...still asleep or is it waking up? If you walk in Akihabara, the most famous place for digital product shopping in Japan, you can see many Chinese signs and hear Chinese announcements all day. Chinese are buying expensive products all over the world today. In only a few years, China has mastered the art of production and the purchasing of that production. It has taken the wisdom in regards to markets and consumption, which has taken advanced countries several decades to build up. Similar phenomenona happens in not only China but also many other developing countries. In contrast to the gradual development of Western societies, some developing countries have gone from poverty to gluttony in a few decades. Within several generations, people's concerns have gone from basic survival to a love of more material and luxuries. Consumerism has been the main value in the USA from the 19th century and it has spread rapidly to European industrial countries. After the Second World War, the First World capitalistic values have had a great impact on the modernization of developing countries. Consumerism is a kind of social moral values which is generally popular in...
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...The following were reasons why American industry boomed in 1920’s. i. The Impact of the car ii. Credit iii. Policies of the Republican Party. Which of these reasons do you think was the most important? Explain your answer referring only to the three points stated above. (10) I think the most important reason why the American industry boomed in the 1920’s was the impact of the car. Ford was the first car and it was founded in 1903 by Henry Ford in Detroit, Michigan but it business really boomed from 1918 onwards. The first car produced was the ‘Model T’. Its first cost was $1200 but by 1928 it was reduced to $295 meaning it was affordable for all families so most people’s quality of life was improved. Due to the low prices and the new technology of the car, it appealed to lots of families meaning mass production was to occur to have the supply to meet the demand consequently leading to more employees for cheap prices doing small jobs. Not only did the car supply all of this but in the mid 1920’s Ford cars consumed 90% of petrol, 80% of rubber and 75% of plate glass which increased other industries profits too triggering the boom. All of these factors...
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...at the same time acknowledging the grain of truth they contain. Because the vignettes are all related, with characters in one reappearing in another, viewer are able to see various sides of a character: a character shown committing a racist act in one scene is depicted in an act of kindness in another. This structure stresses the interrelationship of human-beings and underscores the complexities of prejudice and racism. The title of the movie Crash is a metaphor for the content. The most obvious meaning of the word crash in contemporary society is an auto collision, and the movie begins and ends with car accidents. But the idea of collision, as it pertains to the film, has a much broader application. This film is about collisions between ethnic groups, classes, ideologies and even age groups. For example, the first car accident occurs between a Latina and an Asian American, both of whom exchange racist remarks. The term crash also suggests an accidental occurrence. A great deal of the plot revolves around chance meetings between various characters. For example, the same Latino locksmith is...
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...sitting in a driver's seat while not driving in a moving car? Well, that is the future of driverless cars! Driverless cars are known to come out onto the roads in the year 2020. Also, there will be many types of driverless cars due to how many companies are trying to produce them, including Tesla, Google, Toyota, and etc. They are all battling to try to produce a driverless car first, which will lead to their company getting more money because this is something that not many people have seen before. Everyone in the future should have a driverless car because they would save many lives, roads would have better traffic flow, and people would have better health. If everyone in the future had a driverless car, then all of the cars would be able to connect with...
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...THE NEW BEETLE INTRODUCTION The Volkswagen beetle was born in the mid-1930’s in Germany by Ferdinand Porsche. It was initially known as the people’s car. Americans first had a glimpse of the beetle in 1949 when it entered the US market with its first model name-Type 1- Volkswagen for the beetle. It had a distinctive round shape, face-like front end and low price. Above all, it stood out from the overpriced and oversized domestic cars. It was popular with budget-minded students as well as drivers who sought to express their individuality. Volkswagen sales in the United States took a huge dip from 500,000 in 1973 to 50,000 in 1993. Volkswagen is re-launching its brand in America and is looking for ways to position the new beetle with one foot in the past and the other on the accelerator heading to the future. With its design work complete and initial positive reaction from the market, VW is now faced with the task of turning the excitement surrounding the car into actual sales. It has to have full knowledge about the current market forces, dynamics, consumer behavior and the market segments available. Marketing Problem Volkswagen is unclear of their target market. It has two segments of target audience; the baby boomers and Gen-X. Knowing they have the potential to attract both the baby boomers and Generation X, Volkswagen will need to evaluate both target markets’ preferences and lifestyles in order to come up with ways to promote the beetle. The product/brands should...
