Zev Siegel

Every morning Americans’ takeout to Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts and grab a cup of coffee on their way to work, but at the same time, people really have no idea where the coffee they drink everyday originates from or who, how, where it’s produced. As the matter of fact, a farmer produces the coffee we drink on daily basis. According to the article “ The Coffee Connection”, Elizabeth Neuffer says, Behind every cup of a coffee Americans drink, there is a farmer like Santiago de la Rosa laboring to produce it’’. The truth of the matter is coffee is dominated by multinational companies. Also, the price of coffee increases because it goes through many hands before it gets to the United States. However, the price of coffee is decreasing on the market and the cost is based on supply and demand. These are some of the problem countries that grows coffee today face around the globe such as the conditions for the growers and the picker, middlemen coyotes, and how to solve this solution to the problem small farmers face today. First of all, as an American’s, most of us really don’t know if our coffee is a fair trade or not or if it has certified labels on it that say fair trade because people don’t ask where it from. On the other hand, fair trade buys and sells a product to a consumer. Fair trade is a non-profit organization based in the United States that certified other goods like coffee and chocolate and so on. According to the article the “Coffee Connection Elisabeth Nueffer says…

Criticism of Masculinity in “Split Personality” Ideal masculinity is depicted everywhere in our society from movies to books to comics. It is a socially constructed set of attributes for boys and men to achieve. Some common characteristics include: strength, heroism, audacity, control, lack of emotion, superior, fearlessness, honor, and heterosexuality. In a 1950’s issue of the Vault of Horror, the horror comic, “Split Personality,” depicts the male protagonist, Ed King, as a…

The passing of the eighteenth amendment provided an opportunity for Lucania to recruit some new meat. Lucania became one of the “Big Six” of bootlegging along with Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel (“Luciano”, n.d.). His bootlegging gang grew throughout the 1920’s. Lucania and his friends recruited new Jewish gang members, including Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, nicknamed “Lepke” by his mother, Abner “Longie” Zwillman, another Jew, and Zwillman’s partner, Willie Moretti (Gosch, 1975). These unscrupulous…

environmental impacts, contributing positively to communities globally and evenly sourcing high-quality coffee. Starbucks Global Responsibility strategy and commitments plays a very important role in their entire business strategy. Accordingly, they believe they give benefits to stakeholders - including shareholders, business partners, employees, suppliers, clients, community members and many others involved in the business. Legal Structure: Starbucks is currently a Public listed organisation…