"Fake Plastic Trees" criticizes how modern society stifles individuality and forces people to swallow idealized conceptions of how life should be. The whole song centers on the idea that humans‚ either through their own fallibility or through society’s relentlessness‚ easily and obliviously mold their lives according to the unspoken standards they set on themselves. The result is a shallow‚ artificial‚ "fake plastic" living that perpetuates itself and destroys uniqueness. The first two verses
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a job. Your look equals your competence‚” said the 26-year old who perceives cosmetic surgery for job progression (Woo‚ 2012). Men 31-40 years old According to Tiku (2014)‚ male tech workers in their late 30’s in Silicon Valley have resorted to plastic surgery in a move‚ they perceive‚ will make them fit the pattern and perpetuate the status quo that the most successful startups comes from those in their 30’s. This is consistent with Jones (2005) that found that over the past 100 years‚ people in
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For many years‚ the use of natural polymers for the fabrication of packaging materials has been an interesting alternative to replace non-biodegradable polymers which are normal components of these materials. The core problem of these starch based plastics is their hydrophilic character and the fact that they tend to become brittle with ageing. Unmodified starch is too much hydrophilic to be used as food packaging material. Chemical modification must be carried out in order to make them hydrophobic
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Plastic is Killing Marine Animals “Marine debris is typically described as any persistent‚ manufactured‚ or processed solid material discarded‚ disposed of‚ or abandoned in the marine and coastal environment” (Richard C. Thompson 11). If this is the case‚ how does marine debris end up in and around the water? According to Kimberly Amaral with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution‚ marine debris can reach the ocean three ways; being flushed down the toilet or washed down the drain‚ ultimately ending
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undegradability of plastic materials‚ starch is mixed with polyvinyl alcohol‚ polylactic acid‚ poly-hydroxybutyric acid‚ polycaprolactone‚ chitosan‚ derivatives‚ and other degradable polymers to prepare fully degradable biomaterials. With gradual exhaustion of petroleum and progressive depravation of environmental quality‚ starch that is regarded as a reinforcing agent is widely used in rubber industry. Starch is characterized by hydrophilicity‚ difficulty in processing‚ and poor compatibility to plastic materials
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Does Plastic Surgery Make a Beauty or a Beast? Alaa Al-koubeitri Advanced English Composition‚ Group 1 Miss Hanouf Al-alawi January 12‚ 2009 Abstract People are becoming more concerned about their physical appearance as a result of society’s role in changing and idealizing the beauty standards. So in recent years‚ plastic surgeries were vastly increasing among people. Procedures and effects of such surgeries gained an increased attention in the medical and psychological fields. This paper
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“Shifting Terrain: Increasing Rate of Plastic Surgery among Women;” Jiyoung Jang State University of New York at Geneseo Women always want to be a beautiful regardless of their age. The main reason why women are so eager to have a perfect face and body is the portrayal of celebrity in the media. Television commercials‚ magazine covers and internet advertisements constantly show the ideal beauty of women. Gaye Tuchman‚ professor of Sociology in Queens College and the Graduate
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Elizabeth Valera ------------------------------------------------- Student Instructor Title of the news: Philippines Financial District bans Plastic Bags Reporter : Agence France-Presse Title of the newspaper: Philippine Daily Inquirer Date: July 18‚ 2013 Facts: MANILA – The Philippines financial capital banned disposable plastic shopping bags and styrofoam food containers on Thursday‚ as part of escalating efforts across the nation’s capital to curb rubbish that exacerbates deadly
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Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was fascinating to watch. As an individual who uses plastic every single day and comes into contact with simple objects like a receipt‚ which has harmful toxins in them‚ I was moved by this documentary. Angela Sun‚ an individual from California takes the time to get a closer look at the plastic pollution in the world. Specifically‚ she went to the Midway Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean‚ which is a wildlife refuge. Angela goes to this refuge to investigate
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Chapter I INTRODUCTION Plastics found everywhere. Bottles‚ utensils‚ food packagings are some examples of plastics that we use and see in our daily lifestyle. We can easily have plastics for our convience because it was sold in our market directly thus spending a little of our money. Behind these things our typical perception about plastic is just a bit of what plastics really are. For those people who are concious about our environment ‚ they say that plastics cause a wide environmental problem
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