This is really long... "Biological metabolism——Things go back to the soil should all be safe in soil.So that's biological nutrient. This is aluminum, pure aluminum. This is what we should call a technical nutrient. And this gets plug through industrial cycles over and over again. Today's a chair, tomorrow may be an airplane part, could be a can. So that's cradle to cradle in terms of materials." What does "And this gets plug through industrial cycles over and over again. " mean in the paragraph? The sentence really bothers me(Actually so does the whole paragraph...> <)Any explaination is appreciated especially if it comes before tonight..Thanks!

What does “labeling at school" mean? Is is possible that it means children being classified into different groups on the basis of their intelligence or their parents' social status? Thank you.

Sentences to be corrected (2) 2. Just as Joseph Ki-Zerbo, a historian from Burkina Faso, West Africa said, “Our cultures are being reduced little by little to nothing. These technologies have no passport and no visa, but they are affecting us and shaping us.” 3. And this practice of promoting, distinguishing, separating, or artificially injecting the culture or language of one culture into another, and usually carried out by a large, economically or militarily power nation to those smaller and less important ones is called Cultural imperialism. Thanks very much.

Can anyone help correcting the sentences? I know there is something wrong with these sentences but just dont know how to correct them. 1. The spread of American consumer culture brings about questions in the cultural sphere---living a life which is filled with McDonald, Coca-Colas, Nikes, Hollywood films, will someday our mind be Americanized as well, especially when we find ourselves surrounded by all kinds of American cultural commodities? The term “cultural commodities” refers to products of the print and audio-visual industries including movies, television, publishing, radio, and music. These products are vehicles for the transmission of values, lifestyles, and ideologies that many see as corrosive to the recipient culture.

As a “welfare state,” Britain has achieved cradle to grave care for all its citizens.Is that true? ——Especially,with the recent reforms taken into consideration. Muchas gracias.

Is anything awkward with the use of "take the dust of" in this sentence? Hopefully, there will be such a day when the our country's *** industry no longer has to take the dust of other's and is able to create its own era. My writing teacher(an old, ancient teacher but not a native speaker) underlined the phrase, indicating there was something wrong with it but was too lazy to explain why so I am basically getting cracked

What does "these" in brackets mean? We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of enviroment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between 【these】, as being not only beneficial, but essential to the future progress of the race. Just point out the what the "these" refers to is ok. But it will be great if you can explain what the whole sentence mean.

Are Britain’s fundamental beliefs “religious”? (For example, the Ten Commandments?)