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    leads to a person to have a poor cognitive function. Which can be affected the persons perception‚ attention‚ memory‚ motor skills‚ language‚ visual and spatial processing. To some extent‚ study indicates that high level of impulsivity in alcohol consumptions of a person has an effect on the frontal lobe related to their behavioral problem (Lyvers et.al.). Furthermore‚ alcohol intoxication causes disruption of prefrontal cortical functioning and thereby impairs executive cognitive performance. As executive

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    portrayal of popular brands‚ as consumed by the neo-tribe of The Plastics. I am going to discuss the portrayal of the Diet Coke soft drink brand and the luxury goods brand Fendi‚ and how their portrayal in this movie has influenced my consumption and aspired consumption of these products respectively. Diet Coke Diet Coke‚ a sub-brand of Coca-Cola‚ is shown on at least five different occasions in Mean Girls‚ on the trays of students eating lunch in the cafeteria. By the time Cady has been invited

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    Bibliography: Helena m de klerk. (2004). the role of aesthetics in consumers. Available: http://www.ajol.info/index.php/jfecs/article/viewFile/52845/41446 Frederick W.langrehr . (2002). retail shopping mall semotics and hedonic consumptions. Available: http://www.hibo.no/neted/upload/attachment/site/group54/Retail%20shopping%20mall%20semiotics.pdf Hollister review (2008). analysis of the Hollister in-store experience . Available: http://www.dailyslandered.com/2012/05/analysis-of-the-hollister-in-store-experience/

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    Ethical consumption: How to choose sustainable seafood No other phenomenon demonstrates the tragedy of commons better than the mismanagement of world’s oceans. Global fish consumption is growing at the rate not less than 2% per year. But this increase in consumption patterns cannot be supported for very long in the face of depleting fish stocks. The loss of biodiversity should be a genuine worry for anyone who is interested in practicing sustainable living. The Hilsha‚ turtle‚ crabs and other popular

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    Pollution The undesirable and unintended contamination of the environment by human activity such ad manufacturing‚ waste disposal‚ burning fossil fuels‚etc. Resource depletion The consumption of finite or scarce resources. Global warming The increase in temperatures around the globe due to rising levels of greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases Carbon dioxide‚ nitrous oxide‚ methane‚ and chlorofluorocarbons gases that absorb and hold heat from the sun‚ preventing it from escaping back into space

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    many are also cheap and maybe even free! A low flush toilet is just a simple way to save a load of water‚ if everyone started using low flushes the deadline of “unlimited water” may be extended. 34015.8 Litres is the average household toilet consumption‚ if you use a low flush that number will decrease a shocking 7300 litres a year! This illustrates the power of saving a lot of water just from one simple step. This here is quite an example of the saying “its the little things that matter”. Over

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    List of the Power Consumption of Typical Household Appliances VS VS * 60W fluorescent light bulb - 60W * 100W Incandescent light bulb - 100W Components of fluorescent vs incandescent bulbs The incandescent bulb is filled with argon to reduce evaporation and a filament of tungsten is wired inside the bulb. Electric current is made to pass through this filament which is connected to two contact wires and a conductor. The base of the bulb has a stem or glass mount anchored to it

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    make money. • Objective of gamifying the system is to get people to share more products and services. • The company wants more shares to be sold‚ traded or spent to make more money on transactional fee. • Since the prospect of collaborative consumption is already so appealing to the people‚ adding gamification to the system would make it more enticing • Also‚ gamification would help provide feedback from the customers which would help attain information on processes which are running well and

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    in corner of his/her mouth. Cigarettes smoking is an act that have tortured our society‚ depriving it of its citizen who could immeasurably contributed toward the development . Thus on this bases cigarette smoking should be banned as heroin consumption. According to comment made on CNN news by Toney Newman‚ 400‚000 people die every from smoking which is more than cocaine‚ heroin‚ methamphetamine and all illegal drugs combined. Its have being not logical making cigarettes smoking illegal

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    In modern English “ Consumer and consumption are the predominant descriptive nouns of all kinds of use of goods and services” ( Williams 17). The interactions between Native Americans and Europeans showed the consume and consumption of goods between two groups. As early 1607 the Europeans made contact with Natives Americans and traded their goods in exchange for the others. The consumer society changes over time as Europeans make a presence across much of North America and Native Americans were slowly

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