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Corporate Assignments
Spring 2008
Ant 362
Global Issues
These are your corporate investments. As an investor (capitalist) you expect your
investments to yield a profit. If you buy stocks or mutual funds or dabble in commodities,
you expect to your money to "reproduce." However the process through which money
"grows" is often hidden, or conveniently overlooked. Your task in this report is
to examine the social, political, or economic costs of the reproduction of money. First,
you need to follow your investment to see whether or not your money
"reproduced." But more importantly, you need to research how your corporation
went about reproducing your money. In what sort of conditions did workers labor? What were
the environmental costs of producing whatever it was your corporation produced? What sort
of political power does your corporation assert? What are the economic or social costs of
production?
You may find that your corporation is very responsible; but you have to also remember
that the sort of information that you want is not something that corporations (or the
state, for that matter) wants you to know. Consequently you need to do some real
searching. Our website (http://www.plattsburgh.edu/legacy/corporate_resources.htm)
provides some excellent resources for you to start with; just go to internet resources,
then to corporations (or the capitalist) to begin. Multinational Monitor and Corporate Watch are both good places to start; you may
also went to go to the site on "Researching
Corporations." But don't neglect library resources, either newspapers (e.g. the
NY Times index), or other searchable databases.
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Abel, Robert C.
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Tyson Foods Inc
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Alford, Kathleen J.
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The Walt Disney
Company |
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Bailey, Kaitlin G.
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Anheuser-Busch
Companies, Inc. |
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Bondi, Mark |
The Dow Chemical
Company |
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Brindisi, Nicholas
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Toys R Us, Inc. |
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Burnell, Ashley A.
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General Electric
Company |
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Cameron, Joshua P.
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Archer-Daniels-Midland Company |
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Caron, Bryan J.
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General Mills, Inc.
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Carter, Laurie A.
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Target Corporation
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Davis, Tiara S.
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Marriott
International Inc. |
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Esera, Tusiata |
Big Lots Stores Inc
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Forster, William E.
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Loews Corporation
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Klym, Paul J.
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Reynolds American
Inc |
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Mandery, Steven T.
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Bed Bath & Beyond
Inc. |
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Manning, Alyssa E.
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Georgia-Pacific
Corporation |
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Mariano, Adrian
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Nike Inc.
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Miner, Josh D.
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Pfizer Inc.
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Modzel, Jennifer N.
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ChevronTexaco
Corporation |
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Muir, Ayana E.
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Procter & Gamble Co
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Nescio, Lauren E.
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Avon Products, Inc. |
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Oberman, Stephanie M.
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The Clorox Company
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Parrotte, Nathan M.
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Hershey Foods
Corporation |
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Peralta, Jessica M.
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Capital One
Financial Corp |
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Petersen, Eric M.
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Bank of America
Corporation |
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Provost, Jenifer E.
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Wendy's
International |
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Ross, Nicholas Y.
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Wyeth
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Rubin, Sami |
Foot Locker
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Shanks, Daniel R.
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Coca-Cola
Enterprises |
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Office Depot, Inc.
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