...food was coming to an end I came across a bag of potatoes. So using the cooking skills that I have acquired in my many years I decided to make french-fries. As I cut my potatoes I started to think about Michael Pollan’s essay “Playing God in the Garden”. This essay is about the creation of “genetically engineered” potatoes that produce their own insecticide right inside their leaves. I began to wonder if the potatoes on my plate were the same “New Leaf” potatoes that Pollan talked about. I started to change my mind about eating the fries that I had already melted cheese on but they looked to good to give to my roommate so I continued thinking while eating. The government does not require New Leaf potatoes to be labeled in stores so it must mean they feel it will have no harm on people. One of the many reasons that government exists is to look over the wealth fare of its citizens. Think of some of the things that a company must put on their products, labels on alcohol and cigarettes tell the dangers that come from using them, and all foods packages must have the ingredients printed on them. The government also sets up programs like family first to help people in need. Even in high school a person needs four years of gym. Peter Drucker touches this subject in his essay “The Age of Social Transformation” as he talks about a changing society. The government made the decision that using the knowledge that Monsanto found was the right thing to do for the farming industry. The best times...
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...Expressive Essay (Observation, Ethnography or Memoir) First Draft ENC 1101 – CR Junkins Purpose: What do I want the student to do? In this course, we will explore the two most commonly used forms of writing for college students: expressive writing and academic writing. Expressive writing captures what is important to the writer. In order to succeed, writers must understand themselves. Such writing is deeply personal. Expressive writing is designed to prepare students for writing outside academics—communicating feelings and observations, beliefs and opinions, community and individuality—all skill sets that will enable students to succeed in any discipline or career path. From a learning perspective, expressive writing is often an easier form of writing than academic. It allows students to begin working with such concepts as language, reasoning and mechanics while working with material they find worth discussing. In this assignment, I want students to carefully examine both themselves and their community. What makes their community unique? What is their place within the community? How did their unique, individual personality take shape? Project Overview: How do I want the student to do the assignment? Component One: Personal Students will choose to write on one of the following three topics: • One’s sense of place (observation) • One’s place within a community (ethnography) • One’s relationship to an event from the past (memoir) ...
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...Letter A: Write an analytical essay (900 - 1200 words) on the excerpt from Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter (1850). Part of your essay must focus on the narrative technique and the theme of Puritanism and slut shaming. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “The Scarlet Letter”, a dark tale of shame and condemnation, centres on a small Puritan society of Boston during the 17th century. Set in Puritan New England, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, a Puritan woman who has a baby out of wedlock. Although written many years ago, Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” covers themes and ideas related to modern readers. The themes of slut-shaming and breaking society’s expectations are ones to which many young people can relate to today. Seen in this context, the novel can be approached as the story of a young woman who let her heart rule her head and suffered the consequences. In a dedicated Puritan town, a young married woman named Hester Prynne conceives a child. There is a glitch, however; her husband, a doctor, has been missing for a long time. The society magistrates imprison her for this sin and commands that she must wear a scarlet “A” on her dress as a sign for adultery, shame and sins. Additionally, she must stand on a scaffold, exposed to public humiliation. The reason why is she had an affair with the local minister, Reverend Dimmesdale. The fact that he is a reverend makes the case much worse and also shows hypocrisy in the community, since the minister must be willing...
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..."Greening urban areas is not just about making places look nice. Evaluate the contribution of green areas in cities to meeting the goals of sustainable development" (40 marks) Sustainable development is most frequency defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Thus, sustainable development means finding a balance between the fulfillment of human needs with the protection of the natural environment. Sustainable development can be conceptually broken into three constituent parts environmental protection, economic sustainability, and social wellbeing. In this essay I will evaluate how cities have used urban greening to make steps towards sustainable development. To do this I will focus on Singapore and Hamburg. Firstly, green urban areas act as vital regulating ecosystem services meaning they help to control the climate. Metropolitan areas like Singapore are often affected by the urban heat island effect whereby the inner city can be up to 5°C warmer than surrounding rural areas due to human activities (e.g. the use of cars). Areas of urban greening, for example Fort Canning Park, Singapore’s 18 hectare conservation park, have the ability to undertake the vital role of offsetting the urban heat island effect (UHI). Due to the parks location it acts as a green lung for Singapore’s CBD. With an estimated 1,700 trees the park absorbs heat and has an evaporative cooling effect. As well...
