Is Change Another Word For Progress?
As times change, so do companies. In 1806 William Colgate founded a company to make soap, candles and starch. Colgate toothpaste wasn’t made until 1873. In 1837 John Deere was a frustrated blacksmith in Grand Detour, Illinois trying to make plows that cut through the area’s clay. When he started to make his plows with cast steel, he started the John Deere Equipment Company. In 1866 David McConnell sold books door-to-door. To appeal to women customers he offered free perfume. When the perfume became more popular than the books, McConnell founded the California Perfume Company – which became Avon. Change changes us.
By the end of 2011 the Coca-Cola Company plans a change – to put nutrition facts – what Coca-Cola calls “energy information” – on the front of almost all its packaging worldwide. This change is in response to the public wanting this information easily visible and to the American Heart Association adding sugar to its list of heart hazards. The AHA recommends women have no more than 100 calories from added sugar a day and that men limit those calories to 150. A 12-ounce can of Classic Coca-Cola contains 140 calories. Things might go better with Coke – just not so much.
A few years ago activist/entrepreneur, Jeff Berman, told farmers in Dove Creek, Colorado that he would build a plant to convert sunflower seeds to biodiesel if they would grow the sunflowers. Convinced there was more money per acre in sunflowers than in beans and wheat, farmers were growing thousands of acres by 2008 and the plant was under construction. That’s when federal subsidies for biofuels ended. Berman’s plans had to change. Instead of biofuel, the sunflower seeds make food-grade sunflower oil. Nevertheless, hulls and pieces of plant material are turned into gas to help power the plant. Both sunflowers and hope continue to grow.
Even Australia’s male southern brown tree frogs have had to change. The increase in urban traffic noise is drowning out their mating calls, causing a sharp decline in their population. In some areas the distance a mating call can be heard has dropped from hundreds of meters to 20-50 meters. To increase the distance they can be heard, the males have learned to change their calls to a higher pitch. Unfortunately, female frogs associate a higher pitch with a smaller or younger, less experienced frog. What’s needed is female frogs willing to take a leap of faith.
Questions and Answers
Social issues, new information, unusual news, unorthodox presentation and a gripe. Along with knowledge of the simple means to create the impossible dream of permanent social harmony and a unified conflict free world. This series of Alf boot camp articulated & presented articles, lead to the understanding of what is wrong with our existing human created realities & lived ideologies. Many of which, are unknowingly causing social chaos, inequality, disunity & unhappiness in Nations.
An opinion piece about mental health care policy and practice. Critiques conventional individualized care and suggests a 'society'centred'alternative.
The dictionary defines change as a substitution, alteration or variation. However, change always seems to cause change.
Literacy is a basic human need and human right to knowledge. It has meaning only when it leads to participation in cultural and social activities. It is empowerment which means ability to make decisions and control affairs of ones own life, economically, socially and politically, it is the first step in a life-long earning process of man and women. Life without literacy is life without hope, security and freedom. It is the foundation of all skills and pre-requisite for economic development. In m
We have won a great victory. But the defeated class will continue to struggle. Its members are still about and it still exists.
A great deal has been made of in alternative archaeology books about how and why our technologically primitive ancestors were able to carve out, transport and erect massive multi-ton stone blocks into megalithic monuments. Since there is no doubting the existence of these structures, our ancestors must of in fact possessed an advanced technology or had assistance from those who did (i.e. – ‘ancient astronauts'). That runs contrary to scholarly archaeology. But the questions remain.
Recently, a report was published by a Hong Kong Media. According to the report, the latest public opinion survey among the Americans and Chinese shows that there has been a slight improvement in the mutual impression of people of these two countries to each other. But to build a deep trust between them, there is still a long way to go.
Increasingly, couples are seeking a more constructive and less expensive alternative – Collaborative Divorce. In Collaborative Divorce, attorneys, mental health professionals and financial specialists work together with the couple to resolve all issues by agreement without going to court.
Ketubah is a Jewish prenuptial agreement or marriage contract which contains the all the responsibilities to be fulfilled by a couple after marriage. People like to keep their Ketubot as it is for a long time and want a unique Ketubah to be designed for them. If you are also one of them then you must go with custom Ketubah designed by a well known expert and do not forget to choose budget Ketubah otherwise it may affect your affordability.
For most people a living room is the hub of the home, where people relax and socialise with family and friends. The word ‘living room' was first used in the nineteenth century but in reality they existed well before this. The way that living rooms have been used, their décor and their furnishings have changed significantly over time.
One of the unfairnesses of life is that when children outgrow the need for naps, parents start to need them.
The expression "tie the knot" supposedly derives from the nets of knotted string that once supported beds - not necessarily beds of roses.
In the land of the free and the home of the brave, are Americans now more free and more brave?
A rose by any other name is still a rose. The same is true of Americans in their many varieties.
When people begin a sentence with the words "Did you know", they are initiating a one-on-one game of Trivial Pursuit.
Discuss this Article
