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    Assignment 1: Procter & Gamble Company (A) Case Analysis (Submitted in fulfillment of the assignments for Marketing Management) Indian Institute of Foreign Trade‚ Delhi Table of Contents Assignment ..................................................................................4 Executive Summary .....................................................................4 2.Analysis ......................................................................................6 Recommendations ......

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    profits from ivory and wild rubber‚ Leopold II imposed a system of torture‚ slavery and slaughter.

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    Kurtz‚ who has become power-driven and insane. Along the way‚ Marlow discovers the awful truth about the company he is employed by and how barbaric they treat the natives. Marlow learns how destructive and mentally corrupting the Congo River and the ivory trade can be. Throughout the novella‚ the river represents something

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    When Marlow first hears about Kurtz from the Company’s chief accountant‚ he learns that Kurtz was “a very remarkable person” who was “in charge of a trading post in a true ivory country‚” sending in “as much ivory as all the others put together” (p. 12). It becomes evident that Marlow values not only success‚ but both hard work and success which he sees in Kurtz‚ a reason that he becomes ever more driven to meet Kurtz. Kurtz‚ unlike the manager

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    Africa‚ which was gradually being filled in with names and features as it was explored and colonized. For Marlow‚ the journey up the Congo becomes a pilgrimage to meet Kurtz‚ the man of reputedly brilliant talent and eloquence who sends down more ivory than all the company s other traders put together(90 Reilly). Gradually‚ as the people that Marlow despised began to defame Kurtz‚ he (Marlow) became

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    a company. The company is a Belgian company which plundered the ivory in Congo as matter as a hatter. Actually‚ Kurtz was the man who wanted to bring the civilization to Africa but at last‚ he corrupted‚ becoming a greed and crazy European colonist. First of all‚ it can be easily seen that Kurtz was greed extremely. He had a strong desire for ivory. All of what he thought was ivory. Marlow had said Kurtz’s body is made up of ivory. He always said:“My intended‚ my station‚ my career‚ my ideas.”

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    Essay-­‐  a  case  study  on  child  labour   Elaina  Hea  9M2     Introduction   Here’s  a  cheery  thought  while  you’re  baking  Nestlé’s  Toll  House  chocolate  chip  cookie   dough:  those  chocolate  chips  may  have  been  produced  by  children  working  long  hours   with  no  pay  or  have  been  injured  severely  by  machetes.  Nestlé

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    works for them in Africa in an ivory country‚ collecting ivory‚ and he has the ability to collect a lot more ivory than any other man. He is an ambitious‚ charismatic person willing to do anything that is needed to achieve greatness. Although Kurtz is the main character of the story‚ most of the things we learn about him come indirectly to us; there are always some people who tell stories about him. His greatest desire is the one for gaining a fortune through ivory and that desire led him to Africa

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    Man has continually struggled with greed. In the pursuit of greed‚ morality breaks down. Author Joseph Conrad in his novel‚ The Heart of Darkness‚ implies that true darkness lies within people who abandon their humanity for greed. While the Europeans give the appearance of morality‚ they have no integrity. The accountant best personifies the abandonment of morals. The emphasis that the accountant places on balancing his books in the middle of the jungle confirms the importance of profits to the

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    in society is often based upon their wealth and power‚ this thought is the idea that fueled colonization during the 1800’s and 1900’s. The colonizers need for wealth fueled their colonizing efforts based on the ivory in the area. “he declared he would shoot me unless I gave him the ivory and then cleared out of the country because he could do so‚ and had a fancy for it‚ and there was nothing on earth to prevent him from doing as he jolly well pleased” expresses the idea that the entire colonization

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