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Blog post 3.4

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Working Research Question:

How has the pandemic changed the New York Subway System?

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CNBC Television https://youtu.be/NF_cmvEDIwM

Published on April 29,2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/nyregion/new-york-coronavirus-homeless.html

Published on April 13,2020

The corona virus outbreak has dramatically altered New York City’s Subway System in many ways. According to the state of New York’s Governor, Governor Crumo “Ridership is down more than 90%”, the majority of people riding the trains are either essential workers or the homeless. Governor Andrew Cuomo recently announced the subway shutdown for cleaning, which will allow workers to disinfect trains and stations nightly. But what about the homeless? Where will they go? Many homeless people are afraid to go to shelters. Crowded shelters like Wards Island Shelter in the Bronx, became a breeding ground for the Covid-19 virus, Which left 23 dead last month.

Working thesis :

For the first time in 115 years, overnight subway service in Nyc has been shut down to clean trains because of the pandemic. But this left no place for homeless on the train or shelter.

Anything else:

  It’s early the time is 6am, me and a group of other essentials rushed down the stairs of Jamaica Avenue Junction into the subway station.Someone yelled “Three minutes until the train departs”.Immediately I started looking for the nearest available seat, my nose indicated the trouble coming across the end of the cart. Five homeless men gathering in a circle and the welcoming stench of ten dead rodents. Cart after Cart it seemed there were no escaping the homeless, it was an eye opener into the massive crisis for me about Homelessness in our city.

Jenny’s Show & Tell

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I agree with Nicole, the first thing that drew my attention instantly was the children like animation. My hypothesis, just like trees growing we have to plant seeds in our children of tomorrow. Teaching them the importance of nature, the role it plays in our environment and why we must protect forestry. Plantings these seeds now and hopefully, when kids grow up, they will help save the ecosystem of tomorrow.

2:4 Essay 2 Reflection

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   Q• What are you proud of in this draft? What’s working well?

     

   A* I took great pride in making my essay clear and polished

    

   Q• More broadly, what do you think your strengths as a writer are? Why?

  

     A* Honestly, when I’m given a project I tend to approach the assignment really ambitiously. I start off having all these different ideas sort of spiraling in my head, that I have a hard time honing them in and really refining what is it that I really want to say, specifically

   

  • What are your goals for revising? (Share your 2 “radical revision” steps you’ll take, too.)

My goals for revising are thinking more “Big Picture” create more engagement, In the past I missed my mark ( main idea). Which was not just about masculinity but was the way fossil fuels Defined it.

Patrick’s Show and Tell

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Quest for Sea Ice 

Since as early as the 19 century, Earths climate has
been progressively changing. If mankind continues down this destructive path, many creatures such as Polar Bears will be on the verge of extinction. Between the rising temperatures  and increasing sea levels various Polar Bears are quickly realizing they have nowhere else to seek sea ice. In 2004 four Polar bears drowned off Alaska’s coast, while trying to find sea ice. Issues such these leads to more Polar bears finding homes on land. According to. [https://polarbearsinternational.org/
“An Average Polar Bear will swim 426 miles in a span of nine days without finding a resting spot”. During this journey a Polar Bear will lose 22% of its body weight. This journey becomes especially fatal for young cubs because of the lack of body fat, which gives the cubs less buoyancy in the water, causing them to topically drown. In the end, Polar bears rely on sea ice to survive, without leads to reduce access to food, decrease in health and drowning. In the video below shows two Polar Bears discussing “what causes climate change?” (Please click the link below )watch the short video and answer 3 brief Questions.

Polar bears discussing global warming

Question # 1 
What do you see that few others would in the video?

Question #2 – How has climate effected Polar Bears in the Arctic?

Question #3 – Reading this passage we’re there anything confusing or something you fully didn’t understand? That I could’ve done a better job explaining? Tell me

Post 2.1 Believing and doubting

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Daggets Claim

“ In turn, any threat to energy sup- ply appears simultaneously as a threat to the American dream and, in turn, the dominant position of the US in the world.

In passage 32 Dagget brings us (the reader) back in time to the post Great Depression era . “The states” or United States government feared Communism and fascism would effect the American Public. So the state came up with a plan, by capitalizing  on the 1970 oil crisis the state helped to secure an artificial oil scarcity that ensured profits for oil companies. On the demand side, the state helped to cultivate oil desires, making the American public as crack is to a crackhead, “Oil craving Addicts”. Which living a life without, doesn’t  support the popular ideal for living the “American Dream”. Any threat to the energy supply is a threat to this “American dream” because without one, the idea by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, would cease to exist. An American Motto, which morale into the hearts of millions of immigrants to come seek and improve living standards.

0: The Last Northern White Rhinos

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    Here’s a picture of the World’s last two Remaining Northern White Rhinos. Once upon a time  widespread throughout northern Africa, Najjin and her sister Fatu are all that is left of there subspecies, which has been brutally hunted down for decades by poachers for there horns. According to google one pound of White Rhino‘s horn estimated 65,000 Usd: on the Asian Black Market.
    I’ve felt great grief in learning  there’s no more Male White Rhinoceroses survivors, The Last male named “Sudan” died in 2009, he was 45 years old. Breeding in captivity for Sudan was unsuccessful, making matters worse Najjin and Fatu are both unable to carry on a healthy pregnancy. There’s a famous saying by Trisha Yearwood, “What’s meant to be will always find a way” so don’t count theses Rhinos out yet.       A group of scientists in the next upcoming months will take eggs from Najjin and Fatu and attempt to fertilize them with frozen sperm. Collected from two deceased Male White Rhinos, If embryos are successfully created they could be transferred into a surrogate mother of a different Rhino species. Allowing a new population of White Rhinos to be created, even if the last two Rhinos are no longer alive.