State: FLORIDA 

Competency

Analyze the root causes, effects, and solutions of environmental problems

Scenario

You are an environmental lobbyist who has been asked to make a presentation to your state’s legislature. You will gather data about a local or regional environmental issue unique to your area or home state and prepare a PowerPoint Presentation. You may focus on any environmental issue, but the area of focus must be in your local area or home state. The environmental issue may be related to land, water, or air.

Instructions

Choose a Superfund website that is registered with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). You can use this search engine to find a Superfund site in your state. Each assignment leading up to the final assignment is evaluated and graded independently. Your instructor will provide specific grading criteria for each step of the project prior to its due date.The Superfund website will have information about contaminated areas, how they became contaminated, and who is responsible for the contamination, as well as clean-up plans for the contamination.
Your PowerPoint Presentation should include:

• Your voiceover narration using Screencast-O-Matic for each slide as well as references in APA format
• The issue (background information from the website, contamination, clean-up)
• The major players and stakeholders involved (the people who created the problem, the people who can fix the problem, and the people who are most impacted by the problem)
• Possible controversies (differences in opinion about the issue)
• Impact of this environmental issue to the surrounding environment (nearby rivers, streams, farmland, animal habitats, etc.)

Michael

Hey Class!

In the above statement regarding the relative easy life of middle class Americans comes at the price of other’s pain (Ervin, 2005), I would have to respond that I completely agree with this statement but from a different perspective.  The North American middle class is usually the target of both big business and the government.  Many middle-class Americans do not realize the size of their role in this system of consumption and waste.  No to mention, this a system of economics that is shared among many first world countries around the world and not just a problem that is associated with the United States.  The United States has a large middle class that is designed to be taxed more and subsequently spend more.  It is a daily grueling system that is at the heart of bad financial habits, such as living month-to-month, that are near impossible to get out of. Advertising is a poison that eats away at us and effectively encourages us to make wrong decisions.  Our fascination with celebrities also compounds these bad decisions by planting deceptive seeds into our minds that we can be more like them if we follow a certain product. However, regardless of their awareness, the North American middle class is at the heart of the worlds consumption of resources and it is a machine that needs to be stopped.

The video was a fascinating representation of Americans and their consumer culture.  The golden arrow, and the average Americans focus on it, was brilliant (Free Range Studios & Fox, n.d.).  I was unaware of the horrifying statistics regarding America’s percentage of the global population compared to its consumption and waste or the world’s resources.  Also, the turn-around of America’s economy growing but the average American’s happiness shrinking, was pretty profound.  I agree with Annie Leonard when she says that it may seem like a dream to be able to change the system into something that works better but doing nothing and keeping the same system and hoping for a better future is definitely a dream (Free Range Studios & Fox, n.d.). 

Sources:

Free Range Studios (Producer), & Fox, L. (Director). (n.d.). The story of stuff with Annie Leonard. [Motion picture]. Unites States: Free Range Studios. Retrieved fromhttp://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-stuff/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Ervin, A.M. (2005).  Applied Anthropology: Tools and Perspectives for Contemporary Practice. (2ndEd.). United States: Pearson Education, Inc.

 

Daniel

Citing Johnston’s 1994 research, Ervin writes, “The prosperity and relative ease of life of the North American middle class comes at the price of other’s pain.”  (2005) Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why do you agree or disagree? 

I cannot completely agree with this statement, mostly because this statement puts all the blame on a whole class of people when those people really do not have much of a say in their overall consumption. On the surface, I suppose, this statement holds water, but the thinking behind it stops a little prematurely. Sure, you can blame the North American middle class for the mass consumption of goods, which in turn comes at the costs of “other’s” pain, but I do not think the middle class can completely be blamed because they are not the ones who have engineered the market economy that they exist within.

The middle class are the victims of the upper classes policies via corporations in conjunction with their governments through the encouragement of consumption. In the video, The Story of Stuff, this very idea is explained to us. After World War II, the U.S. Government, with the help of a retailing analyst named Victor Lebow began devising the mechanism for consumerism. In the words of Victor Lebow, “Our enormously productive economy . . . demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption . . . we need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate” (Free Range Studios, n.d.).

This consumerism does come at a cost to “other’s”, like the ones discussed in Chapter 9 of our textbook. Ervin (2005), explains to us through an example provided by Barbara Johnston, that in California these “other’s” are the African American community. Johnston enlightens us by explaining that serious health problems have arisen such as cancer, respiratory disease, and malnutrition among the African American community due to their close proximity to oil refineries and power stations (Ervin, 2005).

Reference:

Ervin, A. M. (2005). Applied anthropology: Tools and perspectives for contemporary practice(2nd ed.). United States: Pearson Education, Inc.

Free Range Studios (Producer), & Fox, L. (Director). (n.d.). The story of stuff with Annie Leonard (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. [Motion picture]. Unites States: Free Range Studios. Retrieved from http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-stuff/

 

 

Short answer assignment

For this writing assignment, choose one of the two short answer prompts below and write a two-page, double spaced paper addressing the questions/topics listed.

1. Analysis and Application: What were the defining features of the NES-era games? What new genres and technologies were pioneered and explored in this time? In what way did gaming change since the first generation Atari consoles? What impact did figures like Mario have on gaming and pop culture?

2. Gameplay Analysis: Choose an NES game to play. You can either play one that someone you know has or search online as there are many free emulators. You can pick a game mentioned in this module or one of your own choosing. Play the game for at least 20-30 minutes (or longer if you’d like!) and answer the following questions and prompts.

• What is the name of the game? Who was the original developer?
• Describe the gameplay. Was it easy or hard to figure out how to play the game? Rate the level of difficulty of gameplay based on your experience.
• What is the genre of the game? What are the similarities or differences from more modern games in the same genre?
• What made the game fun? Describe the elements that were the most interesting or boring.
• Imagine that you are a game designer. What changes or improvements would you make to this game?

Review the rubric below to see how you will be graded.

2. project 

Nintendo and Game Boy – Project

In this assignment, you will use what you’ve learned about careers in video game design to create a fictional job description and resume.

Part 1: Create a job description for a fictional video game designer position. The job posting should be at least two paragraphs in length, and include a brief description of the company, summary of the job responsibilities, essential skills needed, minimum education and experience minimum requirements, and salary range.

Part 2: Create a fictional resume for a qualified candidate applying for the advertised position. You can create your own webpage or a resume document. Your resume should be organized well and look authentic, there are many free online resume templates that you may use as references. Be sure to include detailed descriptions and make the resume relevant and appropriate for the advertised position. Resume must include a name, profile, work history, education, and skills. The universities and companies can be fictional or real locations.

Review the rubric below to see how you will be graded.

  

Hello,

Please, there are terminologies you do not change went writing my papers such as people, population, intervention, program, health issue, targeted population, and lot more live it the way it is because, once you change those words the paper sound different. Please, from this day forth, if you’re rewriting papers for me, use the reference because that is a direct link to the article, journal, or a textbook read and understand and rewrite base on your understanding of your words. Please find the attached papers re-write the paper with clear understanding, and make it plagiarize free based on the question. Also, please rewrite it from paragraph to paragraph and do not mix up the paragraph. For example, do not make paragraphs one, two, or three; the paper will make no sense because the attached document is 70% plagiarized. Please, take your time to read it over because will only deal with someone who follows the instruction of my paper(s) 

Another thing, please, in my papers, can you minimize the use of PASSIVE VOICE all over my papers. For example, being included, are located, be considered, be accomplished, and the use of too many that, the & more in a sentence.

Thanks