...Flight from Conversation,” She states, “If we are unable to be alone, we are more likely to be lonely.” I agree completely with her statement because I, myself see this on a daily basis with family. I think it’s a very powerful and eye opening statement. What I read in this article was that people would rather be alone with their devices than be alone with themselves or others. After reading this article, I decided to observe my family for the day and see how much technology has consumed our lives. I woke the next morning to find myself going right to my phone, not to check the time, but to see if anyone text me or called me through the night. I then proceed to check social media and see what I may have missed. At this point I’ve probably wasted 10 minutes of my morning on checking things that really didn’t matter, instead of getting things prepared for the day. I see the same pattern for my kids. Once they’re awaken, its right to their tablets to see if anyone may have attacked them on a game they were playing the night before. It’s a constant battle of me repeatedly telling them to put their tablets down and get dressed. There’s rarely a “good morning, how did you sleep?” Just faces down, buried in their devices. I see it with my husband and I as well. I can be in a room on the other side of the house, instead of coming in the room to ask me something or just to tell me about his day, he will text me what’s on his mind. When I ask him why he didn’t just come in and tell me face...
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...Wasted Water Water is the most important resource to human life and without it we would perish very quickly. “We could survive for several weeks without food, but for only a few days without freshwater” (Miller & Spoolman, 2013, p.238). Water also plays a key role in shaping the earth’s surface, controlling the climate and helping to remove and dilute some of the pollutants that exist (Miller & Spoolman, 2013). If that is the case, why do we take such huge advantage of this valuable resource? One reason I believe we do is there is a belief that exists in all of us that water is abundant and will always be here. There is some truth to that by the amount of water that is here on earth but this is deceiving because that is sea water and the salt levels in sea water is too high for us to consume or use in our homes and lives like we do now. But regardless of how important this source is, we continue to waste it and at a good rate. “According to water resource expert Mohamed El-Ashry of World Resources institute, about 66% of the freshwater used in the world and about 50% of the freshwater used in the United States is unnecessarily wasted” (Miller & Spoolman, 2013, p. 251). He goes on to state that if we can reduce our waste to 15%, that would be enough to meet the water needs of the world for the foreseeable future (Miller & Spoolman, 2013). I chose critical thinking question number four at the end of chapter 11 which asks to calculate how many liters and gallons of water are...
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...Life after Death I remember the day just like it was yesterday, the pale color and coldness of her skin. The sky was clear blue, soft, with a touch of red, and the trees seemed stiff in their bright green shade. The wind was blowing with its humid dry air. And All I could do was stand silently in disbelief, caught up in my own thoughts and calm as I ever been. Wondering what I could have done differently to change the course of time, life had taken us upon. Since that very day a chunk of my heart was ripped away, and broken into pieces… “Oh how I miss her so much.” It was the morning of October 24, 2010 when I first received the news. I had just come back from a trip to Orlando’s Halloween horror nights, where I had an amazing time and just in a matter of minutes my whole world had turned upside down. That very moment I could feel my face turned bright red with anger and tears started flowing uncontrollably down my chubby cheeks, as my mother gave away the news that my grandmother was on her death bed. I couldn’t believe how just the day before she sounded so perfectly fine, and today she can possibly be gone. I guess when it’s time to go, it’s time to go you really don’t get a choice when it comes to your own life’s destination. I immediately rushed to the hospital speeding to about 70 miles per hour, hoping I wouldn’t get a ticket. As I got closer I could feel my chest tightening as if somebody was squeezing it with their bare hands. The hospital’s smell seemed familiar prior...
