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• A Review of the Story of Stuff Essay

  ...The story of stuff introduces the lifecycle of material goods and exposes the critical of excessive consumerism. Our commercials nag us to buy something. Then the consumption urges us to go to work to pay for the stuff we have bought. We are working harder in order to pay for more stuff and feel better. But there is a problem that what happens to all the stuff we bought and then threw away. The stuff changes to garbage and either gets dumped in a landfill or burned in an incinerator. Either way, both are polluting our planet. Even worse, the growing consumption results in excessive exploitation of natural resource which is limited in the planet. So there are damages at any stage of the lifecycle of the stuff that we are tempted to buy. This video reminds me two things. One is a kind of spirit of chucking waste. I think the core of the undesirable phenomena that the book has said is the excessive consumption and the throw-away mindset. The spirit of refusing waste will work well to change the old style of consumption. This requires not only the average not to waste resources but also the corporations to stop manufacturing the false demand. The other is a word happiness which is a fancy word to be discussed heatedly in China nowadays. Happiness, I think, is not to meet our material demand but to have a bright future and a loved family. With the development of Chinese economy, we can buy...

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• Essay on Annotated Script for the Story of Stuff

  ...Story Of Stuff, Referenced and Annotated Script By Annie Leonard Do you have one of these? I got a little obsessed with mine, in fact I got a little obsessed with all my stuff. Have you ever wondered where all the stuff we buy comes from and where it goes when we throw it out.? I couldn’t stop wondering about that. So I looked it up. And what the text books said is that our stuff simply moves along these stages: extraction to production to distribution to consumption to disposal. All together, it’s called the materials economy. Well, I looked into it a little bit more. In fact, I spent 10 years traveling the world tracking where our stuff comes from and where it goes.1 And you know what I found out? That is not the whole story. There’s a lot missing from this explanation. For one thing, this system looks like it’s fine. No problem. But the truth is it’s a system in crisis. And the reason it is in crisis is that it is a linear system and we live on a finite planet and you can not run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.2 Every step along the way, this system is interacting with the real world. In real life it’s not happening on a blank white page. It’s interacting with societies, cultures, economies, the environment. And all along the way, it’s bumping up against limits. Limits we don’t see here because the diagram is incomplete. So let’s go back through, let’s fill in some of the blanks...

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• Definition Essay the Right Stuff

  ...Definition Essay: The Right Stuff In attempting to define “the right stuff”, I came up with several characteristics and traits that may qualify one as having “the right stuff”. There was, however, no single, broad and sweeping definition that truly seemed to encompass “the right stuff”. For the intent of this essay, I will define “the right stuff” as the unspoken qualities a person possesses that motivate them to attempt/accomplish feats not ordinarily attempted as well as continue to challenge themselves to the point that few can relate and the masses are viewed as inferior beings. In the novel “The Right Stuff” Tom Wolfe profiles the lives and careers of several fighter pilots. While Wolfe never fully defines “the right stuff”, he does lend a few attributes that were forbidden to be spoken namely “…death, bravery, danger, fear”. Wolfe writes “…it was not bravery in the simple sense of being willing to risk your life.”, yet those who did have “it” also had “the uncritical willingness to face danger”. Are those characteristics part of what motivated these men to become test pilots of machines capable of reaching heights never attempted and being chosen the first astronauts as a result? Or was their motivation simply to not be left behind? I believe it is safe to say that motivation is the seed that bears the fruit of success. While none of the pilots were necessarily...

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• Story of Stuff Essay

  ...Book Review – The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard Personally, I have a love-hate relationship with Stuff. At times, I view Stuff as useful, practical and necessary to my life. At other times, this same Stuff can simply be a burden. Annie Leonard’s book, “The Story of Stuff” brings depth to the lifecycle of the stuff we consume and gives specific examples to consider in our relationships with this stuff. Leonard provides an overview of consequential outcomes that are built into the current system of stuff production. Leonard lays out problems in every aspect of the lifecycle and provides thought provoking analysis. From the way materials are collected to end of life, issues and questions are raised. Leonard organized this book to mimic the general cycle the production of Stuff takes, citing specific examples along the way for depth of analysis. Her groupings were extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal. While this was a broad overview, it left me wanting the same level analysis on steps such as design, regulations and people. Human behavior would potentially be a separate book in itself, but people’s behavior is where this process really starts. People make choices about extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal. People are making those decisions without complete information leaving this...

