more money in the long run‚ then what’s the point? They would just assume the risk and move on. And why wouldn’t they‚ they are a for-profit business. Its only after an accident happens that they look to safety to save them money. British Petroleum’s Deep Water Horizon oil spill is a prime example. A friend of mine actually worked for BP as a fire protection supervisor leading up to this accident. He told me that on an inspection of that rig a year earlier‚ he recommended 3 million dollars in upgrades
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Emily Victor HIS 1050 Dr. Francis Shor Fall 2011 The Wise Economy of Neighborliness Bill McKibben’s book‚ “Deep Economy”‚ begins by examining the idea that ‘More is Better’. This idea has been deeply ingrained into American culture for the past hundred years. Indeed‚ the practice of increasing efficiency by increasing scale was the key to the wealth of many of the pioneers of American business‚ such as Henry Ford and Andrew Carnegie. In fact‚ due to the overall prosperity of American society
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generation’s’ way of speaking has came from elsewhere there is a kind of shame that comes from this. There has been so much change that it has made the past seem inadequate to this modern worlds language. Authors Ngugi Wa Thiong’O‚ Gene Luen Yang‚ Amy Tan‚ and Marjorie Agosin have all shared similar
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Symbolic Interactionism and Geertz’ Deep Play Symbolic interaction‚ one of the three main perspectives of the social sciences of Anthropology and Sociology‚ was thought to be first conceived by Max Weber and George Herbert Mead as they both emphasized the subjective meaning of human behavior‚ the social process‚ and the humanistic way of viewing of Anthropology and Sociology. As human behavior and socialization were observed‚ Mead discovered that behavior may be either overt‚ meaning observable
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heritage. For example‚ if you were of Asian Descent People would expect you to do very well in any math course. Although you may be Asian and not be proficient at math people would still expect you to be because of the stereotype. In A story by Amy Tan named “Fish Cheeks‚” she explains her hardships of wanting to fit in with America traditions even though she was Chinese. She expresses her disapproval
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Deep Tradition Rooted in the Black Hills The Native American Indians and the white settlers that eventually kicked the Indians off their lands quite obviously did not share the same idea of what it meant to own an area of land. The Native Americans viewed the land that they lived on as sacred‚ spiritual‚ even religious. The white settlers who forced them away from their homes‚ however‚ did not have this same concept of the land that they chose to live on; these people viewed land as a way to make
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Mother‚ Mrs. Woo‚ always had high hopes for her daughter but those hopes didn’t exactly translate well. When Mrs. Woo came to America‚ she had high expectations for what someone could accomplish here‚ "America was where all my mother’s hopes lay" (Tan‚ 336). The use of the word "all" emphasizes the extent to which Mrs. Woo believed America would give her a new and better life. This new life included her daughter becoming a prodigy‚ she didn’t know
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think about strategies teachers have used in my experience as a student. Also why I had trouble in some classes or learned very little from other classes. I also learned other strategies I’ve never heard of before. In the article “Failure of Skin-Deep Learning” about how the students don’t truly learn or understand the subject that is being taught. Bruce Alberts states that trying to cover a large amount of information over the course of one school
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survival.” This quote by David Perlmutter‚ describes how the protagonist in “To Build a Fire” by Jack London did not follow three principles that would have saved his life. The three principles that the protagonist could have utilized from the story‚ “Deep Survival‚” by Laurence Gonzales‚ in his situation that he encountered were: stay calm‚ think‚ analyze‚ and plan‚ and never give up. One reason the main character died is because he did not follow the trait of staying calm in the midst of danger (Gonzales
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