Paragraph Coherence

Chat rooms are very effective resources. The chat room can provide a learning enviorment outside of the class room. A lot of classes around campus have the chat rooms set up privately for only the students registered in that class. This is a security device that makes sure people who do not belong to a particular class do not gain access to the room. Private chats can be set up if that intrests the individual using the room. The chat room is a good resource to use inside and outside of the classroom

Dogs are a more suitable and effecstive alternative to weapons. Dogs served as the preffered alternative to excesive force around housing developments off campus for students attending UCLA. The purpose of canines in the police force is to an alternative to excessive and deadly force. It has been concluded by the 6th Circuit Court that, since deaths are rare in police dog cases, deploying dogs cannot be condemned as deadly force,

Cohesive Exercise

Kluger provides evidence for the fact that global warming is occurring and how. * He claims that humans are responsible for the initial start of global warming but there are many other factors which have a much more direct impact on the rising global temperature. Kluger goes on to talk about the melting of main land ice which in the long run could raise the sea level by 23 feet which would put a large chunk of Florida underwater and all of Bangladesh(Kluger 272). @What really caught my attention in this article was about the “feedback loops”. The idea of so many sources that increase the temperature of our earth is alarming. @[In addition to] the fact that just the melting of permafrost could put out between 200 and 800 gigatons of CO2 compared to the 7, the entire human output of CO2. @ [Finally] the piece then goes on to discuss the effects of global warming will have on our planet.
*Lindzen discusses the idea of global warming not being as big of a deal as it should be. @[Also] he talks about those who go against the idea of global warming receive less money and also are ridiculed for their ideas. @ [While] Lindzen does agree that the planet has warmed over the last 100 years he says this is not that important. @[As well as] he refutes the idea that is brought up in the first piece about the increasing temperatures causing more violent storms. He says “less differences in temperature, you have less excitation of extratropical storms, not more”. @[He goes on to] explain an experiment that was done which he believes helps refute the idea of global warming but the scientific community “discredited” it.
*[In my opinion] the article by Kluger was much more effective than that of Lindzen in that it provided much more evidence to the point it is trying to defend. @[While] Lindzen does site some information there is much less than that of Kluger. Kluger provides many examples of the causes of global warming and also the effects that it has on our planet. @[In contrast] it is much better than that of Lindzen in that he provides little explanation to global warming and also the effects

Tiger Burn

I am still new to USC so i have never attended a tiger burn and might never. While tiger burn is tradition that has been going on for years this year in particular is the year the tradition is either put on hold or stoped. This originally is just a way that students can show support for their school and football team. At Clemson there is also a tradition of having cocky's funeral then burning it which this year has also stopped. This is the year that these stoped because of the fire that happened in which several USC students and one clemson student died a few weeks ago. The change in policy can go from having this huge ordeal to remebering those who died and having just a pep rally instead of a huge deal with the tiger burn.

Going Green

Both “Life in the Green Lane” and “Going Nuclear: A Green Makes the Case” refute common ideas that people have about hybrid cars and nuclear energy respectively. Life in the Green Lane talks about the idea that hybrid cars might not be as beneficial to the environment as many think. The idea is discussed while some "hybrid" cars get great gas miles others get little even compared to the dreaded SUVs. It also goes on to talk about how hybrid cars only get great gas mileage in the city while going long distances they actually get worse mpgs. He goes on to suggest that it might be better in some cases to drive a regular gas car that gets good mpgs rather than just go for hybrid. Moore’s article Going Nuclear is an article that argues that nuclear energy is the only good alternative to standard coal energy. He goes on to refute many of the common ideas that are thought to be problematic with nuclear energy. In both of these articles the writer is an expert in their respective field be it a writer for a car magazine or a cofounder of Greenpeace. The fact that they are expert in their field provides support to the fact that they are very knowledgeable on the subject.

CHP 7 Question 4

Both “Climate of Fear” by Lindzen and “Be Worried Very Worried” by Kluger discuss aspects of global warming. While both articles are about global warming they differ greatly on there points of view.
Kluger provides evidence for the fact that it is occurring and how. He claims that humans are responsible for the initial start of global warming but there are many other factors which have a much more direct impact on the rising global temperature. Kluger goes on to talk about the melting of main land ice which in the long run could raise the sea level by 23 feet which would put a large chunk of Florida underwater and all of Bangladesh(Kluger 272). What really caught my attention in this article was about the “feedback loops”. The idea of so many sources that increase the temperature of our earth is alarming. The fact that just the melting of permafrost could put out between 200 and 800 gigatons of CO2 compared to the 7, the entire human output of CO2. The piece then goes on to discuss the effects of global warming will have on our planet.
Lindzen discusses the idea of global warming not being as big of a deal as it should be. He talks about those who go against the idea of global warming receive less money and also are ridiculed for there ideas. While Lindzen does agree that the planet has warmed over the last 100 years he says this is not that important. He refutes the idea that is brought up in the first piece about the increasing temperatures causing more violent storms. He says “less differences in temperature, you have less excitation of extratropical storms, not more”. He goes on to explain an experiment that was done which he believes helps refute the idea of global warming but the scientific community “discredited” it.
In my opinion the article by Kluger was much more effective than that of Lindzen in that it provided much more evidence to the point it is trying to defend. While Lindzen does site some information there is much less than that of Kluger. Kluger provides many examples of the causes of global warming and also the effects that it has on our planet which is much better than that of Lindzen in that he provides little explanation to global warming and also the effects.

Topic Proposal for Policy/Proposal Paper

In today’s society death is considered a taboo subject in that no one wants to talk about it and that people love to avoid. This however is not true of many of the people that are getting ready to die. They are often open to death and in many case wish for death to come faster to put them out of the pain. I am proposing a plan for assisted suicide and euthanasia to be legal and for doctors to be able to practice these without worry of charges being brought against them. My policy will be that these practices should be legal, accepted, and practiced among doctors. I think more information on the history of cases and legislation could come in handy but other than that I have most of my information.

Point IV

The three points of my exploratory paper are the ideas of murder, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. It discusses what constitutes each of these ideas. Currently the most favored position is that assisted suicide and euthanasia are considered murder and are illegal in most areas. This is because it is usually considered a doctors job to save not to kill or let die which some might consider murder. Although this is the view of most places some favor the idea of legalizing assisted suicide and euthanasia. In my opinion the perspective that needs to be dominant is that of those who favor the idea of assisted suicide and euthanasia not being considered murder and should be legal because of the fact that the patients are asking for this service from there doctors. This could be enforced as a policy by allowing certain types of assisted suicide and euthanasia.