...8 July 2007 Exactly What is the Right Stuff? When people ask what is needed to accomplish an impossible task, or achieve a goal that seems outside the grasp of human power, it is often said that the person who achieves that feat has “The Right Stuff.” This is not some item you can pick up in a store, or that is taught at an Ivy League college. “The Right Stuff” is the intestinal fortitude required to drive on and persevere far after it is said it is no possible. Since the dawn of time it has been wondered if it takes a person of almost god-like proportions to achieve impossible feats, or someone just crazy enough to try. I most cases this is really nothing more that a person with such drive and desire to prove their point they are willing to risk everything including their lives to make something happen. To properly categorize this concept of “The Right Stuff”, we must look at what has been done in its name. Weather it be BG Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, or the pioneers of the space program in the Mercury and Apollo space programs; one thing holds true they indeed has something that others did not, guts. When the word guts are used it is usually compared to a skateboarder or freestyle motocross rider doing something crazy and dangerous. This while brave and daring is nothing in comparison to the risk involved in the early space programs. People who in fact have this thing we call “The Right Stuff” are easily categorized and found. They are...
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...“The Story of Stuff” is a short video created by The Story of Stuff project in 2007. In the video, writers Annie Leonard and Jonah Sachs describe the process of turning natural resources into consumer goods, then into waste. The writers describe a seemingly linear five-step process: extraction, production, distribution, consumption, and disposal. Leonard and Sachs describe a carefully-scripted culture of unsustainable consumption and waste. The extraction phase of “The Story of Stuff” refers to the removal of natural resources such as timber, natural gas, coal, oil, and water. The writers emphasize the unsustainability of this phase, especially in the United States. The video states that the United States holds 5% of the world’s population but uses 30% of the world’s natural resources and creates over 30% of the world’s waste. This is a staggering statistic. Four percent of the United States’ forests remain. FOUR PERCENT. How much longer will it be before trees are things read about in storybooks (digitally printed of course, as there are no more natural resources to harvest.) The production phase is described as the addition of toxic chemicals to natural resources in order to produce the “stuff” we want. Please note the use of the word “want,” not “need.” The authors note that over 100,000 synthetic chemicals are commercially available today and are regularly used in production. Of those 100,000 synthetic chemicals, very few have been tested in a significant way to measure...
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...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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...Coach tries to pump everyone up for the big race tomorrow but all you can hear are the sniffles coming from all the the runners. Everyone shivers as a cool, fall breeze passes through the group. As coaches speech drags to an end we all thank him, and get our stuff to leave. Everyone jokes around per usual, though there is a dense fog of stress hanging in the air. Tomorrow is the biggest cross country race of the season. If the team does good then they get to stay running for another week and go to regionals, but if they have a bad race their season will end right there without states. As Sarah returns home from practice with her older brother Adam, she remembers her last race. She remembers how little water she drank and how much it affected...
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...Rennalls is a talented engineer, on the other hand he has a conflict with expatriates. • On the one hand Rennalls can influence the policy of the Co by his father, but on the other hand he is not the only candidate. • On the one hand Baker wants Rennalls to work for the Co, but on the other hand the Co can’t risk his image. 2. Options 1) Hive apologizes to Rennalls and invite him back to the company. Advantages: • Rennalls is a professional worker. He can influence the policy of the Co on the islands. Disadvantages: • His racial conflicts with the stuff. • Rennalls is sometimes rude with staff and that causes negative emotions in the collective. 2) To find out another candidate for Rennalls place. Advantages: • Taking a Barracanian substitute for the place. It may solve the problem of Rennall’s stuff rudeness. Disadvantages: •...
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...Punjab, Recognized by HEC) Assessment Disclosure Assignment One • Dead line for the submission of first assignment as on Friday 20th April 2012 at 4:00pm sharp. All the stuff can be submit at my office F10 in to my absence Mr. Anjum or Mr. Haroon (office staff). • All the material must be hand written. • The given task helps you to acquire excellent grades into quizzes, mid and final as well. 100% Guarantee! • The following list of question require to accomplish the first task from course pack of financial accounting l; 1. Theoretical question:- 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (pg. 23-24) 2. Problems:- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (pg. 27-28) 3. Illustrations:- 3.1, 3.2 (pg. 31, 34) 4. Objective:- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (pg. 36-38) 5. Illustration: 2, 3 4 (pg. 24-25) 6. Problems:- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (pg. 26-28) 7. Comprehensive Illustration:- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (pg. 42-47 Note:- Apparently, the course pack brings it up from different authors practice material therefore please, patiently looks at your course material to find all the above relevant pages numbers accordingly and also particular practice material. Assignment Two • Dead line for the submission of second assignment as on Friday 2nd May 2012 at 4:00pm sharp. All the stuff can be submit at my office F10 in to my absence Mr. Anjum or Mr. Haroon (office staff). • All the material must be hand written. • The given task helps you to acquire excellent...
