...Dream misinterpreted? Contrary to popular belief, the main focus in relation to the American Dream is all material. Frequently Americans have a dream based off of gaining material items rather than freedom and opportunity. People no longer have hopes and dreams but the desire to impress others. The American dream is not obtainable because people cannot make dreams into reality, individuals are greedy, and humans view material items too highly. Materialism is the main prevention as to why the American dream has changed, and is taking a toll for the worse. Information specialist, Lorie Johnson stated, “in order to be truly happy, Americans need to reject the false American dream and create their own version of happiness.”(Johnson,5)...
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...responsibility and lack of knowledge. We use too many resources which is undermining the planets ability for people to live here. Everyone should educate themselves of the state of the environment and some of the everyday changes that each one can do to do our part in saving the planet. We have a moral responsibility to do so for our children and future generations. Although recycling is great (and everyone should be doing it)….what really needs to happen to create a more sustainable society, is for us to reduce the amount of materials that we produce in the first place. There is a pyramid (like the Food Pyramid) (Environmental Science 8th edition, Daniel D. Chiras, 2009, Jones and Bartlett, Publishers Chapter 23 “Hazardous and Solid Wastes: Sustainable Solutions) for solid waste management and it goes like this: Reduction (the top of the pyramid) - not producing materials that generate the waste in the first place. We don’t need all the materials we have. Another good example is packaging waste. Think of how much packaging many of our products come in- lunchables for example, come in a cardboard box and then a sealed plastic tray and then the crackers and other parts are individually wrapped too. Reuse-reusing and repurposing the wastes. Instead of buying brand new why not shop at Goodwill or garage sales? Or taking 55 gallon drums and turning them into rain barrels. Recycling- collecting materials and re-processing them into raw materials. For example, taking office paper...
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...could one day be extinct. Today, humans seem to take advantage of the fact the earth is the only planet that can host life and provides them with the basic components to exist and live. Furthermore, people fail to realize that doing something as simple as recycling used paper instead of throwing it away, can increase the lifespan of the earth. There are numerous ways to facilitate the earth, one way is DIYS. DIYS, Do it youself, are ways people can create, or repair ,things by themselfs.As hard as it may seem, the simple use of art and craft DIYs ,specifaclly, can aid the world and the people immensly; which is why it should be used more globally and frequently, because of the benefits they contain. The most obvious advantage of performing arts and crafts DIYs, is the ability to save on money. When individuals create or make...
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...Look around at the local surroundings. How many objects are made of or just contain a bit of plastic? There is a high amount of plastic being used for all kinds of objects for daily use. Plastic is used all the time and most people never really think twice about it. Plastic is becoming too common in the world today and is harming our environment (Manrich. 2009). People do not realize the effects plastic over-usage has on the world but if each person were to really take time to think about this over-usage maybe this use could be greatly reduced with just a few simple measures. Human dependence on plastic and paper products is high and some measures are needed to take a step back and evaluate which plastic products are necessities and which are not in order to help save the environment. Ways to reduce the amount of plastic in society is needed to reduce the amount of harm to the environment because the plastics that are being used are taking over landfills, getting into the water supply, and causing a lot of harm to the ecosystem (Ginis. 2008). Turning away from plastic completely may not be possible, but usage can be reduced and the amount used in daily lives can be altered. On a global scale human dependence on plastic is entirely too high which means that on average the amount of plastic each person uses and wastes is too high as well. Over one hundred million tons of plastic is produced annually and out of all that plastic over fourteen million tons end up in the oceans...
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...University of Phoenix Material Nutrition and Health Worksheet Use Ch. 1 of Contemporary Nutrition, Ch. 2 of Visualizing Nutrition, supplemental course materials, the University Library, the Internet, or other resources to answer the following questions. Your response to each question should be 75 to 100 words. |What is nutrition? Why is nutrition essential to our daily lives? | |Nutrition is the science that links foods to health and disease, nutrition is important to our daily lives because being able to | |determine what foods are good or bad for us will enable us to live longer healthier lives. By knowing how different types of food| |reacts with our body and what nutrients we get from each item we can control our food intake to better our lives. | |What is the connection between nutrition and health? | |By studying nutrition, we are able to determine what types of foods provided what essential nutrients. Some of these nutrients | |are chemicals that our bodies need in order to live healthy life styles, but they are also ones that our bodies do not create or | |create very little of. From there we can determine what types or foods we need to add to our diets to make up for the lacking of | |or loss of nutrients. ...
