...of Los Angeles Residents Last year the Advance Science, Serving Society reported that 4.8 to 12.7 millions metric tons of trash enter the ocean. America, the country has the well-developed infrastructure to handle the waste, contributed 40,000 to 110,000 metric tons per year. The improved life quality and the increase resource consumption as the society gets more modern have posed the negative impact on the environment. Moreover, the waste management is far beyond the handling of the government and the agencies because there are never enough landfills for 25 percents of world trash in America (Humes). In the article “Can Psychology Help Save The World? A Model For Conservation Psychology,” Susan Clayton, a professor of psychology at the College of Wooster, and Amara Brook, a professor of Santa Clara University, use psychology to help explaining the human behavior which causes environmental problem. Although the government spends a lot of money on waste management, the lack of awareness of Los Angeles residents causes high volumes of waste, which leads to ocean pollution and health problem. The Los Angeles government spends a lot of money for trash management and controlling the amount of trash. California government spends millions a year to clean trash from their beaches and alley ways. In the article “L.A. lawmakers press for cleanup of city's trash-strewn alleys” by Emily Alpert Reyes, she states, “Now officials are poised to start spending more, with Mayor Eric Garcetti...
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...oversized man plops his body right next to the unsuspecting passenger. It happens all the time…people judge another person by how they look before knowing a single thing about them. Does that make them a bad person? Ethics would argue yes. But what makes a person ethical? Everyone has his or her own idea of what makes someone an ethical citizen. For the second edition of The Ethical Citizen, three main components of what makes someone ethical should be incorporated into the book. These things include; responsibility, selflessness, and helping those in need. Responsibility is something that humans in today’s world strive for; in many instances responsibility can be an instinct. In Kathleen Toner’s “Taking Out the Rivers' Trash, One Piece at a Time” Chad Pregracke devotes his life to removing trash from the Mississippi River and other waterways across America. Pregracke has removed 67,000 tires, 218 washing machines, 19 tractors, 12 hot tubs, four pianos and almost 1,000 refrigerators from various bodies of water (Taking out the Rivers' Trash). The article pinpoints instances throughout Pregracke’s life that leads him to decide that removing debris would be his career. Pregracke organizes 70 cleanups a year in 50 communities. In addition to cleaning up rivers, Pregracke also started a barge school where children can go to educate themselves on the dangers of trash and its effect on the...
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...something and don´t forget it – whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.” Good morning Mrs. Braun and fellow year 10 students. Today I present with this text three key themes – social class, prejudice and ignorance vs. cowardice – of Harper Lee´s novel “To kill a Mockingbird” (TKAMB). Social class is one of the key themes, which Harper Lee used in her novel and illustrates this with quotes like “You ain´t got no business bringin` white chillun here – they got their church, we got our´n.” This is said by a coloured women to Calpurnia, because she is bringing Scout and Jem, two white children, to the church for coloured people. This shows the reader the big differences between the social classes, because different coloured people have even separated services. Also a highlighted quote in the novel is “I don´t know, but they did it. They´ve done it before and they did it tonight and they´ll do it again and when they do it – seems that only children weep.” The court condemned the coloured man Tom Robinson for raping a white women, although they could not really condemn him, because of missing evidence. Nevertheless, he was condemned, because he is coloured and back then the words of white people were more credible than the words of coloured people. However, there are still people like Scout, who have other opinions. She sees the world through her innocent eyes of a child - “ I think there´s...
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...I.Executive Summary Easy Trash is basically a waste basket, but with the technology it has at the bottom, and the eco-friendly row material it is made of makes it an innovative and a totally new essential house equipment. This report is prepared to develop an appropriate marketing plan for Easy Trash and to provide a comprehensive marketing analysis. What makes it this much innovative is the extra part at the downside of it with a roll of waste bag inside it. The basket has a hole below and the bags are coming up from that hole. Think the system as wet wipes. You pull one, and the other one pops out without an effort. The other part that differentiates Easy Trash from the other waste baskets is the socially responsible side of it which comes from the row material it is made of: light steel and zinc galvanization. Easy Trash eases life and provides a better environment at the same time. Easy Trash is produced according the trends, demography, economy and nature. According to the secondary research we have done for macro environmental factors, and micro environmental factors such as customer and competitor analysis, Easy Trash fills in a blank and comes up to the market by differentiating itself from all other products that serve in the way Easy Trash does. Other than the secondary research, the primary research we did by survey questions, helped us more in determining the special features of Easy Trash, and preparing an appropriate marketing mix containing decisions about product...
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...Trash, written by Andy Mulligan is a novel set in an unnamed third world country. Three dumpsite boys discover a wallet containing a note, key, 11,00 pesos and an ID card in Behala Dump while trash picking. They soon find themselves running from the police, cracking codes, investigating clues, experiencing an interrogation and even shopping in the hope of righting a terrible wrong. Through an analysis of characterization, the point of view, reader positioning and setting we can see the main themes/ideas presented in “Trash” are; friendship, corruption, a disparity in wealth and poverty. poverty Poverty In the novel the author uses setting and characterisation to examine the idea/theme of poverty. On page Pg3 there is a brilliant quote from...
