...WALL-E may be the cutest Pixar character ever, even though he is just a trash compactor with binocular like eyes. WALL-E was a movie created by Pixar to challenge themselves and as well as the world. It was released in 2008 and was directed by Andrew Stanton. It was written by Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter and the movie starred Ben Burtt as WALL-E, Elissa Knight as EVE, and Jeff Garlin as the Captain (of the ship called Axiom). Working along with Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures released WALL-E in Canada and the United States on June 27, 2008, and it blew the competition out of the water as it made $23.2 million on its opening day, $63 million on its opening weekend in almost four thousand theatres, all the while coming in first...
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...erosion by the use of both hard and soft engineering techniques. Firstly if we look at the Cliff defence (sea walls) and then the failure of groyens at Sewerby we can start to compare and contrast the use of different coastal defences in different areas and if they have or haven’t succeeded. The first defence system in Sewerby was built 150 years ago- sea wall, destructive waves and corrasion caused it to collapse as it became weak however it was then replaced and rebuilt in a much improved way, as the bricks were structured securely together and the wall was flat not a stair type design as it was in the past, the positive about this is that it is able to protect the cliff base against erosion as big waves crash into it and slows down the process of erosion. On the other hand the sea wall was built curved and over a long term period it will collapse again as the energy of the wave is reflected back into the sea the wave power remains but the sea wall is a barrier between the boulder clay and the sea. Groynes have also not been a great success over a long period of time the process of long shore drift has caused sediment to cover them which has then created a second beach, I personally think this was a waste of money to invest in two short term sea defences when money could have been spent on more worthy long term investment such as rip rap at the bottom of the sea wall as a way to dissipate energy to prevent scouring although tourist may find them unattractive. Moreover sea defences...
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...Analysis of Wall-E . For as little dialogue as there is in the film, Wall-E is an awesome movie which is evidenced by many of the awards it has won. Upon beginning to watch Wall-E, I did not expect an animated film to have such great meaning and address many of the societal issues it does in the film. The main issues Wall-E touches on are consumerism, technology, and environmental problems. The movie brings light to these issues by placing the setting in 2805 and showing the audience what these issues could be like hundreds of years down the road. Many of the readings we have done in class give reason to believe the Earth and civilization could become what it is in the movie Wall-E. The first societal problem brought to light in the film is environmental related issues. The first thing we see in the film are a bunch of stacks of garbage piles, sometimes bigger than skyscrapers. This undoubtedly ties into how we go about disposing of our garbage and sewage today. According to the article read in class called “Why Consumption Matters”, the average American in 1990 would throw out four to five pounds of garbage a day, while being responsible for 124 pounds of behind the scenes consumption. This behind the scenes consumption includes construction materials, fossil fuels, industrial materials, forest, and metals amongst others. We must also keep in mind that this is a 1990 figure, and that Americans consume significantly more in 2014. It is statistics like these that make it...
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...different parts have a job, and all the different parts work together to help the cell do its job. One part called the cell wall is very important to the cells ability to work. There are many different functions that the cell wall performs. It is important to know what the cell wall looks like. Who discovered it? Where is it found on the cell? What it is made of? How big is it? What types of cells have it? How many times it is found in the cell? The cell wall is an important part to the function of a cell. The cell wall has many important parts and uses. One of its main uses is to protect the cell. Another use is that it allows certain materials to move in and out of the cell. The way the cell wall allows materials to move in and out is with small holes called plasmodesmata. The plasmodesmata allow the transfer of nutrients, waste, and ions. The cell wall acts like a skeleton by helping the plant maintain its shape and sturdiness. Without a cell wall plants would not be able to keep their shape. The cell wall is made out of cellulose. One of the most abundant macromolecules on earth is cellulose. Cellulose is a type of sugar that is not used for energy but rather for structure. It does not dissolve in water and only cows and other herbivores can digest cellulose with cellulose polymers. Without the...
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...programme. They regard it as an investment in building organizational strength for today and durability for tomorrow. In all senses, it builds value. In their view, the practice of CSR enhances the business performance both in the short and the long term. It also increasingly engages our employees, our investors and our customers. AVIVA BOARD The Aviva board reviews the policy, programme, progress and plans annually. The Aviva board has given local CEOs to review CSR progress annually. The group chief executive is the executive sponsor of the CSR reports to him via the company group secretary. The chairman takes regular reports on CSR during the year. The group chief executive has further required the director of CSR to challenge, when necessary, any group matter from a CSR perspective. Each CSR policy has a primary “owner” responsible for promoting, co-ordinating and monitoring progress across the group. Direction of the programme is steered by a number of different influences. CSR review group The CSR review group, which meets annually, is the group’s primary review mechanism. It brings together representatives from the businesses, head office, external advisers and our external...
