LSEC 1103 Reflection #2

The LSC 1003 course helped me to improve my writing skills throw the essays and the paragraphs that we had to write, because practicing is the best way to learn. The skills that this course developed are very important, because in the near future I’ll have to do researches and lots of writings to graduate and it will be very helpful if I decided to do masters. These skills are also important for my future success because as an engineer I’ll have to compete with other engineers to do our company projects, so if I want to be successful I need a good writing skills to convince the managers of my project proposal. In order to improve my writing I need not only to read, and write more. What I need is to read, write, and think more critically. The most enjoyable thing that I learned is how to get the references of my resources, because before taking this course I used to think that this it’s a very hard thing to do, but after taking this course I realized how easy to do so.

Essay draft#2

Material process

 

Introduction

The story of stuff explains about the diversity and environment in 5 steps. We learned the countries depend on the economy and consumption of the individual and the community, but there the company has superior power than government so they have authority on the economy. But the environment is exposed to side effects which put them in a grave danger after using resources and increasing the proportion of pollution.

 

 

Extraction

The first step is called extraction. Resources exploitation is important for us to survive, but nowadays the natural resources are being over used. That increase in the natural resources exploitation is threating the humans live in the long run. According to the video one third of the planet has been extracted in the past three decade. There are many reasons that make the resources under pressure. Some of those reasons are the incredible increase in technologies that could be used for extraction the materials, For example in the past if someone tried to cut a tree by using saw that would take minutes and some cases hours, but now with the new machines cutting a tree would only take few seconds. The second possible reason is the high increasing ratio in population.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Production

The second part of the stuff story is the production. According to the American Heritage Dictionary production is “The creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services“. In this phase the resources that have been extracted is turned to new stuff by using chemicals, machines and lots of energy so they can use these new stuff in producing more complex materials such as mobile phones, cars and furniture. During the production many toxic chemicals are used and produced, so that toxic chemicals are included in some of the stuff that we have in work and home even in air that we breathe. In fact if that is the case that means we are been effected by those toxics all the time.

 

 

Distribution

The third step is Distribution. Distribution is defined by the process of marketing and supplying produced materials. Distribution is the phase of movement where all goods move from the production source to the markets and then to the customers. It also referred to the movement of payment from the customer to the market to the source of the productions. This phase happen throw channels they are called the distribution channels. They are sets of interdependent organizations involved in making the product available for consumption. Those interdependent organizations work as a third party to supply the goods to the customers.

 

 

 

Consumption

The fourth step is consumption. Consumption is one of the major concepts in economics. It is the process where the goods are being used up or transferred to something new. The consumption of goods is the amount of them that has been used during a time period. So consumption is when the customer uses the goods and services that have an exchangeable value which was distributed by the Production source to the markets.

Disposal

The fifth step is disposal. Disposal is the final phase of the stuff story that happens after the good has been consumed by the costumers. After disposal the waste that is lifted either being dropped or burned which cause pollution in air, water and land. Which cause health problems as well as it’s a major cause of the global warming that threats the life as we know it. Because of the toxic chemicals that were included in manufacturing these materials, when it’s burned it may produce some toxic gasses that is moved to the air then to our lungs."The average American discards 4.43 pounds of garbage everyday (EPA Facts and Figures)".

Consumption in the UAE

Furthermore, here in the UAE people have high standards of living and so they tend to spend a lot of money without having second thoughts about the outcome which leads to negative consequences to our planet, for example, people here have more than one car and its most likely to be a big SUV truck which isn’t fuel efficient and also wasting energy sources like keeping the light turned on in the house in rooms that are not being used. Another example is buying a lot of products that don’t get used properly like buying a new phone every time new phone is being sold out. These factors harm our economy although we don’t get affected by it instantly in the UAE but it will hit us hard, all these natural resources are being used until it's all depleted, then we will only feel sorry.

Conclusion

Ultimately, from the information I gathered from the video 'story of stuff' and other sources from the internet I conclude that we the people living on this planet must take care of this planet because it’s the only one we have. Energy sources are starting to finish and more and more waste is being produced everyday around the world that the earth will not be able to take care of itself from all these toxic materials produced. Businesses only care about the profits and not always about the consequences of destroying nature, governments are trying to limit this but we still see negative effects from us on earth.

 

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Consumption | Define Consumption at Dictionary.com. (n.d.). Dictionary.com - Free Online English Dictionary. Retrieved May 27, 2013, from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/consumption?s=t

Facts about Trash, Garbage, Waste. (n.d.). Solid Waste Management, America's Solid Waste Industry - Environmentalists Everyday - Green Waste Disposal, Landfills, Green Energy. Retrieved May 27, 2013, from http://www.environmentalistseveryday.org/solid-waste-management/garbage-trash-waste-facts.php

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