...Bottled Water Can Be Harmful in Many Ways Heather Johnson Rogue Community College 10/30/2013 Bottled Water Can Be Harmful in Many Ways Clean fresh water is essential to our survival. The quality of our drinking water is of utmost importance to all of us. Is the drinking water available to us today actually safe? The huge bottling companies play on the fears that our tap water may be contaminated. Many of us take it for granted that we have water available to us at every corner. However, the convenience of bottled water is not worth the destructive outcome on the environment or our wallet When I was a little girl I never worried about where the water I drank came from. We lived out in the woods and we had a fantastic well. Neighbors down the road used to come over to our home and fill up containers of our water. I thought to myself how strange it is that they don’t like the taste of their water. It wasn’t until I got married and moved to Southern California that I realized how lucky I was to grow up with such great tasting pure water. I hated the taste of the water so much that I turned to sugary sodas and juices instead of water. I would go down and buy water but it was inconvenient to have large jugs of water all over the house. Every restaurant I ate at I would ask if they had bottled water or tap. I only lived in California for a year before I moved back to Oregon. However, during that time I became very aware of the taste of water and...
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...When Southwest High School banned the use of backpacks the student body did not seem to favor it. Doesn't the school want a happy smart learning environment? Well allowing this important learning tool we save time, benefit student health,and the backpacks do not pose safety hazards as originally believed. First with students being able to travel faster with their backpacks, we would save time. No longer will students be going to their lockers for forgotten materials because with carrying the backpack they will have all learning materials with them. Therefore lockers won't be a necessity anymore, so hallways will be less congested. This would make our custodian's job easier, so they don't have to worry about the misfortune of opening jammed lockers. Also this can save time between class, making students less stressed and worried about being on time....
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...makes millions and millions of dollars every year? Why is America considered one of the laziest countries in the world? It is not fair to point a finger at the soda and candy industries, the fast food restaurants, or the grocery stores because they are not the ones at fault. The United States is a free country. Living in this free country, we are allowed to pick and choose what restaurants we eat at, what we order at those restaurants, how much food we buy at the grocery store, the kind of food we buy at the grocery store, etc. The blame cannot be put where it is easy to put it. The only people we, Americans as a whole, can blame for the obesity problem, the successful soda and candy industries, the wealthy fast food restaurants, and the laziness of our nation, is ourselves. Over the years, numerous lawsuits have been filed against soda and candy companies, blaming them for the overweight children in our country. For example, the article “Lawyers Ready Suit Over Soda” written by Caroline E. Mayer on the Washington Post website, explains a lawsuit that a group of lawyers created in 2005. They compiled the lawsuit against soft-drink companies that sell sugared soda in schools, and are aiming to have soda machines removed from all schools. Richard A. Daynard, an associate dean at Northeastern University School of Law, is leading the lawyers into the trial, and he claims, “The idea is to get soda machines out of schools because they are clearly making a substantial contribution...
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...Download all 8 books on PD and Life Skills from http://lifeskills.wordzila.com FREE! A miracle Miracles can happen if you believe in them. Scene setting Read the following statements. Which of them are true for you? Tick them. I believe in myself. I know Ill be a great person someday. I love and respect other people. I listen to my parents and teachers. I dont listen to people who say negative things. I am courageous. The first statement above is very important. You have to believe in yourself. You have to know that you are an important person. You have to know that you can do a lot of things. You have to know that you are the best. Now sit straight and say out loud: I am the best! Thats good. When you believe in yourself and know that you are the best, you can even do miracles. You can increase your grades. You can play better games. You can make lots of friends. The first and the most important thing is to believe in yourself. Then the whole world will support you. Reading Here is a true story of a little girl Angela who always said, I can do it. She believed in her dreams. Finally her dreams came true. Let us read how. Angela was an eleven-year-old girl. She was suffering from a nervous disease. Hence, she was unable to walk or move. Doctors said she would spend her whole life in a wheelchair. They said that Angela could never walk. But, Angela did not listen to the doctors. She believed that she would walk someday. Thus, she said, I will definitely walk someday...
