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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Project in Language 6 & Story Map in Reading 6 Third Quarter Review of a School Play Review of the School Play : Annie Last November 23 we had our annual school play. This year’s play is entitled Annie from the Broadway musical “Annieâ€. The play’s setting was in the early of the 1930’s in New York‚ in the New York Municipal Orphanage. The characters of this story are Annie‚ the main character‚ whose only wish is to find her parents‚ Miss Hannigan‚ the cruel orphanage
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Rhetorical appeals in "The story of stuff" Persuasion is the art of being able to convince your audience with your point of view and change their opinion and beliefs. To achieve that the speaker or author must appeal to his/her audience from three directions; the ethical‚ logical and emotional‚ also known as ethos‚ logos and pathos. Ethos‚ which is the ethical appeal‚ is how the speaker proves his/her credibility and that s/he is the right person to discuss that topic. Logos the logical
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Story of Stuff (Summary & Review) A very interesting stuff story by Annie Leonard – The Story of Stuff which tells you how stuff works in 20 minutes video. It is an interesting story and here is my reviews and summary. I do agree with most of her points but not all of them. What is your opinion? In short this how the whole stuff system works: * Extraction -> Production -> Distribution -> Consumption -> Disposal [Agree] She also pointed out this system is in fact in crisis because
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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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Story Of Stuff‚ Referenced and Annotated Script By Annie Leonard Do you have one of these? I got a little obsessed with mine‚ in fact I got a little obsessed with all my stuff. Have you ever wondered where all the stuff we buy comes from and where it goes when we throw it out.? I couldn’t stop wondering about that. So I looked it up. And what the text books said is that our stuff simply moves along these stages: extraction to production to distribution to consumption to disposal. All together
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FLORES “ESSAY ABOUT THE STORY OF STUFF” NAME: Julio Cèsar Pèrez Pèrez ID: 2508994 DATE: 06 / 04 / 2011 Story Of Stuff We have to take care of the world that we are live in‚ this is a world whit limits‚
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‘A critical reading and contextualisation of West Side Story written by Arthur Laurents‚ music by Leonard Bernstein‚ lyrics by Stephan Sondheim and choreographed by Jerome Robbins.’ West Side Story is a 1961 film set in the mid-1950s in the upper west side of New York. West Side Story is based and inspired by Williams Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story. In West Side Story the protagonist is the former leader of the Jets‚ Tony‚ who
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Thomas Moran Picture this‚ a very unhappy family‚ always fighting‚ always crying I miss this or I miss that‚ those parents might have a good job but they will never be happy again in their lives. There are many reasons why we shouldn’t move to Seattle‚ Washington. The first reason is we will never really see are family again‚ only on holidays. The second reason is me and my sister will have major things that we miss‚ that we won’t be able to see again. The last reason is that we will have to sell
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I strongly agree with the overall message of the film. Our patterns of consumption especially the Americans are wasteful and destructive to the planet. My only problem is the manner of its presentation with the statistics obviously handpicked with the purpose to scare and shock. Everybody in the world must hate America now‚ the way it was bashed every five seconds in the film. Even though America deserves it‚ it is not very effective to carry a message across in that manner because it only makes
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