...discussion on the issues of wars in the middle east, tensions in the 38th parallel, new viruses infecting people at different corners of the world, the iPhone and the Facebook. Of all the issues that have taken center stage of debate worldwide in recent decades, one issue, ‘Global Climate Change’, stands apart from all the rest; the reason being the sheer magnitude of the consequences it can have. There is no greater substantial threat to the earth that we know today, than the climate change. Though there is some debate on the theory of global climate change being driven by our civilization, there are enough evidences that prove it’s not only too late to question its reality but it might already be too late to reverse...
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...Climate change has only been a major issue for a few decades, but has quickly become one of the most important problems facing the world today. Many solutions have been proposed including renewable energy usage and decreasing carbon emissions. The latest solutions are pushing the boundaries of modern science to the extreme to come up with a way to remove the CO2 that has already been emitted as we approach a “point of no return.” Scientist around the world are rushing to come up with a way to take CO2 out of the atmosphere and turn it into a useful fuel. The most recent development involves using sunlight to create electricity to split CO2 into CO and O2 and H2O into H2 and O2. Most of the leftover energy is then used to heat the CO2 and...
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...Climate Change: Debate Unit Research Design Journal Marco Palomares [Working Families] Mr. Delcambre Professional Communications 1B April 20th, 2017 Introduction Since the 1760s, fossil fuel has become the primary source of energy. We used fossil fuels for over two hundred years. Today, fossil fuel such as oil, powers most of our modes of transportation. Then coal and natural gas powers our electricity. Over the two hundred years we used fossil fuels, it has developed a problem that only got bigger over time. A problem that we face not only as a nation but as the human race. The problem is climate change. Climate change is caused by natural or non-natural greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. Modern human activities have increased the release of non-naturally occurring greenhouse gases because we have boost our demand of burning more fossil fuel. The following design cycle explains my point of view [Working families] on climate change. Criterion A Need for...
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...Scientist around the world have joined forces to explain and discuss in numerous ways, on how climate change has been affecting our very own planet for the past few decades. There have been, and maybe always will be, people who just will not listen and turn a blind eye when given irrefutable facts on the situation; arguing that the other side of the argument is completely wrong. Why is that though? Are we, as human beings, to deep within our own selfish motives to even think about the environment around us and the destructive forces that we are capable of? Although there are many organizations around the world such as the United Nations Environment Programme, Carbon Disclosure Project, and the Environmental Defense Fund, we should continue...
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...A full-fledged climate war is brewing on the horizons of human civilization; one that pays no regards to political borders neither to the conceited significance humans place on wealth and power. To the world's dismay, there will be no negotiations and no avoidance of its consequences. Guided by the means of industrial revolution, humans are extruding a catastrophic level of fossil fuel born greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, enough to instigate dramatic disruptions in meteorological and climate patterns. However, the situation is exceptionally far greater in complication. This global epidemic has saturated the Earth with geological disasters, whether it be the scorching wildfires of Northern California or the wrath of Hurricane Irma, climate change has strong, even direct ties to these devastations. Additionally, climate change...
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...fdASFSDFVASSSwsgregreggregrewggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg gggggggggggggggAds API Instruments signal conditioning products 5-25 % Discounts available www.omnicontrols.com Web Design Degree Get Free Info on Tuition & Courses To Start Your Career in Web Design www.campusexplorer.com/WebDesign Pursuasion Points 82 Strategic Exercises for Writing High-Scoring Persuasive Essays www.maupinhouse.com Homework / Study Tips Ads •College Students •Research Paper Example •Essay Writing •Speeches •Best Essays Looking for a topic you can really sink your teeth into? The best topic is one that you truly care about, and one that you're prepared to research. You'll have to back up your claim (whichever side you choose) with lots of evidence and support. These topics are sure to spark some interest. Note:If these topics are a little too controversial, try Persuasive Essay Topics. 1. Is global climate change man-made? (Find Sources) 2. Is the death penalty effective? (Find Sources) 3. Is our election process fair? 4. Do colleges put too much stock in standardized test scores? (Find Sources) 5. Is torture ever acceptable? 6. Should men get paternity leave from work? 7. Is a lottery a good idea? 8. Do we have a fair taxation system? 9. Do curfews keep teens out of trouble? 10. Is cheating out of control? 11. Are we too dependent on computers...