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...ANALYSIS OF MARKETING STRATEGY OF MINERAL WATER INDUSTRY [A CASE STUDY OF BISLERI] A RESEARCH REPORT SUBMITTED IN THE PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION TO INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY, DELHI (2004-06) Submitted To : Submitted By : Mrs. Harpreet Kaur Nitesh Kumar BLS INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT MOHAN NAGAR GHAZIABAD CONTENTS CONTENTS Acknowledgement Executive Summary INTRODUCTION • About the industry Mineral Water Industry- Current Market Scenario Company Profile Marketing Strategy Advertising Campaign of Bisleri Packaging and Distribution Marketing Mix Competition in Market Product Profile Manufacturing • Objective • METHOD OF STUDY • Research Design • Tools and Instrument Used for the Study • Procedure and data collection • RESULT AND DISCUSSION • Findings and Statistical Analysis • SWOT analysis Conclusion • Recommendation • Limitations • Bibliography Annexures ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The accomplishment of my research was possible only due to the cooperation, coordination and united efforts of different individuals, several sources of material, knowledge and time. Pertaining to this I therefore take this opportunity to express my deep sense of gratitude to entire staff and employees of the Bisleri...
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...about topics is lowering the legal drinking age in the United States. Lowering the drinking age could have a really good impact on society as a whole. Although there are people that believe that lowering the age limit will have a really bad effect on the US, the good outweigh the bad. The drinking age being at 21, makes those underage look at alcohol sort of like the “forbidden fruit,” making them want to drink even more, sort of as a rite of passage. Lowering the drinking age to 18 seems almost undeniable considering that in the US, 18 is considered the age of adulthood. In the United States, turning 18 gives you the right to vote in elections, smoke tobacco, serve on juries, get married, sign legal contracts, be prosecuted as adults, and even join the military. Just imagine being 18 in the military, watching everyone 21 and older having a cold beer while you’re sitting there drinking water because you’re not old enough to drink alcohol. Not only are you risking your life being in the military like the others, you are also able to do everything the older members are able to do but, you absolutely cannot have an alcoholic beverage. In 1984 the U.S. Government raised the legal drinking age to 21 in an effort to decrease instances of drunk driving and related injuries and fatalities. However, this attempt has not been successful at all. Our drunk driving statistics still have not even equaled those of other countries whose legal drinking age are below 21 years of age. Any decrease...
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...SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL GLOBAL ASSESSMENT CERTIFICATE Global Issues Student Name: Luong Vien Tai Student ID: KKPS16535 Teacher: Ms Diana Sorobey Due Date: 08/04/2016 Word Count: 1868 Table of Contents Introduction 1 Body 1 Full-body Scanners at Airports 1 The Health Effects of Genetically Modified Foods 2 Scarcity of clean drinking water 3 Introducing technology into the classroom to support learning 3 Conclusion and Recommendations 4 References 6 Introduction Global issues have strongly affected the daily life of humankind which impact social, economic, health and security concerns. For this reason, the aims of the research is to describe the causes and effects by conducting secondary research as well as considering the solution to the problems. The four global issues have been chosen comprising full-body scanners at airports, the health effects of GM foods, scarcity of clean drinking water and technology in the classroom with the purpose of better understanding of prevalent technology, reasons of insufficient water and the food we eat every day. I am interested in technology and I wanted to find out how the technology work in each industry and its effect therefore I chose full-body scanners and technology in education. For scarcity of clean drinking water, I am curious about on how the government solve the problem in order to make further improvement. To be honest, I am worry about my health and I am properly have eaten GM foods therefore...
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...Transcript of Coca-Cola photo credit Nasa / Goddard Space Flight Center / Reto Stöckli PRESENTATION OUTLINE COCA-COLA HERITAGE TIMELINE 1886 -2013 How might Coca-Cola have responded differently when this situation first occured, specially in terms of responsibility to negative perceptions among Indians of Coke and other MNCs? If Coca-Cola wants to obtain more of India's soft drink market, what change does it need to take? Companies like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo in demonstrating their commitment to working with different countries and r especting the cultural and natural environments of those societies. WONG KIM MAY ESHA CHOWDHURY KHO XIAN WEI 3.1% of all beverages consumed around the world are Coca-Cola products. DO YOU KNOW? Coke make so many different beverages that if you drank one per day, it would take up 9 years to try them all. Coca-cola's $35.1 billion in revenue makes it the 84th largest economy in the world, just ahead of Costa Rica. The Coca-cola brand is worth an estimated $74 billion : more than Budweiser, Pepsi, Starbucks and Redbull combined. If every drop of Coke ever produced were put in 8-ounce bottles and laid end-to-end, they would reach the moon and back over 2000 times. DO YOU KNOW The red & white Coca-cola logo is recognized by 94% of the World's population. There are 33 non-alcoholic brands that generate over $1 billion in revenue. Coca-cola owns a whopping 15 of them. Around the world, the average person...
