Wasting

Paper towels Many people love to use paper towels to dry their hands or clean a mess up. They use a lot of them too which they honestly don’t need that many paper towels. What they are doing is wasting the paper towels and the trees that they use. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper towels, and by doing that 20,000 gallons of water are polluted. In the U.S. we use over 13 billion pounds of paper towels per year and it keeps getting higher as the years go on. There is about 3,000 tons…

January 2014, 1,013 people won $1 million or more from the Powerball lottery (Irving). Thus, if you are not one of the few people to win the lottery than you are wasting your money. With that in mind i'm sure that many people would be love to have millions of dollars but if it comes at the cost of how i'm treated, how I spend my money, and wasting money. The lottery can have its benefits, but I believe that the cons outweigh the benefits so much that it isn't worth playing due to the…

Is Lottery a Good Idea? Even though there are not so many newspaper articles online to criticize the concept of lottery, most articles that use the concept of lottery apply it in a negative or nearly negative sense. Some people cannot live without having their morning coffee or reading a sports column, while others prefer to have their problems solved in an actual way without a clear assumption of either winning or losing. In fact, many people prefer lottery instead of dealing with their…

to spend less money on materialistic trinkets, and invest more in activities I can do with friends and family. For example, instead of wasting $50 on a dress, I can use that money for gas to drive to the mountains with my friends for a hike. That would probably cost less money and would help me maintain healthy relationships, which is better. Or instead of wasting $20 dollars for lunch at Burger King, I can prepare a healthier meal at home and dine with my family. On both of these example, I…

grade. Should all work be like this? No, I want work to at least have some meaning so, why? Why did fail to find meaning to write this essay? I found no other solution than I hate it-- the whole education system. I hate going school just so I can wasting time when I can obviously do something way more useful work while learning at same time, and most of all I hate bored at least make it fun for me because if this real life, then I don’t want to live in meaningless work. Why do I hate school so…

The book Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Force by Radley Balko argues that the police department are using more military like equipment for the same crime that have always been around; that can be settled with normal police equipment and tactics. We will learn that in today’s society too many police departments are increasing their police equipment that is involving into a war like mentality. The author continues on and talks about the war on drugs, and their…

Old conventions change slowly. For instance, severe social problems—religious groups’ pessimistic perspective on homosexuality or people’s unregenerate perspective of racism—cannot change within a few years. Likewise, old habits never go away from people’s unconscious routines, same as crumpling up a piece of paper with one hand. When most people believe that breaking habits is as hard as breaking a rock with a drop of water, Charles Duhigg, the author of The Power of Habit, claims that habits…

Once something has been thrown away, most people stop thinking about what happens next to that garbage. However, food is a constant item being taken for granted in the United States. As much as 40 percent of food is sold to consumers goes into the trash. Many people do not realize how much money, time, and resources are put into the production of food. However, solutions can be implemented throughout society. The topic of reducing food waste has been discussed in the “Room for Debate,” featured…

We have spent a lot of time on studying and invested a lot of money. However we have sadly been wasting a bunch of money on the space program (NASA).Although there are a few pros to investing in NASA there are a whole lot more cons that take over those pros. In the human society the average salary for the average human in the U.S. is about 50,000 dollars, now with that being said the government really believes in the space program the out of the average salary they have decided to withdraw…

Today’s kids are focused more on technology. They worry more about their social life. They waste most of their time on their phone and internet uses, than going outside and playing. Spyware is a helpful tool when your children are wasting most of their time on the internet. It can help you see what your child is doing. You, as a parent, can prevent your child from going on innappropriate sites. spyware is also a way to help your child go the right direction and not do anything bad. Spyware…