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...4/25/15 Mark Zeigler Persuasive Essay 1 “According to news reporters, every year it’s getting warmer, these violent weather patterns, some say it’s just nature’s karma.” These lyrics from Tallahassee’s own, Dead Prez, go to show the immutable fact that “global warming” is applicable terminology for our current state of existence. I believe it is beyond our intellectual capacity to examine whether or not the weather is changing, because any rational person could do the research and understand that it is quite apparent. If Dead Prez isn’t credible enough, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal”. The only thing I can conceivable try to persuade people of, is that we are living within system a being ran by incomprehensibly short sighted and perceivably destructive people. This essay will examine the idiocracy of Republican leaders in Florida, the economic manipulation behind environmental destruction, and simple solutions to a simple problem. “I’m not scientist, man”. These are the words of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) He is also quoted saying, “I do not believe that human activity is causing the dramatic changes to our climate the way scientists are portraying it”. I think that’s pretty hysterical, given the fact that this man, who is not a scientist, was appointed a chair on the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard. Any study of the climate since 2000, or carbon...
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...on their way of pursuing careers. This situation is pretty serious in this society since discrimination is a big issue that people are fighting again these days. Our justice is actually one of the aspects that this problem involves in and we could not imagine a civilization without justice. The main body of the people the author talks about is females who particularly studies engineering, and the points the author made was persuasive and sufficient since the results or outcomes in the article are mainly from realistic surveys and experiments that scientists already have conducted. This article makes me realize that even in this well developed society, discrimination still exists in many other forms other than simply race or gender. Just as the author mentions, the pregnancy is still a main reason why most of the companies do not take female workers seriously and put them in significant positions. People always know that women would eventually be pregnant, deliver a baby, raise the baby and take care of the family. The role of female...
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...Climate change is the single biggest negative environmental change in our time. One thing that the world fears as human bean is our ice caps melting in the northern hemisphere. People do not believe global warming is happening in our time or even true facts at all about global warming. Every day chemist and scientist become one step closer to finding out more things mankind can do to prevent this from happening. Some people believe global warming is false information given by the world media or government and is not true at all. This persuasive essay is to convince all readers that global warming is not just an opinion; it is a true fact happening in our time slowly every day, and that the world can do something to prevent this tragic incident...
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...Topics for Critical Thinking Project Instructions: 1. Students gather in groups of four or five. 2. Each group writes an essay of about 1.000 words about the chosen topic. The essay must cite public opinions around the topic and include references. 3. At the end of the essay, there need to be Venn diagrams or truth tables to test the validity of the arguments that are cited or made in your essay. 4. In the oral presentation, the slides must display the arguments and the diagrams to test validity. 1. Sustainable development becomes a challenge because we have conflicting needs. We want fresh, clean air to breathe but we also want to buy cars We want to conserve forests but we need trees to build houses We want to swim in clean waters but we need factories. Factories usually use water from rivers to power machinery or to cool down machinery a. How do we balance conflicting needs? b. What are the important steps that have to be undertaken to achieve the goals of sustainable development? c. What arguments could you present to the country’s leaders? Use good arguments to present your point of view. Use additional tools such as Venn diagram, truth table, chart, graphs to support your arguments. 2. Alternative sources of energy such as wind, solar, hydropower and biomass can be harnessed to meet Vietnam’s rapidly increasing demand for energy. While there has been some early success, deployment...
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...Gerardo Mosquera GLOBALIZATION: SOME CULTURAL PREDICAMENTS The opening pages give an overview of the life and works of Gerardo Mosquera and some of the works he has done and written. The focus of this body of work is that of globalization, Mosquera seeks to define what globalization is, whom it affects and how it impacts on regions. The globalization that we imagine i.e. having interconnectivity with each other around the whole planet is different to that of the author. His beliefs are that globalization is a series of circuits passing information among each other. Essentially it is a series of centres and circuits connected. The information that these connections transfer is economics, culture and basic communication. articlemarket.blogspot.com Globalisation has an impacted on culture, by making culture known to the wider world seeks to legitimize it and make new epistemes. Instead of expanding our global space globalization seeks to make the global experience more intimate. Urbanization is the product of globalization when people move from the edges usually consisting of the countryside they are drawn to these centers (megalopolis). www.communicationagents.com The influx of people lead to city growth and further development and a bi-product of this urbanization is that of physical and mental displacement. Globalization and borders are linked, within this movement the world is being brought closer together and both physical and mental boundaries/borders...