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...“The Land Ethic” Reflection Paper Part I. A summary of The Land Ethic In a persuasive essay, Aldo Leopold tries to explain how we are ethically and morally obligated to take care of our resources. In his paper, “The Land Ethic” Leopold explains how we have viewed the land as, “strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations”. This is the main statement in his essay, and throughout the writing he elaborates on this statement. He says we have not given the land (the soils, waters, plants, and animals) the respect it deserves. He talks about our National Anthem and how we sing of “our love for and obligation to the land of the free and the home of the brave” and then he questions our uses of our ‘resources’ and in an almost disgusted way, says if you say you’re going to ‘take care of it and love it’, than follow through. He discusses how land ownership has played a big part of how we now use the land in different communities and poses the question of many researchers; What if the outcome of settling the states, and planting the fields if “the plant succession… had given us some worthless grasses, shrubs, and weeds to a condition of unstable equilibrium”. Where would we be today? He talks about resource conservation as an ethic and the land which contains the most diversity such as marshes, bogs, dunes and deserts may be privately owned. But if the owner was ‘ecologically minded’ he would, “be proud to be the custodian of a reasonable proportion of such...
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...athletes from different nations, participating to nearly 300 different sports (Australian Olympic Committee, 2009). They are one of the most renowned events in the world, and have the ability of attracting the attention of a worldwide audience and to produce important impacts on the country or region that hosts them. After hosting the Olympics two times in 1908 and 1948, London will beat the records this year by being the first country holding three Olympic Games and, in the same way as the previous Games, the 2012 Olympics are going to have major impacts on the country on several industries (Australian Olympic Committee, 2009). This essay will mainly discuss the political, social and economic long-term impacts that hosting the 2012 Olympic Games will have on the city of London in relation to the Events Industry. This first part of the essay will discuss the political impacts of the Olympics on the Events Industry. Over time, the Olympic Games have become “irreparably intertwined with politics” and have generated a good political image on the hosting country as they served as a tool of global publicity. Unfortunately, this hasn’t always been a positive thing as it often led to bribery and corruption. For example, in 1936 the Nazi Party used the Games to promote German superiority. This is why the International Olympics Committee (IOC) former president Avery Brundage toughly attempted to “separate sports from politics”, but regrettably, “it seems that countries will...
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...‘Community engagement’ shows us the ways of how ethical communication can encourage individuals and groups participate and involve in political debates (Demetrious, 2012). It gives individuals in the society has the right and freedom to speak, to challenge, to provoke awareness through participation in public debate. ‘Democracy’ is the conceptual provenance of ‘community engagement’ (Demetrious, 2012). In other words, community engagement plays an important role in our democracy system. As Birch and Glazebrook (2000, p.41) state that corporate is under a great pressure to increase its profit, to keep a good relationship with its investors. Without doubt that ‘spin’ is a strategy for corporate in common use to frame information in a way that can be easily accepted by public who are related tosw. Gare also state that ‘The business community is becoming more isolated from the community at large and looking after its own interests’ (cited in Birch and Glazebrook 2000, p.41). Using the theories of the citizenship (Hudson & Kane 2000) and the communication (Habermas 1989) this essay will discuss the role and relationship of ‘community engagement’ to society and how ‘community engagement’ can be a solution to ethical problems associated with spin. The case study “The Wrribee toxic dump” will be used to demonstrate the arguments. Community engagement is a big theory that included both citizenship theory and communication theory. Hudson and kane (cited in Demetrious 2012, p.2) define...