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... The above statement does not entirely reflect the reality. At the level of creative expressions, the relationship between these two continents has always been, to say the very least, a two-way road. The exchanges concerning Hollywood and the international cinema scene are long-standing and deeply rooted. During the formation of classical Hollywood cinema, many of its key architects were in fact European emigrants – Lubitsch, Dieterle, Lang, Hitchcock, Sirk, to name but a few. More recently, many of Hollywood’s finest contemporary directors – Scorsese, Altman, Coppola and others – have often turned to Europe, to the French New Wave, Italian neo-realism and the New German Cinemas for a source of inspiration and influence. In the Bioscope of 8 January 1925, Joseph Schenck, then president of United Artist, commented brutally on British film productions: “You have no personalities to put on the screen. Your stage actors and actresses are no good on the screen. Your effects are no good, and you do not spend nearly so much money.” Similar remarks can be found about almost any European cinema in almost any decade. It is possible to question the aesthetic standards by which such complaints are made. It can be argued that slow rhythms, deliberate staginess, and lack of star presence or of visible production values are positive qualities which European film-makers have exploited in creative ways and which the Hollywood cinema is the poorer for not possessing. How Schenk would have hated...
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...However, there is not enough of it being done in order to make a difference of any sort of significance. In fact twenty three states record zero percent of their municipal waste is composted. The number is even worse when you realize that only fourteen states have recorded five percent of their municipal waste being composted. So that comes out to a total of thirty seven states showing an average of only two and half percent of their municipal waste being composted. The highest percent recorded is twenty percent, and only two states can claim that. In fact, when you take the amount of municipal trash that is composted, you will find that only six and one tenth percent of the total trash is composted. (Sorrell , Martin. “How the World Composts .” 8 Spring 2012). So the problem is, that it may seem pointless, for one to compost, since there is only a small amount of it that is making a difference. Another reason to not to compost is because that most people don’t have time to compost. Some people have jobs and they do not have the time to maintain...
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...Plastics in the Oceans We live in an increasing disposable world. Everything from food to electronics ends up in a landfill somewhere. We are always looking for newer and better products to replace what we already have. The consequences of this behavior are resulting in more and larger landfills, toxic water and a myriad of other problems. With our growing population and excessive consumption, the items we use everyday are becoming disposable so the garbage problem continues to expand exponentially. It is a readily accepted fact that plastics has made our lives both easier and safer, but, at the same time, has also left a damaging imprint on our environment and even our health. The waste management industry has done a very clever job of keeping the inner workings of landfill disposal cloaked in secrecy. As a result we give less and less thought to what actually happens to all the trash we throw away every day. Our culture of convenience is so dominant we do not even see the consequences of our actions. Journalist and filmmaker Heather Rogers, in her essay “The Hidden Life of Garbage” takes us on a journey of garbage disposal that most of us never think about once we take the trash to the curb. She explains one particular method that should give us all pause for thought: In new state-of-the-art landfills, the cells that contain the trash are built on top of what is called a “liner.” The liner is a giant underground bladder intended to prevent contamination of groundwater...
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...intrigued by the cultural differences from around the world. I was amazed to see photographs of African woman bare breasted and comfortable with themselves. To me it has always been shameful for any women to be bare breasted because that was what I was raised to believe; that is the way of our culture. The magazine took me to many lands and showed me things I knew nothing about. This was when I became aware of the world around me. I realized I wanted to be a part of more than the town I lived in, the school I went to, or the people I knew. Through the eyes of documentary photographers I have seen the world from many different points of view, but I want to see the world in an intimate experience. I have a deep desire to engage with other cultures and capture moments that the rest of the world will be able to see through my photographs. I want to one day soon become a documentary photographer. Documentary photography is an effort to create a truthful expression of lives and cultures of our world and human actions. It can only be truthful and honest if it is left unedited and captures true events as they are happening. Hans Durrer is an author and intercultural coach. He describes photography as this: “Photography is still about the eye behind the lens. It is about being a filter, and it is about recording. It is about leaving one’s home and seeing what is out there, it is about taking a look at the world that surrounds us. It is about reminding us of how things once have looked”...
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...Should Recycling be Mandatory for All Americans? Do you like to live in a place where trash is all around you? The average person living in North America produces 1600 pounds of garbage a per year, that is 29 pounds a week, and around 4.4 pounds of garbage in a day. Just sit back and think if everybody did their own part on recycling? Once all people stand for the cause and work together this problem can be solved sooner than later. People not recycling have created many problems for humans, wildlife, and sea creatures living on the earth. It should be mandatory that each city in the United States have a recycling program put into place. Not having these programs already in place has caused a change in the climate. There is a demand for new resources and trees to be cut down due to not recycling. Carbon dioxide that is processed by plants has decreased with the removal of trees. When trees are cut down fuel is needed to transport and process new paper. The fuel is being burned causing it to be released into the environment as greenhouse gases and this is contributing to the environment. The environment must process papers that do not reach landfills. After the paper goes into a landfill it must remain there until the ground absorbs it and processes it. Even though paper degrades at a faster rate than other manufactured items such as; Styrofoam and plastics, it is better to recycle paper than to consume new paper. Landfills are overcrowded due to human waste. All paper that...