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• story of stuff Essay

  ...Story of stuff is a video made by Annie Leonard who has been looking up for 10 years about where all the stuff we buy comes from and where it goes when we throw it out. She says that in the planet is set “the materials economy” that is composed by five stages: extraction, production, distribution, consumption and finally disposal. However, this system is in crisis because it’s a lineal system and we live on a finite planet, therefore we can’t keep this system indefinitely. We must be aware of the fact that this system affects societies, economies, cultures, the environment… First step is extraction which is the natural resource exploitation. Nevertheless, it’s a big problem because there is not any limit and we are running out of resources and it’s a worrying fact that in the last 30 years one third of the planet’s natural resources base have been consumed. We are using too much more than we should. Second step is production, where the energy is used to mix toxic chemicals with the natural resources to get contaminated products. Almost every product we have in our houses has been made using toxic chemicals and we don’t really know the impact that these products have in our health. Besides the production in factories, plants, etc… generates tons and tons of pollution. That is the reason why the enterprises prefer moving their plants of production to undeveloped countries where nobody...

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• The Right Stuff Book Report by Tom Wolfe Essay

  ...The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe Always a sucker for anything dealing with the space program, I ate up "The Right Stuff" when I read it. It was pure fascination from opening to end for me, and still is. The book riveted me with its portrayal of the test pilots that became the new American hero, the Mercury Astronauts. "The Right Stuff", both film and book, is the story of the earliest days of America's space program. Wolfe chronicles the development of the Mercury missions from inception to completion, and weaves together all the elements of the day that bore on the problem, from Cold War Posturing, to the political wrangling between the factions in Congress, to the ever-capricious whims of public sentiment. The many engineering hurdles, costly failures, and triumphant successes are all set down herein, as well as the petty jealousies and personality conflicts that never saw the light of day in the era of a more discreet press bent on making heroes of the astronauts. Often, one gets the impression that the chaos surrounding the space program could never actually get a man off the ground, let alone into orbit, despite the fact that we know they did just that. "The Right Stuff" does make for an interesting read if you are at all interested in our space program, and the novel's treatment of these times is more complete than the movie's, yet it still doesn't quite satisfy. Wolfe's prose is readable, and his wry...

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• Essay on stuff

  ...home work should not be assigned to students on a daily basis the subject of homework is cause for much debate between teachers, students and parents. However, it is obvious that homework is not necessary everyday. homework should not be assigned to students on a daily basis because of health issues, the level of difficulty and the problem of time. First off, daily homework is unnecessary because of health issues. students who have too much homework can develop poor sleeping habits; many students pull “all-nighters” in an attempt to keep up. Another health issue is the lack of fresh air . studies show simple exposure to sunlight can provide bodies with necessary vitamins , but there is no sunlight at your desk in your bedroom! lastly, stress levels go through the roof when faced with too much work; in countries like china, overworked students have high suicide rate. evidently , too much can seriously damage your health Next , daily homework presents an unrealistic level of difficulty. if all teachers support daily homework, a student will have a heavy workload , from home work from 5 classes plus P.E.! Although there are good benefits of having lots of homework, homework helps your child learn to use resources, such as libraries, reference materials, and computer Web sites to find information. It allows your child to extend learning by applying skills to new situations ,homework helps your child integrate learning by applying many different skills to a...

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• Essay about stuff

  ...Alzheimer’s General Summary Alzheimer’s is a dementing illness (causes loss of mental functions like memory or thought), and between 60 and 80% of all dementing illness is produced by Alzheimer’s, making it the most common form of dementia in older people. Alzheimer’s first appears in people after the age of 60, and in all individuals over the age of 65, an estimated 5% have the disease. Just like dementia in general, the odds of getting Alzheimer’s doubles every five years after 65 years of age. While Alzheimer’s is sporadic (not genetic) there have been reports of familial links with the disease, and an autosomal dominant disorder linked to the mutation causing Alzheimer’s is not unheard of. In addition, Alzheimer’s affects men and women equally. Diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and head trauma are reputed to be causes of Alzheimer’s; however the majority believes that at least diabetes and hypertension play a role in the development of the disease.   Men and women are equally affected by Alzheimer’s, but because women tend to live longer than men, women are more prevalent to it. The disease also has no predilection for a particular ethnicity. Approximately 5.1 million Americans have the disease, and the numbers continue to rise as the American populace becomes older. Alzheimer’s eventually gets worse and worse, leading to the patient not recognizing family members, forgetting how to do simple things (like brushing their teeth), and other...

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