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...Steps to Moving to a new country Mayar Lampkin Everest University Ever wonder what it is like to move to a new country? Well wonder no more I will tell you. Moving to a new country can be fun and exciting adventure but it takes a lot of work and planning. Before you go and experience the new culture make sure you do research on the country. Another is to make sure you have the right paper work and documentation. The last step is to make sure you pack up essentials. It sounds like a lot and hard work but in the end it is all worth it. Doing research about the country you will live in is very important because you will be informed about the cultures and customs of the country. Also researching what cities are safe to live in and what cities are dangerous is good way of keeping yourself safe and out of trouble. Make sure to research living situations is it mostly apartment/condo living or is it houses? Knowing that information is good for when you are packing because you will know how much space you will have. A good way of research is finding a group on a social media website and asking them questions about the country and living situations. This step will be the most important step out of all three. Having the right paperwork and documentation is very important or you can get in serious trouble and or road blocks along the way. Making sure you know what you need is important. For example if you do not already have a passport make sure you apply for one right...
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...20 September 2011 Topic Proposal The topic that I am using from the Affluenza book is Stuff Wars at the Airport on page 35. The angle that I am approaching this topic is from an airport employee stance. I worked at an international airport in several different capacities and think it provides a unique perspective. My guiding questions will be the basic such as: * What is the topic? * Why has this topic been chosen? * What is the focus of the topic? * How is the perspective and understanding conveyed to the reader? The concerns for this topic are the type of information that can be found other than personal experiences but believe that resources can be found in several areas on the internet, online databases, and library. Deciding on how specific is another concern, but believe that staying within the confines of the stuff wars specifically at the airport will keep the topic within the boundaries of the project. It is difficult to determine the time frame it will take to research the topic. It will take approximately two weeks to come up with an appropriate thesis and outline for the project. It could take two weeks to focus the topic on specific questions to ask but as soon as that is complete, it is easy to make a list of factual and interpretive questions for the reader to understand the research. After all has been completed, the research has a good foundation and is ready to start. To complete the essay will take one week to compile, rewrite, and finish...
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...Rennalls is a talented engineer, on the other hand he has a conflict with expatriates. • On the one hand Rennalls can influence the policy of the Co by his father, but on the other hand he is not the only candidate. • On the one hand Baker wants Rennalls to work for the Co, but on the other hand the Co can’t risk his image. 2. Options 1) Hive apologizes to Rennalls and invite him back to the company. Advantages: • Rennalls is a professional worker. He can influence the policy of the Co on the islands. Disadvantages: • His racial conflicts with the stuff. • Rennalls is sometimes rude with staff and that causes negative emotions in the collective. 2) To find out another candidate for Rennalls place. Advantages: • Taking a Barracanian substitute for the place. It may solve the problem of Rennall’s stuff rudeness. Disadvantages: •...
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...of the inventory. When everything is said and done it equals out to the cost of the goods that have been sold. Cost of goods sold is the accumulated total of all the costs used to create a product or service in this case it is which has been sold. All of these costs fall into a general sub category of direct labor as well as the materials, and overhead stock. The cost of goods sold is considered to be a part of the labor and payroll taxes. Beginning Inventory |+ |Purchases |- |Ending Inventory |= |Cost of Goods Sold | |$600 |+ |$1500 |- |$400 |= |$1700 | |$800 |+ |$2400 |- |$600 |= |$2600 | |There is also a first in and first out method that helps with keeping track of the inventory. So when things come in the stuff that is older should move forward and the new stuff should go in back. I believe that when it comes down to it the way we handle the sales of the products then the company should not have a problem with keeping track of the funds coming in and going out. Below I have added the example of how it should work. I have done two different...
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...Make sure to bring down laptop, laptop charger, wireless mouse, cell phone and flash drive – copy over all the stuff from the “Kevin’s Stuff” folder on Doug’s computer to the flash drive. ***Call Dr. Reddy back first thing in the morning if I haven’t heard by then (336-662-8185) 1. Rizwan Ali: Advanced Psychiatric Services 2727 Electric Road, Suite 103 Roanoke, VA 24018 540-772-1974 Have to go for first appointment to be assessed then go back for a second appointment to be inducted into the program. Insurance will most likely pay for first (assessment) appointment, but the suboxone is on a cash only basis. $500 for first month and price will come down each subsequent month. Includes group sessions. a. First appointment (assessment) – Monday, Feb. 6 @ 1pm b. Second (suboxone induction) – Wednesday, Feb. 8 between 4-6pm Someone is supposed to call back after 11am tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 1, to let me know if I’m a good candidate and to confirm appointments. * ***If I haven’t heard anything by first thing in morning (9AM), call Dr. Reddy’s office to determine if she can change the existing appointment (tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 1 @ 5pm) from a regular appointment to a suboxone appointment. * **Someone is supposed to call back after 11am tomorrow (Wednesday) to verify appointments from Dr. Rizwan Ali’s office (540-772-1974) * *In morning, call the rest of the physicians I haven’t gotten in touch with, including the physicians listed...