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...Sustainable Habitat mission – Climate Change action plan for Chandigarh The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built. - Frank Lloyd Wright A National Mission on Sustainable Habitat was launched to improve energy efficiency in buildings, manage solid wastes and modal shift to public transport. The Mission aims to promote energy efficiency as an integral part of urban planning and urban renewal through three initiatives: (i) The Energy Conservation Building Code, which addresses optimization of building energy demand; (ii) Recycling of material and Urban Waste Management with a special focus on producing power from waste, biochemical conversion, waste water use, sewage utilization and recycling options wherever possible and others; (iii) Better urban planning and modal shift to public transport to ensure efficient and convenient public transport. In addition, the Mission will address the need to adapt to future climate change by improving the resilience of infrastructure, community based disaster management, and measures for improving the warning system for extreme weather events. Capacity building would be an important component of this Mission. As part of the Mission for Sustainable Habitat and Green Code for Chandigarh, detailed action plan and guidelines have been prepared by the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) which could be City’s vision for sustainability. Chandigarh...
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...and ice at various places in the water cycle. Although the balance of water on Earth remains fairly constant over time, individual water molecules can come and go. Contents Description The sun, which drives the water cycle, heats water in the oceans. Water evaporates as vapor into the air. Ice and snow can sublimate directly into water vapor. Evapotranspiration is water transpired from plants and evaporated from the soil. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmosphere where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into clouds. Air currents move clouds around the globe, cloud particles collide, grow, and fall out of the sky as precipitation. Some precipitation falls as snow and can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers, which can store frozen water for thousands of years. Snowpacks can thaw and melt, and the melted water flows over land as snowmelt. Most precipitation falls back into the oceans or onto land, where the precipitation flows over the ground as surface runoff. A portion of runoff enters rivers in valleys in the landscape, with streamflow moving water towards the oceans. Runoff and groundwater are stored as freshwater in lakes. Not all runoff flows into rivers. Much of it soaks into the ground as infiltration. Some water infiltrates deep into the ground and replenishes aquifers, which store huge amounts of freshwater for long periods of time. Some infiltration stays close to the land surface and can seep back into surface-water bodies (and the ocean) as...
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...The main theme throughout The Great Castle by Jeanette is self-resilience and maturity because of the lack of parenting in the household. Jeanette’s parents had a different parenting approach one where they don’t conform to the majority where they choose to allow their children to have their own freedom and do most things by themselves. Due to this, the Walls kids learn how life is not handed to them sometimes you have to figure out things on your own. Soon Jeanette as well her other siblings have a sudden realization of how their parents are and how they need to remove themselves from a toxic household. When moving to Welch in West Virginia Jeanette is still optimistic and chooses to work hard where many times she envisions herself as someone in the future. Throughout the chapters, Jeanette families are made fun of because of the condition they are living in. We notice some of this bullying when the Walls family move to Welch and instantly Jeanette families are constantly being made fun of for wearing the same clothes and not having proper hygiene. While joining a writing club Jeanette describes the incident of where she was made fun of. Constantly the neighbors talk about how the children must have been abused because of how horrible the house looks. The Walls chooses to...
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...counteract the happy one. Negative moments consist of many things but especially times where people find themselves facing a generalization of who they are. Whether it’s categorizing certain behaviors and/or mannerisms, it happens to a majority of the population. It’s something everyone contributes to, if it’s conscious or not, it happens. One of the groups that faces marginalization every day is those of Latino/Hispanic origins. The fact that there are people who think that everyone coming from Latin America is Mexican only validates the existence of this idea. Although stereotypes relating to Latino/Hispanics come with a piece of truth as do all stereotypes do, breaking the myths on the Latino/Hispanic people requires understanding and education to combat the stereotypes surrounding this group of individuals. For stereotypes focus less on a person and more on a general grouping of a background. The idea itself lacks breaking the systematic stereotype in its tracks and ensuring that people are recognized for whom they are as a whole, not just a background assigned at birth. All throughout high school, I was involved in an...
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...where all we see is flat ground and buildings. Its desolate and unhappy. Most people believe that animals are items, that they have no meaning to us. So we slaughter them, and kill them like they are worthless, but if you think harder, are they really meaningless to us? Animals are creatures just like us. They show affection, they have fears, and they breath. Isn’t that what we do? Like humans animals have rights to live peacefully, and not become rugs or coats. When coming into a neighbors house when I was younger, I was appalled when I saw the tiger rug, the moose head on the wall, and the grizzly bear that stood right behind the TV with glassy eyes, and an opened mouth. Those animals had lives, they had children, but somehow people just came out and murdered them, like they had no feelings, and they felt to pain. Yet, looking into that bear’s eyes that day I saw the pain, with its mouth opened wide bearing its gleaming teeth, trying to defend itself. What I realized about the neighbor boy was, he didn’t care about animals. He acted like they were his and his dad’s to kill. He didn’t think that they could really have a heart, or a mind. That is what most humans succeed to miss, that animals aren’t so different after all. Ever since the dawn of humans animals have been harmed and treated unfairly. Most countries have laws that prevent animal fighting and abuse. In India Buddhist and Hindus are vegetarians for ethical reasons. Since the mid nineteen-hundred’s...
