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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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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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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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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establishment being replaced by newspapers‚ business and money. The authorities in Vile Bodies are idle and unproductive. Prime Ministers change continuously and don’t understand how to govern the country and could not keep their business out of the papers ’...Knew the business of avoiding the undesirable publicity than Sir James Brown.’‚ ’Last week’s prime Minister... finished the last bottle.’ showing Outrage to be doped and out of control. Being Foreign secretary‚ Outrage should be able to communicate
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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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The paper will summarize the simulation “Applying Supply and Demand Concepts” by identify two microeconomics and two macroeconomics principles or concepts from the simulation. Identify at least one shift of the supply curve and one shift of the demand curve in the simulation and what causes the shifts. For each shift‚ analyze how it would affect the equilibrium price‚ quantity‚ and decision making‚ how may you apply what you learned about supply and demand from the simulation to your workplace or
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Reflecting on "The Story of Stuff‚" write a well-organized and well-supported essay in which you identify the three most important issues the video addresses. A well-organized essay has a beginning‚ middle‚ and an end. The beginning‚ or introduction‚ should include an opening sentence to grab your reader’s attention. Follow the opening sentence with a brief background on the topic or situation. In this case‚ it would be brief summary of the video. The last sentence of the introduction is the thesis
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David Akande Jan 2nd 2013 Teacher: Ms. Anderson Title: Let’s cut homework in half Doesn’t anyone else get tired of homework‚ staying up late at night till about 12 in the morning only to wake up at about 5:30 just to catch a bus and then you go to school struggling to stay awake in class? Then when you fall asleep in class from exhaustion your teacher wakes you up and everyone in your class stares at you and it’s embarrassing. But all of these problems can be resolved if there is a decent
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