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Family Responsibility and Conspicuous Consumption in House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

In five pages this paper discusses how in this Edith Wharton novel, family responsibility is compromised by conspicuous consumptio...

Spain and U.S. Nutrition

In five pages this paper considers nutrition in a contrast and comparison of the food and drink consumption of Spain and the U.S. ...

Historical Overview of the Industrial Revolution

In five pages the Industrial Revolution is examined in an overview that includes social and technological changes, wealth, consump...

Alcohol Prevalence and Gender Differences

In ten pages this paper discusses the impact of gender on the prevalence of alcohol consumption and includes an examination of var...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Designing and Building an Energy Efficient Home

range (Passive). The "building envelope" is a term that is used to denote how the roof, walls, windows, floors and internal walls ...

3 Article Reviews on Children's Health

a significant clustering of fast food restaurants within a 1.5 mile radius when compared to other non down town areas. The researc...

Controlling Weight, Diet, and Physical Fitness

One pound of body weight is the equivalent of 3500 calories (The Fitness Club, 2001). The individual who consumes more calories t...

Limiting Junk Food Intake Through a Self Modification Program Design, Application, and Evaluation

related to the learning capabilities of children - with the point he was most enthusiastic about being "the difference in the natu...

Conservation Trends and Energy Consumption

United States is embroiled in another Middle East conflict. The average consumer usually finds out about the problems with oil whe...

U.S. Family Impact of Prohibition

capita per year by those Americans that were considered of drinking age (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Obviously, alcohol con...

The Morality of a Materialistic Society

While in our society we have the right to eat, wear, and live in anything that we can afford, to do so is not always morally sound...

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...

Food Intake Analysis 2

two. My percentage of calories from fat during the most recent recording period was 57.3, more than twice that recommended. b. Ho...

The Rhoda Parket Case (Analysis)

to time. Perry was aware that alcohol was being served but Rhoda was not. Rhoda watched television upstairs and did not speak to...

"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...

Economic Terms and Concepts

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

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...

Americans Obsession With Gasoline

molecules are broken up into lighter molecules by means of heat, pressure, and sometimes catalysts" (Bellis, 2009). This process...

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...

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...

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...

My Year of Meats/Ruth L. Ozeki

pregnant (Ozeki 20). Jane is also affected by beef. When her mother was pregnant with Jane, she was prescribed growth hormones tha...

Issues in Addiction and Maladaptive Behavior

important to understand the difference between use, abuse and dependence because these terms denote the stages of maladaptive beha...