The Responsibility Project – Bikes to Rwanda
score: 15/15
The Responsibility Project – Bikes to Rwanda
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Thank you for your paper. A good job addressing the elements of the assignment. Good review of the film and underlying issues. Your discussion of the role external social pressure has in influencing organizational ethics and decision making helps the reader understand the benefits of a symbiotic relationship between the parties involved. Along with external pressures local to Rwanda, Stumptown and the Bikes to Rwanda organizations apparently were subjected to their own local pressures to deal with developing countries in an ethical manner by applying fair trade principles. Something of interest regarding the relationship between law and ethics is the idea that although the law does not require certain conduct, one should not always look to the law to figure out what is right or proper. Your writing is very good and does not contain errors that may interfere with readability.
Score: 15/15
This film shows how a business in the United States donated specially designed bicycles for the people of Rwanda who run a coffee co-op. The bicycles help the employees efficiently get the coffee beans from the mountains to the processing plant. These bikes can also carry three children which allow families to move around the country.
Issues
Stumptown Coffee Roasters founder Duane Sorenson (Stumptown Coffee, 2012) visited Rwanda in 2006 to see the Karaba coffee cooperative. This visit resulted in Sorenson founding a nonprofit organization that provides specially designed bicycles for the cooperative coffee growers.
The issues in this film are important on a few levels. The coffee grown by Karaba and sold to Stumptown Coffee is covered by the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement the United States and Rwanda signed in 2006 (Bilaterals, 2009). This gives Rwanda the opportunity to take advantage of the United States market through duty-free exports. It
The Responsibility Project – Bikes to Rwanda
(NAME)
ETH/316
(INSTRUCTOR)
(DATE)
XXXX:
Thank you for your paper. A good job addressing the elements of the assignment. Good review of the film and underlying issues. Your discussion of the role external social pressure has in influencing organizational ethics and decision making helps the reader understand the benefits of a symbiotic relationship between the parties involved. Along with external pressures local to Rwanda, Stumptown and the Bikes to Rwanda organizations apparently were subjected to their own local pressures to deal with developing countries in an ethical manner by applying fair trade principles. Something of interest regarding the relationship between law and ethics is the idea that although the law does not require certain conduct, one should not always look to the law to figure out what is right or proper. Your writing is very good and does not contain errors that may interfere with readability.
Score: 15/15
This film shows how a business in the United States donated specially designed bicycles for the people of Rwanda who run a coffee co-op. The bicycles help the employees efficiently get the coffee beans from the mountains to the processing plant. These bikes can also carry three children which allow families to move around the country.
Issues
Stumptown Coffee Roasters founder Duane Sorenson (Stumptown Coffee, 2012) visited Rwanda in 2006 to see the Karaba coffee cooperative. This visit resulted in Sorenson founding a nonprofit organization that provides specially designed bicycles for the cooperative coffee growers.
The issues in this film are important on a few levels. The coffee grown by Karaba and sold to Stumptown Coffee is covered by the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement the United States and Rwanda signed in 2006 (Bilaterals, 2009). This gives Rwanda the opportunity to take advantage of the United States market through duty-free exports. It
References: Bilaterals. (2009). Retrieved from http://www.bilaterals.org/spip.php?article14955 Census. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c7690.html Stumptown Coffee. (2011). Retrieved from http://stumptowncoffee.com/ The Responsibility Project-Bikes to Rwanda. (2012). Retrieved from http://responsibility- project.libertymutual.com/films/bikes-to-rwanda#fbid=4eOj-SIDl_2 United Human Rights Council. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/genocide_in_rwanda.htm