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...three (3) days. I assumed this would be challenging because these past few weeks have been more hectic than usual due to work, and I would be traveling one of the 3 days because I was visiting my daughter in New Jersey. The period I chose was from Sunday May 18th thru Tuesday May 20th. On Sunday, we were actually running around quite a bit because that’s the day I had to drop my daughter off at her mother’s house and trek back to Maryland. Normally, days like this are just filled with unhealthy decisions. Food Intake Day 1 Sunday May 18th was the first day I reported my food intake. I read an article posted on the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, reporting “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Breakfast provides you with the energy and nutrients that lead to increased concentration in the classroom ("Why You Should Eat a Healthy Breakfast", 2014), sadly, I have an unhealthy habit of not eating breakfast, and this day is no different. My first meal was at 11:30 a.m., for lunch I ate a 12” cheese steak with French fries. Not my most healthy of decisions, but being out of town and having lunch with my family “on the go”; rarely is a healthy intake option chosen. I accompanied my meal with a diet Pepsi ©. For dinner, I was again “eating on the go” as I had begun to travel back to Maryland. I stopped on the way and grabbed a 12” Ham and Cheese Hoagie, bag of chips, 2 bottles of water and a coffee. I had enough to last me the 3 hour trip and I consumed no other...
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...2005 by Bret Terrill. ISBN 1-887641-47-5 Published by American International Press. All rights reserved. www.aipbooks.com We’d like to thank Bret’s dad whose Tivo© and love of MacGyver made this book possible. So blame him. Chapter I: Great Escapes Chapter List Keep Your Cool: Escape from a Meat Locker Take That, Indy: Escape from a Pit of Snakes The Amazing MacGyver: Escape from a Straitjacket while Trapped Underwater Escape from an Incinerator Escape a Pack of Hunting Dogs Escape from the Basement of a Collapsed Building Escape from Being Blown to Kibbles and Bits Chapter II: Car Troubles Make a Stick-Shift Car Drive Itself Repair a Busted Brake Line While in a Moving Car Fake a Flat Tire Recharge a Car Battery with a Bottle of Wine Lift Your Car with a Innertube Repair a Broken Fuel Line with a Ballpoint Pen A MacGyver Classic: Make an Arcwelder from a Car Battery and Pocket Change Chapter List Chapter III: Angus Macgyver: Superspy/ Chemistry Teacher Make a Fire Extinguisher with the Contents of Your Kitchen Cabinet stop an Acid Leak with a Chocolate Bar Read the Contents of a Burned Sheet of Paper Make Your Own Homemade Tear Gas Make a Homemade Spectroscope Create Your Own Homemade Fog Develop Photos with Battery Acid, Ammonia, and Orange Juice Power a Radio with a Cactus Use a Photographic Fixer as an Antidote and an Icepack Chapter List Chapter IV: Breaking and Entering (use only for good,...
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...PART ONE: Dialectical Journal Passage | Reaction(Reflection, Question, Connection, or Evaluation) | (Beer) “The most likely explanation for this preference is that, unlike food, beverages can genuinely be shared. When several people drink beer from the same vessel, they are all consuming the same liquid; when cutting up a piece of meat, in contrast, some parts are usually deemed to be more desirable than others. As a result, sharing a drink with someone is a universal symbol of hospitality and friendship. It signals that the person offering the drink can be trusted, by demonstrating that it is not poisoned or otherwise unsuitable for consumption.” (Page 21) | Each time I have company over, without thought to why, I have always offered my guest(s) a beverage. I’ve never even given consideration to as why drinks are often shared rather than food, much of the less never thought about what sharing a drink with someone can symbolize. I can connect this to the world by that many people authentically share drinks whether it is at a small gathering or a party for it does actually indicate hospitality, friendship, and even a sense of trustworthiness. | (Beer) “Liquids, being easily divisible, make ideal currencies.”- (Page33) | Like described in the above quote, liquid is easy to be shared equally. This allows beverages such as beer to be a system of money in general use. Once again, I’ve never given any thought to beverages, much less about how it would be a supreme currency. I think...
