The Saltillo Fair was the annual exchange of goods in northern Mexico City and it started at the end of the seventeenth century. San Antonio merchants and ranchers traveled to the fair in August. They brought along cattle, cattle byproducts, and hides and they returned with flour, fashions, salt, utensils, and other items. The fair served as the major economic and social destination for Bexarños. It demonstrated the close ties between the local economy and northern Mexico in the absence of a Texas port on the Gulf of Mexico.
Francisco Javier Rodríguez was a petty-merchant who owed a lot of debt to customers. Due to that, he was not planning on returning to the fair the following year. He wanted to wait to return until he had the necessary means to pay back his debt. Francisco was very knowledgeable of the situation and he promised his customers that he would pay them back by the 1783 fair. During
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It allows people from either side to come and share some products with other in exchange for equal or the same value of that product. Both Rodríguez and González represented the different sides of sustainability for the Saltillo fairs. Rodríguez showed poor sustainability because he ran away from his problems. He made a promise that he could not keep, so he hired a surety to do the talking for him. The buyers probably felt like the retailer was a coward because he would not tell them why he does not have the money face to face. González hurt the fair because the buyers might not come back because of the lack of respect and responsibility they were treated with. Rodríguez, on the other hand, showed very strong sustainability. He helped the image of the fair because he demonstrated perseverance. He showed his buyers that he would do anything in order to be successful or reach a goal. These customers noticed all of the hard he put in and are more likely to come back and bring
Although the Chicago World’s fair of 1893 only lasted 6 months, it had an enormous impact on the city of Chicago, its people, and indeed the entire country. Up until that point in its history, the US had done nothing on the scale of the world’s fair, and was regarded as a country of barbarians and cowboys by much of the world, especially Old Europe. The fair was a perfect way for the US to disprove this. In building the fair, they would be placed in direct competition with France, who had built a magnificent fair only a few years before. If Chicago could at least build a fair on par with the Paris fair, it would prove to the world that the US was a cultural, military and political force to be reckoned with. Because of the fair’s gigantic scale, it became a microcosm of the conflicts and the tenor of the times. In effect, the fair was the turning point between the old Victorian days and the modern era, technologically, culturally, politically, and in the hearts of the people of the US and the world.
Stenzel, P.L. (2012) the Pursuit of Equilibrium as the Eagle Meets the Condor: Supporting Sustainable Development through Fair Trade. American Business Law Journal. Retrieved from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.devry.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=5a7e6902-f838-4caa-8415-7f12751748da%40sessionmgr4005&vid=4&hid=4203 on May 23, 2014.
Farmers who lived west of the Appalachian Mountains shipped all their surplus produce by boat down rivers that flowed into the Gulf of Mexico. In a treaty of 1795, Spain agreed to give Americans the "right of deposit" at New Orleans. This right allowed Americans to store in New Orleans, duty-free, goods shipped for export. Arks and flatboats transported a great variety of products, including flour, tobacco, pork bacon, lard, feathers, cider, butter, cheese, hemp, p...
Findling, John E., Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Expositions, 1851-1988 New York: Greenwood Press, 1990
Findling, John E. Historical Dictionary of Worlds Fairs and Expositions 1851-1988 Greenwood Press, Westport Connecticut. 1990.
The 1893 Chicago World’s fair, also referred to as the World’s Columbian Exposition was the last and largest fair in the 19th century. It opened May 1st of 1893 and closed on October 30th of 1893. The fair had reached over twenty-six million visitors and is the birthplace for many trends that have shaped modern America. The fair took place in 1893 to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary. While in the end the fair was extremely successful, it had many trials in the process of it construction.
The World’s Fair was an amazing event that delighted the city of Chicago. It started on February 24, 1890 when Chicago won the hosting job. Although, to do this, they had to raise an additional $5 million. They did this, but they had only three years to complete the fair. Fairs were very popular at the time and were a symbol of social importance, so Chicago needed to exceed expectations. Their goal was to “Out-Eiffel Eiffel”. By 1891, Chicago had over 40,000 skilled workers employed for construction.
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The Chicago World’s Fair (Columbian Exposition) was meant to celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the new world. This also brought America Columbus Day which we still celebrate today. The fair started May 1st, 1893, which is a year after they originally planned to have the fair start. It went on for six months and closed on October 30th, 1893. It was held in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance and occupied about six hundred and thirty acres. The
One of Burtynsky’s projects that made an impression on me is his Salt Pan project. The way he captures the salt pans causes the audience to perceive it as abstract. Specifically, the portrayal of the water drainage system. The diagonal and uniformed lines of the drainage system allow the audience’s eyes to follow the path. However, the path doesn’t lead anywhere new, it goes right back to where it started. Furthermore, the space that surrounds the salt pans leads the audience to focus on just the salt pan and nothing else. With the scaling and proportional of the salt pans, the pans seem so insignificant and small. However, the salt pans are the main source of life for that society, which is noted by the tire tracks. Furthermore, the dependence
item at a price, set forth by the company, to make a profit. Greed may have the profit margin set high, so the return on the item is substantial to the company. If another company can make a similar item and sell it for less, while still making a profit, society and the company benefit. It forces the company with the higher profit margin to either find a more cost effective way to produce the item, or cut their pr...
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Economic and Political Weekly , Vol. 35, No. 20 (May 13-19, 2000), pp. 1762-1769 Published by: Economic and Political Weekly
Filipe V succeeded in this Succession War, which allowed the Bourbon Monarchy to initiate reforms in effort to centralize Spain’s government; reform country’s financial systems; reinstate and reinforce the country’s military forces. The House of Bourbons had three princes, Filipe V (1700-1746), Ferdinand VI (1746-1759) and Charles III (1759-1788) that worked together to facilitate these reforms that modernized Spain completely. These reforms e...
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Fair Trade is a simple idea that improves the living and working conditions of small farmers and workers. The Fair Trade movement promotes the standards for fair labor conditions, fair pricing, direct trade, environmentalism, social policy, and community development. Businesses wishing to adopt Fair Trade practices have to purchase certification licenses, which then leads to Fair Trade Labeling Organization (FLO) sending representatives to the farms from which the products are purchased and ensures that the farmers adhere to the procedures outlined in the Fair Trade standards. Products marked by the Fair Trade label contain 100% Fair Trade certified contents. Buying Fair Trade Certified products, consumers are helping the lives of famers out of poverty through investments in their farms/communities, protecting the environment, and developing the business skills for trading. The practice of Fair Trading a good way to not only help cause awareness but also improve the lives of the workers.