Planned Obsolescence Planned obsolescence or built-in obsolescence in industrial design is a policy of planning or designing a product with a limited useful life‚ so it will become obsolete‚ that is‚ unfashionable or no longer functional after a certain period of time. From about 1924‚ it started to sneak into people’s life and quite literally changed people’s lives. People have been talking about whether planned obsolescence is good for their lives or not through the ages. All they focus on
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market. The reason that standard of life does not grow so fast is that there is no innovation‚ and that is b/c innovation means taking a risk‚ and "equal-reward" approach means that rewards are not enough to justify the risk.’ Planned Economy In a planned economy‚ the factors of production are owned and managed by the government. Thus the Government decides what to produce‚ how much to produce and for whom to produce. Features: All resources are owned and managed by the government. There
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Case Study A 26-year-old woman went to the emergency department complaining of shortness of breath over the previous three days that had increased in intensity (Nash & Goldfarb‚ 2006). The patient was at the hospital for over three hours before she was able to see a physician. The physician did a complete exam and ordered blood tests‚ a chest x-ray‚ lung scan and electrocardiogram.The patient waited for three more hours before the physician told her that he believed she had asthma and should follow
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The responsibilities for the IT department or also known as the Information Technology department in a business is to assure all systems are functional at all times. The IT department is in charge of the software‚ hardware‚ architecture and the networking of the computers in the company. Employees within the IT department are responsible for different parts of the department. There are the Programmers‚ groups in charge of the Company Website‚ the Technical Support and the Administration. The different
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The Planned Economy Key Characteristics What to Produce: Central Planning Committee (CPC) determines national priorities and implements 1 and 5 year plans How to Produce: CPC allocates resources to production managers so as to meet targets. Production carried out to meet the national interest‚ not profit. For Whom to Produce: Influenced by income levels but the CPC often determines those income levels as it also offered incentives for workers to do the more demanding jobs. Most often a sense of moral
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The world’s economies consist of three main economy systems with different economic mechanisms. There are centrally planned economy‚ mixed economy and unplanned economy. Centrally planned economy is one kind of planned economy‚ it is also known as command economy or socialism. The process of implementation of centrally planned economy is called planification. The phrase is originally generated from “Befehlswirtschaft” in German which used to represent Nazi economy (Amadeo‚ 2012). Incan empire in
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Planned Parenthood is a non-profit organization founded by Margaret Sanger in 1916. Planned Parenthood began as the first birth control clinic in America (“Planned Parenthood | Official Site”). It began in Brooklyn‚ New York‚ and it was opened with Sanger‚ her sister‚ and a friend (“Planned Parenthood | Official Site”). Sanger’s original missions for Planned Parenthood were‚ providing contraception and other health services to women and men‚ funding research on birth control and educating specialists
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The Theory of Planned Behaviour: Nurses Attitudes towards Older Patients Edmund Fitzgerald O’Connor 9724709 ABSTRACT The Theory of Planned Behaviour was tested in a study for its ability to predict intention to behave in specific ways towards older patients. There were 172 subjects from 3 Scottish universities‚ Napier‚ Edinburgh and Abertay Dundee. The results gained from a questionnaire suggest that the Theory of Planned behaviour can be used to predict behavioural intentions of nurses when
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Planned Change at the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority In 2001 (SDCRAA) was created to be implemented in 2003 by the senior director of the aviation division in the port of San Diego‚ Thella Bowens. She was held responsible for the transition of operations from the airport authority to SDCRAA. Because Bowens had a good experience in the organization‚ this made her important in providing support to the operation in develops the transition plan as well as dealing with legal and regulatory
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Planned Parenthood has been in a negative spotlight for the past few weeks after the Center for Medical Progress released a slew of videos about the sale of aborted babies. Planned Parenthood was started as a non-profit organization to inform their clients on topics of reproductive and sexual heath‚ counseling for sexual abuse victims‚ and abortions to women who have become pregnant. Planned Parenthood describes their work as‚ “The majority is preventive‚ primary care‚ which helps prevent unintended
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