Power Point Presentation

http://www.slideshare.net/nhltfour/deforestation-power-point

RJA #13a: Field Research Report–

Interview: question posted on AllExperts.com

Expert: Nik Kaestner - 7/18/2007

Question
What is deforestation?

Answer:

Deforestation is the loss of forests through burning or logging. Usually this is done to make room for farms or livestock. While most (though not all) developed countries replant trees to replace the ones they lost, most developing countries do not. Hence, over time, the amount of forest land is decreasing and carbon is being released into the atmosphere. This contributes to global climate change. Even in the US, large tracts of forest are still clear-cut to this day, meaning that every single tree is cut down instead of selectively logging, where a few trees are taken from a particular area each year.

Expert: Dr. Jesse LaPrade - 5/1/2008

Question
Hello,
I was wondering if you could tell me how deforestation is effecting the future of our planet,
Thank you very much.

Answer:

Deforestation is cutting trees and that deletes their beneficial effect's on global warming. Trees and all plants use carbon dioxide for growth and give off oxygen. All animals use oxygen and give off carbon dioxide. Since the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is said to increase or enhance global warming and when trees can and do reduce carbon dioxide levels significantly, you can see why trees and plants play a key role in balancing the planets carbon dioxide levels.

Trees also clean up water and purify it by using it and then respiring water to the environment as a gas or vapor. The water then comes back to earth as rainwater that has been cleaned up.

There are many needs and uses for forest trees which man currently exploits. This requires that more trees and plants be planted and grown to replace the ones that are harvested.

Also when trees are burned they release great quantities of carbon dioxide which wastes the tree resources and significantly adds to global warming.

In essence it is bad enough to cut the trees and use their harvested products but even much worse to see trees burn from forest fires.

Expert: Dana Krempels, Ph.D. - 8/29/2007

Question
At what rate is the rainforest shrinking and at what point could our resources from the rainforests be depleted?

Answer:

I think you will be able to find the answers to these questions and more here:

http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm

The current rate of deforestation of rainforest is about 1.5 - 2 acres per second--about 130,000 acres per day. Scary.

Extra Credit Assignment #2: Create a Twine

http://www.protopage.com/nlongwell#Untitled/ENG_1020

RJA #12c: Introduction Check

http://eceng1020.blogspot.com/2009/11/art-vs-propaganda.html?showComment=1257812778035#c5693996396373744332

http://cdegelau.blogspot.com/2009/11/rja-11.html#comment-form

RJA #12b: Presentation Plan

Presentation Plan:

-An Introduction into Deforestation

-Causes of deforestation

-Effects (negative)

-Effects(positive)

-What we can do to reverse deforestation

-Pros and Cons

-Visual aid of deforestation in the rainforest

RJA #12a: Progress Report

1) What I have accomplished:

-A solid Introduction

-An intriguing thesis statement

-A solid outline that should be very helpful in the full creation of my argument

-The start of a very rough rough draft

-Have found most of my sources

2) What I NEED to accomplish: (the bigger list)

-Need to work more on the refutations that refute my argument of being against deforestation

-Need to find a few more articles that are "pro" deforestation

-Need to continue writing/creating my rough draft that is due in 10 days.

-I plan to write at least 1 page a day and hopefully that will help me with piecing together my final paper with just alot of reviewing to be done

-Need to create a powerpoint for my presentation

*Due November 17th...

-write, write, write, edit, edit, edit

RJA #10b: Argument

Ethos: I feel like my audience would have a hard time finding appeals based on ethos to be persuasive because of the appeals to credibility and authority that I may have pointed out in my argument becuase of the fact that all of the information I am gathering is coming mostly from government released documents. How can one say that getting information regarding the world's ecosystems from the goverment, isnt credible? Me being the author will try and make it more understanding and believable for the author because I can prove the point using visual aids and numbers found on the web

Pathos: The audience may in fact find it easier to appeal based on pathos because it deals with emotion. Because my topic is on a very sideable environmental topic people that are very environmentaly friendly may find a very emotional way with very good reasons to side with the side that deforestation is "killing" our world's ecosystems.

Logos: If I support my claims, reasons, and evidence enough it may be very difficult for my reading audience to find appeals based on logos [logic] to be persuasive because my goal is to back these claims and such enough that my logic and all my readers logic match up to create a very good understanding with what is going on with deforestation and what we can do to reverse this.

Reason 1: In defense of deforestation, logging companies and other companies that profit from deforestation argue that they replant that which is lost at a rate faster than they are cutting down forests. Neither side of this issue can guarantee that their proposed plans will eliminate population growth or forest destruction, so the effects of both will inevitably build until the planet cannot sustain the amount of life it currently supports, and mass extinction of a form never before seen will ensue.

-Evidence 1: For those pro clear cutting and logging the evidence is clearly seen that they believe nothing that they are doing with cutting down the world's forests is hurting the ecosytems because they are "re-planting" all or most of the trees removed.

Reason 2: Irreversible damage

-Evidence: Anti-deforestation activists base their arguments on the simple statistics and facts that when one cuts down forests, irreversible damage is inflicted on the local ecosystem. Eventually, when enough forests are eliminated, damage will begin to show worldwide4. This is a truly compelling argument. The more forests that are destroyed, the more harm that is brought upon every species in existence, including humanity. If humanity is to survive, it has to slow its population growth, and more specifically slow the cutting down of forests and the ruining of Earth’s ecosystems.

Reason 3: Re-planting may help out in the short-term but what about the long-term

-Evidence: The problem with deforestation is that even though it may be true that companies plant more trees than they cut down, these companies do not (or cannot) rectify damage done to certain organisms.

Objections your audience might have:

-Objection 1: Re-planting may not be the only way to replenish the forests that have been torn down.

-Objection 2: Deforestation is obviously happening for a reason, whether be that good or bad, isnt there some way we can make it less harmful on the environment.

I should feel the need to qualify all my claims and reasons in order to gain qualification and the audiences trust that these sources are in fact credible.

Internet Research Project

Internet Research Tool

DEEP DYVE

-a search engine desgined to search into the "Deep Web"
-the Deep Web is a huge-collection of high-quality hard to find information

-Less than .2% of the Internet is indexed by traditional search engines
-the remaining 99.8% represents the "Deep Web"

-WHY DEEP DYVE?
-It searches the "Deep Web", which is sometimes difficult to search because content is unstructured or subscription-based, making it difficult to index

-Less junk and irrelevant results

-Highlight and search function
-Can highlight certain word groups and search all of Deep Dyve for that group of highlighted words.

-As of right now it really only deals with medical and science areas of interest but is quickly expanding into other specialized areas of interest.

-Doesnt have an advanced search function because of how advanced it already is.

-All search operators and stop words can be used when searching.

RJA #11c: Thesis Statement Check

Elvis- http://elvisenglish1020.blogspot.com/2009/10/rja-10a-thesis-statement.html#comment-form

Ali- http://alexandria-alieng1020.blogspot.com/2009/10/research-journal-assignment-10.html#comment-form

RJA #11b: Visual Aids

1. Graph of the amount of deforestation each month/year in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.

2. Pie Chart of the largest areas of deforestation around the world.

3. World map of deforestation

4. Significant pics of deforestation and its impact on the environment

5. Visual depiction of what deforestation does to the atmosphere and its impacts on global climate change.