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...Punjab, Recognized by HEC) Assessment Disclosure Assignment One • Dead line for the submission of first assignment as on Friday 20th April 2012 at 4:00pm sharp. All the stuff can be submit at my office F10 in to my absence Mr. Anjum or Mr. Haroon (office staff). • All the material must be hand written. • The given task helps you to acquire excellent grades into quizzes, mid and final as well. 100% Guarantee! • The following list of question require to accomplish the first task from course pack of financial accounting l; 1. Theoretical question:- 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (pg. 23-24) 2. Problems:- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (pg. 27-28) 3. Illustrations:- 3.1, 3.2 (pg. 31, 34) 4. Objective:- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (pg. 36-38) 5. Illustration: 2, 3 4 (pg. 24-25) 6. Problems:- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (pg. 26-28) 7. Comprehensive Illustration:- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (pg. 42-47 Note:- Apparently, the course pack brings it up from different authors practice material therefore please, patiently looks at your course material to find all the above relevant pages numbers accordingly and also particular practice material. Assignment Two • Dead line for the submission of second assignment as on Friday 2nd May 2012 at 4:00pm sharp. All the stuff can be submit at my office F10 in to my absence Mr. Anjum or Mr. Haroon (office staff). • All the material must be hand written. • The given task helps you to acquire excellent...
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...living situation and her background. When he was done talking with the client, we started the paperwork. I started asking the questions on the forms, my supervisor would step in to explain something or ask more questions. After the initial paperwork was filled out we had to go over forms that the client had to sign. Although I was able to remember some of the stuff on the forms, I was unable to remember everything on them, so my supervisor stepped in to better explain the forms. In the end the intake took around an hour to complete. After the intake, my supervisor stated that I did okay, just that I need to work on being able to explain LINK services and what the paperwork states, as well as being more comfortable exploring with questions. During the intake, I felt pressure to be able to explain things properly, which is partially the cause of forgetting things. I also felt that I wasn’t really given that much opportunity to explore some of the questions because my supervisor took over. It was almost as if I was thinking too much into it and was too worried about during the intake properly that mind spaced on some of the stuff that I was supposed to go over. As far as the NASW Code of Ethics, there are a few values or principles that were evident in the situation. The first one deals with competence, although it is important to be knowledgeable and apply past experience into practice, it can be hard sometimes. Since I am still in the learning process, I need to accept that not everything...
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...against the group happened when I was in college. I worked at clothing store at the local mall. One of the requirements for working there was that you had to wear the clothes that were sold there or clothes similar to them. After working there for a month or so I stumbled upon a few of the girls taking clothes off the shelf and putting them in the back room. I was then told that sometimes the girls there would “borrow the clothes and wear them to work in that day and then put them back on the shelf for customers to buy. I did speak up and tell them I thought it was wrong. They then informed me that even the manager of the store did it. That she would even get merchandise and take it home and keep the tags there and pay for some of the stuff a little bit along. I was in shock. I proceeded by calling the home office and calling the district manager and reporting the issue. A few weeks later the district manager came in the store. I was then fired. All the girls told the district manager that I was causing arguments within the group and I was a trouble maker. I did find out later that the home office did their own investigation in the store and all of the girls even the manager ended up getting fired. Even though I was fired from the job, I felt good about doing the right thing. I could have easily conform to the group for the sake of my job but due to my ethical beliefs I could not do...
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...I should’ve known this would happen. The moment they laid eyes on me. They picked me and my brother out of many others, and paid a nice price. Little did I know, my well-off owners wouldn’t treat me so nice. On the way to my new home, I was stuffed in the trunk with the other one’s they bought. 5 Me and my brother didn’t speak the whole ride, we sat and we thought. The others were excited; they knew they would provide a great service. I didn’t, however, I already knew my task; my purpose. The house was huge, for someone like me. Large, luxurious, with room for plenty. 10 One owner showed the other one’s their place. But another owner made me and my brother go another way. The first stop we made was a little girl’s room. It was colorful, and lively. When my brother was given to her, the little girl was friendly and smiling. She showed him his resting place, and he seemed to like it. 15 I knew my fate wouldn’t be so lucky, call me psychic. We left her room, and the next stop was mine. And to say I wasn’t scared would be lying. The door was locked, and had crossbones in the center. The teenage boy was finally visible and had a slight resemblance to the Grim Reaper. 20 My new owner looked me over, and gave a nonchalant gesture. ...
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