Sunday, June 3, 2007

Final exam: Pre-discussion

  1. Should government be responsible for keeping consumers safe?

Definitively I believe that government should control and regulate large consume products in each market place. For example food regulation is one of the most important responsibilities of the government, especially for imported goods because they should respect the standards of the country. Also, government’s control permits to keep industrial standards across the country.

  1. Should the business involved be responsible foe keeping the consumer safe? What is the goal of business in society?

Yes, definitively companies must take the responsibility to keep the consumer safe. They should apply the government standards and respect the law. In the modern and democratic society companies must grow and survive the competition; on the other hand they should provide good quality to consumers.

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Jennifer said...

It is true that companies should responsalbe for keeping comsumers safe. However, some companies ignore that. They only care about earning more money. That is the problem. As a result, government is the only one who can control them and be responsable for consumers.

June 3, 2007 at 7:25 PM

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Skyscrapers

The term "skyscraper" was used in 1880; after the first tall buildings were build in the United States. But the history of tall buildings dates back hundreds of years in the Middle Ages were engineers have engaged in a battle for the sky.

Before there were towers made of heavy stone. Towers had thick walls and the rooms were dark and overcrowded. Windows weren’t very common, it could disadvantage the structure.

With the discovery of the steel begin the new era of modern skyscrapers. The Home Insurance Building in Chicago was the first tall building to be made on a steel skeleton of vertical columns and horizontal beams.

New structural designs made skyscrapers even lighter and stronger. As skyscrapers get taller and taller, engineers were faced with a new problem: the wind. Today's tallest skyscrapers, which are almost 1,500 feet tall, must be 50 times stronger against wind than the typical 200-foot buildings of the 1940s.

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