...things money can't buy” a quote by George Horace Lorimer. This quote is trying to say that money can gain material items like clothes, a car, and a house. These are great because they are items that are wanted and maybe need to survive. However, make sure you still keep the stuff that money cannot buy, such as love and happiness. Fitzgerald is saying that money cannot buy all that is wanted. He shows this throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby. He explains this by saying money can provide material items, but cannot provide immaterial items. He also states that money cannot make you happy all the time. The...
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...Using consumerism to ‘eradicate’ poverty Taking public space/barring imagination Collaboration with oppressive regimes Hypocritical Health Campaign induced by Self-Interest Excessive Pay Management 1. Promoting consumerism Unilever spends a lot of energy and money on marketing and commercialisation of consumer products all over the world (‘Paint the World Yellow’ – the Lipton marketing campaign which provide everything with the Lipton Logo, from surfboards to Chevrolets—was a tremendous success, according to Unilever. It created a much bigger Lipton Logo awareness amongst consumers.) Since the Northern consumer market is saturated (so not much room left for expansion of market shares) Unilever aims at maximising the processing of food, which means adding value to ‘improve’ products and then charge more for these products. Unilever changes the product only slightly (e.g. strawberry toothpaste), or just changes the visual language in order to sell exactly the same product. Naturally this process involves heavy advertising. Many of the ‘improved’ products are basically useless, and there is no demand for them (the demand is being manufactured by the multinationals themselves). In short, Unilever tries to bring as many products as possible to the market without asking itself the question ‘is there a real need for the products we produce?’ Since the majority of people in the South still go hungry every day, there is much more room for growth in these countries. If the income...
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...The commoditization of non-human animals into property has permitted people to commit acts of abuse against non-human animals in both legal and illegal forms. The largest amount of non-human animal violence and abuse occurs behind closed doors within institutionally owned multi-billion dollar food industry, and science sector corporations. The mass scale of violence and poor treatment to non-human animals must be investigated to discover its impact on humans in society. To begin the research, it is essential to include the practices and current views on non-human animals in our society to help portray the reason behind a human violent nature. We examine these practices and views by criticizing the federal law. This research will then further...
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...different programs, it’s possible to identify some of the causes of the recent changes in the epidemiological profile of the children. The study include comparison between policies for nutritional education, food sales and diseases prevention. For this research it was used data comparison as research strategy. This data was collected from the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the American Centro for Diseases Control (CDC). Currently, research shows that an epidemiological change is happening in the nutritional status of the population. Previously malnutrition was predominant, now obesity is taking its place. There are several factors leading to these changes, like inadequate food intake with the predominance of snacks and junk food. However, the most important factor is the changes in the feeding in the first five years of age, which strongly influence if someone will or will not become an obese adult. Ensuring that children receive adequate nutrition, Brazil and the United States established rules in the case of school meals. Forming healthy dietary practices through actions of nutritional education contributes to educational development and improves school performance. However, The U.S. and the Brazil government should develop better policies for nutritional education, and food sales to prevent diseases related to childhood obesity. Nutrition is important in many different cycles of life, but in childhood it has an important role due to the significant body changes that occur...
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...Sociology of food Introduction Sociology of food encompasses the study of the past, present and future development of society with respect to food. Such aspects of food that would be studied may relate to the availability, realization and impact on the health, social, economic and political stability of the society. With respect to a society certain foods are also consumed in adherence to certain religious beliefs, medical purposes or to honour other cultural festivals. Similarly certain kinds of food would be unheard of or even a taboo in a society. Literature Review The dawn of the 21st century has witnessed tremendous increase in the number of illnesses associated with eating traits that are considered unhealthy. Of particular interest were those eating habits that rendered some members of the society overweight or obese. Until recently such illnesses were considered to be associated with the middle aged upper social and the aging group of western world. Contrary to this belief, the problem of obesity has increasingly been witnessed across the rest of the world including the less developed countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America and across people of lower ages. This necessitated the search for other means to explain this trend. Unlike lower forms of life human beings have brains that enable them not only to respond to influences but to understand and give meanings to these influences based on individual’s interpretations [Herman, 1994, p. 2]. This is a phenomenon...
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...and people have to move halfway across the country for work. Now imagine at that same time that there is a top 10% that has a large income that can do anything they want without fear of consequence. The former is a description of failure of capitalism in The Grapes of Wrath and the latter is a description of the failures of capitalism in The Great Gatsby. In The Grapes of Wrath the Joad family is traveling from Oklahoma to California, a distance of about 1,500 miles, in search of work to sustain their family. Their home in Oklahoma is taken by the bank because the farm is unusable after the dust bowls have started. The novel The Great Gatsby follows the lives of a few rich people and shows the way their money has the ability to do. Both Fitzgerald and Steinbeck condemn the idea of the...
