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    conduct. Both companies code of vendor conduct clearly states that no workers are employed under the legal minimum age and sweatshops don't exist in their factories. A sweatshop is a factory where employees are subject to extreme exploitation; they work in dreadful conditions with health and safety hazards, for little pay and long hours. Child labour is, as the word suggests, when children under the legal minimum age are employed to work When we hear brand names such

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    forget to ask them to hold the side of exploitation, modern slavery and deforestation. Starbucks has evolved and itself become an icon of globalisation, symbolising the role of corporations in combatting the consumerist society that is the West and exploiting the rest of the world, particularly the vulnerable and poverty stricken Global South. Thus, the contention of this essay is to highlight that the new globalised world has resulted in the exploitation of the Global South, in order to fulfil

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    However, Abram’s call for individual’s responsibility of privacy by limiting access to certain information is impossible due to the very nature of social media. In Alice E Marwick and danah boyd’s 2014 article, Networked Privacy: How Teenagers Negotiate Context in Social Media, they argue that because social media is, as previously discussed by Werbin and Fuchs, a networked environment that thrives on sharing user-generated data (Marwick & boyd 1054). Furthermore, Marwick and boyd explain this argument

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    and debates” (Cullen, The Art of Democracy, 2). We study these clues to understand the world around us, as well as why we do what we do as Americans and as humans. I will be touching on themes that relate to this quotation by Cullen, escapism, exploitation, and globalization, and how these themes relate to the course goals. “For most of the twentieth century,

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    using sweatshops has led to Nike’s image being tainted; nevertheless, consumers continue to shop in Nike stores. With this in mind, I will explain why consumers continue to purchase Nike products. To accomplish the task at hand; I shall, define exploitation and demonstrate why corporations exploit workers, provide context into Nike sweatshops, and explain why some continue to support Nike. In addition, I will ascertain to why some have stopped supporting consumerism, examine how Nike regained its

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    Third World Newsreel’s history reflects an investment in anticolonial struggles, as its works were critical to disseminate a range of images and voices hidden from the U.S. public view. The concern with the larger context of struggle sought to concretely connect local struggles in urban communities of color to larger Third World dynamics. An emerging and intensifying effort to recruit Third world people would give birth to an institution that strived to provide a language for national minorities

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    represent capitalism’s oppressive characteristics and also to a certain extent the rebellion against exploitation. Deckard's realization of how the Tyrell Corporation exploits him, and the rebellion of the replicants against their oppressors, is the ultimate critique of capitalism. Since both sides — killer and killed — reject their status as servants of the corporation and refuse further exploitation. (Kellner, et all) The corporation in the Blade Runner that is used to illustrate capitalism’s destructive

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    Nature Culture Dualism

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    economic systems have aided the ways for institutional myths like the American Dream to prosper. In his quest for more materials, for more knowledge, individuals become ruthless in their execution of this. In this execution, one could see major exploitation of resources and individuals, which make one question how this is even possible today. In order to really understand where this all came from. One could argue that it came as a development forming from biblical teachings of Christianity, and Man’s

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    Thesis statement: Sweatshops, when left to operate without government intervention, are the most efficient way of out poverty. Introductory rationale: When it comes to social justice issues, most people believe the government needs to solve the problem. Social justice in sweatshops is no exception. In my research, I have found that what people see as the cause of injustice in developing countries, sweatshops, are actually what is responsible for lifting people up out of poverty. As a result

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    The Living Room Summary

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    story and keeps in mind that she cannot exploit them for her own personal gain using vague details, reasoning, and pathos. Weipert is aware of how valuable someone’s personal information can be. Using those three techniques she avoids any means of exploitation. It is mentioned multiple times throughout the podcast that she acknowledged the privacy of someone’s life. The Living Room is the perfect example that emphasizes how someone’s personal narrative can be told without having to go into too much detail

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