...1 Assignment | | | Samantha Bolinger | 8/27/2011 | | A theory I have tested lately is burning my trash. Yes, I know that sounds ridiculous but it is very true. You see my dog Ozzie is a great dog and obeys well but for some reason loves trash. I’m not talking about just trash sitting in trash bags, but burnt trash. He gets into the burn pile and drags left over trash that wasn’t fully burnt into my yard and I have to walk around my yard for days picking up his mess! I spent approximately two months researching ways to get him to stop digging into my trash pile after I would burn trash. The informal research method I used to test this theory was naturalistic observation. I observed how my dog would go to the burn pile as soon as the fire is dying down and start digging through the trash. I would punish him by telling him no and to stay out of the trash, but of course that method wasn’t working. It was like a natural habit for Ozzie to automatically go to the burn pile. He would sit close by until he knew he wouldn’t catch on fire getting trash out. As crazy as it sounds, he would get into the burn pile while the fire was still going sometimes. I found that if I am outside while the trash is burning he doesn’t go near the fire. So, I found that the solution to my problem was to do yard work when I am burning trash. This way he keeps his mind off of the trash and focuses on what I am doing instead. My research method is somewhat similar to a research psychologists...
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...heading to Giant Rock, I needed to find where I would dispose of all trash I collected, supplies I needed, and asking my parents for transportation to Giant Rock. While driving to our destination, we had to pull over two miles out, our car could not make it through all of the soft sand. Our whole family had to hike two miles to the main area of Giant Rock, I picked up trash along the way. I disposed and recycle all the trash to Tri-Valley Little League dumpster located at 56625 Little League Dr, Yucca Valley, CA 92284. My father and mother drove me along with my siblings to Giant Rock to begin collecting trash. This project will be helpful for our habitat and environment, including keeping our air cleaner and less polluted. It...
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...Do you eat in the West patio, the area between the cafeteria and the gym? If you go there and look down, I guarantee there is a stain on the ground somewhere. Someone is always intentionally emptying a container of some drink on the ground. Ever since the new lunch system was established, where sixth graders have first lunch and seventh and eighth graders share second lunch, all three lunch eating areas have been packed during second lunch. Without fail, a disastrous mess is left behind once lunch ends, most severely in the cafeteria but also in the West patio. The worst part is, there is very little trash, but the majority of the debris is food. Food fighting and wasting in general has become widespread during lunch, especially common in the cafeteria where groups that know each other sit in a close vicinity. Often, when the situation starts being dramatic, friends start throwing small snack items, or in more serious times, full drink containers and complete lunch items, at each other. We are also referring to a common carelessness when handling food, whether it is creating un-middle-school-like messes or just wasting it. (Here’s a hint: Eat the food.) With it being so extensive, are people actually bothered by this problem? Some comments from a number of students and staff prove that this is a real issue:...
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...The Garbage Island documentary was published in September 6, 2012. Vice company is the founder of this documentary. Vice and he's crew members travel in the Pacific Ocean to the North Pacific Gyre, where they hope to see "Garbage Island". While they are traveling through sea they test the water when they see a patch of trash in the water. They test the water to see how contaminated it is due to the trash that traveled through that area. This documentary is really effective for conveying its message because of how they show how the water is being contaminated from the toxic trash and how living organism is being affected through the contaminated water. The experts in the documentary were scientists and a journalist. The scientists job was to...
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...Why People Should Recycle I am not a big earth first person but I do believe in recycling because I work at a local recycling center and I think recycling is a good thing. In fact I think everyone should recycle to make the earth a better place as a whole. A few good reasons why recycling is a good this is, the more people recycle, the less room is filled in landfills. Also, when people recycle they are reusing materials, therefore saving resources. Another good reason is that when you recycle often times you get paid back the C.R.V. that you already paid for in the grocery store. If everyone recycled think of how much more space there would be in landfills across the world. There is only so much room on this earth and we are using a huge portion of it for our trash. Clearlake, California alone on a busy day can bring in 80,000 pounds of trash to the local dump. I know this because I work at the local dump in Mckinleyville. I also see a lot of people that throw away their recycling for the simple reason of being too lazy to sort it. I watch bag after of bag of plastic, aluminum, and glass get thrown into the bin which we haul straight to a landfill in Anderson, California. If everyone in Mckinleyville recycled there plastic, aluminum and glass they could save thousands of pounds a day from going to the landfill. I think people are not informed that waste is a big problem in this world. But in fact conservation is an issue, and resources and energy aren't too plentiful. Someday...
