Common Sense and Viewpoints 1. Unpopular community facilities – 2011 AL Page 1 Think about! – Locate unpopular facilities in residential areas What kinds of facilities are unpopular? Why many people in community oppose these facilities? What are their arguments? How to strike a balance between the residents’ viewpoints and the needs of constructing some unpopular community facilities? Page 2 How to persuade the residents to accept unpopular facilities in
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Omar El-Azhary 6 May 2012 Common Sense Making people understand a serious situation like America’s independence is not easy‚ but Thomas Paine was able to do so through his book‚ Common Sense. Thomas Paine was able to communicate his ideas to common simple farmers and to the high class intellectuals very easily. He lived at the time of the American Revolution‚ and Common Sense is one of his main publications that urged Americas’ independence from the British. Born in 1937‚ Thomas Paine was originally
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Section 134 Common Sense Paper In the years of 1775 through 1776‚ the American colonies were at the beginning of a war with Great Britain. American loyalists‚ those who supported the King of England‚ believed the colonies should remain loyal to their parent country of Great Britain‚ whereas the American patriots viewed the King of England as a tyrant and the country of Great Britain as betraying the American colonies. In 1776 Thomas Paine‚ a British patriot‚ wrote the political pamphlet‚ Common Sense
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Tragedy of the Commons Have you ever read the Essay‚ The Tragedy of the Commons‚ by Garret Hardin? Although it was written in 1968‚ it is still quite useful today. The main point of Hardin’s essay is to show the conflict between the short term interests of individuals in society and the long term effects those interests have on society itself. Hardin hints to this very simply even in his title. The Commons were similar to a giant plot of land that a community shared as a whole. Everyone allowed
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ESL246 Montana 3/25/2012 Reflection Paper Over spring break‚ I watched a documentary film named Super-Size Me. This film was produced in 2004‚ in America. It talks about how fast food influences people’s health and body. Morgan Spurlock is the producer of this film. From this film‚ I learned the reasons why American people like to choose fast food restaurants and how fast food affects their health. There are about 1/4 Americans who eat in fast food restaurants‚ like McDonalds‚ KFC and Burger King
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In “The Common Life‚” an essay by Scott Russell Sanders‚ the author tells of a woman who moved from Los Angeles to Indiana. She recalls going to the grocery store without anyone recognizing her‚ and complains about the level of interest in others’ lives in rural Indiana. Sanders believes the individual should build a web of relationships within his or her community. The relationship between the individual and society as a whole is a complicated one. Some may believe that a more community-geared life
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It is often said that perfection is unachievable. However‚ perfection can be attained in many ways. In ¡°Common Magic¡± by Bronwen Wallace‚ the author describes how the positive and negative sides of things make the world perfect. This is shown through themes such as love‚ interdependence‚ and society influence. Each of our hamartia is balanced with a strength of parallel value. In the poem‚ the author states‚ ¡°Your best falls in love and her brain turns to water.¡± This sentence implies how people
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A common stereotype is that teenagers from my generation aren’t appreciative for generations before us. We are far from unappreciative‚ because we know that every right we have today was earned from generations before us that wasn’t frightened to stand up. Furthermore‚ generations before us did so much to make this country the greatest it can be. Repudiate segregation that split people up because the color of their skin. Slavery that never allowed someone to have freedom because they were darker
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for the natural world we come from‚ and have been doing our best to destroy it. In the poem “The Common Living Dirt‚” Marge Piercy uses descriptive imagery to convey the beauty of nature‚ and the idea that we must reconnect and appreciate the dirt and land that we all came from. Similarly‚ Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song” has a powerful message: stop the destruction of nature and society. Both “The Common Living Dirt” and “Earth Song” address the sabotage of nature‚ however Jackson’s song is more influential
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"MACPHERSON REFRIGERATION LIMITED" CASE Read the case‚ and answer the following questions: 1. Search in the library (books on Operations Management or Production Management)‚ to find the main components of the “Aggregate Production Planning” problem and briefly describe which are “pure strategies” and “mixed strategies” to solve this problem. The aggregate demand is the total demand for all products/services produced by a production facility without considering size‚ models‚ etc.‚ usually
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