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...Erich Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. In Fromm’s essay ”Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem,” he discusses and compares the impact of human obedience and disobedience to ones self and to human society. While discussing both obedience and disobedience, Fromm opens his essay with “For centuries, kings, priests, feudal lords, industrial bosses, and parents have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice.” Immediately after this statement, he gives strong points of views opposing the statement of disobedience being a vice. In the “Anthem,” Ayn Rand tells a story about a place in unspecified future period, where people no longer have their own individual rights, and collectivism is leading the entire society. It's a dystopian sci-fi novella set in the future when mankind has entered another dark age as a result of the evils of society. She introduces a boy named Equality 7-2521 who is disobedient to the Council of Vocations and experiences self-growth and freedom. Disobedience is an act of courage, necessary for the individual to fight against the unreasonable demands of authority. Fromm writes, “Human history began with an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be, terminated by an act of obedience,” supporting his statement that obedience might as well “cause the end of human history.” He uses religious and mythological figures to demonstrate...
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...The two works of art that I will be comparing in this essay are Aso Ebi by Sokari Douglas-Camp (2005) and Scramble for Africa by Yinka Shonibare (2000). Both works of art are not only similar in terms of style, but they are also similar in terms of the meaning. The first important aspect that I would like to point out about both works of art is the visual content. In Scramble for Africa there are headless figures sitting around a table with African cloth draped around their bodies. The bodies seem to be carved out of wood. All of the headless figures seem to visually depict the anatomy of a man. Also if one looks closely, one can see that all of the male figures are sitting with a different demeanor. Some of the figures hands are folded depicting either a content or happy demeanor, while others arms are folded depicting either an angry or defensive demeanor. In Aso Ebi, instead of using wood, Sokari Douglas-Camp has used scrap materials for her work of art. The visual content includes flowers that are supposed to depict women. The head and bodies of the women are green seeming to depict flower stems. There are pink hats on the women’s heads that depict the top of an actual flower. There are also pink cloths draped around the women’s waists. If one looks closely, one can see that the cloths seem to represent flowerpots. All of the women are standing up in the middle of a garden blending in with the other plants that are surrounding them. Some are tending to the...
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...Women Role in Society Essay Women and rural development Women rarely have access to the resources that would make their work more productive and ease their heavy workload. Ultimately, it is not just women who are held back, but also their families, their communities and local economies. Rural women have many roles, and they have responsibilities and knowledge that differ from those of men. As farmers, they plant, weed and harvest food crops and tend livestock. As caretakers, they look after children and relatives, prepare meals and manage the home. Many women earn extra income by working as wage labourers, producing and selling vegetables, or engaging in small-scale trading and enterprises. Added to these multiple tasks, they spend long hours fetching water and collecting firewood. In developing countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, women typically work 12 more hours per week than men. In poor and marginal areas and areas affected by climate change, where men have been forced to migrate in search of work, women often have the sole responsibility for farming and raising the children. Despite their many responsibilities, women have significantly less access to the resources and services they need to increase their productivity and their income and ease their burden of household duties. Women are held back by lack of education, unequal property rights and limited control over resources. Labour intensive and time-consuming activities further hinder women’s ability...
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...Belonging Critical Essay “Belonging to a community or group has a significant impact on an individual’s sense of self” Introduction Individuals desire a sense of belonging within various groups in the community to engage with others in an enriching and meaningful way. Displacement from a community, culture or family can have a significant impact on individuals’ sense of self and where he truly belongs. Peter Skryzynecki’s poems, “Feliks Skrzynecki” and “Migrant Hostel” explore the effects of displacement due to migration and the consequential lack of identity and place. Bruce Dawe’s poem “Enter without so much as knocking” and an image from Shaun Tan’s book “The Arrival” explores various aspects of belonging suggesting that belonging to a place is central to an individual’s identity and sense of security. Feliks Skrzynecki ‘Feliks Skrzynecki” explores the hardships experienced by migrants growing up in Australia. Skrzynecki highlights the underlying idea of Peter’s difficulty in trying to accept his inherent Polish culture, which is evident in the third stanza “His polish friends always shook hands too violently…I never got used to” while at the same time unconsciously assimilating to a new civilized Western culture. Skrzynecki utilizes an extended metaphor of Hadrian’s Wall; “Watched me pegging my tents further and further south of Hadrian’s Wall” to epitomize the confusion and choice surrounding Peter in the ethics and values of each culture to which he must choose. Peter...