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...Case Study Report ‘The Delicate Quest for Corporate Environmental Sustainability’ Learning Development © 2012 Adapted from original student work by permission CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARYiii 1. INTRODUCTION1 2. THE DECISION-MAKING FRAMEWORK AT GREENHEART1 2a. A Sociological Perspective2 2b. The Phenomenon of Conformity3 3. THE DECISION-MAKING FRAMEWORK AT GREENHEART PLUS3 3a. A Sociological Perspective4 3b. The Phenomenon of Paradox5 4. CONCLUSION5 5. RECOMMENDATIONS6 REFERENCE LIST8 Executive Summary This report employs a sociological perspective to analyse the decision-making framework of the food company Greenheart, and its subsequent entity, Greenheart Plus. At Greenheart, decisions were made essentially by one individual, whose rationality was, naturally, bounded. His decision to create an environmental investment fund and to initiate other environmentally responsible production methods ultimately threatened the economic viability of the company. From a sociological perspective, the CEO’s authoritative decision-making meant that the employees were not committed to the decisions, and therefore the decisions were not implemented successfully. The subsidiaries of the company did not share the environment objectives, and this also resulted in ineffective implementation of the objectives. A lack of conformity among employees meant a lack of co-operation in achieving the objectives. This changed with the takeover in...
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...However, this mistake was a good one for several years. This mistake created the Salton Sea, California's largest body of water. The Salton seas' salt ratio is double that of the Pacific ocean(FitzGerald,2016). During the 1950s developers saw this area as prime development turning this mistake into a bustling paradise for retirees and yacht clubs(Press, 2015). This sea also provided a large body of water for agricultural uses and the run off from irrigation kept the lake from drying up. But as time went on the condition of the sea slowly deteriorated. Flood during the 1980 and 70s destroyed much of the infrastructure and most of the people living there decided to just move. Soon due to advances and agriculture in the 90s the sea began to dry up quicker then...
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...al., 2008, p. 620). Considering this chain of events often begins in childhood, reducing obesity in children could dramatically change the frequency of obesity in the future. Jamie Oliver, celebrity chef and advocate for stopping the obesity crisis, (2010) suggests that the frequency of obesity in children is related to three main external factors: the home, the school and, what he refers to as ‘Main Street’– corporations and businesses in the food industry. In the United States, it is estimated that 31 million children each day each breakfast, lunch or both at school and spend half of their days of the year there (Oliver, 2010). This substantial amount of time spent and meals eaten at school indicates the vast impact the school has on children. Obesity, in simple terms, is essentially caused by a caloric imbalance, where greater quantities of calories are consumed than are expended (O’Toole, Anderson, Miller, & Guthrie, 2007). Preventing obesity amounts to controlling calorie consumption and increasing calorie expenditure. Therefore, food and physical activity programs implemented in schools are the most effective ways to change the frequency of obesity in children. As a result, these programs need...
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...grasses and other plants to become a crucial part of the plant's propagation by carrying the seeds to new areas” ("Native Ants Use…”). Thus, the disappearances of these native species have drastically affected the dispersal and survival of these grasses, and the creatures that feed on or reside in these plants. However, one ant species native to North America, Prenolepis imparis, has decided to take a stand against the onslaught of this foreign invader. The aggressive interactions between these two ant species was documented in the study, Chemical Defense by the Native Winter Ant (Prenolepis imparis) against the Invasive Argentine Ant (Linepithema humile), conducted by Trevor R. Sorrells, Leah Y. Kuritzky, Peter G. Kauhanen, Katherine Fitzgerald, Shelby J. Sturgis, Jimmy Chen, Cheri A....
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...of aviators. Their upturned faces, lit with wrath, with malice, with despair, with cynical humor, were covered by long growths of beard, but with the exception of a few who had pined perceptibly away, they seemed to be a well-fed, healthy lot. ‘Well, how are you, boys?’ He inquired genially. A chorus of execration in which all joined except a few too dispirited to cry out, rose up into the sunny air, but Braddock Washington heard it with unruffled composure. When its last echo had died away he spoke again. ‘Have you thought up a way out of your difficulty?’ ” --Excerpt from The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (P18) In the short story, “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” Fitzgerald frames an exquisite and gorgeous chateau on a diamond mountain. In this chateau, lives the richest family in the world—the Washington family. Braddock Washington, the householder of the family, is an extremely selfish and cold-blooded man. He views everyone with suspicion. In order to keep his innumerable money, he imprisons or kills people who unfortunately discover the chateau. Also he tricks Negroes into serving his family submissively by telling them the slavery is never abolished. Mr. Washington’s desire for money corrupts him. By concentrating on diction, syntax, character’s descriptions, the author raises an argument that Braddock Washington’s huge...
