Out of Your Car, Off Your Horse
Wendell Berry in his essay Out of Your Car, Off Your Horse, lends favor to thinking globally is a bad idea. He endorses the idea of thinking locally. This encompasses beginning small at a local level and expanding out. The key element to his idea is a sustainable city; in this city individuals would buy from local farmers thus increasing the economy of farming. As farming expands there would be a need for more workers to do farming. In his explanation he sees this as spilling over to the city people and encouraging them to become more aware and become more agriculturally responsible. Berry states, “If you want to keep your local acts from destroying the globe you must think locally.” In Berry’s perspective you can’t have global thinking, or protect globally, if you are not acting on a local level.
At first glimpse I am ready to dispute with Berry about not thinking globally. In all of my management course both at the collegiate level and on the job they all continually say to look at the big picture. All aspects of the problem should be considered and what the impact is on the overall system. I do disagree that global thinking will destroy our communities. I also find some of his sustainability ideas to be far reaching. When Berry refers to basically the city folk being forced to become agriculturally responsible, it is just hard to see someone working on Wall Street coming home in the evening to plow his fields. Even though I find those type of ideas far fetched I do agree that for “conservation” to become global it should start at the local level.
If each individual would contribute within their own community the community would reap economic and environmental rewards. The best idea I can think of is recycling. At this point in time there is no feasible way to completely eradicate the need for landfills; the area used could be reduced. If every household and business would recycle the reduction of what goes to the landfill would be greatly reduced.
I worked for about six months at a recycling cooperative. The job of the cooperative was to educate the public on recycling, market the recyclables, and look for ways to bring recycling firms into the communities. This was a very successful project. Several abandoned business buildings were utilized to collect the recyclables.
Sustainability might be expensive to achieve but it can be improved in the poverty side of the house. Coming together to sustain economic growth and the development of our community sounds excellent, but if we let the movement overshadow the sustainment of the resource, it can end up with different and less sustainable results. We need to better understand the resources we have and how we can correctly using it to improve an economic growth. This economic growth eventually will end up in the improvement of our society. We have to integrate the environment, economy, and society to sustain our results for the future. This will help us have longer resources and a better environment to live. We need to avoid overspending without conserving, and the need for capital has to match the need for the
(Doc 2) The Executive Branch can grant pardons and appoint judges to fill vacancies in the court to the Judicial Branch. The Executive Branch in addition has the authority to call special sessions of congress, and veto bills to the Legislative Branch. The Legislative Branch has the power to institute new courts, impeach, and approve judicial appointments made by the President. The Legislative Branch furthermore can approve presidential appointments, bring impeached hearings, override presidential vetoes, ratify traits, and declare war. The Judicial Branch can interpret laws, presidential actions judges appointed by the President, can serve for life to the Legislative Branch, and determine constitutionality.
When our government was first created, it was decided that not all the power needed to rest with one division or person. All the power was to be divided into three separate Branches: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. Each branch would have its own power and laws to follow. This created a system of checks and balances to insure that no corruption or overruling would take place. How each Branch works is deliberate in each action and ruling.
...placed His seal of approval on Jesus and that people can place their full trust in Jesus Christ. In conclusion, the author of Everyman perceives death as undeniable while treating it as something we can and should expect. The unknown author uses Death as an allegory of physical death to be able visualize an invisible idea. This idea that often traps humans in fear and causes a great deal of concern to humanity. While the fear of death is common, the author shows God ultimately has control over death and uses it to bring people to Him. Death is a part of the human condition but not apart of His eternal plan. There are many truths to be found in the play Everyman. The author, through the use of allegorical representation, presents death throughout the play of Everyman and uses it to stir the reader's heart and bring about a closer understanding of the Christian faith.
The American Government is a democratic Republic and the decision-making process fits in the democratic model and the pluralist model. The founders of the Constitution laid out a structural framework for the government. The first three articles of the Constitution define the separate branches of government and specify their internal operations and powers. The separation of powers is the assignment of law-making, law-enforcing, and law-interpreting functions to separate branches of government. The three branches in the United States are: The Executive, Judicial, and Legislative. The principle of separation of powers draws lines that divide the powers held by distinct branches at a single level of government. Each branch has its own powers, though some powers are shared among them. The system of separation of powers is designed to reduce the risk that a single branch might act independently and abuse its power. It also means that one branch cannot exercise the powers of the other branches.