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...last 5 months I had collected plastic bottles with hopes that I could recycle them and help save my part in the environment. Through my exploration I found there was only one location in Pueblo to recycle my plastic, but also I was required to pay for my donation. I was appalled at this discovery and questioned the idea of this charge. After speaking with the employees at this recycling center I was told “Colorado has too much empty space for landfills so rather than applying money to start recycling programs we can just bury it for cheaper.” Is this why it is so hard to recycle in Colorado; to think that such an idea truly existed created the thirst to find out why this is such an accepted idea. I believe that we need to stop this idea, and make a huge curve for the better of our community and our environment in Colorado. According to Boulder Colorado’s EcoCycle, Colorado recycling ranks 47th out of the 50 United States today! We should be so ashamed. Growing up in states like Massachusetts, Michigan, and California it is depressing when I look at the bottles and cans seeing the label that says return for 5 – 15 cents. Why can’t CO. have this; why can’t every state have this? Each issue that I have inquired about with the recycling programs brings up cost and efficiency however when seeing the facts from other states compared to Colorado it just seems that we don’t wish to see the final analysis. How are states like CA. and MA. had the ability to pay for our trash. They have...
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...Sociologists aim to analyze how people live. To do this, they use sociological perspectives which help them “understand human behavior by placing it within its broader social context.” The three sociological perspectives sociologists utilize that I will be focusing on are symbolic interactionism, functionalism, and conflict theory. Symbolic interactionism is “a theoretical perspective in which society is viewed as composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with one another.” Functionalism is “a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of various parts, each with a function that, when fulfilled, contributes to society’s equilibrium.” And lastly, conflict theory...
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...ENG 170 Lisa Tellor-Kelley November 9, 2015 Mandatory Recycling In The United States. The average American can produce around 1600 pounds of trash each year. If you break that down, that’s about 29 pounds of trash in a week and about 4.4 pounds in a single day. What person wants to live somewhere they are surrounded by trash? If everyone in the United States did their part in recycling then this would not be as serious. Once society makes a stand and work together to solve this, it can be solved sooner rather than later. Sea creatures, wildlife and humans have all been affected by people that do no recycle. There should be a law in the United States that makes recycling mandatory in every state. By people not recycling has made a drastic change in the climate. Trees have been cut down and new resources are in a huge demand because of people not recycling. After the trees are cut down, fuel is needed to transport the trees and to make new paper. When the fuel is being used it gets burned and being released as a greenhouse in the environment. Sometimes, papers do not reach landfills and the papers that do not reach the landfills should be processed. Even if it does reach the landfills, it should remain there until the earth absorbs and processes it. Even though paper disintegrates faster than Styrofoam and plastic, instead of consuming new paper, just recycle the old one paper. Human waste is the reason landfills are so overcrowded. The paper that does not get recycled gets...
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...Worldview Tammie Townsend Liberty University Part I: Worldview – is a person’s opinion of the world based on his or her experiences, values, and opinions about the world. It doesn’t matter if you are looking at it from a Christian or non-Christian’s perspective. Most Christians based their view of the world from a biblical view where non-Christians may not. It is not proper or wrong because it is established on each individual’s view of his or her creation. “The notion that everyone has an unique perspective, that we interpret facts through the lens of some theory about life seems like self-evident.” (Bertrand, 2007) 70 Part II: The Book of Genesis permits us to look at the beginning of a plurality of realities that frame our everyday being. The foundation of the world and the planet earth; the roots of plants and animal spirits; and the beginnings of human beings, marriage, families, states, industry, artistic expression, spiritual rituals, prophecy, sin, law, crime, conflict, punishment, and destruction are the institution of God our Father. It was God’s idea, hand, and breathes that created it all. It took him only six days to complete the universe and man. And our God rested on the seventh day of his creation. (The Book of Genesis). Humans are created in the image of God. God desired humans to reign over every living creature on earth, the birds, fish, cows, and worms. God wanted human beings to be fruitful and multiply to preserve...
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...you ever heard of a “fork in the road”? Have you ever had to make a difficult decision? This is the story of a time that I had to make a decision. It was a regular day of paintball, I had just finished playing and was about to leave. The two guys that I had met earlier in the day, Joe and Gonzo, were talking about the team that they had made and were talking about practice that they were having the next day. I approached them as I was about to leave to tell them that I had a fun time playing with them. “We are having a team practice tomorrow if you want to come out and run with us!” Gonzo said. In excitement I told him, “I would be glad to come out and play tomorrow.” The next day we practiced hard all day doing drills and scenarios. For the first part of the day we did drills because not everyone had shown up yet mostly 2v2 and 1v1. For the second part of the day we did scenarios like 2v5 and 3v2. Toward the end of the day a lot of the team had to leave until it was just Joe, Gonzo, and...
