Annie Leonard

Annie Leonard, best known for the creation of an animated documentary about the life cycle of Stuff and entitled “The Story of Stuff”, explains in a namesake book the polluting process through which the Stuff is created and eventually dismissed. Her message is clear: we not only have too much Stuff (she prefers not using the word goods, “since goods are so often anything but good”), we also do not use it properly. Annie Leonard is an American environmental activist whose greatest aim is the struggle against excessive consumerism, which afflicts western societies. Her attention, however, is mainly focused on American society. Since 1988 she has worked with Greenpeace, when she set up a campaign to stop international waste dumping and started…

The United States is one of the most materialistic countries and that is because consumption has become a normal thing in today’s time. However, a few months of bliss is not a valid excuse for the damage consumption causes. The online article “Consumerism: Causes and Impacts.” written by Siddhant Sadangi, discusses the causes of consumerism and the negative impacts consumption has on society. In Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff, she elaborates on how consumption affects the environment. The…

“The Story of Change” “The Story of Change” video emphasizes how the fault of the world’s sustainability may be pointed in the wrong direction. The presenter, Annie Leonard argues that the blame is not to be put off on the bad shoppers, but that the correct people to blame should be policy makers and the businesses. Therefore, these consumers cannot make change happen themselves. It begins with current policies in place and those who abide by them. Leonard also argued that many of the policies…

In Annie Leonard’s, “The Story of Stuff: Electronics”, she offers her views on the environmental impacts of electronics and how to resolve it. Her main points that she focuses on in her essay are that electronics are “designed for the dump”, they are made of toxic materials, and that companies should be responsible for their electronic waste. In response to Leonard’s essay, all of her key ideas are valid and explain the issues around the problem that electronics are negatively impacting the…

crowd of Trump-protesters, whose back of head is spilling blood, and the crowd is hounding him in hot pursuit. When a reporter asks Trump-protesters why they ignite Trump’s “Make America Great Again” caps, she receives responses of cursing Donald Trump without reasonable explanations. The election has ended, but the protests persist; some of the rallies are evolving into organized violence. What could possibly cause those protesters to coalesce and act foolishly? In social psychology, people are…

In her essay “Total Eclipse, ” Annie Dillard makes use of metaphor after metaphor and vivid, descriptive imagery to reveal the main message behind her text: mankind needs to wake up and be conscious of what is going on in the world outside of themselves. Through the sharing of her personal and emotionally driven experience of seeing a total eclipse, Dillard is able to draw the reader in. The eclipse has a very large impact on Dillard’s life and outlook of the world. Under the influence of the…

In the story we see “Momma” being picked on by some white girls while she stands on the porch. “ ““Naw, Helen, you ain’t standing like her. This here’s it.” Then she lifted her chest, folded her arms and mocked that strange carriage that was Annie.” As this goes on, Annie Henderson just stands there and continues to sing. She doesn’t get louder to tone out the mocking or get softer to show that the girls have affected her. As the girls say bye to her she stops sing to say, “Bye, Miz Helen, bye,…

This is a quotation taken from Katherine Mansfield’s short story ‘’The Voyage’’. The story is about a young girl called Fenella, after the death of her mother she went with her grandmother to move in her Grandparent’s house in Picton, which is inspired from Mansfield’s personal life when she had to move out from her home in Wellington, New Zealand to London, England. Mansfield uses imageries, metaphors, and the setting to convey the two main ideas of darkness and light and the transformation of…

How did an increased interest in theosophy in the 19th century influence the direction of modern art? Theosophy, as a philosophical belief system, can be traced back to ancient times. Through her two part Isis Unveiled (1877), and her theosophical society, Russian Born Mme Helena Blavatsky, a religious mystic, played a huge part in reinstating the dogmas of theosophy into the art world. Isis Unveiled was written during a time of significant change around the globe. In 1859 Charles Darwin…

In Annie Dillard’s essay, Living Like Weasels, Dillard uses stylistic writing to make her story more universally understandable, starting from her initial encounter the with a weasel and the life lesson she took out of the encounter. The essay gives its readers an unusual comparison between the life of human beings and the life of weasels. There is also a physical description of how Ernest Thompson shot an eagle and found the skull of a weasel clinging to its throat which was a perfect symbol of…