and Throwing Away Trash Social loafing occurs when people work together and when their “output” is combined leaving no one to feel solely accountable for the completed task. Social loafing occurs on many different types of tasks including ones requiring physical effort (Szymanski & Harkins‚ 1987). Due to social loafing effect we hypothesized that people in groups would leave behind more trash then groups of one to two people. We wanted to see if larger groups left more trash thinking that either
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For people looking for "treasures" in garbage dumps‚ it has become a modality to visit the garbage dumps of the most prestigious schools. This is because mostly‚ students at higher-cost universities are rich‚ and these students get rid of their belongings no matter how good-looking their belongings are. Based on Eighner’s experience‚ many rich colleges students take advantage of their parent’s budget. This is because their parents have a wealthy living. Their parents give them what they want and
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How do your hands feel today? Outcome Statement: To inform my audience on the importance of how to properly wash your hands. Thesis Statement: The spread of many germs and viruses can be reduced by hand washing with soap and water. Hand washing is important because it can help protect from many diseases‚ if you properly wash your hands this will cut down on the spreading of germs and viruses and in turn make the world a healthier place. Introduction I. Attention Getter: Germ-X kills 99
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Theophile Gautier stories. He also contributed to Harper’s Weekly and the Century. His literary propensities were becoming more obvious; he was attracted by the romantic‚ strange‚ and grotesque‚ but he presented these against real backgrounds or with real people. He published a book of obscure legends and stories‚ Stray Leaves from Strange Literature (1884) and Some Chinese Ghosts (1887). He lived for 2 years in the West Indies‚ where he wrote his first novels‚ Chita (1889)‚ a Rousseauesque romance‚ and Youma
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In “The Day of the Locust‚” written by Nathanael West‚ he portrays the hardship of living in a city like Los Angeles where people go to fulfil their dreams but only find sorrow and disappointment. I particularly liked a passage located at the end of the novel. West writes‚ “Their boredom becomes more and more terrible. They realize that they’ve been tricked and burn with resentment. Every day of their lives they read the newspapers and went to the movies. Both fed them on lynchings‚ murder‚ sex
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How many people in here know somebody who reads the newspaper including themselves? Raise your hand. “If all of our newspapers were recycled‚ we could save about 250 million trees each year!” (Do Something) How many people in here drink soda‚ teas‚ energy drinks‚ milk or know somebody who does? Raise your hand. “A typical family consumes 182 gallons of soda‚ 29 gallons of juice‚ 104 gallons of milk‚ and 26 gallons of bottled water a year” (Do Something). “About 80% of what Americans throw away is
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Ideology‚ and Discrimination in the United States‚ believes that accents identify nationalities‚ socio-economic status‚ social class and more characteristics of speakers. (Lippi-Green‚ 1997) This study aims to investigate the most recognizable and attractive accent to English learners (Non-native speakers) among 10 different accents (American‚ British‚ Chinese‚ French‚ Indian‚ Irish‚ Italian‚ Russian‚ Scottish and Spanish). It is hypothesized that both male and female non-native speakers are attracted
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Privatization of Garbage Collection for the Better Garbage collection has been an on-going debate in the city of Toronto on whether or not the city of Toronto should privatize garbage collection. Currently‚ in Toronto‚ garbage collection services are run by the city in 3 districts. Districts 1‚ 3‚ and 4 are run by the city‚ while district 2 is run by a private contractor called Green For Life (GFL). Success of privatization in other cities‚ even in district 2‚ has brought up the debate on whether
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch By: Niamh Leah Frances Edmonstone Imagine one day the whole ocean turning into a giant patch of toxic trash. People have been trashing the ocean for years‚ but now there is too much trash out there and it is destroying the environment and killing the marine life. If we don ’t try to stop this issue from escalating in the near future‚ The Great Pacific Garbage Patches size will increase rapidly and have huge effects on the planet we live on. Charles Moore‚ an oceanographer
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Trash Island‚ AKA the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an island of trash build up in the ocean. There are two garbage patches‚ the Western Garbage patch and the Eastern Garbage patch. The Western Garbage patch consists of trash from mostly Japan and the Eastern Garbage patch consists of trash from Hawaii to California. During the past 10 years we have all let trash accumulate in areas of our oceans‚ called Gyres‚ which are areas of spinning debris. “These areas of spinning debris are linked together
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