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    The world is in denial, climate change is happening, and the earth is dying because people are killing it. A clear example of this denial is seen in the decline of news coverage regarding environmental change, “in 2007, the three major U.S. networks—CBS, NBC, and ABC ran 147 stories on climate change; in 2011 the networks ran just fourteen stories on the subject” (Klein, 34). People do not want to hear about climate change and decreasing natural resources. Continued denial will be the downfall of human existence if the world population continues on the present path of destruction; positive change to the global footprint must incorporate control of the population, its consumption, and future technological choices. In This Changes Everything Capitalism vs Climate, Naomi Klein presents for the general public a well-supported idea to not only improve climate change, but also create policies to improve lives by creating jobs and reducing the gap between the ultra-rich and the poor. Her ideas are largely presented from an ecological Marxist position. She brings to light in the first few chapters the neoliberal capitalistic society that dominates worldwide and how this societal view conflicts with the environmental movement to improve climate change. In part one of her book she provides simple, easy to understand descriptions of the main causes of climate change, which include: corporate greed, globalization and free market, as well as the involvement of the nation state in…

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    One abundantly clear attribute each of the novels share, is their reliance on allusion and irony throughout the texts. Umberto Eco describes the place of irony and humor in postmodern works of literature brilliantly, in the postscript of The Name of the Rose, when he writes, “The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently” (Eco 570). This…

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    ORGANIC FOOD MARKET Introduction Organic food market is an outcome of organic farming which uses organic fertilizer, and avoids pesticides and chemicals. The recent researches demonstrate that organic farming is an important vehicle to maintain environmental balance. Due to the fact that consumer concerns on health and environmental issues related to food, organic farming has drawn great attention in Europe, including EU members as well as non-EU members during the last couple decades. The…

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    1. What kind of labels are listed here? Why? Response: The labels on ecolabelindex.com are a posting of various ecosystem friendly certifications, governance boards, and methods. The information available provides credible transparency for consumers and organizations seeking ecosystem friendly guidance in a range of areas. 2. How do your consumer (buying) choices affect biodiversity? Response: Most of our household purchases include organic or phosphate free products. Intentions to create a…

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    Madeline Michener, Morgan Stelmaszynski, Joanna Poston, Joe Brahler Team 6 Business Plan: Organic Food and Farming Poland has a population of over 38 million people. With a large percentage of Poland’s population being 30 and younger, the workforce is continuing to grow. The location in the middle of Europe with Germany, the Ukraine, and Czech Republic as neighbors has them in a prime location for trading opportunities. The growth of the economy boomed after the accession into the European…

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    How successful were Giolitti’s government in promoting political stability in Italy in the years 1903 -1914? Giolitti’s government was extremely unsuccessful in promoting political stability in Italy. It seemed that the Italian liberal state suffered from political divisions all over the country; this was something no other Liberal western power had experience in the years 1903 to 1914. However under the ‘political divisions’, Giolitti was trying to reform and modernise Italy during his…

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    Karl Marx Vs Durkheim

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    Karl Marx, unlike Durkheim, was not a sociologist by profession . He was a journalist but first and foremost a political activist around the time of the Industrial Revolution (Scott & Marshall, 2009:443). His political ideas were often rejected, but his work often had real sociological insight as his writing was based in the economics within society its’ social institutions (Giddens, 2009:18). His work as a whole was focused on conflict, centered around class divisions and relations, and as…

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    Karl Marx saw himself as the, “Newton of social science” (Seidman, 34) and described his book, Capital, as being ”to the social sciences what Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was to the natural sciences” (Seidman, 34). Marx was correct about his work because even today, he is seen as one of the most influential social science writers. The readings discussed Germany during the life of Marx as well as his theories created through the observation of capitalism and class structure. Born in 1818…

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    Marx uses these points to explain how free market capitalism causes this estranged labor. He says that this type of economical and political system causes people to be alienated from “the product…from species-being…from other human beings…in productivity work” (Wolf 2003). He uses this theory to show us the effects that a capitalist society could have on all aspects of a human, his physical ability, his mental capacity, his social life and the obvious economic life. Marx adds to this bashes…

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    The individualism of a person is defined within his/her social class. In the book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a utopian society that is constructed within social classes that gives an individual all the power or none at all. Huxley then presents the theory of Marxism, where the class struggle is nothing less, but the backbone of an individual’s social status and where they stand in society. Huxley’s text clearly is based on the realism of social class structure and ideology where the…

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