ipl-logo

Bag It Culture

696 Words3 Pages

“Approximately one hundred billion plastic bags used every year” (Bag It). The movie Bag It focuses on how plastic is used today and the effect that it has on people and the environment. There is a significant usage of material and nonmaterial culture that are used throughout the movie. Material culture is physical objects that could belong to a person in society. This can include any buildings, vehicles, or physical objects that can be touched. Nonmaterial culture is ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of a society. Material and nonmaterial culture are connected with the physical objects symbolizing cultural ideas. Material culture that is used in the movie shows the need of plastic bags that are thought to be a necessity in our society. According to the movie “plastic bags are the number one consumer item in the world” (Bag It). The movie shows the use of plastic bags as material culture throughout our daily lives. Plastic bags are a part of material culture because it is a physical object that is used by people …show more content…

In the movie the idea that is shown is that “people think that plastic bags just go away” (Bag It). The thought that plastic bags just disappear when they are done with them is nonmaterial culture. What people do with plastic bags when they are done with them are that they eventually throw them out with no thought at all about what is going to happen to the bags after they are thrown in the trash. When the plastic bags are thrown out they can end up piling up in landfills or blowing away and ending up in the ocean. This thought that once its out of sight its out of mind is what is causing problems with the environment and our oceans. In the movie, the guy goes around asking people what they think happens to plastic bags when they are done using them and it shows what people think and how our material and nonmaterial culture are

Show More
Related
833 Words | 4 Pages

The opinion piece, "Ban the bag before it's too late", published by The Daily Chronicle on 27 May 2008, contends to the Federal Government as well as the citizens of Australia to inform them that they need to ban plastic bags in Australia. Plastic bags contributes to environmental problems, the potential threats to wildlife and the fact that other nations have already been making progress to ban plastic bags shows that Australia has to make a change as well. The author sets their article in an authoritative tone towards all citizens of Australia to emphasise the negative effects of plastic bags. Furthermore, the image provided represented the plastic bags being disposed of and being dumped in the environment which is another example that contributes

Read More
2070 Words | 9 Pages

Nonmaterial culture/ pg.36 is a group 's way of thinking and doing. In the video most of the families are thinking the same things, which is to find work and be able to help provide and support the family. All of the children are concerned with the parents ' health because of the tides labor that they all endure. The one girl talks bout how when her mother got sick it was a very hard on the whole family because the responsibilities of the mom were distributed throughout the rest of family and it was hard for all of them to work through their normal activities and care for their mom. Also, the one’s dad talks about how he doesn’t think that he can work in the fields anymore due to his old age and the work getting too hard.

Read More
533 Words | 3 Pages

Arguing over the use of plastic bags has stirred large debates over their effects on the ecosystem. In Adam B. Summer’s article, he argues that plastic bags do not present vast amounts environmental issues as some people believe. Thus, he provides his argument over the debate of plastic bags throughout his article. Summer utilizes the ethos, logos, and the pathos appeal in numerous aspects of his argument. Because of his creative usage of these appeals, Summer presents his readers with an extremely well-written argument.

Read More
821 Words | 4 Pages

The film also pokes fun at a very cliché movie plot line. It shows a man in love and chasing that girl for almost the entire film. The film also mocks our idea of what life is like. It is a daily schedule that never changes and we do the same exact things every single day. The film takes this to a new level by having the entire neighborhood look the same and everybody says the same things and makes the same actions every day.

Read More
992 Words | 4 Pages

The audience have been taught through the different perspectives of the characters on how these Global Issues effect their lives. Poverty is the main Global Issue analysed in the novel with factors such as Child Labour and Government Corruption contributing towards it. It is important to remember that these Global Issues aren’t just fictional ideas written about in novels, they are real complications going on all around the world. We are lucky to have novels such as ‘Trash’ to help us learn about what is really going on in the world because the things that are happening in our world right now aren’t worth just turning a blind

Read More
1266 Words | 6 Pages

This materialist approach shapes culture by putting importance to who dominates over who, who has the most power and finally creates a gap between the societies social

Read More
529 Words | 3 Pages

Humanity just kept pushing and has grown so reliant on everyday plastic commodities shows how they have become desensitized to the major effects of plastics on the ecosystem. Furthermore, the quote “we poured high-potency energy tonics or Coke/down our throats, because this time in history/had sapped us so thoroughly and/we were desperate” (lines 4-7) demonstrates humanity’s selfishness and failure to take accountability. The personification of time “sapp(ing)” humanity dry is used to show the numerous excuses humanity has made for their naiveness. This observation explains that humanity seemingly has little to no care for the world around them and excuses themselves in the case that it was an act of “desperation,” selfishly disregarding the rising effects of littering and mass plastic production. By continuing to use plastic products, the speaker implies that humanity found the presence of plastic technology beneficiary and easy to them, so they took advantage of it and abused it to the point it has made a massive impact on the environment everywhere and refused to look at their fault in this decline.

