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    Story of stuff is a video made by Annie Leonard who has been looking up for 10 years about where all the stuff we buy comes from and where it goes when we throw it out. She says that in the planet is set “the materials economy” that is composed by five stages: extraction‚ production‚ distribution‚ consumption and finally disposal. However‚ this system is in crisis because it’s a lineal system and we live on a finite planet‚ therefore we can’t keep this system indefinitely. We

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    Stuff Happens by David Hare Stuff Happens is a play by David Hare‚ written in response to the Iraq war during the Bush administration. It talks about the events that led to the war on Iraq in 2003‚ which spans from George Bush’s election in 2000 up till his stepping down from office in 2008. The title is inspired by Donald Rumsfeld’s response to journalists about the looting happening in Baghdad where he replied “Stuff Happens”. The writer already states in the authors note that it is “knowingly

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    Qiyu Zhang SOC 477 - 01 Instructor: L Barbosa Date: December‚ 3‚ 2014 The Story Of Stuff “The Story Of Stuff” written by Annie Leonard mainly talks about a life cycle of stuff. Annie defines the life cycle as material economy and‚ in turn‚ she divides the life cycle into five stages: extraction‚ production‚ distribution‚ consumption‚ and disposal. Some environmental theories and neo-Marxist theory can be applied into the five stages to explore the environmental

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    The Story of stuff is about the cycle of “stuff”. The cycle of “stuff” consists of extraction‚ production‚ distribution‚ consumption‚ and disposal. This is my analysis of the story of stuff. One major theme of this video is to explain how the U.S. is using up all of our natural resources. The first way that we use up our resources is deforestation. This is when we cut down a large number of trees in order to make it into products to sell. The next major theme is production. This is the stage where

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    Casul‚ Ruselle Anne C. STS40 (TF 7:30-9:00) 11/11/14 The Story of the Stuff by Annie Leonard- Reaction Paper The Story of the Stuff which is made by Annie Leonard was very interesting and enlightening. It made me realize that no matter how small the stuffs we use in our everyday life‚ it should not be taken for granted because the economic system is in crisis and we can’t continue to run on a linear system since we live on a planet of limited resources. People become obsessed with consumerism

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    “The Story of Stuff” All our stuff goes through a process in the materials economy: extraction‚ production‚ distribution‚ consumption‚ and disposal. It sounds so simple but there are a lot of loopholes in between each step goes through. The first stage is extraction. Extraction means taking the planet’s resources – wood‚ minerals‚ coal‚ fossil fuel‚ water‚ plants‚ animals‚ and soil out of the earth and starting their journey through the materials economy. The problem here is simple:

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    The story of Stuff. “Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson. The story of stuff is basically about the causes and effects of production‚ distribution and disposal on people and the world as a whole. Annie Leonard‚ an environmental activist clearly states ways companies in the United States misuse our natural resources through deforestation and so many other ways to feed their selfish needs. In the

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    In “Story of Stuff” narrated by Annie Leonard generally discusses how materials flow through the economy on how and why. The materials of economy go through a system starting out with extraction which leads to production and after they make the materials it then gets distributed which is called distribution. Consumers then buy these products which is called consumption‚ and after they purchase it and make use of it then it goes to the trash can which is called disposal. These five steps of how materials

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    The story of stuff introduces the lifecycle of material goods and exposes the critical of excessive consumerism. Our commercials nag us to buy something. Then the consumption urges us to go to work to pay for the stuff we have bought. We are working harder in order to pay for more stuff and feel better. But there is a problem that what happens to all the stuff we bought and then threw away. The stuff changes to garbage and either gets dumped in a landfill or burned in an incinerator. Either way‚

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    That One Story and Stuff.

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    Jungle exposed filthy conditions in meat packing plants. The public was outraged and the government responded. In 1992 ABC-News did a similar story‚ this time in a supermarket. Visit PBS "Food Lyin” at this web address and answer the questions that follow: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june97/lion_1-15.html 5. What did the ABC-News story find was happening in Food Lion stores? 6. Could Food Lion prove the findings were false? 7. What was the basis of Food Lion’s lawsuit against

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