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...Pena Babayev ENGL 1312 Dr. West-Fort Persuasive Essay Rough Draft March 4, 2014 My First Trip I have had so many life experiences some of them are amazed and some bad. You cannot learn if you don't have any bad experiences or struggles in your life. I had full of amazing and incredible events, wonders that changing my moods and attitudes. One of the best and the most excited things I have ever had to do was my trip to Lake Archman, the pearl and treasure of Turkmen land. It is usual sunny day when we were about to leaving our busy and noisy city and get to the long road that are passing through the high and huge mountains of Turkmen Kopetdag. People went to the mountains on vacation for two reasons: to have fun and enjoy the view. We wanted to enjoy both of them. But first we agreed to go to Lake Archman. And while we were on the way to lake, my teacher said: “Listen! Now we are on the way to the Archman, and I want to you not to sleep in order to enjoy the beauty of nature.” And some of us really didn’t sleep after her advice, trying to get a real pleasure from staring at the grand mountains. As a final point, we reaching the place where everybody changed their face and had a big smile, which showed that all of us were really pleased of seeing our magic lake. Next day, after having a good lunch, my friends and classmates go to the beach for swimming and having a sunbath. When I saw the shining and blue like a sky water that was charming all of us, I hurried...
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...Critical Thinking: How to Read and Analyze Arguments Jim Wohlpart Spring 2007 Critical Thinking: A Definition Critical thinking is a mode of thinking where the thinker consciously analyzes an issue or problem, while at the same time assessing the thinking process. Critical thinking presupposes rigorous standards and mindfulness in their use. It depends upon effective communication and problem-solving abilities, as well as a commitment to overcome our inherent egocentricism and sociocentrism. Finally, it improves with practice. (Adapted from CriticalThinking.org) Critical Thinking: Not! I believe I have omitted mentioning that in my first voyage from Boston, being becalmed off Block Island, our people set about catching cod and hauled up a great many. Hitherto I had stuck to my resolution of not eating animal food, and on this occasion, I considered with my master Tryon the taking of every fish as a kind of unprovoked murder, since none of them had or ever could do us any injury that might justify the slaughter. All this seemed very reasonable. But I had formerly been a great lover of fish, and when this came hot out of the frying pan, it smelt admirably well. I balanced some time between principle and inclination, till I recollected that when the fish were opened I saw smaller fish taken out of their stomachs. Then thought I, if you eat one another, I don’t see why we mayn’t eat you. So I dined upon cod very heartily and continued to eat with other people, returning only now...
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...section Vi essay forms Many people use the term “essay” to mean any paper written for a class. In actuality, there are many different types of essays, each of which has a unique purpose, form, and style. We call these different types of essays “modes of discourse,” and they include expository, persuasive, and comparecontrast essays to name just a few. This section of the Guide has a dual purpose. First, various types of essays are described and suggestions are included about how to approach each particular type of writing. Second, the sample essays are good tools for you to see how these different essays look in their final form. These are not templates (no essay can be a carbon copy of another even in form), but they will give you a good idea of what a final piece of writing for each mode of discourse looks like. It would be advantageous to critically analyze the form and content of each sample against the instruction for how to write each type of essay. chapter 21 expository essays Jennifer propp An expository essay explains something using facts rather than opinions. The purpose of this type of essay is to inform an audience about a subject. It is not intended to persuade or present an argument of any kind. Writing this type of essay is a good way to learn about all the different perspectives on a topic. Many students use the expository essay to explore a variety of topics, and do so in a wide range of formats, including “process” and “definition”...
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...11 Position Papers I f you like to argue, you will enjoy writing position papers and argument essays. The purpose of a position paper or argument essay is to explain both sides of a controversy and then argue for one side over the other. This two-sided approach is what makes position papers and argument essays different from commentaries (Chapter 10). A commentary usually only expresses the author’s personal opinion about a current issue or event. A position paper or argument essay explains both sides and discusses why one is stronger or better than the other. Your goal is to fairly explain your side and your opponents’ side of the issue, while highlighting the differences between these opposing views. You need to use solid reasoning and factual evidence to persuade your readers that your view is more valid or advantageous than your opponents’ view. In college, your professors will ask you to write position papers and argument essays to show that you understand both sides of an issue and can support one side or the other. In the workplace, corporate position papers are used to argue for or against business strategies or alternatives. The ability to argue effectively is a useful skill that will help you throughout your life. 221 CHAPTER AT–A–GLANCE Position Papers This diagram shows two basic organizations for a position paper, but other arrangements of these sections will work too. In the pattern on the left, the opponents’ position is described up front with its...
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