Read More
270 Words | 2 Pages

Culture is a variation of different concept, culture consists of language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors and material objects that are passed from one generation to the next. Sociologist describes two aspects of human cultures as nonmaterial culture and material culture. Nonmaterial culture is a group’s ways of thinking and doing things. Material culture is the material object that distinguishes a group of people, such as their art, buildings, weapons, clothes and jewelry. Material culture in Chain, Iran and Ethiopia differ from the material culture in the United States by the clothes they wear, hairstyles, buildings, eating utensils etc.

Read More
557 Words | 3 Pages

Non-material culture is the notions or ideas that shape our communities, family units, and society. It is the sense of duty that provides comfort to the young, elderly and infirm. Nonmaterial culture is the idiosyncrasies that define our neighborhoods and are unique to those groups of people. It is that silly song that we sing at every Christmas gathering and reminds us of holidays past. One of the values that I admire of Puerto Rican culture is the importance of family.

Read More
1357 Words | 6 Pages

This image shows that even though there is so much trash everywhere, they still do not care. you may think that those are buildings but infect they are mountains of trash blocks. This imagery of the trash covering earth serves as a powerful metaphor for the consequences of excessive consumption and environmental degradation, it highlights the extent of human impact on the planet and the consequences of neglecting the environment. By showing the earth as a barren wasteland devoid of life, the film emphasizes the devastating effect of overconsumption on the environment and the importance of sustainable practices. The lack of dialogue in the movie allows the visual imagery to speak for itself, effectively conveying the message of environmental degradation without the need for excessive word use.

Read More
540 Words | 3 Pages

The use of plastic bags has been debated for years. Some people prefer to use them, and others would rather use substitutes, and most have their personal reasons why they lean one way or the other in the argument. In this article, the author addresses why he believes plastic bags should not be banned. The author, Adam B. Summers, uses various literary tools and appeals throughout his article, "Bag Ban Bad for Freedom and Environment," to support his argument that banning plastic bags would do more harm than good. Logical appeal is the most frequently used literary device in the passage.

Read More
541 Words | 3 Pages

Due to the negative effects caused from plastic it will always play a role in our environment. One hundred different chemicals have been created after the 1950s to the current day. Something people do not realize is that throwing a plastic wrapper on the ground will end up in a birds stomach, burning plastic in a fire will end up in the air we breathe, and recycling plastic will end up back in our homes. The author states, “I don’t even shop anymore. Anything I need will just float

Read More
2007 Words | 9 Pages

Invasive species is a majority factor to the loss of biodiversity across the United States. The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) concluded in a study of invasive species that they are responsible for the decline or extinction of roughly 42% of endangered or threatened species in the United States. Invasive species is an organism that is not native to a location or ecosystem and offer the potential to cause harm to not only the environment, but also to human health and the local economy. The introduction of these invasive species into an environment has had significant impacts on the conditions in which native species survive and their ability to adapt to counter the new threat. Invasive species compete with native species for food and resources

Read More
857 Words | 4 Pages

Imagine what happens if we keep on polluting our planet? What happens to our future generation? Since plastic takes years to biodegrade, if we keep polluting our environment with plastic, then our future generation will suffer from the environment around them. It also means that plastic and other trash will continue polluting the ocean, which can cause thousands of sea animals to go extinct, providing us with less source of food. Not only sea animals, but animals all over the world might extinct or become endangered because of pollution.

Read More
745 Words | 3 Pages

Everyday people buy plastic things from the cafeteria, from plastic containers, lids on cups, and things as small as straws, and like 50% of plastic used it will be thrown away after one use. However, do you ever stop and think, what happens to the plastic? If you’re thinking that it just magically goes away you 're wrong. It will most likely end up in a landfill somewhere or in the ocean, and as you may think that your actions do not impact the world, think again. Everyone in the world has at least used one piece of plastic, adding to the problem of plastic pollution and helping certifying the terrifying statisticc that acooording to the 2018 Earth day video, “by 2050 there will more plastic in the ocean than fish”, which almost is impossible to think of.

Read More

More about Bag It Culture

Related Topics

Open Document