the cows. This caused the cows to become weakened and fall down. It is also noticed that an increased occurrence of mastitis, which is an infection of the cows utters. (Wade, 1) The infection is cured by a regime of antibiotics, which make it into our milk. It is also seen that there is no legitimate use to BGH. In the United States there is a surplus of dairy products, meaning that with the use of BGH small farmers will be run out of business by the factory farms. They can produce larger quantities of milk and be able to sell them at lower prices. The production of the Bovine Growth Hormone in order to help the dairy industry has become a controversial issue since its usage approval. In today’s world being a socially responsible company is not only a trending fad but also it is almost a requirement by the consumers. Many companies have labels stating things like “dolphin free” or “BGH free.” The merchandisers use these labels to increase their sales with the socially responsible consumers...
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...Fact Finding and Risk Assessment Sustainability Aspects in the Vietnamese Cashew Sector Prepared for Kraft Foods Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG Langemarckstr. 4-20, 28199 Bremen, Germany Prepared by [pic] Representative Office Asia Pacific 5 Ong Ich Khiem. Hanoi, Ba Dinh, SR Viet Nam June 2005 Table of Content 1. Introduction 1 2. Cashew in General and in Vietnam 1 2.1 General Agronomy 1 2.2 Sector organisation 2 2.3 Production 3 2.4 Products and processing 5 2.5 The Supply Chain 8 2.6 Trade and export 11 2.7 Internal consumption 11 3. Vietnams integration into the International Cashew Market 12 3.1 International Cashew trade 12 3.2 Supply 13 3.3 Demand 14 3.4 Pricing 15 4. Sustainability issues in the Vietnamese Cashew sector 17 4.1 Environmental sustainability 17 4.1.1 Forest Resources 17 4.1.2 Soil and Water 17 4.1.3 Fertiliser and Pesticides 17 4.1.4 Solid Waste, Waste Water and Air Emissions 18 4.1.5 Energy Efficiency 18 4.2 Social sustainability 18 4.2.1 Labour and wages 18 4.2.2 Children 19 4.2.3 Gender 19 4.2.4 Working conditions and wages 19 4.3 Economic sustainability 20 4.3.1 Supply Chain Equitability 20 4.3.2 Value adding 20 5. Towards a cashew and sustainability PPP project 20 5.1 Possibilities for an export orientated project intervention 20 5.2 Possibilities for a local market orientated project...
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...BIOPESTICIDAL EFFECT OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF CHILI PEPPER ON GOLDEN KUHOL (POMACEA CANALICULATA) A Research Proposal Presented to the faculty of Science Department In Partial Fulfilment of the Course Research II Jaira Belle G. Venturillo IV-Rutherford September 2013 BIOPESTICIDAL EFFECT OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF CHILI PEPPER ON GOLDEN KUHOL (POMACEA CANALICULATA) INTRODUCTION A who’s who of biopesticide is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live intimately with these chemicals formulating them within the plants and then eventually eating them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones, isn’t it like digging our own grave? On today’s status quo one of the major problems in the Philippines is about health, and one of the main cause of this is about what we eat, which as we can see chemical products are abundant in the Philippines. Rice is an everyday consumption of Filipino’s diet which is believed healthy for our body and abundant throughout the Philippines, but what if shortage of this production is experience because of pests invading towards Philippine rice fields. Believe it or not, this healthy is now considered insalubrious facing the fact that chemicals that are practiced towards the plants which serves as pesticide against kuhol will also harm our body, because farmers have no choice but to use chemical pesticide to eliminate these pests, is there? Before the introduction of chemical pesticides our native kuhol was a good source of...
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...capacity of 400 tons / day and rhum distillery. The company is headquartered at Road No. 1, Bien Hoa I Industrial Zone, Dong Nai.Total area of the company is 198,245.9 m². Through continuous development and technological innovation to diversify product lines till 2001, the company officially was put into equitization and became BH joint stock company. In 12/2006, the company shares were officially listed on stock exchanges in Ho Chi Ming (HOSE) under the code BHS. 2. The achievements With more than 40 years of operation, the company has gained high achievements: the BVQI certification for quality management system under ISO 9001:2000, the President awarded "labor Hero in innovation period", the product of the company in 12 years gained "Vietnam high...
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... which is derived from the decayed remains of plants and animals, is concentrated in the dark uppermost topsoil. The inorganic portion made up of rock fragments, was formed over thousands of years by physical and chemical weathering of bedrock. Productive soils are necessary for agriculture to supply the world with sufficient food. A soil pollutant is any factor which deteriorates the quality, texture and mineral content of the soil or which disturbs the biological balance of the organisms in the soil. Pollution in soil has adverse effect on plant growth. The introduction of substances, biological organisms, or energy into the soil, resulting in a change of the soil quality, which is likely to affect the normal use of the soil or endangering public health and the living environment. Soil contaminants are spilled onto the surface through many different activities. Most of these are the result of accidents involving the vehicles that are transporting waste material from site of origin to a disposal site. Soil pollution is particularly dangerous for the environment and our health because soil, either in the mountains or in the plains, contains the largest part of the water we drink and produces all the food we need. There are many types of soil pollution, each one with its own features and preventive measures to avoid disasters. What is soil pollution anyways? Soil pollution is defined or can be described...
