From attending both city council meetings I found it very interesting and didn’t know these types of meetings were held. I attended the meeting on September 18‚ 2012 based on an update on police responses to recent crimes and gang activities. Since this meeting was a continuation I found that there have been 39 homicides in 2012. Some issues that were discussed were police department’s goals and priorities‚ as well as‚ the actions that have been attempted in reducing crime activity. Some of the police
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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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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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extinction looms. Well‚ not complete extinction. Obviously tigers will continue to exist in Las Vegas for many years to come. And in Asia there are so many backstreet big cat farms that they outnumber cows. But they will cease to exist in the wild. Right. And what are we supposed to do‚ exactly? Send an international force tooled up with the latest night-vision gear and helicopter gunships to hunt down and kill the poachers? Really? And what are these mercenaries supposed to say to the locals? “Yes
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problem. The solution to the problem is called Toms‚ and all you have to do is buy a pair of shoes to help out. For every pair of shoes that you buy there is another pair of shoes delivered all over the world and even in some specific areas. Toms is an emerging organization that has helped out people with their health‚ education‚ and mental self. The Toms organization all got started with Blake Mycoskie. He is the founder of the Toms shoe and also created the idea of the One for One
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Corporate Social Responsibility of TOMS Shoes BUS 311 Ethical Management May 20‚ 2013 Tom’s Shoes Corporate social responsibility is defined as "actions of an organization that are targeted toward achieving a social benefit over and above maximizing profits for its shareholders and meeting all its legal obligations" (Ghillyer‚ 2012). The for-profit company‚ TOMS Shoes‚ takes social responsibility seriously starting with their central goal: "We can create a better tomorrow by taking
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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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to rethink our ideas about the primacy of writing.” — Robin Tolmach Lakoff‚ “Some of my Favorite Writers are Literate: The Mingling of Oral and Literate Strategies in Written Communication” I was pleased when Robin Lakoff mentioned Tom Wolfe in her essay. Wolfe’s colorful writing style has influenced my own writing as I’ve looked to his work for both inspiration and instruction. Wolfe creates characters that‚ in my opinion‚ feel genuine‚ and I initially believed that his characters’ physical
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In the essay titled “Religion and Animal Rights” by American Philosopher Tom Regan‚ Mr. Regan maintains the position that animals are the “subjects-of-a-life”‚ just as humans are. If we want to ascribe value to all human beings regardless of the degree of rationality they are capable of‚ then in order to be consistent we must similarly ascribe it to non-human animals as well. He effectively uses a pathos and logos approach when he argues to his audience that that all practices involving the mistreatment
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No compassion‚ no peace Tom Regan wrote‚ “The case for animal rights” to people who do not value animals. This is valid because they are living beings. Imagine if we used humans in the place of animals. Regan goes on to tell us the “fundamental wrong is the system that allows us to view animals as our resources‚ here for us-to be eaten‚ or surgically manipulated‚ or exploited for money” (Regan 673). People except animals being our resources‚ but are callous to what these animals have to go through
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