...The Story of Stuff: A Review The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute film aimed at raising awareness on the dangers of excessive human consumption. Presented by Annie Leonard – an activist for consumerism and environmental sustainability (Story Of Stuff Project, 2013) – this video provides a simple yet well researched explanation on the ‘behind-the-scenes’ management of the life-cycle of common items consumed daily in the United States. From mining and manufacturing to distribution, consumption and waste, this presentation takes viewers on a journey to explore many missing fragments that are hardly ever reported in the system (Leonard, 2009). Watched by over 12 million people worldwide, and translated into over 15 languages (Roosevelt, 2010), Leonard has received both applauds and criticisms for her unapologetic condemnation of humans (especially Americans) – for their excessive consumption and wasteful habits – and her rather conspicuous allegation of the devious relationship between the government and private corporations. One significant issue that Leonard (2009) presented in the video was that, due to human activity, natural resources around the world are rapidly diminishing. Natural resources such as minerals and trees are constantly mined and felled to satisfy men’s insatiable appetite for more goods. The presentation revealed that in the last decade, one-third of the world’s resource base has depleted. Furthermore, it is said that only four percent...
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...“There’s always been ,in the human mind, this notion that beyond the safety of our homes and communities there are dangerous monsters.” (International Business Times) Oralis Gonzales was supposedly abducted by a chupacabra after it had eaten 5 of the family’s chickens and then she was tattooed with the numbers and letters OJO - 10 - OJO. “44 year - old Osvaldo Claudio Rosado claimed to have been grabbed from behind by a gorilla. Puerto Rico has no gorillas.” (Animal Planet) “There have been stories that claim the chupacabra can hypnotize and paralyze their prey so they can suck the blood at their leisure.” (National...
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...mass media serves the society by highlighting the prevalence of such’ ills as nepotism, cronyism and corruption in institutions and by carrying on relentless campaign against them. It has been instrumental in bringing an end to the oppressive regimes of cruel rulers. It has unearthed political scandals, kickbacks received by highly placed men. In India from Hawala to Nether case, role of mass media has been highly commendable In an age of commercialisation and consumerism, the media to some extent, has deviated from its path of avowed impartiality and clean journalism. They often indulge in petty means to gain material benefits, i.e. to boost their sales. At times, what most papers give their readers is simply sensation-creating stuff. They publish stories about the private life of celebrities and obscene photographs. WHAT ARE THE NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE EFFECTS OF MEDIA ON SOCIETY? Power of the media can transform the whole society especially in the developing countries it can be used as a 'weapon of mass destruction'. But I think the most important use of media is to educate the people about the basic human rights Power of the media can...
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...responsible for the most global carbon emissions, accounting for 40 percent (McKibben, 2012). Arising from the production and consumption of goods and services; a lot of greenhouse gas emissions are created through agriculture. With large pushes to “Go Green”, many companies have made strides in changing their process of production, types of products, and promotions due to the influence of the public, and the necessity to reduce their carbon footprint. Global warming has become a danger that cannot be overlooked like it has in the past several years. It is an exponentially growing problem, with very few things being done to prevent and reduce problems. ‘Planet Earth’s average temperature has risen just under 0.8 degrees Celsius with current reports which has led to some damage to our environment. About 400,000 square miles of Artic ice has melted. The sea level has risen 10-20 centimeters over the past one hundred years’ (McKibben, 2012). Extreme weather patterns have been recorded over the past decades such as fires, flooding, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. These have been present and increasing over the past years with obvious damages and changes...
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...Final Paper A sustainable process or condition is one that can be maintained indefinitely without progressive diminution of valued qualities inside or outside the system in which the process operates or the condition prevails. (We exclude from consideration, in applying this definition, the depletion of available energy from the sun on a time scale of several billion years!) Such a definition may be logically appealing, but it is hardly sufficient for addressing the meaning of sustainability in the context of practical choices about how to maintain or improve the well-being of humans on this planet. What kinds of processes and conditions need to be sustained in the interest of maintaining or improving well-being? What are the sources and dimensions of the main threats to the sustainability of these? What places should be investigated and what should be measured to find out? Can sustainability be made compatible with -- or traded off against -- other desiderata relating to policy choices? (Consider, for example, sustainable development versus rapid development). The proposition that particular human practices would prove unsustainable has cropped up in literature going all the way back to the ancient Greeks and somewhat more frequently and sweepingly in the two hundred years since the work of Malthus, above all in the period since World War II. Only in the past five years, however, has sustainability become a catchword capable of capturing the attention not only of environmental...
