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The Keystone XL pipeline was commissioned in 2010. It “is a $7 billion pipeline approximately 1,661 miles in length and 36 inches wide” (Palliser 2012, 8). The company that would run this project is TransCanada and the pipeline “would run from Hardisty, Alberta, to Nederland, Texas, and traverse Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas” (Palliser 2012, 8). The media has written about the different perspectives on this proposed project. The Indian Country Today article is…

manages to do it at ambient temperature and pressure with raw materials, dead flies and water, it does suggest we’ve still got a bit to learn”. (TED, 2011). Using nature as an inspiration and template gives the potential for huge savings in resources and energy. Biomimicry is a critical element in helping us move from the “industrial age to the ecological age” (The VELUX Group, 2013). The sustainable revolution will shift the linear, wasteful way of using resources to a closed loop model. We…

This semester in our community and regional planning class we learned about the general realities of planning. Our last and final assignment is to read and write a review and assessment of The Best-Laid Plans by Randal O' Tool and The Geography of Nowhere by James Kunstler. Both were books that had some good points and at times were a little bit dry and hard to get through, but I drudged through it to deliver this fantastic review and assessment. The Geography of Nowhere is a thirteen-chapter…

Fracking for Freedom The United states has been feeling the squeeze for natural resources and domesticated production of products over the last few years. (“Dimick”) With gas prices rising and the threat of pollution in the air the people have been looking for alternative solutions to the problems facing us today. Over the last decade or so a new trend in the way we extract our natural gases has gained popularity. Hydraulic fracturing better known now as “fracking” has become the most…

people make are tainted with errors and swayed in large part by a huge range of biases. In their book “Judgment under Uncertainty”, psychologists Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky published their findings on cognitive bias in which they define cognitive bias as the disposition that people have of making decisions or taking actions in an illogical manner. Some biases may relate to memory and some biases may have to do more with attention. For example, the way an individual remembers a…

The political parties have been part of the United States government for as long as anyone can remember, but the question is: should they be? There are multiple perspectives on this, one being that political parties benefit the system, another being that political parties are the problem. As a country, it’s not often considered that we could be doing something wrong --especially in government -- but it’s time to open our minds and consider it. Long before many can actually remember, George…

“Some people believe the possibility of giving offense… to be more important than stating the truth…” Dr. Dutton touches on a point that is all too true in our society today. The fact is, people are going to think that you are racist, sexist, or maleficent if you are not politically correct. This does more damage than benefit, for political correctness was created to help bring awareness to what people state , so as to not publicly offend others. Rather than using Political Correctness as it was…

for people who are highly involved in an issue to see news coverage of that issue as biased, particularly as biased against their own point of view” (Choi, Yang & Chang, 2009) Research regarding the existence of the HMP in society rejects the idea of bias within the media and points toward biases within individuals. By interviewing two people possessing opposing political ideologies, one especially liberal and the other exceptionally conservative, this has…

Form is Self-deception and it includes self-enhancement, denying and self-favoring. Self-presentation can be more negative such as exaggerating things but more positive in social reliability. ( Paulhus& Vazire, 2007) Socially desirable responding bias. Personality test score can be influenced by ‘non-test-relevant’ determinants (Crowne & Marlowe, 1960). The external motivators what we have adopted will affect the personality will result in inaccurate result in the…

they use physical punishment on their children, from 1 (not at all) to 7 (often.) Higher total scores represent more severe discipline behavior, which, as compared to some other research methods such as observation, can suffer from social desirability bias among other validity issues. For the child, another self-report inventory method is used called the Children’s Attributional Style Questionnaire. According to the article, this is a 48-item forced-choice measure designed to assess…