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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...

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...

Marginal Cost and Benefit Analysis

interesting to note that although there is a theory that marginal costs of producing one more unit given the same fixed costs, 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...

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...

"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 ...

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...

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...

The Modern Taoist and Yin Yang

by modern Taoists as well. It might be contended that in our modern world, however, that conflict is even greater. When consideri...

Popular Culture, Cinematic Violence, and Media Literacy

to the family, children, political leadership, and sexuality" (Wee, 2006, p. 50). Links have been discovered between these violen...

Assessment of the Japanese Market for Mangoes

that of Japan, a developed market, where it appeared there is an increasing demand for mangoes at the current time. In order to as...

Friedman's Economics

take a stronger role in the economy (Taylor, 2009). Decades later, many other economists as well as state leaders would agree with...

Filming Video Underwater

1995). The increasing use of video technologies and lighting systems for different underwater applications has led to the devel...

Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Social Symbolism

In seven pages this research paper discusses how social symbols including class identities, consumption, housing, and speech are i...

Economic Power Concentration and Lack of Citizen Control of Their Lives

In three pages the intense concentration of economic power with the constant emphasis upon conspicuous consumption is examined in ...

All About Coffee

In five pages this paper examines coffee in terms of its habit forming consumption and also discusses the structure of a coffee pl...

Tax Strategies of State Government

In seven pages an unnamed state is featured in this fictitious situation concerning tax strategies and alternatives including cons...

Manufacturing and Activity Based Costing

In this paper consisting of nine pages the effects of activity based costing in terms of a distribution system are observed from t...

Peruvian Style Cuisine

In seven pages Peruvian cooking is examined in a consideration of common ingredients and their availability with a discussion of c...

Historical Overview of OPEC

In four pages this essay discusses the history of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in terms of influence and oil ...

Ad Banning and Broadcast Media Advertising

In a paper consisting of twelve pages the decision to ban advertising from the broadcast media is examined with the position suppo...

U.S. Current Statistics

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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...

The importance of coffee in social culture in the US

This paper looks at the relationship between coffee consumption and American cultural ideology. The writer explores coffee's histo...

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. ...