I thought that this was important to add this to show my process and thoughts when going into a paper. This is important for all types of writing, but for a story and you have to place things out chronologically, this shows the thought process.
During the twentieth century, the idea that it has become the hydrocarbon century due to the fact that fossil fuels have become one of the main contributions to human development throughout the years. Fossil fuels were formed over one million years ago through the process of decomposing remains of plants and animals under immense heat and pressure (Denchak). Through this process, new forms of energy have been discovered through fuel, coal, petroleum, and natural gas has produced a large amount of resources globally. This has paved the way for countries to utilize their resources and create a way for their economy to prosper. However, the issue of climate change has become a greater issue in the last century. With using these different forms of energy, it has led to the increase in the climate change and the earth’s temperature which has had a great impact on the earth. While the burning of fossil fuels has been an issue, there are other major factors that impact the climate and climate change as a whole. While I have explored the opportunities that fossil fuels are the main reason that climate change has rapidly increased its effects in the last century; however, issues including farming, deforestation, and human are also a major factor in the rapid increase of climate change.
In industrial countries, the notion that climate change exists is something that people don’t want to accept because they would have to come to the conclusion that they need to make a change from their everyday lives. However, the science has proven that gases, such as methane, carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases (“causes of climate change”) can trap heat in the earth’s atmosphere through a concept called the greenhouse effect. While this process of trapping heat in the earth’s atmosphere is important because it makes our planet habitable, however the change in the balance of the gases in the atmosphere can have negative effects. Natural gases and fossil fuel’s emissions are harmful to the environment. The way that fossil fuels and natural gases energy is released is through burning it. Fossil fuels produce large quantities of CO2 when they are burned.
Natural gas’s and fossil fuel’s impact on the climate is not limited to burning them but when they’re extracted and transported for use. They emit harmful air pollutants prior to being burned. There are about “12.6 million Americans are exposed daily to toxic air pollution from active oil and gas wells and from transport and processing facilities” (denchak). The process of acquiring these harmful pollutants as well as transporting them for use has had a severe impact on the environment and on humans. These air pollutants are releasing chemicals like benzene and formaldehyde which are known to cause cancer and other medical problems.
Anonymous. “Causes of Climate Change.” Climate Action – European Commission, 28 June 2017, ec.europa.eu/clima/change/causes_en.
Denchak, Melissa. “Fossil Fuels: The Dirty Facts.” NRDC, 16 July 2019, www.nrdc.org/stories/fossil-fuels-dirty-facts.
The shift in the climate in the last century has become evident from the addition of naturally occurring greenhouse gases, like methane, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases ( “causes of climate change”) into the atmosphere.
Compared to my last essay, I didn’t like where I went with it and felt that I chose something that wasn’t as interesting to me. I decided to go on a different track and research something that I was more interested in. For my research paper, I instead want to write about the Three-Strikes Laws, which is a series of laws that have been enacted across the country based on the belief that harsher sentencing laws, on top of already established mandatory sentencing laws, deter crime and discourage future criminal behavior. These laws are to help avoid the possibility of repeat offenders who have committed a “serious” violent felony out on parole and lead to a life sentence. While these laws seemed to be coming from a place where statistics showed that the crime rate in the United States had been increasing since 1980’s, by repeat offenders, the application of these stricter laws seemed necessary. However, my stance on the implementation of Three-Strikes laws are negatively impacting society instead of helping. Some of the negative effects that I want to discuss include targeting of minority offenders and impacting recidivism and crime rates negatively. I think that I am going to try and collect a decent amount of statistics to be able to back up the negative impacts of the Three-strikes laws as well as getting stories about the injustice that it has caused in this country. I want to write this research paper because I feel that people outside of the criminal justice sphere don’t know a lot about this topic and feel that it is necessary for people to understand how these legal actions that were passed in the 90’s still effects people today.
For this source, it is a discussion about California’s incarceration problem. It discusses the “500% increase in the prison population that occurred between 1975–1995 is due in part to the state’s dismal recidivism rate, which has been the highest in the nation for decades. About 65% of people who leave a California State Prison end up back inside in less than one year.” Which is important because it is one of the states that has had this type of legislation passed and eventually reformed but still had the largest impact on convict populations before and after these laws were passed. What makes this source credible is the sheer amount of data that has been collected by professors from acclaimed universities as well as data released from the state of California. I plan on using this source to help back discuss recidivism rates, especially looking at California, which had been impacted immensely by these mandatory sentencing laws.
2) Ardaiz, James A. “California’s Three Strikes Law: History, Expectations, Consequences.” McGeorge Law Review, vol. 32, no. 1, 2000, p. 1-36. HeinOnline, https://heinonline-org.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/mcglr32&i=11.
This is my academic source, which I received off of HeinOnline which is a database which has everything you need that is law related. This article is reliable because it has been through peer review. It has also been published by the McGeorge Law Review. This article discusses the what these laws were intended for and their overall impact on the justice system. I’m using information which discusses the rationale and purposes of the Three-Strikes laws while using his balance of understanding what is actually a deterrent of crime, which is a value system, and not the criminal justice system. Ardaiz, further supports his arguments and critiques of these laws by data from the criminal justice institute from the years following the enactment of these laws.
Incomplete sentences are a group of words that appear to convey only a part of a complete thought. Two types of components that make up a complete sentence are:
Subject- a noun (place, person, thing or idea) that tell us what the sentence is about
Verb- the object of a subject. It may also be linked to a verb.
If any of these two are missing in a sentence, the sentence is considered incomplete.
What is a complete sentence?
A complete sentence is a sentence that has a clear written expression of an idea.
5 components of a complete sentence is:
Capital Letter- the beginning of a sentence always has to start with a capital letter
Subject- a person or thing that is being discussed
(ex) John waited for the bus.
John in this case would be the subject.
Predicate- what the subject does or is
(ex) John waited for the bus
In this case, waited is the predicate.
Complete thought- clear written expression or idea
Terminal Punctuation- punctuation that marks the end of a sentence such as a period, exclamation point, or question mark.
Examples of missing Subject:
‘ Went to the store’
‘Ate three plates of rice’
‘Came from the gym’
Examples of missing Verbs:
‘The group of students’
‘The dogs and cats’
‘The store full of teenagers’
Complete or Incomplete?
Write a Cfor each completed sentence and an Ifor each incomplete sentence. If wrong, identify what component is wrong and correct the sentence.
The girl is arriving home today, the two boys will arrive tomorrow.____
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