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...Malcolm X once said, “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” There are many different options available when it comes to educating the future men and women of America. Since private schools can be a heavy burden on one’s wallet, most people are left choosing between public education and home schooling. They both have their own advantages, and disadvantages, making it difficult to choose between the two. There are many factors that must be considered while deciding which is more suitable. However, some of the most important would be the instructors, how well the students’ needs are met, and the overall effectiveness of each. Where a student’s learning takes place is not nearly as important as who is educating them. It is of great importance that the person entrusted with the task of educating students be well qualified to do so. Some parents enjoy the idea of home schooling because they can teach their children themselves, or choose who does. However, the task of ensuring the chosen instructor is of sound credibility can be a daunting one. Although home schooling allows for the opportunity to choose a student’s instructor, the teachers within the public education system are all guaranteed to be certified. They also have a set curriculum for their students that they are comfortable with. However, home schooling gives you the opportunity to oversee the student’s curriculum, giving you the chance to change it as you...
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...REP RI N TED F ROM To subscribe: www.emc.com/on | issue NO. 1, 200 9 Reprinted with permission from ON magazine. Copyright © 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. adversity happens. it happened to me, and some form of adversity will happen to you. do you have the strength and will to bounce back? iN search Of by glenn e. mangurian resilieNt leaders 22 ON Number 1, 2009 illustratiON by hadley hOOper On May 26, 2001, i suffered an unprovoked disk rupture that pressed against my spinal cord, leaving the lower half of my body permanently paralyzed. at the prime of my life as a successful business executive and father, it was the last thing i ever expected. since then, i’ve come to realize it’s very likely that we will each experience some form of adversity: a career crisis, financial disaster, devastating relationship breakup, or frightening diagnosis. in business, we are trained to examine various scenarios and prepare responses in advance, but life-altering experiences like these are not something we can anticipate. Who has a contingency plan for living life from a wheelchair? for me, becoming paralyzed is, without question, the worst thing that has ever happened. at the same time, the experience has allowed me to come back, not just changed but stronger. i’ve learned that our innate ability to survive and adapt is greater than we imagine. resilience is one of the key qualities desired in business leaders today, but many people confuse it with toughness...
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...Wasting water is an everyday issue in the United States. For example 1.7 trillion gallons of water are wasted each year, just in the United States. Their is many different reasons on how water can be wasted. Some ways water can be wasted are by irrigation, pipe leakages, and high usages of water in homes. Irrigation Really helps out, but at the same time there is lots of water being wasted throughout the process. From Ceres, it states “About 21% of water that’s used to grow our food is wasted.”That is a lot of water being wasted. Especially because, if the food grown from irrigation is being wasted, that means water is being wasted as well. For example from ceres is states”13 gallons of water can be wasted by just letting two tomatoes rot.” Imagine if every year each person wasted around 20 to 30 tomatoes. That is a lot of water being wasted and it can stack up too depending on the other vegetables and fruits are wasted....
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...UNIVERSITY OF ST. LA SALLE PROJECT – EASE Program Kabankalan Center MEL 203 | March 28, 2015Term Paper | A Study of the Relationship of the Students’ Nutritional Status with Their Academic Performance Introduction A physically fit individual has the ability to function efficiently and effectively. A healthy individual enjoys leisure, resists disease and are able to cope with emergency situation. For students in particular, their health plays a vital role in scholastic performance either on curricular or non-curricular. Students’ life demands enough energy to cope up with the stress and meet the deadlines of their different school requirements. The Department of Education gives importance to the nutritional status of the Filipino learners thru implementation of various programs such as school-based feeding, Gulayan Sa Paaralan and by regulating and monitoring the food being sold in the school canteen. The department believes that a healthy child can able to perform well in school and community. In able to have quality education the learners should be aware of healthy lifestyle. Amidst the department’s endeavors to provide quality education, there is still a lag with the goal due to poverty that is uncontrollable by the agency. This study aims to show the relationship of the students’ nutritional status with their academic performance. Background The Gil Montilla NHS-Manlucahoc Extension which was established in 1989 is located at the heart of Barangay Manlucahoc...
