The Story of Stuff

couple weeks, I find it very interesting that I have been overlooking myself. I have been proved time and time again that I too, am a wasteful, materialistic, consumer. But how can I help it? Today’s society is making it offly difficult to not want stuff and to not waste it either. For example the documentary, “Living On A Dollar A Day”, was a huge culture shock and I wasn’t even there in real life. Just looking at and imagining how my life would be like there, blows my mind. It’s hard to think…

becomes kind. When August Pullman, a boy with severe facial deformities comes to Julian’s school, Julian treats him unkindly and influences others to bully August. Julian becomes a transformed person; he has a complete change of heart. Throughout the story Julian changes from a bully to a person that has learned to show empathy and remorse. He undergoes a process of transformation that includes recognizing what he has done wrong, taking responsibility for his actions, and responding by…

overwhelming problem in this world, and the food industry isn’t a big help with that either. They use many kids and their families to tell their stories about how they became obese and how/why they are trying to fix it. They also have a lot of information about the food industry, which I at least have never heard of. It is very interesting stuff and…

truthful? Can stories that are depicted inaccurately end up feeling truer than the truth itself? In the short story anthology, The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien explores the reality and uncertainties of the Vietnam War through fictional stories based on his own experiences. Often described as “metafiction,” O’Brien makes statements throughout his work about the construction of war stories and the role that truth plays within them. In the aptly named piece, “How to Tell a True War Story,”…

Alexander’s legacy, and the conquering of tyre. This evidence is from the legend of the helmet and the legend of the headband. If you don’t know what the plot for this story is, then I advise that before you read this, you should find these legends then come back and actually know what I am talking about. So one thing he did in this story that was in a way “great”. When his men brought him the helmet of water he poured it out on the sand in front of his whole troop, the thing about this that was…

teach you a lot. Shakespeare teaches us about past language. From Shakespeare’s plays we see how our language use to be used hundreds of years ago. There is a lot of universal themes in the plays. Most of Shakespeare’s plays are about a love story or a tragic story. Shakespeare teaches you a lot about past history. Most of the plays the Shakespeare wrote took place during the medieval age. These are three reasons why I believe…

book, like all books, went deeper than the play did. In fact, the book was actually more enjoyable for me because I understood it more. I loved watching the play and reading the book, and now i’m going to compare and contrast them. The plot of the story differed in some spots but in most spots it was the same. One of them is when Mrs. White goes outside and Mr. White tells her to come back in was explained in both of them. Another is when she is trying to let Herbert in and the bolt falls.…

there like if you go to garden they will use those and put the pumpkins and other stuff like that in the book bag looking thing. I think this is appropriate to this time period because in the 1987’s some people should’ve known how to do pottery and everything it talked about in the book it seemed like it was from the 1987’s too. I think that the time period was actually in the 1987’s because…

According to Webster, freedom is the quality or state of being free. Webster also defines freedom as a political right. If freedom really is a political right, then why is freedom taken away from millions of people. Freedom isn’t a right. People earn their own sense of freedom. After reading multiple sections in Connections I have come to realize that freedom isn’t free. I can define freedom as having a family that there until the end, having a God to praise and get us through all of our…

In “The Story of Stuff; Electronics” by Annie Leonard, we are told how computers and other electronics are being designed for the dump. Designed for the dump means to be thrown away quickly. They break easily and sometimes it impossible to repair, a new one will need to be bought. Leonard states, “Remember how these devices were packed with toxic chemicals? Well there’s a simple rule of production: toxic in, toxic out. Computers, cell phones, TVs, all this stuff, is just waiting to release…