The Importance of “Strange Fruit” On August 7‚ 1930‚ Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were broken out of jail only to face a fate far more gruesome and violent than that which they may have otherwise endured (Frederick 40). The tragedy of their story‚ though‚ would eventually inspire a work of art so powerful that the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s is considered by some to have been born from it (Margolick 92). The song “Strange Fruit‚” written by Abel Meeropol and popularized by Billie Holiday
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Slavery in the Chocolate Industry Introduction The forced labour of children in the Ivorian cocoa farms is at a distance from the glamourised candy producers such as Mars and Nestlé‚ and a universe away from the day-to-day consumers of chocolate. That such a quixotic market shares a commonality with the more exposed diamond market‚ for example‚ whose implication in the sale and involvement of guns in tribal cleansing has long been documented‚ drives home the reminder that our modern prosperity
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Schrage Council on Foreign Relations‚ USA Anthony P. Ewing Columbia University‚ USA Reports of forced child labour on the cocoa farms of Côte d’Ivoire surfaced in 2000 and quickly became an important business issue for a number of prominent companies. Media coverage and the threat of regulatory action mobilised the international cocoa industry to collaborate with other stakeholders to eliminate the worst forms of child labour from cocoa production. The international cocoa industry moved from
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Kalista’s Fine Chocolate Executive Summary Kalista’s Fine Chocolate is a small family owned business that was opened in 1998 by Graham Beam and Doris Beam. This small business started in the basement of the Beam’s Brantford home‚ and has been growing since then. The business sells high end chocolate that is crafted to a high standard and is very creative. The majority of their market is high income families that reside in the Brantford area. Since the company isn’t very large in scale it is very
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MSGL 502 Ethics and Leadership An Ethical look into Slavery in the Chocolate Industry People around the world share a love of chocolate‚ one of the most delicious and pleasurable foods on earth. However‚ thousands of Africa’s children are modern-day slaves‚ bonded to their employers and forced against their will to work in hazardous and heartbreaking conditions. Slavery in the chocolate industry has been widely publicized through the years. The face of enslaved children has been the
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The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster are an excellent specimen for research in genetics. Many reasons are that they have a rapid reproduction rate‚ easy to care compared other animals and less expensive. Researchers have determined the nucleotide sequence of nearly the entire 120 megabase euchromatic portion of the Drosophila genome (Cite). Drosophila has a simple genetic arrangement of only four chromosomes which contains three autosomes and one sex chromosome according to(--) and because of this
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biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe from the nineteenth century. What is this pilgrimage we speak of? Pilgrimage itself has a long history in Christianity as well as in other
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WOMEN STUDIES ECO-FOOTPRINT PROJECT Topic – Cocoa Beans Production Process Chocolate is a key ingredient in many foods such as milk shakes‚ candy bars‚ cookies and cereals. It is ranked as one of the most favourite flavours in North America and Europe. Despite its popularity most people do not know the unique origin of this popular treat. Chocolate is a product that requires complex procedures to produce. The process involves harvesting cocoa‚ refining coca to cocoa beans‚ and shipping
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Slavery in the Chocolate Industry Chocolate is a product of the cacao bean which grows primarily in the tropical climates of West Africa and Latin America. The cacao bean is more commonly referred to as cocoa‚ so that is the term we will use throughout. Two West African countries‚ Ghana and the Ivory Coast‚ supply 75% of the world’s cocoa market.[1] The cocoa they grow and harvest is sold to a variety of chocolate companies‚ including some of the largest in the world. In recent years‚ a handful
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Valentino – A passion for chocolates! Investment Plan for Valentino 2011-2012 Final Draft 8th October 2011 Editor: George Position: Director of Valentino Employee No. 12114331 To become the best chocolate & gift company in the industry! Valentino – A passion for chocolates! 1 Background of the Valentino Valentino Chocolate has been producing Italy’s finest chocolates for more than 30 years. Valentino chocolates are made in Turin‚ they are luxury products with a unique taste‚ and
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