Do you wonder why your TV is broken after 2 years? This phenomenon is called planned obsolescence. It’s based in 1881 with the first bulb built from Eddison. His first bulb had a lifetime about 2500 hours. After the manufacturing process begin the lifetime sunks to 1000 hours. This is a strategy by the big concerns all over the world. They designed their products with flows. Types of obsolescence are technical or functional‚ systematic programmed‚ style or notification. Technical or functional
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Philosophy 4.26.2012 Doomed Design Although the revolutionary system of planned obsolescence is meant to stimulate demand and sales‚ its wasteful modern-day results damage the intellectual progress of the society by misleading consumers‚ manipulating the population’s view of real modern advancements and the reality of the production process‚ allowing industrial designers to become progressively unproductive and uneconomical. Planned obsolescence‚ present in industrial design‚ is a policy of deliberately
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик‚ tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik) abbreviated to USSR (Russian: СССР‚ tr. SSSR) or the Soviet Union (Russian: Советский Союз‚ tr. Sovetsky Soyuz)‚ was a constitutionally socialist state that existed between 1922 and 1991‚ ruled as a single-party state by the Communist Party with its capital as Moscow.[3] A union of 15 subnational Soviet republics‚ its government and economy were highly
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The Soviet Union played a major role in the allied victory in World War II. They stopped the Nazi advances and eventually pushed them back on the eastern front. The Russian people showed great resolve to triumph in spite of drastic errors in judgment by the Soviet leaders. Some of the poor decisions were made by Joseph Stalin. The first major mistake was that he believed that he could stall the Soviet Union’s involvement in the war until 1942. Stalin also made an error in trying to take advantage
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Planned Parenthood: Who is Right? Mitt Romney vs Barack Obama on the Issue of Planed Parenthood Funding It is now 2012 and it is an election year full of controversial issues that need to be discussed by each candidate. This campaign is said to have a “cavalier disregard for facts on both sides‚” so much so that “the campaign has become bitter and trivial." Who would you vote for if the election was today? How much do you really know about the controversial issues? You‚ the voter‚ are in charge
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Planned Parenthood Many people believe that Planned Parenthood is just a clinic for abortions‚ but in reality it serves a much greater purpose. For nearly 100 years‚ Planned Parenthood has worked to improve women’s health and safety and to advance the right and ability of individuals to manage his or her fertility regardless of income‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ sexual orientation or age. They provide several safe contraception methods‚ reduce the spread of sexually transmitted infections through testing
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About a month ago‚ I applied to become a peer educator at Planned Parenthood. Two weeks ago‚ I got a call saying that I got in‚ and now I have to complete a forty-hour training to become certified. In the past two weeks‚ I have gotten very much criticism for becoming a part of this organization. One thing that some people have said to me is that I am supporting the killing of babies. Many people think that Planned Parenthood is a very evil and inhumane organization‚ when really it is the complete
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British Journal of Social Psychology (2001)‚ 40‚ 471–499 2001 The British Psychological Society Printed in Great Britain 471 EY cacy of the Theory of Planned Behaviour: A meta-analytic review Christopher J. Armitage* Department of Psychology‚ University of SheYeld‚ UK Mark Conner School of Psychology‚ University of Leeds‚ UK The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) has received considerable attention in the literature. The present study is a quantitative integration and review of that research. From
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Planned Change Shameka Constant HRM420 H2WW November 9‚ 2012 In application 2.1; Planned Change at the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority‚ The San Diego Unified port district needed to transfer operations from the San Diego Airport to the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority (SDCRAA) due to the creation of the newly established organization. This was to occur in part of operating Airports within San Diego County. Thella Bowens; a senior director
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The Soviet Union formally collapsed on December 26th‚ 1991. The dissolution of the world’s first and largest Communist state also marked the end of the Cold War. Mikhail Gorbachev (in office from May 25th‚ 1989- December 25th‚ 1991) was the leader of the Soviet Union mainly credited in driving the Soviet Union into near disaster. This collapse has been debated by many historians‚ whether it was inevitable or it was pressured into collapse. I focused my research on the causes of the collapse
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