system that enables consumers to achieve significant savings by naming their own price for goods and services. Priceline.com takes consumer offers and then presents them to sellers who can fill as much of that guaranteed demand as they wish at price points determined by buyers. Priceline.com licenses its business model to independent licensees‚ including priceline mortgage and certain international licensees. Priceline become a famous e-business company and make great success very quickly. However
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Scream Factory does us the honor of unleashing “The Garbage Pail Kids Movie” on anyone brave enough to indulge in it. The gross-out fest from the golden age of the 1980s was directed by Rod Amateau and stars no one besides Mackenzie Astin and Anthony Newley anyone will remember. I have a hard time even using the phrase “written by” when referring to Melinda Palmer and Amateau‚ which both had a hand in bringing this atrocity to the big screen. Urchins Windy Winston‚ Foul Phil and Messy Tessie help
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Alex Ibarra ENG 150-274 December 12‚ 2012 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Living on this earth is a privilege and unfortunately we sometimes take advantage of it. Stories of deforestation‚ air and water pollution really make a person think of just how much our planet is being harmed. A major concern is water pollution. Water covers at least 70 percent of the planet which makes our rivers‚ lakes‚ and oceans essential. Many of these bodies of water are being polluted and although they may be
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Plastic Paradise The great Pacific garbage patch. Not many people have heard of such a thing but this "thing" is real. The pacific garbage patch is said to be an island the size of Texas purely of garbage‚ but the majority of it being plastic. Plastic Paradise effectively shows the dangers of plastic and how it can harm the planet and the wild life it supports. Watching this film shows what we are slowly doing to this planet. It gives examples and states that ever since plastic was invented
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The Not-So-Great Garbage Patch The waste of mankind can literally be found throughout all parts of our planet. Contrary to what people would like to believe‚ not all garbage magically makes its way into some convenient dump. In fact‚ it is estimated that mankind dumps about 14 billion pounds of plastic into our oceans each year ("Marine Debris"). Everywhere leads to the ocean; whether pollutants travel by river‚ sewer‚ or runoff makes no difference. In recent years‚ the amount of debris making its
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Oceanography 11/29/12 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch The North Pacific Ocean is home to the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. This gyre is created by the North Pacific Current‚ the California Current‚ the North Equatorial Current‚ and the Kuroshio Current‚ all rotating clockwise throughout the northern hemisphere. It expands over the Pacific from the North Pole to the Equator and from California to Eastern Asia. The NPSG currents create the largest ecosystem on Earth‚ but they have also created
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch By: Niamh Leah Frances Edmonstone Imagine one day the whole ocean turning into a giant patch of toxic trash. People have been trashing the ocean for years‚ but now there is too much trash out there and it is destroying the environment and killing the marine life. If we don ’t try to stop this issue from escalating in the near future‚ The Great Pacific Garbage Patches size will increase rapidly and have huge effects on the planet we live on. Charles Moore‚ an oceanographer
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Trash Island‚ AKA the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an island of trash build up in the ocean. There are two garbage patches‚ the Western Garbage patch and the Eastern Garbage patch. The Western Garbage patch consists of trash from mostly Japan and the Eastern Garbage patch consists of trash from Hawaii to California. During the past 10 years we have all let trash accumulate in areas of our oceans‚ called Gyres‚ which are areas of spinning debris. “These areas of spinning debris are linked together
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Archaeology of Garbage by WilliamRathje and Cullen Murphy was a very interesting read. Created in1973‚ the archeology of garbage was a program primarily created as an exercise in archeology for students at the University of Arizona-Tucson. The most fascinating aspect of the book is the discoveries of what our garbage tells about us as a society. It was interesting the amount of detailed behavior that can be discovered by going through trash. For example‚ in times of product scarcity‚ our garbage shows that
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Shortly after high school‚ I enrolled in a computer science course that introduced me to the concept of Garbage in Garbage Out (GIGO). Over the years‚ the logic of that concept remains with me in every project I manage‚ participate in‚ or troubleshoot both technical and non-technical. As the course progressed‚ I became more and more fascinated by how logic could be utilized to create software programs that make life easier or artificial intelligence that actually problem solves. This sparked my
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