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...s Global Communications Joy Daniels, MMBPL500 Foundations in Problem Based Learning September 20, 2010 Louise Stelma Global Communications Global communication is the process of exchanging and receiving information on a world-wide scale. Until recent times it was difficult to communicate with other countries, with factors such as time, distance, and language barriers being major restrictions. However, the evolution of technology communication has become increasingly easier, faster, clearer and more effective (Lubbers & Koorevaar, 2000). . Course Concepts Identified Though Global Communications and the situations involved present multiple problems one sees the potential for possible solutions. The course concepts in the following synopses include communication issues, ethical dilemmas such as integrity, social responsibility and the quality of life. All of the above listed items will show a need for improvement in the globally communicative world that one lives in. As new creations, such as the internet are continually being created, modified and converged with other products, they are enabling new modes of interaction. Even more global communications has hit the world in a strategic and effective manner. Global markets now offer the ability to produce cheaper products, access to consumers in foreign countries, new sources of finance and income, new sources of technology and access to a world of people with know-how. (Stevens, Miller & Michalski...
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...Douglas Investor, Coke’s Chairman and CEO. “Public schools are funded by the public to educate the children as provided by state law. It is totally inappropriate that its facilities and employees are being used by corporations to increase their own profits on public time and with public dollars.” Dr. Brita Butler-Wall, Executive Director, Citizens’ Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools, US. THE RECALL On June 13, 1999, Coca-Cola[1] (Coke) recalled over 15 million cans and bottles after the Belgian Health Ministry announced a ban on Coke’s drinks, which were suspected of making more than 100 school children ill in the preceding six days. This recall was in addition to the 2.5 million bottles that had already been recalled in the previous week. The company’s products namely Coke, Diet Coke and Fanta had been bottled[2] in Antwerp, Ghent and Wilrijk, Belgium while some batches of Coke, Diet Coke, Fanta and Sprite were also produced in Dunkirk, France. Children at six schools in Belgium had complained of headache, nausea, vomiting and shivering which ultimately led to hospitalization after drinking Coke’s beverages. Most of them reported an ‘unusual odor’ and an ‘off-taste’ in the drink. In a statement to Reuters, Marc Pattin, a spokesman for the Belgian Health Ministry explained the seriousness of the issue: “Another 44 children had become ill with stomach pains, 42 of them at a school in Lochristi, near Ghent, northwest Belgium. We have had five or six cases of poisoning of young people...
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...4188 REV: NOVEMBER 30, 2011 V. KASTURI RANGAN SUNRU YONG Soren Chemical: Why Is the New Swimming Pool Product Sinking? Jen Moritz grimaced as she reviewed the February 2007 sales report for her company’s new Coracle product. In September 2006, Soren Chemical had launched Coracle, a new water clarifier for use in small recreational and household swimming pools. Moritz was responsible for marketing the new clarifier, which she believed was a superior product, but the results so far were discouraging. The volume target was 50,000 gallons (100,000 units) for the first year of sales. However, through the first half of the selling season for pool chemicals, Soren had sold just 3,725 gallons, or 7,450 units. Moritz also had responsibility for marketing Kailan MW, a clarifier used primarily in large recreational water park facilities with typical capacities of one million gallons or higher. Very small quantities of Kailan MW were sufficient to treat large volumes of water, but it was unsuitable for smaller-scale applications such as residential pools. Thus Soren Chemical had developed Coracle, targeting smaller pools with a lower volume of swimmers (known in the industry as “bather loads”) and a less intense maintenance program. In 2006, Kailan MW revenues were $6.1 million and sales were on pace for a 7% increase in 2007; it was healthy growth in a relatively mature market. Coracle had been budgeted at $1.5 million in sales for the year, but so far Soren had sold a very disappointing...
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...ªIdeas for IELTS topics Who is this book for? Many students have no ideas or opinions about IETLS writing topics. Even if your grammar is perfect, you will not get a high IELTS score if you do not know what to write. This book is for students who want to go into the writing exam feeling confident that they have excellent ideas, opinions and vocabulary for as many topics as possible How do you get an IELTS score of 7 or higher? The key to a high score is not grammar, it is not your use of words like “moreover” or “in addition”, and it is not your use of phrases like “this is controversial issue nowadays”. To get a high score you need to use good “topic language” (words and phrases that are related to the question topic). You need good ideas in order to answer the question well. How should you prepare for IELTS writing task 2? There is an enormous amount of advice on my website ielts-simon.com. Here is a summary of what I suggest: Spend more time preparing than testing When you test yourself, you find out what your level is, but you do not learn anything new. You will not improve if you only write test essays. Before writing an essay, study the topic and prepare your ideas, opinions and vocabulary. Steal my ideas If you only use the vocabulary that you already know, you will not learn anything new, and you will not improve. Practise linking my topic ideas together to write “perfect essays”. See the website for examples of how to do this. Use this book together with the website ...
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