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...freedom are essential in obtaining happiness. Claims that establishment of a good will: shaping important desires, and attaining reasons for a good will is a process of striving for satisfaction. Very introspective to sensibility: Will is more valuable in making decisions than decisions under natural phenomenon. (Practical reason vs. Rational reason) Morality First Proposition of Morality: The relationship between duty and inclination: inclination has more personal connection and motivations which make the decisions and actions more introspective, which is why we need a strong will. Decisions can be moral if people do not perform actions under what they are told but truly become introspective about what they have in mind. Second Proposition of Morality: Duty lacks personal responsibility and thus, it cannot be understood as having followed by material principle. Third Proposition of Morality: Similar to the above: duty does not have a full account of respect, therefore does not require personal commitment into thinking under morality Mill: Basic definition and Ideas: Mentions satisfaction level, yet happiness are ultimately due to pride and dignity. Happiness cannot be measured under any quantity terms and each type of happiness is different. Happiness is the absence of pain and pleasure and unhappiness is deprivation of pain and pleasure. He also believes that people should enjoy in order being truly satisfied.. Morality: All the good things under the system of...
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...Similarities and Differences in Caribbean and European Tourism The World Tourism Organization is a United Nations Organization that specializes in and oversees national tourism, serving as a mediator or consultant to fix or aid in tourism policies and as a practical source of tourism knowledge and statistics. The World Tourism Organization plays a positive central role in the promotion of tourism development nationwide. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes" (1). Tourism is found almost anywhere across the globe. With it being more popular in certain areas, the Caribbean and Europe are two that are visited by millions of tourists year round. Many countries use tourism as a source of income. Both the European and Caribbean regions require tourism to keep a steady flow of income streaming to their nations, and although they share many similarities, such as an increase in job market and pollution, European and Caribbean tourism differ in just as many ways; attractions, transportation, cost, and standard of living are several things that make both regions unique. Even though European and Caribbean tourism share a lot of differences, they possess a lot of similarities that are usually found between tourism in any region. Tourism has a positive effect on the country or area by increasing the local job market. This...
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...development. As children mature they typically learn about negative traits and how to develop good ones. They learn from others and create a pathway for their own individuality in order to become an adult. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, Scout begins as an innocent child protected from the evils of society, but later matures and develops to become an understanding individual. Innocence from the world’s evils is usually interpreted as a positive trait, however, the opposite occurs in To Kill a Mockingbird because...
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...Creator is to you, gave us a wonderful world, a world full of resources to use and enjoy. However, as plentiful, those resources are; they are not infinite; it is the responsibility of every one: individual, governments, and businesses to conserve, protect and sustain those resources. This report will highlight how a small company participates in protecting the environment and conserving world resources; the leadership quality required; the benefits to gain from a sustainable world, and the legal and regulatory requirement to follow the principles for maintaining sustainability. American Indian's Lament http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=891&q=native+american+love+the+environment&oq=native+american+love+the+environment&gs The featured business is a small health care company, Fellowship Senior Services, that provides health care services to 104 senior citizen and young disable adults in three locations. Fellowship Senior Services operates two Adult/ Senior Day Program that serve 80 to 90 people a day ( six to eight hours a day), and it runs an Assisted Living facility that serve 24 residents, 24 hours a day. To protect the environment and conserving g world resources, the company engages in a recycling and waste management program. It takes leadership effort by the owner to keep the program going. Though the company effort to protect the environment and conserve world resources is small in lieu of what...
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...Bring Back The Dinosaurs: What Is Involved For Human Sustainability Kevin Lindsey Communication 215 8/7/2013 Nicholas Courtright Definition of sustainability is: to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainability for humans is a question they been trying to solve for years, since they don’t want to become extinct. The fear for humans is that they will not be the most powerful and smartest creatures on the planet. There have been some ideas on how they can sustain as humans, but the big question is how they do it without compromising other species or creatures. Humans also need to improve their quality of life while living within the capacity of the Earth’s eco-systems and stabilize the relationship between human culture and the living world. Finally there is the ethical issue of sustaining human life while preserving other species that will balance out the ecosystems. Human sustainability is just as important as the sustainability of all species and every creature plays its part in preserving life and the natural resources. The difficulties with taking on sustainable issues are lack of leadership, economic and efforts to work together. It seems no one wants to take a firm stand and lead the movement to making more drastic measures of sustainability and let new ideas be brought to government to start holding people accountable. If some lawmaker was to take a more proactive stand there are...
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