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    inventions that made the roaring 20s. The inventions at the time was the Band-Aid, radio, and the jukebox. Those inventions led to jazz spreading through the United States. There are also inventions that we still use today such as the band aid, garbage disposal, sunglasses, refrigerator, and the bulldozer. Earle Dickson the founder of Johnson and Johnson created the band aid in 1921. The loud speaker was created by two general electric employees Chester W. Rice and Edward Washburn Kellogg…

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    Music Festival Versus Garbage: How Reusables Can Win This War A set stage, an energetic crowd, and not a care in the world. The moment at Lollapalooza is choked with nervous energy, overwhelming joy, and, most of all, anticipation. There! Entering the stage! What for now is a mere shadow on the still pitch-black platform will become the mob’s hero once the lights go up. Your favorite musician! Could anything in the universe possibly ruin this blissful time of excitement? Regrettably, you take a…

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    semester, we have discussed the negative consequences resulting from the way we, as a society, dispose of our garbage. Most of our trash generally ends up in landfills where harmful chemicals are washed off exposing surrounding areas to harmful pollutants which are then able to cause extensive damage to both the environment and the species which inhabit the area. This method of waste disposal, while convenient for both major businesses and individual civilians alike, has already proven…

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    Recycling- An Important Part of the Solution As a young child, I always hated the smell of garbage from the local landfill. The average American discards an average seven and a half pounds of garbage every day, unfortunately most of this garbage goes into to landfills. Although America’s recycling rate has doubled over the past 15 years, it has occurred in the absence of a federal law on recycling. Instead, state legislation and local support have been leading the action. Recently stricter…

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    Its can contaminate food with dangerous chemical compounds. It is one of the toxic non-biodegradable pollutants, which pollutes land air and water. Plastic causes serious damage to the environment both during its manufacture and disposal. The manufacture of plastics in industries releases huge quantity of carbon monoxide, dioxin, hydrogen cyanide and VOCs , these gases pollute air. Plastics reduce soil fertility by forming the part of manure for years and spoils environmental aesthetics…

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    When my grandfather passed away in 2008, everything changed. However, it wasn’t the actual passing of my grandpa that impacted me the most; it was the influence it had on my grandmother. My grandfather had Parkinson’s disease, and his last few years were very difficult. It got to the point where my grandmother was unable to care for him in their home, so he stayed in a nursing home for a while. When his days became more and more numbered, we decided to bring him home so he could be in a nice,…

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    Pros Of Recycling

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    You go to throw away some paper and pop cans with not even taking a split second to think, you toss it in the trash. Tossing them in the garbage without blinking an eye, although the green recycling bin was a foot away from the trash can. You agree the economy and society are going downhill, but what you may not have realized is throwing away that glass bottle just leads to pollution and contributed to that overwhelming landfill. Recycling is such a simple step with so many positive effects.…

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    exploitation of aluminum. In most developed countries, governments and environmental protection organisations do very good job in the publicity and implementation of recycling, they provide different color garbage bins for every household to easily classify their waste and dispatch special garbage trucks and workers to collect the waste. However, not every person recycle or correctly classify the waste, there are some ways to change people 's recycling behaviour: the most important step is the…

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    The film “Inside the Garbage of the World”, directed by Philippe and Maxine is a documentary that focuses on the growing problem of ocean pollution due to excessive plastic consumption. A serious roster of experts: Capt. Moore (Marine Research Institute), Dan Glaser (Surf-rider foundation), Dr. Andrea Neal (Jean-Michel Cousteau), Professor Christopher Cogan (CSU Channel Islands) want to make people aware of the damage they are doing to animals and the planet because of the high concentration of…

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    Anthropology Introduction Anthropology is an important field in human lives. It is the study of diverse human aspects within the present and past societies (Smith, 2009, p. 35). Anthropology has several branches or is divided into several specialties. Archaeology is one of the several branches of anthropology (Smith, 2009, p. 35). It is the study of the past human activity through critical analysis and recovery of the materials the human used. This paper will focus more on the archaeology…

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