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travelled to multiple countries around the world documenting and providing relief within different slave industries (Kristine, 2012). The locations and industries included brick kilns and quarries in Nepal and India, sex trafficking in Nepal, the textile industry in India, and the fishing industry and gold mines in Ghana (Kristine, 2012). Kristine documented photos of individuals that were enslaved while holding candles to illuminate their stories to the rest of world (Kristine, 2012). The…

Technological improvements have driven once considered American jobs overseas, companies are moving call centers to India, Philippines, Canada and other off-shore locations. Textiles, clothing manufacturing and electronics are no longer produced here. All of these job shifts are blamed in part or in total on the Globalization of our economy. As technology advanced, and the demand for lower priced goods and services grew, so…

Buddhism, rooted in the 6th century BCE, originated from Siddhartha Gautama, a sage from Nepal. Known as “Buddha,” Gautama experienced a revelation one night, attaining a complete state of awakening, clairvoyant power, and the knowledge that his spiritual defilements had been eliminated. His teachings of enlightenment, karma, the Four Noble Truths, and the Eightfold Path spread quickly, covering much of southern Asia by the 8th century CE. Buddhism’s gain of followers can be attributed to the…

Imagine seeing others being persecuted, and deciding to hide them to save them. Hermine Santruschitz was a woman who decided to do just that for a family, the Frank family. Hermine Santruschitz aka Miep Gies is an important historical figure because of her life, role in hiding the Franks, and her legacy. Miep Gies lived during the holocaust she also hid a girl by the name of Anne Frank. Who unfortunately was a jew during that time. In my report, you get to learn a little bit of information on…

belief’s increased woman had to give up their freedom and wear veils. Isfahan was the Jewel and the capital of the Safavid Empire. Safavid art is known to have miniature paintings, bookbinding decoration, and hand made crafts such as pottery and other textiles, and calligraphy. The Safavid’s also commissioned…

trade, not manufacturing. Probably nowhere else in the nation was the push to invert in industry as great as in New England. In 1793, a british immigrant named Samuel Slater her established in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the first successful mechanized textile factory in America. Northeasterners, prompted by changing economic conditions, invested their capital in factories and manufacturing operations. The North had not eliminated…

Trade Liberalization or also known as free trade is one of the mechanisms in International Trade . Free trade occurs when the government put no barriers in order to restrict the flow of goods and services between trading nations. The country can freely import and export their products to other countries without any restriction and barrier. “There are two types of trade liberalization, which are absolute advantages and comparative advantages” . Absolute advantage can be referred to the ability…

tending to their livestock. During the busiest times of the year which was the harvest season, women usually helped their husbands in the field to bring in the crops. Women often did vital cottage industries such as brewing, baking, and manufacturing textiles.…

A part of President Eisenhower’s new deal was the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA. TVA, founded in 1933, was a region in the Tennessee River valley with “hydroelectric powered dams” that powered cities around them. This created more jobs and stopped flooding which got as high as six feet each year. By building these dams, power was generated to more farm based areas so the citizens were able to live off of electric. A benefit to TVA was that it helped with soil not being…

In 1992, 37% of all exports were accounted to be cotton products, such as raw cotton, cotton yarn, cotton cloth, and cotton waste. Whereas other imperative exports were ready made garments, which were of 15% ,synthetic textiles were of 6%, and rice which was of 6% as well. In 1990s, Pakistan 's balance of trade remained particularly weak in the early stages due to the changes in the world economy and bad weather. Gradual increases in crude oil prices, during the year 1979-81…