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...2010 TEAM NO.3 TRAN GIA HOANG S3245623 DO PHUONG ANH S3220476 VU THANH HANG S3209879 LE HONG HANH S3209856 MARKET RESEARCH REPORT RMIT International University Vietnam BP181 Bachelor of Commerce Program ASSIGNMENT COVER PAGE Your submission will not be accepted unless all fields below are completed Course Code: | MKTG1254 | Course Name: | Market Research | Location where you study: | RMIT Vietnam, Ha Noi Campus | Title of Assignment: | Market Research Report | File(s) submitted | MKTG1254_G02_Market_Research_Report_MARKEX_Team.docx | Student names: | Tran Gia Hoang, Do Phuong Anh, Le Hong Hanh, Vu Thanh Hang | Student e-mail address: | s3245623@rmit.edu.vns3220476@rmit.edu.vns3209856@rmit.edu.vns3209879@rmit.edu.vn | Learning Facilitator in charge: | Ms. Phuong Phung | Assignment due date: | September 11th , 2010 | Date of submission: | September 11th , 2010 | Number of pages including this one: | 76 pages | Word Count: | 14,080 words | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Vietnamese economy is booming along with the development in customers’ taste in almost every area of life, including interior architectural and bedding products. This trend allows many companies to create their own opportunity and improve their market share in the whole market. One of them is CND. CND has been established for 5 years but is chasing a promising approach when they aim to upper-class segments of...
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...predicted Trung Nguyen will stay in the number one position in next few years. According to the NCTT statistic, in 2009, 49% customers picked Trung Nguyen for daily using. From 2009 – 2011, Trung Nguyen was the number one brand-name which the largest market shares (10million/17 million families) in which 65% coffee consumers agreed with the feedback: “I prefer buying Vietnamese brandname”. Being one of the most famous brands in Viet Nam, Trung Nguyen has been being confirm its position not only in VietNam but also in the world. With the successes Trung Nguyen has achieved so far, now this brand name confidently can expands and competes with any other top brands. Today we are going to discuss Trung Nguyen Coffee “A Vietnamese brand, an International brand”. CHAPTER 1 THE MANAGERS’ MACRO ENVIRONMENT THE MANAGERS’ MACRO ENVIRONMENT I-/ The external environment of Trung Nguyen The term “external environment” presents the factors, forces, situations, and events outside the organization that affect its performance. For any organizations, those external components include: Economic factor (interest rates, inflation, stock market fluctuations…etc) Demographic factor (age, race, gender, education level, geographic, income...etc)...
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...Doing Business in Vietnam: 2011 Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT, U.S. & FOREIGN COMMERCIAL SERVICE AND U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 2011. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. • • • • • • • • • • Chapter 1: Doing Business in Vietnam Chapter 2: Political and Economic Environment Chapter 3: Selling U.S. Products and Services Chapter 4: Leading Sectors for U.S. Export and Investment Chapter 5: Trade Regulations, Customs and Standards Chapter 6: Investment Climate Chapter 7: Trade and Project Financing Chapter 8: Business Travel Chapter 9: Contacts, Market Research and Trade Events Chapter 10: Guide to Our Services Return to table of contents Chapter 1: Doing Business in Vietnam • • • • Market Overview Market Challenges Market Opportunities Market Entry Strategy Return to top Market Overview • Vietnam is a true emerging market, offering ground floor and growing opportunities for U.S. exporters and investors. Vietnam’s economic growth rate has been among the highest in the world in recent years, expanding at an average about 7.2 percent per year during the period 2001-2010, while industrial production grew at an average of about 12 percent per year during the same period. Vietnam registered GDP growth rate of 6.7 percent in 2010 and was one of only a handful of countries around the world to experience such levels of economic growth. Moving forward, inflation remains a main risk to Vietnam’s economy, which the Government...
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...after natural disturbance, including biodiversity loss after naturally occurring rainforest destruction.[4][5] Deforestation occurs for many reasons: trees are cut down to be used or sold as fuel (sometimes in the form of charcoal) or timber, while cleared land is used as pasture for livestock, plantations of commodities and settlements. The removal of trees without sufficient reforestation has resulted in damage to habitat, biodiversity loss and aridity. It has adverse impacts on biosequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Deforestation has also been used in war to deprive the enemy of cover for its forces and also vital resources. Modern examples of this were the use of Agent Orange by the British military in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency and the United States military in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Among countries with a per capita GDP of at least US$4,600, net deforestation rates have ceased to increase.[when?][6][7] Deforested regions typically incur significant adverse soil erosion...
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