Bethlehem Steel’s Demise Founded in 1857‚ Bethlehem Steel was America’s second largest steel producer and largest shipbuilder. It was the backbone of the first blasting furnaces‚ coal‚ nuclear reactors‚ warships‚ cargo vessels and other major infrastructural accomplishments. Bethlehem Steel was headquartered in Pennsylvania dominating the economy and small city of Bethlehem with 7200 people. It had been around for over hundred years but now is a piece of American history disappeared forever declaring
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ones is from Jared Diamond. He created the book “Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚” which was later turned into a TV miniseries. In it‚ Diamond travels around the world looking for an answer to a question that was asked by a New Guinean. Eventually‚ he turned to history. He looked at different societies and analyzed what caused them to be the way they were. Finally‚ he found an answer; geographic luck. In Episode 1 and 2 of “Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚” Jared Diamond addresses an important question that has the ability
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TOWN LEVEL BACKGROUND NOTE (DRAFT) ON JALNA Submitted to Urban India Reforms Facility TATA INSTITUTE of SOCIAL SCIENCES By Resources and Livelihoods Group‚ PRAYAS‚ Pune 1 Acknowledgements Preparation of this report would not have been possible without the cooperation and support extended by the Jalna Municipal council’s officers and councilors for the support they extended in the form of sharing data as well as exchanging views ‚ and also the experts from different fields
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Today’s Inequality Jared Diamond gets asked an important question “Why you white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little”. To Diamond‚ the question seemed obvious‚ yet he didn’t have an answer. That’s why in “Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: Episode 1” Jared Diamond discusses the problem of why some countries have so much while others rarely enough to survive. Also how those rich countries start developing and inventing new technology to help them thrive. At first‚ during the age of the
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Lakshmi Mittal and the Growth of Mittal Steel (Case Study) Since its inception‚ ArcelorMittal has rapidly grown through a successful consolidation strategy with a number of significant acquisitions. According to ArcelorMittal (2012)‚ the company is the successor to Mittall Steel‚ a business originally set up in 1976 by Lakshmi N. Mittal‚ CEO and chairman of the board of directors (paras 1-2). ArcelorMittal moved the company’s headquarters to Rotterdam in 1997 (Hill‚ 2011‚ p. 261). The company
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INTRODUCTION Tata Steel‚ formerly known as TISCO and Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited‚ is the world ’s sixth largest steel company‚ with an annual crude steel capacity of 31 million tonnes. It is the largest private sector steel company in India in terms of domestic production. Ranked 258th on Fortune Global 500‚ it is based in Jamshedpur‚ Jharkhand‚ India. It is part of Tata Group of companies. Tata Steel is also India ’s second-largest and second-most profitable company in private sector
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Strength BlueScope Steel Corporation acquires strong and reputable Australian brand in global steel industry. In Australia‚ its core product brands – COLORBOND®‚ ZINCALUME® and XLERPLATE® steels – are defined as market leaders in the building construction and manufacturing industries. Its LYSAGHT® brand is nearly 100 years old and holds an enviable reputation for quality. BUTLER®‚ VARCO PRUDEN® and HCI® are leading brands in the pre-engineered building market globally. Moreover‚ the corporation
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because he wanted to explore and acquire knowledge about a question that have puzzled people for thousands of years living them to give different opinion about what might be the possible answer to the question. Guns‚ Germs‚ And Steel is a historical analysis about anthropology & archaeology that opens with a prologue in which the author presents a question from a New Guinean politician and friend named Yali: why were Europeans able to conquer so many other societies around the world? This
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies‚ by Jared Diamond‚ attempts to explain why history progressed differently for people from various geographical regions. Diamond introduces his book by pointing out that history followed different courses for different people because of differences among peoples’ environments‚ not because of biological differences among people themselves. Through his convincing explanation for how civilizations were created and evolved throughout the course of history
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entire economy. John F. Kennedy made this fact very clear about steel prices in his remarks at a news conference on April 11‚ 1962. His comments included personification and repetition to stress his point that the rise in steel prices negatively affects the economy‚ especially during a recession. America is dependent on the circulation of money‚ if there is poor circulation like there was during the recession‚ the increasing price of steel would lead to inflation. JFK illustrates the risk of inflation
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