After reading “Bitter Chocolate” by Carol Off‚ it has helped me open my eyes to the world of chocolate industry which was the most captivating topic of this book. I learned that while we all enjoy consuming this treat almost every day‚ it is also accompanied with severe and hidden costs. The Canadian journalist Carol Off takes you on a trip through the production of cocoa‚ showing the controversies and conflicts that go into creating the chocolate bars you see in your stores every day. One topic
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In "They Came Before Columbus"‚ Ivan Van Sertima stated that American cotton has an African ancestor. With this being said‚ the transferral of plants from one region to the other is somewhat similar as the migration of humans from one geographical area to another. The first plants originated in Africa‚ which explains the ancestral view of this situation. Just like it is believed that humans started from one general area‚ so did plants‚ and just like humans‚ plants traveled to different parts of
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel Guns‚ Germs and Steel is a documentary based on Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the 13‚000 years journey of man kind’s evolution and societal development. Diamond’s book has been praised by many however‚ it also created controversy among scientists around the world. According to many scientist believe his theory of the geography and the environment being the main caused of shaping of the world as we know it today should be criticized. Diamond takes upon the
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Play boy Of the Western World Plot summary The play is set in County Mayo in a country shebeen or pub. Pegeen Mike is engaged to Shawn Keogh a rich farmer‚ but she is not in love with him. Pegeen’s father Michael James owns the pub‚ and spends his time going to wakes and getting drunk. A young man arrives one evening as Michael James and his two pals Jimmy Farrell and Philly Cullen are about to go off to a wake. This young man calls himself Christy Mahon and claims that he has killed
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The main character in the story is Eddie Carbone‚ an Italian American longshoreman‚ who lives with his wife‚ Beatrice and his orphaned niece‚ Catherine. They live in an insular‚ self-ruled neighborhood known as a polis. As the play begins‚ Eddie is protective and kind toward Catherine‚ although his feelings grow into something more than avuncular as the play develops. His attachment to her is brought into perspective by the arrival from Italy of Beatrice’s two cousins‚ Marco and Rodolpho. They have
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In “Off Brand: The Limits of Celebrity Feminism‚” Andi Zeisler uses two recent celebrity feminist-movement incidents as a starting point for her argument that celebrity feminism is holding back and depoliticizing feminism. One incident involves Kim Kardashian announcing at a conference as a keynote speaker that she holds feminist beliefs but she does not like labels therefore she does not identify as a feminist. The second incident revolves around the comedian Amy Schumer’s employment of a friend
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Ryan Maierle/Global 2H/Guns‚ Germs and Steel What is “Yali’s question”? “Yali’s question” is “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?” (Diamond 14). By “cargo‚” Yali is referring to wealth and technology‚ which leads to power and dominance. Essentially‚ Yali wants to know why was there is such a disparity between the lifestyle of the average New Guinean versus the average European or American? In other
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Memorable Moments It has been said that a picture can say a thousand words. Every time it is taken out of the box or turned into an album‚ a single snapshot can offer a lifetime of memories and stories to tell. In my family‚ photographic storytelling is so essential‚ that all of us own numerous cameras and have a simple point-and-shoot on us at all times. I have hundreds of photographs in my collection‚ but there is one beautiful shot in particular that provided me with an amazing personal experience
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When I read through Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court by John Wooden. I came across a quote that sounded familiar from when I was younger person. The quote on page 6 that was familiar was “My father had what he called his “two sets of threes.” They were direct and simple rules aimed at how he felt we should conduct ourselves in life. The first set was about honesty: Never Lie. Never cheat. Never steal.” Growing up in a Catholic household‚ these rules were very
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