Inequality and Environmental Goods and Bads Introduction I grew up in Bakersfield‚ California in the 1990s. I never really thought about pollution‚ or the industrial facility that flanked my elementary school‚ but I was always sick‚ always coughing and stuffy. Later in life I went back to that old school and found that there was an oil tank farm‚ behind a fence‚ right next to the playground. While I have no scientific proof that this was causing my sickness‚ it is probably a bad idea to put such facilities
Premium Pollution Hazardous waste Waste
Online Dating: The Good and the Bad “Want to meet hot singles in your area?” Not a day goes by without encountering one of these advertisements on the internet. These advertisements can be seen on almost every page on the web‚ from dictionary websites to social networking websites such as Facebook. With many different behaviours resulting from online dating‚ this essay will explore three different positions on online dating: complete rejection‚ middle ground‚ and acceptance. Many people reject
Premium Person Interpersonal relationship Social network service
Fracking can be both good and bad in today’s world. Fracking can be good in many ways such as its an alternative use for fuel because we use so much each day. This means that we have more gas and oil to use for cooking‚ heating and powering out cars‚ for instance. Also‚ it reduces the amount of toxic chemicals in the earth’s surface because it uses so much water. With oil and gas being pumped from the ground locally then the energy cost around the country will be cheaper instead of having them shipped
Premium Petroleum Natural gas Fossil fuel
The article The Good‚ the Bad and the Airborne: Levitation and the History of Impossible in Early Modern Europe‚ author Carlos M. N. Eire makes a myriad of claims about the historical prevalence of holy levitation. The physical impossibility of holy levitation is irrelevant to study; understanding levitation will aid in the understanding of people who believed it was possible. In this way Eire favours synchrony over a traditional diachronic narrative. Furthermore‚ he infers that it is the job of
Premium Religion Future Time
Stereotyping in Marketing: Good or Bad? It ’s Monday morning at a well-to-do marketing company. You have an 11:00am meeting to interview a potential buyer for an Asian product line. It is now Ten-thirty. Your potential client ’s flight arrives into Metro Airport. Prior to their arrival to your office you douse the air with a light sent of orange. The meeting goes as expected‚ very well. Instead of a hand shake you bow to the group. You and the team leader exchange business cards. You ask
Premium Marketing Retailing Stereotype
Cholesterol‚ the good‚ the bad and the ugly! Lipids are a forgotten and unreferenced building block in the human body. Why is it when we talk about healthy lifestyles‚ that lipid’s and the major functions it provides for us is not mentioned. Sure some of its lower members are recounted daily like proteins and fats‚ but there is so much more to learn and understand. In the next developing paragraphs I will be discussing and explaining the functionality of lipids‚ fats‚ cholesterol‚ and how it all
Premium Cholesterol Fatty acid Nutrition
as hardened criminals. That’s not a good thing.” That is what Pat Robertson‚ the televangelist who once ran for president‚ said on his show “The 700 Club” while mentioning how thought marijuana being legalized can be a good thing. I am a 41 year old wife and mother who has had her fair share of life experiences. My past experiences include using marijuana from time to time when I was younger. I never became an avid user and only remember having a good time when I used. I distinctively remember
Premium Crime Decriminalization Cannabis
conference. Additionally‚ according to NPD research‚ consumer spending in the game industry in 2012 has reached $20.77 billion‚ the amount slightly more than the total Afghanistan production in the same year. Now the debate continues: are video games good or not? The first yell against video games is about the amount of violence in our video-game contents. The California law defines violent video games as “a video game in which the range of options available to a player includes killing‚ maiming
Premium Video game Video game controversy Video game genres
Kristina Medina English ½ 10/26/12 So you think you have game "It must be Jelly‚ ’cause jam don’t shake”‚ A Story in Harlem Slang‚ by Zora Neale Hurston. Sweet Back and Jelly are two wanna-be pimps that are lost in a world full of wants just struggling to get by. Though Jelly and Sweet Back claim they have game‚ the woman that walks by‚ schools them both‚ yet she is not the one with the most game. Jelly and Sweet Back do have some game they both assume that they are better than one another
Premium Zora Neale Hurston Coca-Cola Woman
References: Anthony W. Hager. (September 10‚ 2013). Christopher Columbus: The Good‚ the Bad and the Ugly. Available: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/10/christopher_columbus_the_good.html. Last accessed 12 Nov 2013. BBC. (2013). Christopher Columbus . Available: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/christopher_columbus/
Free Slavery Christopher Columbus Slavery in the United States