CHEN DONG DES40A 03/10/2013 Embodied Energy in the Process of Hardwood Flooring Hardwood flooring is one of the most common flooring in our life. The processes of produce hardwood flooring are very complex. Those processes from beginning to end of produce hardwood flooring embody different energy. My research is focus on the energy that embodied in the process of hardwood flooring. From the article “Green Speak”‚ the embodied energy means “the sum of the energy necessary to make a product‚
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Principles of Individual Decision-Making Every day‚ people make decisions of varying degrees of importance. According to Hubbard & O’Brien‚ the issues discussed in economics are illustrated by a basic fact of life: that people must make choices as they try to attain their goals. Economics is the study of the choices people make to attain their goals given their scarce resources (Hubbard & O’Brien‚ 2010). Each individual will vary as to the outcome of their decision based on the situation‚ but the common
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According to its founder‚ L. Ron Hubbard‚ “Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers.” Scientology beliefs hold that Man is basically good and that his spiritual salvation depends upon himself‚ his relationships with his fellows and his attainment of brotherhood with the universe‚ which it is similar with the concept of Confucianism‚ but the opposite to the concept of Christianity that we all sinners. People are viewed as spiritual beings that have minds and bodies and a person’s
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prices‚ opportunity costs‚ economic systems‚ and many others. In economics‚ individual decision making is not limited to just buying and selling‚ there are many other issues that are covered such as “a family deciding how many children to have” (Hubbard & O’Brien‚ p.13) or whether or not to go on vacation. A few weeks ago my friends and I decided that we wanted to take a trip to Pensacola Beach‚ Florida for Labor Day weekend. I had enough money to go on the trip but also wanted to save that
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lost in the hurricane and in the events after the disaster hit. What was the reason for the extreme amount of lives lost‚ when the authorities had warning days before the actual hurricane hit? Eliza Hubbard believes the slow response to aid the people of New Orleans was racially motivated. Hubbard makes many great points giving other examples of previous disasters that have occurred in more white affluent areas that were not even close to being as severe as Hurricane Katrina‚ that were not only
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years. “Real GDP holds prices constant‚ which makes it a better measure than nominal GDP of changes in the production of goods and services from one year to the next. In fact‚ growth in the economy is almost always measured as growth in real GDP” (Hubbard‚ & O’Brien‚ 2012). Nominal GDA is GDA without any adjustments of inflation‚ which makes it seem like there is growth even when there isn’t. However during inflation is hard to estimate how much increase in nominal GDA there has been due to the increase
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hysteria as close to 20 people were killed because of pure hype and chaos in the region (Campbell). The cold war was the rise and fall of the United States civil defence as peoples fear rose to an all time high due to the creation of the hydrogen bomb (Hubbard). Both the Salem Witch Trials and the nuclear fear during the cold war were examples of hysteria but the total fear that the cold war instilled on people is far more important because it affected a national population in comparison to a meer small
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1 Synopsis Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3‚ 1847‚ in Edinburgh‚ Scotland. His education was largely received through numerous experiments in sound and the furthering of his father’s work on Visible Speech for the deaf. Bell worked with Thomas Watson on the design and patent of the first practical telephone. In all‚ Bell held 18 patents in his name alone and 12 that he shared with collaborators. He died in 1922. 2 Early Life Alexander Graham Bell was born Alexander Bell on March
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We all know that profit an enterprise earns is not only made by itself‚ but also by a result of the interaction between consumers‚ politics and the society environment of the enterprise being at. If an enterprise wants to operate in the long run‚ it needs to be concerned about the problem of its surrounding environment. Also‚ only a corporation which can shoulder responsibilities of society and obey the rule of ethic deserves to obtain support from the society. In this essay‚ I am going to discuss
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age is 92.5%‚ over those rates in SA‚ WA and NT as well‚ as shown in Figure 4 and Figure 5 respectively (Medicare‚ 2013). Figure 6: the effect of immunisation on economic efficiency. Adapted from “ Essentials of economics” by Hubbard‚ R. G.‚ 2012 According to Hubbard (2012)‚ in economic view‚ the immunisation rate is a positive externality that leads to a divergence between private benefits of consumption and social benefits. As can be seen in figure 6‚ the market
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