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Buddhism, Western Culture, Consumerism And Disharmony

notes how this continual desire to control keeps people anxious and powerless to their own misery, which is exactly why so many pe...

Analysis of low and very low calorie diets

For most people who are obese, their condition is long-term and requires a lifetime of attention even after formal weight-loss tre...

Reducing Petroleum Dependence

discussed more fully below. The second consideration that must be made when contemplating how to reduce and mitigate the...

The Fluidity of Identity and Consumerism

is a stable concept; shares with a social group and influenced mainly by two variables; nationality and class, but more recent the...

Economic Terms and Concepts

balance is once again achieved. Another word for balance is equilibrium (Investopedia, 2009). The law of demand states that the ...

"Marketing, the ethic of consumption, and less-developed counties"

identification is (more or less) closely bound up with what one owns or consumes" (Brenkert, 1998; p. 93). These are the people t...

Two Consumers; A Comparison of Purchase Processes and Influences

in the two months following Christmas, and that December, in the run up to Christmas is also one of the periods of peak spending i...

Fuel Cells

An 8 page paper discussing the economics and problems of hydrogen fuel cells as power plants for cars. Jay Leno praises the BMW H...

Consumption Choices

are cheaper. These effects may be seen even if there is not a drop in disposable income, but there is an expectation that there wi...

War: Does It Have Roots in Biology?

town and developed complex political structures" (Hayden 45). This position holds that within the hunter-gatherer cultures that pr...

Criteria Determining Quality of Life

and healthcare, needs that are obviously directly related to things such as longevity. What many fail to realize, however, is tha...

Obesity and Television Viewing: A Review of Literature

factor in the onset of childhood obesity. Dennison, Erb, and Jenkins (2002) report that children spend a larger portion of their ...

Proposal to Investigate the Social and Cultural Influences on Drinking Among Young Adults in Britain

The research will look at the reasons behind all increases in alcohol consumption in young people in which will be defined as peop...

Negative Effects of Media on Young People

and for acceptance in social group" (Deveny and Kelley). II. By the age of 18, most American children have witnessed 16,000 simul...

The Importance of Consumption in Cultural Globalization This

which is seen as more of a mainstream perspective. For Castells globalisation represented the universalization of the global capit...

The 2006 E.coli Outbreak

the outbreak occurred and what to do to protect themselves in the future. II. Current Understanding of the Spinach Outbreak: A...

Pathologic Gambling In Parkinson's Disease Patients Using Dopamine Agonist

which dopamine agonists and levodopa therapy works synergistically to provide physical benefits is both grand and far-reaching; th...

Exporting U.S. Wines to China

2006). The Chinese also enjoy beer, and Starbucks has successfully penetrated the market with its coffee stores. But wine is relat...

Beowulf v. Odysseus/Who is the most attractive?

announces to all listeners that this warrior has the skill to battle the monster that has terrorizing Heorot. Beowulf battles Gren...

Thomas Hobbes And Sigmund Freud: Man Is Born Into Specific Behaviors

Hobbes clearly addresses the notion of individualism and Social Contract Theory as they relate to the moral factor behind justice....

Wal-Mart : Organizational Behavior

are" (MMR, 2005, p. 40). This is one of the controls the company uses with their top managers to constantly improve. It is essent...

Dialect, Accent/Southeast England

reality of this situation is that some accents are associated more closely with the accent that is perceived as the societal norm ...

Leadership and Self-Deception

A 5 page book review on Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute, which is a brief but prof...

Homicidal Fantasy

qualitative methodology because it strives to reach much more deeply into the subject matter than its quantitative counterpart, pr...

Alcoholism & Underage Consumption of Alcohol

on the Mothers Against Drunk Driving (2010) website, the total costs associated with underage drinking and its consequences are $6...

Women's Alcohol Consumption in the 19th Century

This 5 page paper examines the extent of alcohol use among women in the 19th century. The writer pays special attention to the tem...

Reasons Behind Consumption of Certain Foods

In eight pages this paper analyzes why certain types of food are consumed with references made to the Household Expenditure Survey...

Analyzing Dream Worlds Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth-Century France by Rosalind H. Williams

In thirteen pages this paper features a chapter by chapter book analysis on William's examination of how the evolution of consumer...

Flat Tax and Consumption Tax

again on profits generated by the investment (Froomkin, 1998). It is possible to allow a large deductible, the same for everyone, ...

The Impacts of Digital Technology on the Production and Consumption of Media in Indonesia

and a range of problems for women, the "New Order" regime under Suharto focused on mass media messages that put women in their pla...