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...buys food to eat and electricity for light. Money buys new cars for transportation. Without money, it would be very hard to live in this world. There are people that are homeless and live under bridges, but those homeless people go out every day still chasing that dollar, whether it be panhandling or recycling. Why? Well, that’s because they need to eat and drink and they simply can’t do that without having money. But in the end, does money buy happiness? Gertner (2003) states money can buy temporary happiness. Like when you buy a brand-new BMW you are only happy for a short amount of time and then it diminishes (p. 46). After having my fourth child,...
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...diminished the entire police force to only one artificial intelligent police car which could not react rationally to Leonard Mead which was simply walking. “The Veldt” also glorifies the downsides of artificial intelligence. It does this by showing how a “nursery” can replace neglectful parents of the children. “The Pedestrian” and ”The Veldt” fictional stories by Ray Bradbury, show how artificial intelligence is unhealthy for the future...
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...Information] Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper www.ballantinebooks.com 246897531 FIRST EDITION Book design by Simon M. Sullivan What is love? After all, it is quite simple. Love is everything which enhances, widens, and enriches our life, in its height and in its depths. Love has as few problems as a motor-car. The only problems are the drivers, the passengers, and the road. —Franz Kafka Introduction In 1949, a ship called the MS Westerdam departed from the coast of Europe, its hundreds of passengers headed toward U.S. shores. Nestled deep in the ship’s cargo compartment, a pair of headlights peeped out of a dark tarp; two wide, open circles leading to the soft curves of what would soon be known as the world’s most recognizable car. Protesters, rebels, dissidents, politicians, businessmen, the world’s corporate elite—all would eventually become entwined in its story. By the end of the 1960s, it would do what no other car had done before: transcend age, class, and country to become a symbol adopted by them all. Americans would call the car the Beetle. In other places it would become the Flea, the Turtle, the Vocho, the Foxi, the Buba, the Fusca, the Poncho, and the Mouse. Over the years, the car developed a cult following as well as a more public persona. It had fan club after fan club created on its behalf; it showed up in the films of Woody Allen and Stanley Kubrick; Disney endearingly dubbed it “The Love...
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...Influence of Visual Media American culture and values have been influenced in many ways by visual entertainment media. Televisions, smart phones, computers, and gaming systems, are a part of almost everyone’s daily life. Although many people will deny it, many of people’s actions and beliefs are linked to what they are exposed to in their daily life. From fashion sense, to political views, to the cars we drive, our minds have been led that way with the help of entertainment media. Each time any form of entertainment media is accessed, American values are influenced. Through television, the younger generations of the world are being taught that it is acceptable to lie, cheat, steal, use vulgar language and behave inappropriately in public. Many people look up to the President of the United States, but how is one to explain their wrongdoings? President Clinton had an affair, but the media portrayed it as if it were no big deal. President Obama refused to produce his original birth certificate for Americans to see and again this was acceptable. Both of these leaders, that many Americans look up to, have shown that it is okay to lie, cheat and withhold information. As Americans, we see it as “if they can do it, so can we”. Another poor form of entertainment media is video games. Most of these games are full of violence, drugs and vulgar language. For example, in the game Grand Theft Auto, you are on a mission to steal cars, fight with others, and run from...
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...gray color. The dullness of the scene is perhaps taken from the industrial era — gray factories gushing gray smoke — except the depiction goes beyond scenery and into the very core of the passage. This is a thriving but dismal world, with no color, or life, or direction — only gray dust, drifting purposelessly over the gray land. The scene is lifeless. Irony is also prevalent in the passage. It is ironic that...
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...said they still believed in the American Dream. This is the lowest percent in two decades. The American Dream has changed over time. The American Dream started as people wanting a better life for everyone but now it has diminished to people not even believing in it or others being very optimistic that we can still fulfill the ‘dream.’ The American Dream is different for everyone that you ask. Some might say that their dream is to own a house with 5 children. Others might say it is to have a good education, healthy family, and a steady job. Some even say that it is to own 5 cars with 3 houses across the globe. Everyone’s view on this term is different. Some may think that...