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...One such problem are pest-birds. The current means of dealing with pest-birds ranges from guns and offensive sounds to traps and poisons. None of which are very environmentally or population friendly. As an alternative, many farmers and companies are turning to my method of choice, birds of prey. As a small child spending time on a farm in Wisconsin, I was able to see this method “in the raw” first hand. My family moved to a non-working farm in Wisconsin and I was thrilled to have a barn to play in. The current resident was a Great Horned owl and she left us pretty much alone. I was happy with exploring the barn and “Old Hooty” was and awesome companion. Then, one morning I found her dead in-front of the door. I was understandably upset with her loss, but even more scared by what happened later. Not long after her death, there was an infestation of pigeons. Their dropping covered most surfaces and I no longer wanted to play in my cool new hide-out. This was a perfect example of cause and effect; with the removal of the natural predator, the pests moved in and took over. Our landlord’s solution to the pest-horde was to send his boys inside the barn and scare the pidgins out while he stood outside shooting them as they exited. Even as a small child, I deemed this method highly unethical....
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...GREEN BUILDING GUIDE Design Techniques, Construction Practices & Materials for Affordable Housing RCAC GREEN BUILDING GUIDE Design Techniques, Construction Practices & Materials for Affordable Housing Principal Author Craig Nielson, LEED AP Rural Community Assistance Corporation Co-authors Connie Baker Wolfe Rural Community Assistance Corporation Dave Conine Rural Community Assistance Corporation Contributor Art Seavey Rural Community Assistance Corporation Design Dave Conine Sharon Wills Rural Community Assistance Corporation Managing Editor and Production Sharon Wills RCAC Corporate Office: 3120 Freeboard Drive, Suite 201, West Sacramento, California 95691 916/447-2854 | 916/447-2878 fax | www.rcac.org Published by Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting rural communities achieve their goals and visions by providing training, technical assistance and access to resources. RCAC promotes quality, respect, integrity, cooperation and commitment in our work. Copyright © 2009 RCAC. All rights reserved. For reprint permission, please call 916/447-2854. Disclaimer: The material in this document has been reviewed by RCAC and approved for publication. The views expressed by individual authors, however, are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of RCAC. Trade names, products or services do not convey, and should not be interpreted as conveying, RCAC approval, endorsement or recommendation...
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...IMPROPER SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY AT BARANGAY 19, SAMPAGUITA STREET BATANGAS CITY Introduction Solid Waste Management refers to the collecting, treating, and disposing of solid material that is discarded because it has served its purpose or is no longer useful. Improper disposal of municipal solid waste can create unsanitary conditions, and these conditions in turn can lead to pollution of the environment and to outbreaks of vector-borne disease—that is, diseases spread by rodents and insects. The tasks of solid-waste management present complex technical challenges. They also pose a wide variety of administrative, economic, and social problems that must be managed and solved. The primary sources of solid waste include waste generated in residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial activities. Certain types of wastes that cause immediate danger to exposed individuals or environments are classified as hazardous; these are discussed in the article hazardous-waste management. All nonhazardous solid waste from a community that requires collection and transport to a processing or disposal site is called refuse or municipal solid waste (MSW). Refuse includes garbage and rubbish. Garbage is mostly decomposable food waste; rubbish is mostly dry material such as glass, paper, cloth, or wood. Garbage is highly putrescible or decomposable, whereas rubbish is not. Trash is rubbish that includes bulky items such as old refrigerators, couches, or large tree stumps....
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...AND EFFECTS OF THE WALL STREET CRASH AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION The economic boom of the 1920’s came to a sudden end in October 29, 1929. In June 1929 prices of stocks and shares had reached new highs. The Stock Market seemed to be a quick and easy way to get rich. The Stock Market is the place where stocks are traded. More and more people wanted to ‘play the market’ (Buy and sell stocks). [pic] The Wall Street stock market (located in New York City) was not regulated .Anybody could buy shares and they could be bought ‘on the margin’-This is when the stock broker and the stock holder merge their money to buy stocks, for example, people could buy $1000 worth of stocks for only $100 and borrowed the rest from stockbroker. Buying on the margin became a common practice. People waited for the share prices to go up again and then resold their shares for a profit. It was usually easy to pay back the loan and still make money. The day of the crash: By the summer of 1929 there were 20 million shareholders in America and prices continued to rise. But in October 1929, things began to change. Some people realized that share prices had risen too high and wanted to sell before they fell. THE CAUSES OF THE WALL STREET CRASH 1. OVERPRODUCUCTION- New mass-production methods and mechanization Meant that production of consumer goods had expanded enormously. In fact, there was overproduction (more being made than could be consumed).The market was becoming saturated...
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................................................ 9 GreenPrint Case Study: Savills ..................................................................... 13 Summary ....................................................................................................... 15 Contact Information ....................................................................................... 16 © September 2008 Version 1.1 -1- GreenPrint Technologies www.printgreener.com Introduction In the past few years there has been a significant shift in corporate America and beyond toward a dual awareness of internal efficiency and environmental impact. “Carbon Neutral” was named word of the year in 2006 by The New Oxford American Dictionary, which seems to be an accurate reflection of the shift that’s taking place in America. At the same time, the increased price of energy and nearly all other basic commodities has significantly increased the costs of doing business and necessitated cutting expenses. In the past, Corporate Social Responsibility had more to do with creating a...
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