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Coal Energy vs Wind Energy The United States alone burns more than a billion tons of coal every year, making up more than half of the electricity used in the US from coal power. However, burning fossil fuels also causes 78 percent of the United States global warming emissions, 32 percent being from coal. In order to combat these pollutants and hopefully cut down prices different cleaner, and renewable energy alternatives are being used instead. One of these newer and effective forms of…

An Inconvenient Truth: Rhetorical Description Global warming it is happening what is it and how does it affect them, these are common concerns and questions that come to mind when looking at these posters. While analyzing these two posters, the first thing that is noticeable is one has penguins walking through the desert, and the other has factories and smoke is rolling out of the chimneys. These two posters represent crises that are happening within our climate. What these two posters…

What is the effect of temperature on the chirping rate of a cricket (Teleogryllus, commudus)? Research: /3 Male crickets make chirps/song in the attempt to attract a female so they can reproduce. The crickets create the chirp noises by rubbing their wings closest to their head (forewings). The song mentioned above (calling song) is the song the crickets use to attempt to attract a female. A cricket varies the number of chirps in a certain amount of time. Using the chirps you can…

Inspired by a forsaken orange that sat in a North Carolina parking lot, Jonathan Bloom wrote American Wasteland to examine the growing problem of food-waste in America. I think Bloom did a tremendous job by presenting this looming issue. His numerous anecdotes pertaining to food-waste creates an innate sense of relatability, which in turn direct readers’ attention to the statistical and logical presentations of the issue. This is an impressive feat because Bloom avoided coming off as preachy or…

Deforestation in the Amazon Did you know that it is said that within 100 years, there will be no more rainforests? The rate of deforestation is the same as the loss of thirty-six football fields every minute. One and a half acres of forest is cut down every second. Although it allows for people to generate more revenue, deforestation should be banned because it creates more carbon dioxide in the air, promotes the development of drought, contributes to the extinction of wildlife and is a limited…

being a prominent figure among ethnic minorities, Martin Luther King Jr., as evidenced by his support of sanitation workers in Memphis, supported any cause which he saw as worthy. What he saw worth in; however, was not just the poor, the minorities, the disenfranchised, or the oppressed, but those who he saw as being slighted of true justice and true equality. Perhaps this mentality is what drove him to comment on environmental protection—a cause which not only affects minorities or the poor,…

Entitled Americans: How our Excessive Food Waste Contributes to Climate Change Briana Clementz Denver South high school Spring 2017  Abstract How large of an impact does the food we waste have on the environment? Or better yet, how much food do we actually waste annually? According to Ira Flatow of NPR, we waste approximately 33 million tons of food in the United States every single year. By using scientific and argumentative resources, I was able to research just how large of an impact…

The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) are endangered due to accelerated climate warming, which is affecting sea ice thickness which polar bears rely on for finding food and mates (Elvin 2014). An approach to help support polar bear subpopulations is the Large Marine Ecosystem (LME) methodology. This method is used for assessing, monitoring, and managing ecosystems as well as taking into account of human activities; fishing, pollution, ecosystem health, etc (Elvin 2014). There are seventeen arctic…

Costco Wholesale Corporation began in 1983 in Seattle, Washington. It is the second largest retailer store in the nation and serves too many communities. Employing over 135,000 full and part time employees in the United States alone, and around 200,000 employees worldwide. A corporation that is efficient in operations, has unmatched savings and is accessible through membership has a vision to give the customer a low efficient discount price and still continue to financially make a profit. The…

Global Warming: A Natural process or a Self-Inflicted Wound? One of the biggest issues that today’s world is facing is global warming, a topic of concern to almost every human being in the globe; we have seen its effects on the crops and lands, we have experienced the scorching heat and thermal discomfort and, more often than not, we have blamed the industrialized nations for it (conveniently disregarding the fact that we use most of the products these demonized countries generate). But what is…