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Abstract for Final Paper

Joe Hawes
November 21, 2017
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My project will consist of two different components. The first part will be a creative eco-fiction chapter which will incorporate the cause and effects of environmental change on the health of the people. The story will not be complete because it will only contain the first chapter of the plot,…

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The Lack of Us

Joe Hawes
November 18, 2017
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There are many qualities in which describe and are part of the culture in which we live in today. Tn the novel The World We Made many of these characteristics were not present in descibing the futuristic world of 2050. To begin with, and probably the most important aspect of life, was…

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The policy of all policies

Joe Hawes
November 11, 2017
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  To begin with I would not develop one policy. The reason for this is that in this era of democracy every party needs to feel that their needs are being met and not ignored. With that I would develop a series of policies that would cover all the bases…

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Compromise

Joe Hawes
November 4, 2017
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  I loved our visit with Catherine Flowers. Although it wasn’t the main point of her talk, what resonated with me was that she decided to still do the talk to honor her coworkers death. Among her talk what was really powerful was the way she addressed spreading awareness about…

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The parallels

Joe Hawes
October 21, 2017
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Kim Stanley Robinson’s book Green Earth was a very good book. As discussed in class it was very interesting and disturbing to see the parallels between the book and what is actually happening in the United States. As I was reading the book I was imaging everything that was happening and had…

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Permaculutre

Joe Hawes
October 16, 2017
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Permaculture is something that should be implimented into society. It come from the combination of words permanent and agriculture. One key phrase that I took out of the film was that we are in the mindset that we have is to do less damage to the Earth. This is the…

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Ecotopia

Joe Hawes
September 30, 2017
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Ecotopia is not everything that people think it is. i am not taking anything away from some of the great things that they have done but there are still problems here. There will probably always be problems here and in the world. This is because there is nature here. One…

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What do we do?

Joe Hawes
September 24, 2017
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Is there hope for us? The question is really can we all unite. Hope is a very powerful thing. However, the Anthropocene era is not affecting one person. The problem is that it is affecting the world. More specifically it is affecting the poor population that do not have the…

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Love

Joe Hawes
September 16, 2017
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The way I read a novel is that I play a movie in my head as it progresses. I see every scenario that appears in the book, in my head. For this reason I lived through Kevin in the book by KSR. From seeing life from Kevin’s eyes I not…

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What is a vision?

Joe Hawes
September 8, 2017
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Typically when we ask what your vision is we are talking about your sight. We want to know if you have perfect vision 20/20. However, from the environmental standpoint we are asking about your goals. What do you see the future of this planet looking like? Will there be cars?…

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