Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Video Questions/ Answers Episode 1 Name: Cindy Liu Per______ Jared Diamond has a theory about what causes huge discrepancies among different countries‚ and he says it boils down to geographic luck. What was great about the “Fertile Crescent”? The big four livestock animals; cows‚ pigs‚ sheep‚ and goats‚ were native to the Middle East. Also‚ due to its fertile land‚ the Fertile Crescent housed the best crops in the world. The great crops and animals it had benefited the civilizations
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel Jared Diamond‚ author of the Pulitzer Prize Winning‚ National Best Selling book Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚ summarizes his book by saying the following: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples ’ environments‚ not because of biological differences among peoples themselves." Guns‚ Germs and Steel is historical literature that documents Jared Diamond ’s views on how the world as we know it developed. However‚ is his thesis that
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Johannsen Steel Company (JSC) initially focused on high-quality‚ high-carbon‚ and high-margin steel wire and ever made big success. In 1946 it was sold to West Virginia Steel (WVS) and then experienced the shocking change of steel industry during 1960s and 70s. Facing the pressure of competitors‚ JSC began to intend to expand sales and cut cost to maintain its profit level. As a result‚ the sales revenues kept increase‚ but the net profit was very low (no more than 2%). JSC now has to make some
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Ispat Nigam Limited - Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (RINL-VSP) is India’s first shore-based integrated Steel Plant built with state-of-the-art technology and is a prime producer of long steel products in the country having extensive market in infrastructure‚ construction‚ automobile‚ electrical and forging industry. With an annual turnover of over 14‚000 crores‚ the Company is poised to commission its second phase of expansion from 3.0 Mtpa to 7.3 Mtpa liquid steel capacity by 2013-14. We have also commenced
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ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF INDUSTRY India Steel Industry Steel Companies in India The steel industry‚ in general‚ is on the upswing‚ due to strong growth in demand propelled particularly by the demand for steel in China. The world scenario coupled with strong domestic demand has benefited the Indian steel Industry. [pic][pic]During April-December 2004- 05‚ production of finished steel recorded a growth of 4 percent over the corresponding period of the previous year to reach 28.3 million tonnes
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INTRODUCTION Tata Steel‚ formerly known as TISCO and Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited‚ is the world ’s sixth largest steel company‚ with an annual crude steel capacity of 31 million tonnes. It is the largest private sector steel company in India in terms of domestic production. Ranked 258th on Fortune Global 500‚ it is based in Jamshedpur‚ Jharkhand‚ India. It is part of Tata Group of companies. Tata Steel is also India ’s second-largest and second-most profitable company in private sector
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illustrated below; • Equity is stock or any security that represents ownership interests. In BlueScope Steel‚ stocks are the total amount of shares of the company that represents the owner’s interests • The amount of money that has been contributed by the owners commonly referred to as stockholders or shareholders and their retained earnings and losses. It’s also called shareholders equity. BlueScope Steel has millions of shareholders who have
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies‚ by Jared Diamond‚ attempts to explain why history progressed differently for people from various geographical regions. Diamond introduces his book by pointing out that history followed different courses for different people because of differences among peoples’ environments‚ not because of biological differences among people themselves. Through his convincing explanation for how civilizations were created and evolved throughout the course of history
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I. The Mittal Steel began in the early 1970’s as a small‚ family owned company‚ based in India. However‚ due to a range of restrictive government regulations and tough competitiveness from SAIL (a state-owned firm) and Tata Steel (large privately owned firm)‚ Mittal Steel believed that the best projection of growth of the company would transpire outside of India. In 1975‚ Mittal Steel began expanding across national borders by creating and building a steel making plant in Indonesia.
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soldiers were risking their lives in Vietnam war. However‚ steel companies were focused on making profit by rising the steel prices. President Kennedy was completely against their decision. He believed in stable prices and wages. After steel companies raised the steel price‚ President John F. Kennedy held a news conference. He wanted to alert the society about the destruction that could be occurred from increasing the steel prices. In “JFK Steel Speech‚” President John F. Kennedy uses ethos‚ pathos‚
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