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...Specific Purpose: To persuade my class on the importance of recycling and how we can make a stronger and healthier environment. Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Recycling: Why Should You Do It? Attention I. How many of you actually recycle? Recycling has been a topic that has been brought up and thought about by many different people, but the problem the question of whether people are taking action or not on this. Recycling will save many different very important aspects of the environment and economy. II. By learning how to recycle we will be able to develop a much stronger and healthier environment. III. I would like to encourage my classmates to realize how important recycling is and why they should do it. If you do not recycle, in the future this could potentially have devastating...
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...Innovation and Sustainability Jerald Brooks SCI207: Dependence of Man on the Environment Professor Yavuz Cakir September, 07, 2011 Within history people have found ways to produce goods, and consume the material resources. As the human race grows; the need for material resources increases. The natural resourced that are on high demand are those of; food, water, and land. As this happens it gives us the challenge of finding new ways of meeting such demands. To meet these demands we are continuously producing more consumer goods and consuming more material including natural resources. The worldwide growth of human population requires innovative ways of producing consumer goods. These goods come largely from meat and crops. With the increase in human population comes the requirement of more food and other resources. There becomes a problem within our resources, “For most of the past decade, the world has been consuming more food than it has been producing” (Turk, and Bensel, 2011). Within developing countries they produce much of the grains that we import into the U.S. With the consumer good demands such grains are being used for livestock, which raises the prices of imported goods from local stores. The more the price rises within stores, the wealthier our importers get. Due to these demands of grain production the countries who supply them end up not being able to produce enough grain for livestock. In some areas grains are grown for...
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...serious issues that need to be addressed. Knowing how to address them and how to correct the problem can be an easy process if taught the proper way to do it. Recycling allows today’s society to process used materials, which reduce the consumption of raw materials, energy, pollution, greenhouse emissions, and the need for conventional waste disposal. Recycling is one of the ultimate solutions to reduce the amount of waste that is constantly dumped into our landfills. The United States is the number one trash producing country in the world. (www.nbci.nlm.nih.gov, 2010) The United States have environmentalist groups that are really pushing for stricter laws regarding recycling. These environmentalist groups do not only want to make it a choice but demand that every American household must recycle in order to reduce the amount of waste that is entering American landfills. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 32.1% of solid waste is recycled, 13.6% is incinerated, and 54.3% end up in landfills, yet some believe that approximately 90% of all solid waste is recyclable. (Chase, Dominick, Trepa, Bailey,& Friedman, 2009) (www.lwvmd.org) Solid waste is negatively affecting the environment. As trash continues to build up in it has a very negative impact on the environment. Landfills are overflowing and the human society is running out of places to contain waste. Adding a strain onto an already hurting environment governments are lowering the allocated amounts of...
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...EVALUATING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS APPLICATION 1. Observe your instructor/professor as he teaches the class. Find out which guidelines in the selection of instructional materials did he observe? Not observe? In his use of instructional material, write down evidence of: * Preparation of self – she is well-prepared to report/discuss/teach her lesson with instructional materials including book, outline of her report/lesson, creative visual aide and herself as an educational technology. * Preparation of students – warming up us by reviewing our last lesson that we tackle, ask questions and ask again what we learn on our last lesson. * Preparation of material – well-prepared and very creative materials and also very informational. * Follow up – she gives us an activity by pair to evaluate our learning in the lesson she taught to us if we understand it. 2. Accomplish this Learning Log What I learned? (Deposit) | How I apply what I learned (Dividend) | * I learned how to use instructional material using PPPF (prepare yourself, prepare your students, present the materials, follow up) | * Using the PPPF, the lesson I must teach should be productive and informative. I learned also how to choose/select the right material for my upcoming lesson/report. | LESSON 7 DIRECT, PURPOSEFUL EXPERIENCES AND BEYOND APPLICATION 1. Apply the concept of direct experiences to the college courses you have taken. Why do you have Field Study Courses and Practice...
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...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 is not recycled...