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...James Brown, poet laureate of Funk, once opined, “it’s a man’s world.” He would have been more accurate had he said that it is a human’s world. The countless and unknown numbers of fauna that populate Earth are here as secondary citizens to the almighty God of humanity and bend and break at his whim. Put simply, their planetary function is to serve mankind. Be it under the yoke, the scientist’s scalpel, or peppered with steak sauce on the infinite dinner plate of time, animals are treated as functionary beings here but by the grace of humanity deigning it so. At any time, that right to life can be revoked. There is only a single, logical conclusion how this hierarchy came to pass: when humans formed/were informed by their respective God(s), their respective religions placed them above the beast (Hinduism being the exception that proves the rule.) As a result, the concept of God and the associative religion is responsible for the needless wholesale slaughter of millions of innocent animals every year. Before religion, there was an inarguable need for the killing of and eating of animals. First, animals posed a serious threat to the evolutionary fitness of human beings as they evolved. With the world un-girded and untamed, the interactivity between man and beast of serious consequence was at a much higher ratio. Second, the protein and amino compounds found in meat allowed for the human brain to advance at a level that it very well may otherwise been unable to (Wilcox, 2014.)...
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...Zarb School of Business, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, USA Ted McQuade PSC Metals, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Jaime Fitzgerald Fitzgerald Analytics, Inc., New York, New York, USA James Conner Bridgestone/America’s Tire Operations, Austin, Texas, USA Richard Miller Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA, and William Murphree Bison Investments, Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA Abstract Purpose – During difficult economic times the media often highlight examples of failing or failed business organizations. In some cases the demise of corporations is examined in considerable detail often resulting in the following take-home messages: these are the sins that have brought about your failure; and if things had been done differently you might still be a viable company. This paper aims to point out success stories from creative leaders who successfully navigated through challenging environments. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on existing cases from the literature highlighting leaders who led their organizations to positive ends during turbulent times. Findings – There are opportunities for company success despite difficult business environments. Originality/value – It is rare to read about successful leadership practices during turbulent times. Yet, they do exist. The overwhelming number of examples and cases written about, however, are indeed in the negative direction, not the positive. Keywords Leadership, Organizational effectiveness...
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...weight tables, or by a complex formula known as the body mass index." Dictionary.com, LLC, (2009). The causes of childhood obesity are multiple and the consequences of this growing epidemic endanger the child's well-being. Happily, childhood obesity can be treated; physical activity, diet management, and behavior modification can bring an obese child to its normal body weight, returning them their physical and psychological health. What are the differences from THEN to NOW? When I say THEN, I am referring to a much simpler time; the time around the 1950’s. At that time children walked to school while now they usually ride a bus or are driven by a parent. Then family meals were eaten at a table while these days’ meals are most often fast food, eaten in cars on the way from one place or activity to another. Back then portion sizes were smaller while now they are super-sized. In the 50’s physical environments included porches, sidewalks in neighborhoods but now, there are no porches or sidewalks in modern subdivisions. When we were young, there was no air conditioning which forced us to go outside for cool air while nowadays kids stay inside to be comfortable. Back then children played...
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...We have entered an era where nobody feels the need to take responsibility for their own behavior. From school age children who don't feel the need to complete their class work assignments to heads of large corporations who take no qualms in engaging in criminal activity at the expense of their clients. They often don't face the consequences directly instead they fall upon others. As written Richard H. Palmer in his book Avatar: "It seems easier to defend actions than to honestly examine them. We are quicker to attack than admit. Admissions require courage!" "When we summon the courage to take ownership of our experiences, to see them just as they are, to feel them, we will recover the blueprints of our lives. We will face our fears and find the transparent beliefs that create them. Becoming more honest with ourselves means introducing more honesty into collective consciousness of the world, and this lays a foundation upon which an enlightened planetary civilization can be built." (Palmer, 1999) Personal responsibility means that you are willing to take responsibility for your actions, and are willing to accept the consequences whatever they should be. There are always outside forces that try to get in the way of our own college successes. The duties from family, work health as well as social can be a great interference when it comes making the right choices and taking responsibility. As a new college student most students will experience a new level...
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