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Environmental and Energy Tax Provisions

the fact that a "tax credit reduces tax dollar-for-dollar," while a deduction "only removes a percentage of the tax that is owed" ...

Canadian Consumer Culture & the Environment

was not, as it had been during the Depression, a function of what the consumer could afford, bur rather what the then could find (...

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...

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...

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...

Lessons In Nutritional Tracking

consuming more of those items that carry greater nutritional value. Eating less of some items also can translate to eating more o...

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...

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 ...

Alcohol as a Drug Discussion

juice etc. This mixture of yeast and juice is left to ferment for several weeks in a container that does not allow air to enter, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Americans Obsession With Gasoline

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

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...

Ethical Perspectives on Factory Farm Raising of Animals for Human Consumption

with the profits generated from their production of greater importance than the care and welfare of the animals (505). During 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...

"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...

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...

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...

Economic Terms and Concepts

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