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    humans create such a lot of rubbish! Between 1992 and 2008 household waste increased by 16% and we now produce just under half a tonne per person each year. Most of this is taken away by dustmen and buried in enormous landfill sites or burned in incinerators - both of these actions can be dangerous for the environment. Is all our rubbish really rubbish? If you think about it‚ much of what we throw away could be used again. It makes sense to reuse and recycle our rubbish instead of just trying to solve

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    Marcel Duchamp Analysis

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    The act of masterfully capturing an audience’s attention to gaze upon a piece of artwork and feel a sense an interest‚ is achieved as artist’s endorse the role of crafting unprecedented work with the use of conventional materials. This notion will be explored through use of the following artists: Pablo Picasso a Spanish cubist‚ Marcel Duchamp‚ was a French member of the Dada Movement‚ Rosalie Gascoigne a New Zealand contemporary artist (d.1999)‚ El Anatsui a West African contemporary artist and Fiona

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    Consumer Class Reflection

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    bought for myself. I was even asked‚ upon purchasing snacks at a local grocery store‚ if I was preparing for an apocalypse. I’m taken aback by how different the views on consumerism are for people living in a developing country compared to a first world country like Canada. I only noticed how unacceptable my addiction to consumerism is when it was time to pack my luggage for the flight home and I wasn’t able to fit everything and thus I’m forced to leave nearly 70$ worth of goods behind. It was the

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    Technology and advancement is great right? Sure‚ for some people. Technology and advancement can have its benefits‚ but it can also have its negative impacts as well. In fact‚ a perfect time period to see this negative impact in technological advancement is the second half of the nineteenth-century in America. American technology and industrialization changed the life of many social groups. Some positively‚ but most negatively. The urban population felt the worst impact during this period. The New

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    lived realities are constructed socially. We become human through a social process‚ and our understanding of the world is forever formed by these social experiences (Tepperman‚ Albanese & Curtis‚ 2014‚ p.114). In this paper‚ I argue that while consumerism predicts and ensures the growth of an economy‚ the commercialization of products marketed to children should enhance its regulations to better remedy our nations. In the first part of this paper I will explain how the output of marketing that is

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    as he travels from London to Hull on the train. It is the first poem in The Whitsun Weddings collection and seems to be an appropriate introduction because‚ much like his other poetry‚ it looks at humanity’s place in the world and the effect of consumerism. Following the pattern of many other poems in this collection‚ ‘Here’ begins with physical ideas of ‘rich industrial images’‚ before becoming more abstract in the final stanza. By beginning the poem with the participle‚ ‘swerving’‚ Larkin immediately

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    Coastal management involves developing strategies that are designed to protect and preserve the coastal environment. The actions of humans have altered the operation of the natural coastal processes. During our fieldwork we have learned the key issues of coastal management and their strategies and the way they address them at Cronulla Beach. The three key geographical processes that shape the coastal environment are erosion‚ transportation and deposition. The key issues relating to coastal management

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    Reflective Journal on clinical practice Event | Evidence | On 4th June‚ H’stix was done to a patient. | It is my first time to perform H’stix to patient. I misunderstood that a small drop of blood was enough but it should be more for the blood glucose detector to measure. | From 5th - 7th June‚ Vital signs taking was done | There is a big time improvement for vital signs taking after three-day practice. The procedure of vital signs taking becomes smoother.Since the patient is an isolation

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    Comparative Study of Texts

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    1960’s experienced. There were many significant events that took place during these two decades such as the aftermath of the Great Depression and the country’s military involvement in the Vietnam War. These incidents led to an outbreak in excessive consumerism and rising conflict amongst the Australian population on the subject of conscription. Through the analysis of the above mentioned texts‚ comparisons can be established. The 1950’s and 1960’s saw the beginning of a very consumerist Australian

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    Bruce Dawe

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    religion for some kind of guidance or relief‚ he makes it out that the latest generation‚ exposed to constant consumerism‚ has now embraced that lifestyle as a kind of replacement for religion. In the poem Life Cycle‚ there is a much more lighthearted feel. It attempts to inform the reader about how much football is treasured‚ and to what lengths people treasure it. However‚ links to the consumerism lifestyle are still made. In this poem‚ it goes into detail about how‚ in Victoria‚ from Day 1 of life

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