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...In lieu of traditional exams, I have decided to shake things up by asking you to design a final project that is part investigative journalism and part creative adventure. The idea is to produce a coherent nugget of information—or story—that traces the history of an ordinary object. The premise is based on our classroom discussions about the various ways discourse, power, consumption, and bodies are linked to gender, race, sexuality, class, religion, geography, and so on. My aim is to get you thinking seriously about the material conditions that produce commodities for everyday use (often hidden and obscured), as well as their emotional/cultural/social value (often produced and enforced by media, norms, discipline, and bodily surveillance). For example, when considering an ordinary pair of jeans, it is important to understand how their material history goes beyond simply when and where they were purchased. From production to consumption, a whole range of transnational labor practices (that primarily utilize the skills of young, low-income women of color) and advertising strategies (that primarily utilize the bodies and sexuality of young women) are deployed. Many of these practices violate international labor and environmental standards. At the same time, this ordinary pair of jeans may also contain a personal history that reflects emotional, cultural, or social values (a particular brand, a form of resistance to dress codes and cultural clothing norms, a gift from a beloved...
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...things off until the last minute. Many things can cause procrastination. For instance, when an individual is to feel stressed, overwhelmed, laziness, a lack of motivation, lack of discipline, poor time management habits, lack of skill, and perfectionism. All these things play a key role in why people procrastinate. When a person feels stressed, they do not work productively. Many people become stressed due to their heavy work loads, and they do not take enough time out for leisure time. Leisure time helps the body and mind to be at ease, this will help individuals to be more productive. Many people believe that when a person feels stressed they will use procrastination as a way to cope with everything that is going on in their lives. Other times, the individual have too many items on there to do list, and they become overwhelmed. Individuals who become overwhelmed usually have too much to do and little time to do them in. A good way for one to eliminate these overwhelming feelings is to go over the items that are on these lists, and cut as much out as they can, or prioritize things in order of there importance. According to (2009), “It's been shown that the optimal work week for most people is 40-45 hours. Working longer hours than this actually has such an adverse effect on productivity and motivation that less real work gets done. This is especially true for creative, information age work.” Now laziness is just a habit people tend to do when they either feel emotionally...
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...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 are produced during the procedure affect the process. In average we consume two million plastic bottles every five minutes...
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...reconfigure modules (perhaps from different vendors) while preserving data integrity in one shared database that may be centralized or distributed what does this software do? Take the activities of a typical company or 'Enterprise', its purpose can be loosely described as 'to manufacture or procure products for sale'. These products may be tangible or intangible, but basically the company must 'Plan' and 'Control' the use of its entire resource base to meet these objectives. That is what 'E.R.P. software' does, it helps the managers and staff of an enterprise to manage its resources to manufacture/procure the products it sells within one software package. The single software package 'integrates' its elements or modules into one seamless package to control the enterprise activities. The most common activities being Purchasing, Manufacturing, Sales and Accounting. ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING ERP AND CYCLICAL STRUCTURE Origin of the term: MRP vs. ERP — Manufacturing management systems have evolved in stages over the past 30 years from a simple means of calculating materials requirements to the automation of an entire enterprise. Around 1980, over-frequent changes in sales forecasts, entailing continual readjustments in production, as well as inflexible fixed system parameters, led MRP (Material Requirement Planning) to evolve into a new concept : Manufacturing Resource Planning (or MRP3) and...
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...Implementing 5S Workplace Organization Methodology Programs In Manufacturing Facilities 5S in the workplace Many manufacturing facilities have opted to follow the path towards a “5S” workplace organizational and housekeeping methodology as part of continuous improvement or lean manufacturing processes. 5S is a system to reduce waste and optimize productivity through maintaining an orderly workplace and using visual cues to achieve more consistent operational results (see chart below). The term refers to five steps – sort, set in order, shine, standardize, and sustain – that are also sometimes known as the 5 pillars of a visual workplace. 5S programs are usually implemented by small teams working together to get materials closer to operations, right at workers’ fingertips and organized and labeled to facilitate operations with the smallest amount of wasted time and materials. The 5S system is a good starting point for all improvement efforts aiming to drive out waste from the manufacturing process, and ultimately improve a company’s bottom line by improving products and services, and lowering costs. Many companies are seeking to making operations more efficient, and the concept is especially attractive to older manufacturing facilities looking to improve the bottom line by reducing their costs. “A place for everything, and everything in its place” is the mantra of the 5S method, and storage and workspace systems such as those provided by Lista International allow improved...
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