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... Morality: Right and Wrong People knew the meaning of the word morality in their early age because parents and teachers had tried very hard to teach children to possess the virtue qualities of morality such as caring, compassion, and courage. However, there is a tendency that people act differently when they encounter the morality in real life. For instance, some people are hesitant to help out a wounded person on the street when they assume police would do that. These people absolutely know it is wrong not to help a wounded person according to the caring aspect of morality. Knowing something is not right to do but to do, people contradict themselves by the influence of societies, individualism, and governments. First of all, societies can change people’s ideas and behaviors about morality. In other words, people will choose what others doing in a society instead of obeying the criteria of morality. Therefore, this action will emerge a moral contradiction. For instance, there was a shocking incident happened in Foshan city in the south of China. A two- year- old girl was twice hit by two different cars on a very busy street and 18 pedestrians indifferently passed the girl without doing any effort to help the girl. The girl was finally saved by a garbage collector after lying on the street for a long time (The Guardian). Many Chinese people and social medias strongly criticize the two car’s drivers and the 18 pedestrians for their cruel responses to the girl...
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...Communication Strategies - ESLG 0610 - G04 Jeremy S. Gillette-Newman Date: 3/04/2013 American dream The American dream like the Statue of Liberty exists for people to have hope for a better future. In The Great Gatsby, it illustrated a man called Jay Gatsby was trying to win Daisy back by his richness. Recalling Gatsby’s life, he was always full of American dreams and his so-called success was also based on his American dream. Gatsby cared for Daisy so much but he failed to win his back because of his death. Jay Gatsby is merely a small character compared with the great American dream. He doesn’t represent the American dream since he misunderstands what is American dream. He uses illegal method to become rich and takes advantage of money to buy love. Eventually no one attend to his funeral. Before talking about Gatsby’s American dream, we take a glance of what is American dream. According to James Truslow, the American dream is, “Life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement’. In other words, American dream is an optimistic belief. It should have no connection with his or her original social class. The American dream evokes people to pursue their dream by hard- working. The Great Gatsby settings in 1920s, which is called Jazz age. In that period, the society was super flourishing; money and pleasure blinded people’s eyes. People were too passionate with physical material rather than mental achievements...
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...from many others. Globalization is the process of migration; capital flows, spreading of cultures, technology and food spreading throughout the world. It is happening everyday, everywhere in the world. I, as an international student comes from China and attending my university in United Stated, I bring the money to US, come with my own Chinese culture background and personal identities, my language, and living styles as an Asian. I think I have finally fallen into a part of cultural globalization, exchanging or sharing my culture with American friends, I benefits from the American college life here and learning American culture. I feel really good to live under this environment, I like the American way for many aspects and I do not lose my own unique identities. I think it could be a pretty good result if I widely accept American culture and also share my culture with my American friends, and on the other hand, I could show the American ways I...
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...of it. At least, we have used up the easy to extract oil and the vast reserves remaining in shale and other such marginal deposits are very expensive to extract. There are promising technologies that may make the extraction of that oil cheaper and cleaner. However, what will that buy us? Another thirty years? What then? What happens when we run out of oil? What will our children and grand children do if we just keep ignoring that certain fact? One major factor we use in our daily life and consumes huge amount of gas is our way of transportation; “The United States, the biggest country in the world, consumes 19.6 million barrels per day of oil which is more than 25% of the world's total” (Jason J. Churchill). In order to stay competitive and productive, millions of drivers in cars and trucks are running and burning gas every day on our huge and long freeways as part of their jobs. Obviously, we need cars to survive and keep our lifestyle. However, we can use different kind of cars such as hybrid cars that do the job and save huge amount of oil as well. Basically, “ A hybrid electric vehicle combines an internal combustion engine and an electric motor powered by batteries, The combination allows the electric motor and batteries to help the conventional engine operate more efficiently, cutting down on fuel use” (Hybrids Under the Hood). The gasoline-fueled combustion engine overcomes the limited driving range of an electric vehicle. This hybridization gives us the ability to drive...
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