COTTON FACT SHEET PAKISTAN Pakistan has the 26th largest economy in the world with a GDP of USD504.3 billion and a GDP per capita of USD 2‚600. It has a population of approximately 176.2 million people (2008 estimates). OVERVIEW Pakistan is the 4th largest cotton producer and consumer (preceded by China (Mainland)‚ India and the USA). The cotton industry is an integral aspect of the economy. This is also true of the textile sector on which the economy is heavily dependent. As such cotton is a principal
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In the state of Georgia‚ Eli Whitney created the cotton gin in 1793. The cotton gin had positive and negative effects in the United States during the Industrial Revolution. The cotton gin changed the way cotton was processed and greatly affected the slave states. In the south‚ the cotton gin had positive and negative effects on the production of cotton. The cotton gin made processing cotton easier‚ faster‚ and more efficient. However‚ it also increased slavery and almost tore out nation apart
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Penguin Random House LLC of New York City published Empire of Cotton‚ written by Harvard University Professor Sven Beckert‚ in 2014. And is vivid and penetrating nonfiction in which the author creates a definitive history of how cotton came to shape the contemporary world‚ global capitalism and political economies. The history of cotton dates back 5‚000 years and was crucial to economies of many ancient civilizations. However‚ Beckert focuses the majority of his attention to our last 250 years. Crossing
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In Beckert’s book titled‚ “The Empire of Cotton”‚ he argues that the cultivation of cotton in 19th century America went hand in hand with slavery‚ or violent domination of labour. Before the inception of cotton cultivation in US‚ slaves were employed in tobacco plantations. When the market for tobacco dwindled‚ it was an easy move to employ the slaves on cotton plantations‚ as the cultivation techniques were largely similar. Cotton is a labour intensive crop‚ and a significant portion of the production
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"Has politically correct‚ overprotective parenting created a generation of "cotton wool‚" kids so removed from risk and adversity that they are left incapable of dealing with the social and physical demands of adult life?" The number of socially and physically incapable children in New Zealand society is rapidly growing. The overprotective and politically correct parents of these children have been influenced by the media‚ through television coverage of the danger in their surrounding communities
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Maya Angelou is such an inspiration. Her career encompassed a multitude of titles from author‚ playwright‚ and poet to stage and screen performer‚ director‚ and human rights activist. Angelou was awarded the Presidential Medal of Arts in 2000 and the Lincoln Medal in 2008. She has received three Grammy Awards and some 50 honorary degrees. In 1993‚ she read her poem On the Pulse of the Morning at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration‚ at his request. Although she did all of these amazing things one
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Maya Angelou‚ who was the first African-American to work in the San Francisco streetcars‚ accomplished many things in her life. This fact proves that Angelou was a woman who believed in doing what needs to be done in order to accomplish her goals. Angelou made an impact on the world by creating books for children that could relate to most of their situations‚ but most importantly she fought for African American rights in the early and middle 1900s. Maya Angelou’s early life helped lead to her need
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The cotton gin Hello‚ I’m Phineas but I’m now Eli Whitney’s assistant. WOW! I know right I was thinking that I could tell you some things about me. I was born in 1772 I became friends/partners with Eli around 1793. I didn’t come from a wealthy family. But enough about me let’s get to the good parts of my life when I was just becoming his assistant. Well it didn’t happen like that I had to try out and gosh was there a lot of people there. Let’s get to it ’’hello‚ Mr. Whitney‚’’ I said confidently
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applied to Maya Angelou in a huge way. The story is based around the eighth grade graduation of Maya Angelou. Her main point reflects the unfair treatment of african americans during that time because they were not valued for their educational intelligence. She does an amazing job telling the story by changing her tone and feelings as time advances and it gets closer to the time of actual graduation. Although society constantly derailed the true potential of african americans during this time‚ Maya Angelou
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Analysis of the System and Estimator Variables in the Cotton Case FPSY-2001-1 Walden University 5/06/2014 There are two variables associated with the misidentification of one by an eyewitness‚ estimator variables or “factors that relate to the circumstances under which witnessing takes place”‚ and system variables in which the variables “include overt or subtle suggestive techniques cops use to influence a witness to pick a particular suspect” ("Mistaken Identification in California
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