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...readingA day spent without reading what? And a day wasted for whom? And if a day spent without reading SOMETHING is wasted for SOMEONE, then how does reading turn a wasted day into a useful and fruitful one? Without answering these questions, the topic statement seems very harsh and one sided. Reading can be associated with books, newspapers, self-written work, brail, musical notation, expressions, text messages, information on a computer, on websites, electronic books, and essays. Reading can also be divided into even smaller categories, such as reading advertisements, notes, memos, names, dates, and so on. In a nutshell, reading is about everything that is written down by any means of writing, whether it is electronic, handwritten, or digital. So taking this definition of “reading” into account, a day spent without reading will be useless. How can someone spend a day without reading anything? It is possible if the person is illiterate and cannot read, or if he’s blind, but then it is not his/her fault and the person’s day will not be considered as wasted, because they can still indulge in other activities. But if a completely normal, educated person decides to spend one day without reading anything…it will be impossible, and if somehow he/she succeeds to avoid every form of writing, then yes, their day will be wasted. Now keeping in mind an illiterate individual who cannot read, then would it plausible to conclude that every single day of his life has been a waste because...
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...room service? It is clear two teenage girls are never going to finish all of the food they are presented. No human is capable of eating that amount of food.So why do we use time resources and energy to produce large portions of food just to dump every wasted plate down the garbage chute? Americans struggle immensely with food waste, and it’s not just food. When you think of all the food being wasted don’t think so shallow; someone's unfinished plate being dumped into the trash. Think resources, time, energy, and the obvious-- food. Consumers have more to think about when it comes to the waste they cause when they are dealing with our food sources. Think of a that apple that you put on your plate, and later decided you didn’t want so you tossed it. You didn’t just waste an apple. You wasted soil. You wasted a seed. You wasted...
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...very rich. China, USA, Canada, South Eastern Asia, and Europe have been amongst the countries hit by this storm of food wasting. While Britain is said to be throwing away about thirteen pounds of food per week, Canada is struggling with same problem. The United States is not spared either. Food and Agriculture Organization, abbreviation as FAO says that about a third of the world produce is wasted. By 2007, FAO projected that the increase ought to have gone high by sixty percent so that the emerging wealthier generation could be fed totally. While people could focus on increasing production, it is worth noting that reducing the amount of food waste in most cases would see to the situation being placed under comtrol, albeit for a bit (Barclay, 2014). Globally, around 1.3 billion ton of food goes to waste. Food is wasted from initial agricultural production, all the way to the final household consumption. The medium and high income countries are the leaders in the food wasting melee. Food is thrown away despite being still suitable for human consumption. Low income countries have food wasted in the early period of production and less in the household. Low income countries waste less food on the consumption phase, which makes the developed and middle income countries the major focus (Braclay, 2014). Food Wastage in Southeast Asia The Southeast of Asia is estimated to be wasting about 33% of their food on a yearly basis. Along the food...
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...Michigan, and China. The vice president of operations decided to develop a sustainability plan. Team A has been assigned the task to conduct a business audit to evaluate the Riordan’s current business practices at each location. The audit provides valuable information to identify the nonsustainable business practices and how each effects the environment. The subject in this paper is how Riordan Manufacturing will identify their nonsustainable practices, federal regulations, mandatory, and voluntary actions necessary to implement a successful sustainability plan. Nonsustainable Business Practices The business practice audits brought to light three nonsustainable practices. The three practices highlighted by the audit include wasted energy from the plants, the use of toxic cleaning solvents, and spilled ink. These three business practices can be very harmful to the environment. Burning fossil fuels for energy creates gases such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and volatile organic compounds. These gases cause air pollution. They can cause several kinds of air pollution, particular matter, smog, and ozone (New Energy Alternative, 2008). Air pollution can travel thousands of miles and can harm areas that burn fossil fuels sparingly. The next nonsustainable practice is the use of toxic cleaning solvents. The release of toxic chemicals from the spent cleaners can cause damage to the ozone layer. This contributes to the greenhouse effect that causes global warming...
