Project Outline

Intro

Hook:

Winter is almost here, another long holiday for vacations to stay away from the cold. Imagine your whole family go on a cruise round the Pacific Ocean. You are sitting on the deck, enjoying the sunlight, the beautiful blue sky and the seemingly endless ocean when suddenly a gut wrenching, disgusting smell hits you. You look over the deck and saw a pile of trash in the middle of the ocean. Yep, that's the Pacific garbage patch.

Motive: 

The Pacific Garbage Patch, also known as the "North Pacific Gyre" or "Pacific trash vortex", is an expanse of trash[, mostly plastic] that's accumulated in the North Pacific Ocean. It has been reported that it is "twice the size of Texas and is now floating hundreds of miles off the coasts of California and Hawaii."(Wikipedia). It's an often overlooked problem because it's one of those things that doesn't affect people immediately but it influences a whole lot of things in the long term. The Pacific garbage has been predicted in 1988 and has been discovered for about 2 decades now, it's a huge problem yet most people doesn't even know its existence. Some people think that government can just send ships out there and scoop up the plastics and everything will be back to normal. No, the Pacific Garbage has a lot more to that.

Thesis: I think that the general public should be more educated regarding the matter of Pacific Garbage Patch because it can greatly affect marine life and eventually, all living organisms on the planet.

Map:

First of all, I am going to talk about the discovery of the pacific garbage patch, it's components ...............................

Problem:

What: Affects marine life - sea turtles

                                          - planktons

                                          - Food chain

                                          - how it affects life on land and air

Why: Supplies reasons to questions above

Solution:

What: Educate public (raise awareness)

           Set up laws

           forced participation of plastic factories on ocean preserving programs (?)

Why: Less plastic use = less garbage ending up in oceans

          Prevention 

          Action

Conclusion

Matrix

Here is the link to the matrix:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/y6s15nfx0adb2u9/AABdIDVTfzvL4XuispUQCypra?dl=0

Rewriting conclusion of project one

In conclusion, I think the director has managed to prove a point and it is that being mentally retarded can help you get away with almost anything, but on the other hand, can cause you to lose a lot of other things, like losing custody of his/her children, which can be an important part in people’s life.  However, being mentally retarded is not a choice. Some people are more unfortunate than others; therefore, although this show is ridiculous and is unreasonable in many different ways, it helped to raise awareness of how people with mental retardation are living their lives and encourage us to think of ways in helping them by showing how metal retardation affect a person's life. In addition, it is an honor to be supporting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and help them develop their own unique talent and skills.

3 column notes

There is the link to my HW:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/y6s15nfx0adb2u9/AABdIDVTfzvL4XuispUQCypra?dl=0

Ideas for Project

Here are my ideas for the project:
1) NASA fundings (call for attention)
2) Heavy metal pollutions (call for attention/fix it)
3) How global warming affects marine life (call for attention)

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