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Through the Eyes of Coffee It is winter, and it is by far the coldest day of the year, the kind of cold one would see frost on a car windshield, the kind of cold that burns one’s hands, the kind of cold that could give a snowman the chills. What would sound satisfying on this rather chilling time of day? Well, a hot-caffeinated-delicious-black-roasted coffee definitely would be pleasing for an individual wanting to warm up his or her temperature dropping body. All of the greatest inventions of today’s time comes from mistakes coffee is one of those mistakes. Coffee has been used by humans for countless centuries. This image shows simplicity, and yet necessity, to today’s fast-paced world. It shows simplicity because it is a single coffee on a table with everything else blurred except the coffee and the quotes. It shows necessity because humans of the twenty-first century lead busy lives, and coffee comes to the rescue to fix the sluggish feelings one would get when overexerting his or her energy supply. It has a white coffee cup with a famous, green logo on it, which states “Starbucks Coffee” on the …show more content…
World production of coffee amounted to about two and a half million bags alone in the 1830s (International Coffee Organization). Brazil became the highest coffee exporter in the world at that time, and it continues to be one of the highest to this day. “The exports of coffee from the 2011/2012 harvest invoiced USD 7,841 billion, a 5.6% increase compared to 2010,” (Mello). Meaning, the coffee produced in Brazil, and leaving Brazil to other countries, totaled 7,841 billion United States Dollars for 2011 and 2012, which was a 5.6 percent growth equated to the year, 2010. What industry would need to get that much coffee on a yearly