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...inforation fro theactual people wor%ing on the client.s site /li%e fro 3anovich0! Though she was usingtechnical tools but she was building the spreadsheet odel based on inaccuratepreises! She did not %now if she would be able to ipleent the spreadsheet odel inreal tie! She ade things even ore cople' and hence the process less productive!Maria Chen by wor%ing on the odel virtually wasted the first three wee%s! She did notwor% with 1en 4ohan.s /Consultant on the engageent tea0 tea, though her wor%should be overlapping with that of his tea! -n the seco ired to change! -nstead Maria focused on the technical analysisand started building a spreadsheet odel without getting first$hand inforation fro theactual people wor%ing on the client.s site /li%e fro 3anovich0! Though she was usingtechnical tools but she was building the spreadsheet odel based on inaccuratepreises! She did not %now if she would be able to ipleent the spreadsheet odel inreal tie! She ade things even ore cople' and hence the process less productive!Maria Chen by wor%ing on the odel virtually wasted the first three wee%s! She did notwor% with 1en 4ohan.s /Consultant on the engageent tea0 tea, though her wor%should be overlapping with that of his tea! -n the seco ired to change! -nstead Maria focused on the technical analysisand started building a spreadsheet odel without getting first$hand inforation fro theactual people wor%ing on the client.s site /li%e fro 3anovich0! Though...
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...The Great Wall is one of the 7 wonders of the world but was it worth it. The wall is a huge wall 5,500.3 miles long, thought this construction of the wall many lives were lost and a good deal of silk wasted, but in the end was it all worth it, what did they earn it the construction of the wall. It this essay you will learn on how the wall and how it was a waste of time, the other option (fighting) instead of building a wall, and just live wasting and silk. One reason why the wall seems a waste because they could have done so much more in that time anything it took 2000 years that's a long time. In that time they could have invented the car or the light bulb or something cool like an iPad, but instead they spend all that time on the wall they...
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... The best way to minimize costs and maximize product quality is to adopt a lean operations strategy that includes just in time (JIT) initiatives. Central to the JIT technique is continuous problem solving. JIT requires that items and materials are ordered only when needed minimizing inventory. When inventory is minimized wasted costs in layout, quality, and procurement are easily spotted and immediately dealt with. With JIT very few suppliers are chosen creating large commitments to the organization. The suppliers should also use JIT and offer their expertise in design and quality control to the supply chain. Since the owners of the power tool company are willing to own or invest in any component of the supply chain I would recommend they initiate a Keiretsu. A Keiretsu is a company coalition which includes few key suppliers and secondary suppliers. The power tool company would support key members of the Keiretsu through ownership or loans. The suppliers are assured stability and a long term relationships and in return are expected to provide expertise and consistent quality. A Keiretsu reduces supply chain costs because it eliminates the wasted expenses associated with using many vendors. It eliminates the bidding process, duplicate activities, reduces returned products do to quality issues, and minimizes inventory costs by utilizing JIT...
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...Current Business Practices Audit Kimberly Johnson, Richard Siemienczuk, Karen Graham, and Chad Smestad MGT/360 December 3, 2012 Vicki Bauer Current Business Practices Audit The learning team conducted an audit of Riordan Manufacturing’s current business practices at its processing plants located in California, Georgia, Michigan, and China. The business sustainability worksheets used to complete the evaluation aided the team in locating common areas of non-sustainable practices relating to land, water, and air pollution. The three non-sustainable practices evaluated further are solid waste, and hazardous waste causing land pollution, hazardous waste causing water pollution, and gaseous waste causing air pollution. These areas are the most harmful to the immediate population, which includes the plant workers and the communities. Solid Waste and Hazardous Waste Causing Land Pollution One of the non-sustainable practices is adding to land pollution. Currently, off-spec materials are sent to the landfill (Apollo, 2012). In addition to this, scrap plastic managed as waste goes to the landfill (Apollo). The biggest problem is that plastic is not biodegradable. When plastic and off-spec products are sent to the landfill, breakdown occurs but at minimal rates and these take longer to biodegrade over time. To remain compliant with government regulations, Riordan Manufacturing is required to identify hazardous waste generated each month if it exceeds 2,200 pounds (Apollo...
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