Research Paper Final Thesis

A. Final Thesis: The global warming argument should be critiqued by looking at how people argue that it is happening or not and the cause of global warming, facts and statistics of both sides, and proposed solutions to global warming.


B.First i introduce the topic with an introduction. Then I will begin by giving some general information about the Earth's climate and atmosphere and what kind of science behind it makes it work. i will then look at the argument proposed by those who feel global warming is happening and also talk about the idea that mankind is causing global warming. i will then look at the opposing side's viewpoint that global warming isn't happening and that this is just a natural cycle of earth. Next I'll take a more in depth and specific look at two contrary articles about global warming and look at how they argue and look at the facts and statistics presented. After that I'll see how both sides are compromising by backing the environmental movement to improve the quality of earth which is always a good thing. then I conclude with a concluding paragraph.

C. my types of sources are mainly a lot of scientific journals, database articles, news websites that have information regarding global warming that i can take quantitative statistical data. my other sources are two contrasting movies on global warming and one television debate about global warming. and I also have the US government EPA website about global warming and climate change.

D. My favorite source so far is the EPA's website because it gives some good statical data and scientific studies but it also takes a stance on the issue for the sake of the US government. it also is well organized and very quotable and they have a section on how to improve the quality of Earth so it has pretty much all the parts of my research paper that i can use.

E. The most interesting fact i've learned so far is about all the ways that Earth's climate can be effected from terrestrial changes like volcanic eruptions, changes in sea temperatures, to extra-terrestrial changes like changes in earth's orbit around the sun or the sun intensity changing. all of these changes have had their causes and effects carefully observed and analyzed and shown to cause large changes to earth's climate.

Research Paper Theses

1. I will take a look at the argumentative strategies of the media when it comes to global warming and how they argue either side and potentially find fallacies.
2. I will take a look at statisics and facts presented by global warming arguers and critique them on their relevence and importance to the overall argument of global warming.
3. I will take a look at the spin-off argument on people's ideas about a solution to global warming and how that issue is discussed through the media.

Reality TV

1. I'm going to discuss the second set of questions. it's about who reality TV's audience is and what they're trying to convince them of. i will also address the question of whether or not there is an overall message being delivered by reality TV. My roommate is playing guitar and it's pretty annoying but, oh well, i have to live with it. i mean, it's his room too so he can play really annoying music and i can write really annoying blogs. so it's all fair. hey look, "Matt" just walked into my room because he heard the guitar. and now "Matt" is playing the guitar.

2. Two assumptions are presented as facts and that is that arguments are presented to a specific audience and reality TV is trying to convince its audience of something. I believe that reality TV's specific audience is people who are settled into their repetitive lives and lack variety in their life. Reality TV presents almost fantasy, or dreamlike, opportunities to normal people who display characteristics of human nature that most people posses. By placing these characters into these situations its kind of like a dream for the viewer where someone just like them is being put into an extraordinary situation that the audience probably won't get to experience but they can pretend it is them. Therefor I think that reality TV's audience is people living in monotonous lives who wish to escape for a little bit.

With this dreamlike scenario, reality TV is trying to convince its audience that its characters are normal and it could just as well happen to the audience. by displaying, most likely through tricky editing, various personality traits of characters in the show, reality TV is able to portray normal Joes that the audience can relate to. This provides a connection between show and audience and often the audience gains an emotional attachment to the show because of their relation to it. I believe this is a general tactic of reality TV because it's an effective way to gain an audience and support for the show. whether its celebrity and important people or bums off the street, their basic human trains are emphasized so the audience can relate to them and develop a connection.Overall, reality TV is trying to convince its audience that its characters are just like them.

Take Charge Assignment

I think i would like to focus the take charge thing by looking at how the media responds to tragedies and accidents, like the Minnesota bridge collapse, columbia space ship explosion, mine collapses, and college violence. i would mainly like to focus on how the media takes a retroactive approach the the problems exposed by such accidents. so instead of looking to see if all tunnels are safe from collapsing, they feel they must cover and put attention on all bridge inspections, but when the next tunnel collapses it'll be 0ut of the blue. i just find it interesting on how something bad will happen and the media will focus on it for a long time into the future, like recent mine collapses have become a hot topic for news coverage recently. overall, i want to see the medias response to disasters and what they put public spotlight on and what trends are like between accidents covered and how "popular" the problem is.

Which Media Do You Trust?

1. I basically understood this article and thought nothing from it was very shocking. trust in things varies between high numbers in things like national TV and low in things like blogs. The statistics presented seem to go along w/ how much i trust media like i wouldn't say i 100% trust certain things but my level of trust would be in the percentages presented in the article. i also thought it was fun to point out that the writer spent a lot of time discussing blogs and defending them. i think it's possibly because he sees himself somewhat as a blogger (i dunno if he's a full fledge blogger or if this is considered a kind of newspaper group)

2. Overall, I feel that Mr. Glaser presents a sound argument that is introduced with an concept, then statistical evidence is presented to elaborate on the idea and then discussion and analysis ensues of the presented evidence. Because Mr. Glasers argument is based heavily on easily accepted statistics I feel that his basis for argument is sound and then I can, and want to, listen to his opinion on the topic. The evidence used by Mr. Glaser is a statistical survey conducted in 10 countries (U.S., U.K., Brazil, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Russia, and somewhere else) and i assume that participants are asked if they either trust, don't trust, or have no opinion on a certain form of media. The survey also throws in some comparative questions like how much the person trusts the government to allow a comparison between the media and government so some comparative depth can be added to the statistics.

Mr. Glaser first takes a reporting approach and does not originally present an argumentative statement. Once he outlines the evidence that he presents, Mr. Glaser analyzes it and especialy takes note of the lack of trust in internet blogs and how many people either don't come into contact with them enough or they over-generalize blogging. When it comes to counterarguments I believe that Mr. Glaser took care of them himself by scrutinizing the validity of the statistics like when he says people base their levels of trust on specific case-by-case experiences and maybe not overall. I feel that this argument is very succinctly written and offers effective evidence in the form of statistics and then makes a clear analysis of these statistics and what they reflect about the publics trust of the media.

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