Deliberative Elections WIP
Note to users of WordPress- be very careful with hitting backspace. If this seems hastily written, that’s because I just deleted my entire post. Grrr. Our project will be Chapter 4, Deliberative...
View ArticleCivic Issues Thoughts
My first Civic Issues blog post was about hydraulic fracturing. While I was fairly knowledgeable with the subject beforehand, I was amazed at how much I learned while researching. One of the most...
View ArticleWIP Week 18- Moderating Philosophy
I picture a moderator as similar to a teacher that keeps watch on children on a playground. They can figure out how to have fun by themselves, but sometimes when one is misbehaving or a swing breaks,...
View ArticleWIP Week 19- Moderating Philosophy Draft
As a moderator, I believe that less is more. When a group of people is given the chance to deliberate on an issue, they are discussing what they believe is important, not what a moderator who is...
View ArticlePersuasive Essay Proposal
As I have done for my civic issues blog, TED talk, and paradigm shift papers, I will be focusing on environmental issues for my persuasive essay. Specifically, I’ll be talking about hydraulic...
View ArticleUnprotected Fracking- Why We’ll Regret it Later
The isolated valleys of north-central Pennsylvania, with their thick woodlands, little streams flashing with brook trout, and occasional abandoned fields are where I’ve lived since I was born. There...
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Fracking Project Proposal
Purpose For my project, I intend to make a video showing the effects of hydraulic fracturing and attempting to convince watchers that they should not lease their land to natural gas companies. I...
View ArticleHydraulic Fracturing Video Outline
For my advocacy project, I’ll be doing a video on hydraulic fracturing. I’m not planning on being in it or necessarily having anyone at all in it. Including actual humans makes things somewhat...
View ArticleTED Talks and Essays and Projects, Oh My!
I really don’t think I have much of a choice of what to include in my E-Portfolio. Some of my papers and projects stand out as rather good and others are, well… terrible. Really bad. So here’s what...
View ArticleFavorite Astronomy Posts
For this semester, I continued with my astronomy-themed blog. Unlike last semester, I tried to get a bit more involvement out of my readers by posting comments to address their questions more...
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