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...Individual Reflective Essay Bunnings Warehouse NEWCASTLE BUSINESS SCHOOL GSBS6005 Emma Alexandra Watts C3171012 13.04.13 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 3 2. Marketing Objectives .......................................................................................................................... 3 2.1 Current Situation ........................................................................................................................... 3 2.2 Objectives ...................................................................................................................................... 4 3 Target Market and Positioning ............................................................................................................. 5 3.1 Target Markets .............................................................................................................................. 5 3.2 Positioning ..................................................................................................................................... 7 4. Marketing Mix Strategies .................................................................................................................... 9 4.1 Product and Price Strategies ..................................................................................................
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...The Importance of Rewriting Storm Water Regulations Danielle Nielsen Goochland High School Abstract This paper observes the negative and harmful effects of water pollution and storm water runoff on the environment and the surrounding community. The most common form of water pollution is sediment runoff. It then goes on to explain the research and effectiveness of Best Management Practices (BMPs) and their positive effects. BMPs are conservation practices that can preserve or improve the state of the environment. The argument stated in this essay refers to the use of storm water regulations in the United States. Most regulations are too strict to allow for any conservation practices because they can be very costly and ineffective if carried out improperly. If the storm water regulations are rewritten to allow for BMPs, then the state of commercial and non-commercial water sources could be greatly improved. The Importance of Rewriting Storm Water Regulations Think about all the bodies of water on our planet. Every river, lake, stream, and is essential to the way our world functions. Unfortunately, our society has done very little to preserve these water sources and as a result, our rivers, lakes, streams, and oceans are suffering from many forms of pollution. Every oil spill, discarded water bottle, and obstructive dam continually add to our already-polluted waters, and very little is being done to reverse this problem. The most prominent issue...
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... Stage 1: Proposal Essay on Obesity My focus is to learn about the differences of obesity in general and in Lawrence. Is it problem and solution? What works in this situation? Define obesity? Stage: 2 Ron Finely talks about his importance for his community. Ron talks about obesity is having no access on real food because people are spending their money on unhealthy food. He had an idea of making his own garden so people can have a better community and eat healthier. His importance’s was making people happy and have a better environment. One person had to make a complain so the city came in and put a warrant on him. So the L.A times got a hold of it, and Steve Lopez did a story on it to. He talks to the council man and one of the green grounds members and they decided to put up a petition on change.org with 900 signatures of people agreeing to make the project happen. it was a success they had victory in their hands. Ron wanted the environment and the kids’ education to be better and to join the garden to keep them away of trouble. There were many obstacles Ron faced but overall, he was a great man with a great heart and a brilliant mind of his own. Caring for his community and his own kids is the biggest thing you can do as a...
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...She used real life examples throughout her argument, which is conducive to a thought out essay. The first step to a proposal argument is defining a problem or need, which is what Riley did. 3) The guidelines for portraying people with disabilities is, in my opinion, particular. The guideline aims to define the vocabulary of what people with disabilities prefer to be associated with. Personally, I find the guidelines necessary because many people are misinformed or don’t know how to identify disabled people properly, so this can prove useful. 4) In the case of Colin, and his depiction in the movie “The Secret Garden”, Riley’s stereotypes prove to be true. In the film, Colin, a bedridden boy, is depicted as “pitiable and pathetic; sweet and innocent; a miracle cure”. The expected outcome of a character who is disabled. Now, this can create issues within the disabilities community because of the portrayal of a disabled person. Thus, bringing back to light Riley’s “Guideline for Portraying people with Disabilities in the Media”. Link:...
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