Guns‚ Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Prologue 1. Summarize Yali’s question. This requires mentioning race‚ intelligence‚ and development of technology. Yali asks "why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?" What Yali is asking is about the origins of inequality between countries and societies in the world. He wants to know why people of European descent are rich and powerful while people like him
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MACRO AND MICRO FACTORS AFFECTING THE STEEL INDUSTRY (TATA STEEL) The world GDP‚ as reported by International Monetary Fund‚ was on an upturn‚ growing by 5% in 2010 as compared to a negative growth of 0.5% in 2009. While the growth in the advanced economies was 3.0% in 2010‚in contrast to -3.4% in 2009‚ the emerging and developing economies grew by 7.3% in 2010 when compared to the growth of 2.7% in 2009. The growth in the developing and emerging economies slowed down during the end of 2010
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not have predicted on which continent human societies would develop most quickly‚ but could’ve made a strong case for any of the continents. He says that the remainder of the book is to discover those real reasons. In section two‚ chapter four‚ Diamond argues that superior food production was the root cause beneath the ability of Eurasia’s people to develop the guns‚ germs‚ and steel that conquered the rest of the world. First‚ a population that can produce more food can also produce more
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of assuming money and power‚ steel companies raised the prices of their products. President Kennedy found this infuriating‚ and gave his response towards the issue. Known for his persuasive and uplifting speeches‚ Kennedy uses to his advantage rhetorical appeals in order to argue the steel companies reasons for raising their prices. To begin‚ Kennedy provides the possible consequences for raising steel with the usage of logic. As made clear by Kennedy‚ raising steel prices can influence multiple
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case of Tata Steel acquiring Corus throws up several interesting questions on emerging multinationals and traditional multinationals in the steel industry and particularly the complexities of the acquisition in the above context. What has been surprising in the above case is that how could a small steel maker‚ Tata Steel from a developing country like India buy up a large steel company‚ Corus PLC from the United Kingdom. Prior to the acquisition‚ Corus was four times bigger than Tata Steel. However‚
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Concrete vs. Steel Structures: In the past‚ the world of construction of buildings was based on wood‚ adobe‚ thatch and cave dwellings as construction materials or units. Modern engineering has developed to use the steel‚ concrete as basic elements of construction. Nowadays‚ there is a worldwide debate about which material of those two does reign supreme in the world of development. Most importantly‚ concrete and steel have different mechanical properties which cause a different behavior under
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Video Games and the Benefits They Bring Since the mid 1980’s the popularity of video games has spread like wildfire. With updates to current technology we have gone from the very basic games such as Pong‚ Mario‚ and Tetris to the vast lifelike expansive worlds of games like Mass Effect‚ Skyrim and Diablo. As our technology grows‚ so does the realism in our video games. We have gone from a ball and a stick moving back and forth to a vast list of choices that a player can make while exploring
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literate industrial societies with metal tools‚ other parts developed only nonliterate farming societies‚ and still others retained societies of hunter-gatherers with stone tools. Also‚ until the end of the last Ice Age‚ all peoples on all continents were what led to the technological and political inequalities of A.D. 1500. There is also the fact that cold climates require one to be more technologically interactive to survive. Because they must build a house that is warm‚ whereas a person can create a simpler
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Diamonds Thesis for Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Jared Diamond is on a mission to prove his thesis‚ "History followed different courses for different people because of differences among peoples’ environments‚ not because of biological differences among peoples themselves"(Pg 25). He writes many chapters filled with intriguing reasons to prove his thesis. It takes a lot of facts and countless arguments to prove something everyone thinks is true‚ wrong‚ and after reading the book‚ I think Jared completed
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Market Structure- Steel sector in India Indian Steel Sector: An Overview Steel is crucial to the development of any modern economy and is considered to be the backbone of human civilization. The level of per capita consumption of steel is treated as an important index of the level of socioeconomic development and living standards of the people in any country. The Indian steel industry has made a rapid progress on strong fundamentals over the recent few years. The industry is getting all essential
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