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...Topic 2: You have a friend who thinks psychology is all that stuff they see from people like Dr. Phil and others in the media. Based on what you have read in chapter one, how would you convince your friend that psychology is a science? First of all, I will tell you about science. Basically, science refers to a system of getting something (esp. knowledge) based what they call a scientific methods. With scientific method, we can prevent possible biases from leading to faulty observation. Based what I’m studying until now, science allows for precise and careful measurement. Isaac Newton in his book “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica” , says that scientific method refers to the body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. It is based on gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning. So, we can also say that a scientific method consist of the data that we get from the observation and experimentation. The data that we get from the scientific method also must be tested whether it is appropriate with hypotheses or not. Therefore, if we get a conclusion through the steps from scientific method, we said it is science. Now, move on to the Psychology. You said that psychology is all that stuff you see from people like Dr. Phil and others in the media. Let me tell you how Dr. Phil deals with psychology. Before that, I will tell you the definition...
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...may contributing to negative behavior. Among the harmless cartoons and educational entertainment lies violent humor and use of weaponry for excitement. While many may argue that simple television shows or explicit song lyrics could never drive a minor to commit a crime or even murder, it has been linked to many violent cases involving children. According to Jalongo (2013), research on the human brain has shown that powerful images tend to stay in our memories and are easier for the brain to recall. Grand Theft Auto IV raked in $500 billion its first week on sale (USA Today, 2013). Grand Theft Auto is a series of video games in which the “fun” of the game is to kill, car-jack, and sleep with prostitutes while completing missions with story lines that involve drugs, violence, and gang activity. It has since been the object of controversy since the first game of series entitled Grand Theft Auto, released in 1997(Stout, 2013). One problem that exists in crime is the lack of known reported crimes due to inconsistent reporting. Many crimes go unreported due to fear of retribution from criminals and as well as concern of profiling past criminals and their creditably. Internal issues exist within the law enforcement, the consent question how serious is juvenile crime and is it just normal behavior issues or is it a sign of a future adult criminal. Once a minor has committed a crime, the argument of which punishments are appropriate for both the crime and the age of the...
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...killing himself a lot of people think that all of the hits that he was taking over all of the years that he was playing football took a part in why he might have killed his self. The family made the choice to go through with this idea to help the NFL players and the other players in the future that are playing this sport. The corner said that it will be a while before the can complete the autopsy on the body. There two links that are included in the report. The one link is part of Cnn, talking about how a lot of players from that 1994 team started to lose their lives. It was 8 people from that team. The other link is connected to the San Diego new channel 10 about his that might have an connection to the NFL All three websites have some of the same things but some are every different. Cnn News had to people on this story since it broke. The other website sites just had one person cover what was going on with this. The story from Cnn was on about player safety in the Nfl not so much about what is really happen to him. MSNBC: The story starts out that the Chargers chaplain telling Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles times that the family has made the choice to allow his brain to be studied. The news broke Wednesday that he died from a gunshot to the chest. The family does not know who will do the test on his brain but the two leading groups are Sports Legacy Institute at Boston University and the Brain Injury Research Institute. The family really wants to help other people down the road...
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...Francis Hopkinson: The True Designer of our Nation’s Flag Jessica Lear 26576 Westfall Road Circleville, Ohio 43113 (740) 477-1072 learj15@circlevillecityschools.org Honors English III (Grade 11) Circleville High School 380 Clark Drive Circleville, Ohio 43113 (740) 474-4846 Francis Hopkinson: The True Designer of our Nation’s Flag Francis Hopkinson 2 The story of the creation of the United States’ first flag has always seemed simple enough. The story tells of Betsy Ross designing and sewing the flag for Washington that would fly proudly in the wind of the newly born country. There is only one problem with this story though. It never mentions the man who deserves the credit for creating the first template of the United States flag. Although Betsy...
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...The story is more about the space race than space exploration in general. The Soviet Union's early space efforts are mentioned only as background, focusing entirely on an early portion of the U.S. space program. Only Project Mercury, the first operational manned space-flight program, is covered. The Mercury Seven were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton. Emphasis is given to the personal stories of the astronauts and their wives rather than the technical aspects of space travel and the flights themselves. The storyline also involves the political reasons for putting people into space, asserting that the Mercury astronauts were actually a burden to the program and were only sent up for promotional reasons. Reasons for including living beings in spacecraft are barely touched upon, but the first option considered was to use a chimpanzee (and, indeed, chimpanzees were sent up first). Another option considered were athletes already accustomed to physical stress, such as circus trapeze artists. Wolfe states that President Dwight D. Eisenhower, however, insisted on pilots, even though the first crew members would not actually fly the spacecraft. When Gus Grissom lands at sea and exits his space capsule, saving the capsule seems more important to the recovery team than saving the pilot because of the value of the data. Wolfe contrasts the Seven with the Edwards test pilots, among whom was Chuck Yeager, who was shut...