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...service is when someone performs a duty that benefits his or her community. Community service is sometimes associated with punishment. However, community service is a vital part of many small communities. Numerous organizations around the world support community services activities. These services is performed by volunteers who are not paid for their time. From past experiences, community service may be done for a variety of reasons; to meet the requirements of a class, high community work and a religious reason for serving. First, I serve to meet requirements of a class. While in middle school at Kirby Middle School. I volunteered with a group called Kirby Kings. This group was made up of a group of young men that were taught the traits of becoming intelligent men. At least one Saturday out of the month, we had to volunteer by helping others to clean the streets of Memphis, TN. Doing this time, we picked up trash and clean up parks. The experience was alarming. This really made me want to change my ways by not throwing trash on the ground but into a trash bin. I did not enjoy the movement of cleaning after others. But I am more pleased to say I pick up behind myself and others. This experience has taught me to be responsible for my actions and to take encourage others to do the same. Next, another reason for community service is high school community work. As a current student at East High School, where I am enrolled in the JROTC program. I have been an...
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...problems we face today. One type of pollution problem that we face would be water pollution, which is a huge problem. We use water for everything in our daily routine lives, such as for drinking, cleaning, swimming, bathroom, and taking care of our plants and animals. This should be enough of a reason to want to take care of water, and to make sure that we do not abuse the fact that it is there. Unfortunately, this is not the case at all. It is sad that for as much as we use water we do not take care of it at all, and this is how we have water pollution. One of the biggest parts of water pollution is everyday garbage. There is always some kind of garbage in our oceans, lakes, and our rivers. Plastic garbage is by far the worst; it is made up of materials and chemicals that are non-biodegradable. Some materials that are made of this would be water bottles, soap containers, grocery bags, and unless you recycle this material it never leaves the earth. Wildlife in the ocean suffers by plastic rings that hold pop cans together, because they can get caught in the rings. It can cause them to lose circulation; they may grow around the ring and become deformed, and with ingestion can cause internal problems or death for some. Around the world we produce more plastic faster than we can ever recycle it. Plastic is probably the hardest product to recycle, and the process to do this is very complex. This is because the heat it takes to melt down plastic is hard to achieve and the oils that...
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...between the issue of recycling and our school, and also based on secondary research, we developed a descriptive research in the form of a questionnaire in French composed by closed-ended questions to be answered by 100 francophone Skema students chosen randomly across various classrooms. We obtained a 100% response rate. The analysis of the study results has indicated that despite the fact that practically everyone considers recycling important, almost a third of the respondents don’t take into consideration how green a school is before applying to it. Most people recycle plastic and paper, but only a very small number recycle electronics. More than half of the respondents said they keep their old electronics for a while, but end up throwing them for not knowing what else to do. Additionally,...
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... one of the largest, most advanced 100 percent fiber-to-the-home network in America, so that Verizon customers can enjoy faster upload Internet speeds and higher bandwidth when uploading videos or pictures to the Web (Verizon.com). Internet speed is an important aspect to people who are living in this fast pace world. Service that is less time consuming is what people want. I found this service interesting, Verizon and Big Belly Solar teamed up to develop a "smart garbage truck" that recycles waste from trash cans programmed to alert administrators know when it's full, this limits garbage trucks traveling to only pick up when trash is full (Verizon.com). These technology products and solutions given are the few of many services/products Verizon has to offer. Verizon has strong competitors but what makes Verizon stand out from its competitors is their slogan and brand. We all have seen Verizon brand somewhere, it simply says Verizon with a check mark above the V. I am sure we all have seen Verizon commercial’s where they use their slogan, “Can you hear me now? Good!” This slogan is simple, easy to remember, and cannot be interpreted in any other way (Hoidas). It is also something that I am sure we have all said while we are moving to a place with better mobile phone reception (Hoidas). Verizon summed up exactly what they can do for their customers to provide better reception (Hoidas). External Situation Analysis Verizon top three competitors are AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile...
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...Material cycles and elements that impact the cycle...I chose "The water cycle". As our professor cleverly pointed out, the earth is the only planet we have and it does require each of us to do our part and preserving our earth for future generations to come. Learning about the water cycle is an interesting process. Because water is life, especially in the region where I live, high deserts cause you to think and plan carefully, always carrying extra water for excursions and hiking. There are several things I didn't know studying this topic and the cycle. Only 2.5% of water is fresh water! This also causes me to look at watershed projects a whole lot more carefully. Without our watershed are aquifers could just disappear. People have...
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