Over the years, euthanasia has gained popular scrutiny through the public. The debates over whether it should be legalized or illegalized, have divided individuals into two groups. Both battle for a complete legalization or extermination of assisted suicide. The proponents attest that euthanasia should be completely legal because an individual must have a dignified way of dying. However, there are those who like me, believe and can assert that it is still a form of homicide. In fact, the practice of euthanasia should be completely extinguished because it is medically unethical.
There are many things we need to change in society to become sustainable for future generations. One thing is for certain, we all need to do our part to contribute to this effort, and there is no time like the present to change our ways.
Dr. Arshad Taqi states how the debate about legalizing euthanasia has been around since modern times, and since then it has developed a variety of different definitions, making it a more difficult de...
In the end, death is a concrete option for those who are suffering and do not see living life as an option any longer. Many see euthanasia as inhumane and religiously erroneous, but we must view this decision from the eyes of the suffering patient. The rights we are given and promised should include the right to death, in the event that it will do more good than harm to the individual. Due to such reasons, euthanasia should be legalized and deemed one of the matters that the government does not have a hand in.
The author uses Death as a character to express truth that everyone will, inevitably, come in contact with death. In the play Everyman, death is embodied as a representative of God that visits the plays central character, Everyman. "Death" takes hold of the readers’ interests because it is such a profound word. It is a burdened, aggressive, penetrating word that replicates an actuality that every human will have to come to accept. Death is an adversary in the play that signifies physical death. The author recognizes the consequences of death and uses that knowledge to bring in the reader. In Everyman, the author portrays the character Death as a symbolic exemplification of human death and the reader sees that “Death” does not surpass anyone, it is in God’s hands, and it convicts ones heart.
Everyman, is the most widely studied and produced morality play of the genre. In it, the audience “…traces its hero from a state of sin and unpreparedness through repentance to a triumphant death, his salvation assured.” (Westburg, 1983). The author begins depicting a sovereign God who looks down on Earth with grave disappointment as He considers the disaster that characterizes the life of Everyman. In response to this total depravity, God dispatched Death to summon the protagonist to the inescapable end of all life, to bring all things to their expected end, death. In Everyman, the anonymous author depicts Death, and the threat of his coming as the consummation of all things.
A counterfeit good is an item that is imitated, commonly by another “genuine” item. Counterfeit products are usually formed with the intention to recognize the considerable value of the duplicated product. Counterfeiting is a crucial issue that has grown to four times its size. In the past ten years, the damage of counterfeit has cost the United States over 200 billion dollars. The extraordinary development of counterfeiting and the manufacturing of copied products packaged with other labels, is an urgent economic problem that effects social and political problems too.
These are the big things for me: reclaim, re-use resource locally and use the healthiest, most natural materials possible. All these things will help the environment and will also create healthier living spaces. For example, my comfortable natural mattress was manufactured locally and is environmentally healthy.
Although reading and researching its negative aspects has made me recognize the many difficulties associated with euthanasia I still believe that, if regulated properly, it could be used in an appropriate way. This has been seen to be the case in countries where it has been legalized. I believe that we are breaching human rights by not allowing people to make decisions that affect only themselves. The level of suffering and distress experienced by patients and their families contemplating euthanasia are impossible for outsiders to comprehend; therefore this decision should be able to made by those directly involved, within a well regulated system of
The availability and demand for counterfeit products has increased by more than 12 percent each year for the last decade (Chaudhry et al. 2009a, b). The consequences of this phenomenon result in heavy losses to the actual brand, in terms of the loss of brand reputation and goodwill, and decreased customer confidence and brand equity and also include job losses, tax avoidance and lost sales for company. The estimates by The International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition show that counterfeiting is responsible for US$200 billion a year in lost jobs, unpaid taxes and lost sales (Furnham and Valgeirsson 2007). Moreover, the success of this market lies in the considerable percentage of consumers demanding the counterfeited products. As per a research the biggest buyer of these products around the world lies in 18-25 year age bracket (Phau and Teah 2009). According to another research, about one-third of the group interviewed responded th...