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...Spanish cultures and interesting facts I would have never knew about. Well, with our cultures unit, we had to research different Spanish speaking countries’ immigration history and have a five minute oral report on how people have lived before and after immigration. My assigned country was Cuba and I knew nothing about this tiny country. Everyone was assigned on different dates and I was to go on last. I was happy that all the smart people got to go first because then I can ask them for help. Couple of days later, half of the people went and all received C’s and below. My good friend, Victoria, she got a D, and she was one of the smartest people in my class. When I asked her and many of my friends who went before what their report was about, they said they have no idea what they did wrong. I panicked and automatically thought ‘I am going to fail’. Also, how was I to pretend to be a Cuban immigrant when I know nothing of Cuba? And even talk Spanish fluently for five minutes straight? With all those questions alarming in my head wildly, I just froze and thought about my next move. Was I to just blab nonsense about what I know about Cuba- which is nothing, and receive a D like everyone else or to work for at least a B? I am not a quitter and since I have not even started on the report, I decided to give it a try. I sat awkwardly on my desk with my laptop humming silently in front of me, waiting for me to give it a tap. First, I googled what life would be like if you are a normal...
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...NEXTCHAIN LOGISTICS 280 RICHARDS INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY INVESTMENT OVERVIEW: 280 Richards Investment is the opportunity to invest in development of 900,000 SF, 5-Story, advanced logistics facility in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The purpose of this is to create technology-integrated logistics properties to improve supply chain. According to the report, it shows that it is hard to find such an industrial land in Manhattan; the location is particularly attractive due to its strategic location near transportation hubs and terminals. It has many positive signs for retail space, continued growth, and the facilities for great distribution. Also, it mentions that the area is suitable for industrial use. In my point of view, I see that the site has all the best elements and essentials to be developed into logistics property. Also, the...
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...make indicted Ugandan war criminal and International Criminal Court fugitive Joseph Kony globally known in order to have him arrested by December 2012. On April 20th, 2012 there was an incident called “Cover the night” where supporters were to cover up their towns with posters and materials involving the KONY 2012 movement. Barely anyone had anything to report about this, the few instances where the KONY posters were put up. There were a number of two or three stories of people ripping the posters down; there was so much controversy and hatred that was developing from this whole situation. This whole KONY 2012 campaign has really gone down to hell, except for one aspect the guy behind it. Jason Russell; who is now infamous for being drunk, public indecency, and vandalizing cars. He made some money off of this, but that aside what I really want to point out is what the real problem like this when movement like this come about. This KONY idealistically very good, no one wants to see children being taken away from their parents. Taken to war camps, trained to fight against their neighbors in their original home county, stuff like that should be stopped. But here's the real problem, no one cares. Now that maybe a broad assertion, but let's think about that. If the world as conglomerate community really got together and the majority thought was to stop like this from happening. Why the hell the world sit idle by, while years turn into decades turn into more decades? Of imprisonment...
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...2013 Kathy Moore Detecting Media Bias I read article from Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, “Sensenbrenner wants health law, debt debate dealt with together”. I personally feel that this story was unclear with no sufficient depth to it. The story did have one person view, but it had nothing to do with the issue on the topic. I feel that everyone has to use their own critical evaluation about this topic; I know headline. I have notices that headlines can be a trap to get you to read the article a lot of people are fed up with the lock out and everyone is pointing fingers at the other there. I am not pointing fingers are at anyone but I am sure not against, this lock like others are. I am glad that someone is finally going to put there foot down about the way the goverment spends moneys. When it does the government gets to chose if I have to have health care or not. I Really do not go the doctor, so why should I have to have health care that I cannot afford. I am already living pay check to pay check. I have a feeling their will be more job open because people are not going to be able to afford everything I just taking about the basic needs, and the gas to get to work, Plus we have special needs child on top of it so things are already hard for us. I feel that this story is right that if they want Ombacare then they need to know how it is going to be fund without spending more money. Everyone thinks that Republicans are all against this plan that is not what they are...
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...is not really appropriate to attempt to read from a computer screen as you will need to move quickly through the article whilst also following the discussion here. Many students find difficulty in reading academic articles such as the one by Flamholtz. They tend to complain that: "it's too difficult" "I lose track of what the author is saying" "I get so far (1 or 2 pages) then find I can't make any sense of it" "I find I have to keep going back over stuff I've just read because I can't see what the author is saying" "After a couple of pages I lose interest" One major reason for such problems is that students attempt to read the article in the wrong way. They try to read it as if it were a short story, or novel or newspaper report (eg on a soccer match, or about the latest troubles of some celebrity or other). That is, they start at the beginning and try to read through to the end. So: Key point number 1: academic articles cannot be read effectively in the same way as a short story, a novel or a newspaper report. There are lots of printed materials that are not intended to be read through from beginning to end. The telephone directory is a clear example. Another example is a technical manual eg for a computer program or a motor car. Although you...
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