Julienne Enge
Discussion 1: In the article “Hurricane Harvey Showcases government at its best, worst” written by Gromer Jeffers Jr., it talks about the recent hurricane, Hurricane Harvey, that happened in Texas and how the government handled it. They had to decide what to do, how to help, and how much money they would spend helping the victims that were affected during this time. “Good government matters, and it sometimes costs money” but sometimes the government is stingy and doesn’t help the best they can (Jeffers, 1). President Trump said “It happened in Texas, and Texas can handle anything,” and just because Texas can supposedly handle anything, doesn’t make it easier when horrible things happen to it (Jeffers, 2). The contentious relationship …show more content…
One of the many ways that can be used would be the Law of Inclusions. The Law of Inclusions is the idea that rocks that have rocks within them are older than the rocks they are originally in. In other words, if there is a rock with smaller rocks that are in that rock, the smaller rocks are older than the whole rock itself. This makes sense because “the intruding rock[s] must have been there first to provide the fragments” of the younger rock (Geologic Principles). To find the age of a rock using the Law of Inclusions, you will need a tiny sample of the rock. For example let’s say someone went to the beach and found a rock on the sand. Lets call that rock, rock A. They take rock A home to do some research on it and try to figure out how old it is. Rock A has other rocks and minerals embedded in it and now they must figure out how old those rocks are to figure out how old rock A truly is. Let’s call the embedded rock or rocks, Rock B. Once they did the research on the rock B and figured out how old those rocks are, they can kind of use it as a guide to try to find the age of Rock A. Because you know that rock B is older, Rock A had to form after rock B, which makes Rock A younger. The dating methods works by first having the scientist “make assumptions about the past before he can calculate an age” of the fossil or rock (Walker, 1). Once the assumption or guess is made, the scientist should do research and try to find information that backs up his assumption or educated guess. Depending on what the scientist finds “ if it does not agree with [the] other information then he [or she] will change his [or her] assumptions so that his answer does agree” with his research (Walker, 1). So it is basically just finding research that matches up with your
Discussion 1: In the article “Hurricane Harvey Showcases government at its best, worst” written by Gromer Jeffers Jr., it talks about the recent hurricane, Hurricane Harvey, that happened in Texas and how the government handled it. They had to decide what to do, how to help, and how much money they would spend helping the victims that were affected during this time. “Good government matters, and it sometimes costs money” but sometimes the government is stingy and doesn’t help the best they can (Jeffers, 1). President Trump said “It happened in Texas, and Texas can handle anything,” and just because Texas can supposedly handle anything, doesn’t make it easier when horrible things happen to it (Jeffers, 2). The contentious relationship …show more content…
One of the many ways that can be used would be the Law of Inclusions. The Law of Inclusions is the idea that rocks that have rocks within them are older than the rocks they are originally in. In other words, if there is a rock with smaller rocks that are in that rock, the smaller rocks are older than the whole rock itself. This makes sense because “the intruding rock[s] must have been there first to provide the fragments” of the younger rock (Geologic Principles). To find the age of a rock using the Law of Inclusions, you will need a tiny sample of the rock. For example let’s say someone went to the beach and found a rock on the sand. Lets call that rock, rock A. They take rock A home to do some research on it and try to figure out how old it is. Rock A has other rocks and minerals embedded in it and now they must figure out how old those rocks are to figure out how old rock A truly is. Let’s call the embedded rock or rocks, Rock B. Once they did the research on the rock B and figured out how old those rocks are, they can kind of use it as a guide to try to find the age of Rock A. Because you know that rock B is older, Rock A had to form after rock B, which makes Rock A younger. The dating methods works by first having the scientist “make assumptions about the past before he can calculate an age” of the fossil or rock (Walker, 1). Once the assumption or guess is made, the scientist should do research and try to find information that backs up his assumption or educated guess. Depending on what the scientist finds “ if it does not agree with [the] other information then he [or she] will change his [or her] assumptions so that his answer does agree” with his research (Walker, 1). So it is basically just finding research that matches up with your