Summaries—summergirl1999

Purposeful Summary by summergirl1999 “The Cruelest Show On Earth” -Deborah Nelson.

It seems counterintuitive that circus’ portray their shows to be the “Greatest Show on Earth”. Elephants are one of the great acts of the circus, they are very intelligent and very loving animals. Elephants have the ability to feel emotion just as much as human beings. Behind the scenes of “The Greatest Show on Earth” the Elephants are not treated with care, more so used as props for the show.

The elephant trainers at the circus sometimes even use bullhooks, whips, and even electric shocks to train these loving animals. Just like human beings, Elephants get sick. Especially, when they are tied up going place to place to perform. Traveling, being tied up, and not being treated properly are ways diseases can occur. When humans are very sick, they go to the doctors to be properly taken care of. Also, humans often relax after being very sick.

Deborah Nelson, the writer of the article “The Cruelest Show On Earth” speaks about the elephants who perform for the circus. Kenny the elephant was one of the performers for the circus. Kenny, got very sick, symptoms being going to the bathroom on the stage floor during one of the shows, and bleeding from areas of his body. Usually, doctors are supposed to help the animal and give it proper treatment. “The Ringling Brothers Circus” brought in someone to give Kenny medicine. Kenny still performed at the next show when he was sick. Kenny the elephant died.

This is no way any animal of any sort should be treated. Elephants have feelings just like us. They are exoctic animals, they needed to be treated properly with care. Although people are starting to become more aware of this problem and giving money to foundations, there needs to be more attention on this huge problem. Circus’ and their trainers are not worthy of being around these great animals. Animals deserve to be treated with care and respect.

“Do Toms Shoes Really Help?” – Kiera Butler

It seems counterintuitive that Toms shoes has a buy one, give one policy. Toms Shoes is a very popular shoe brand in America, selling thousands of shoes to people. They are popular for a couple reasons, one being that their shoes are very fashionable and the second reason being they’re popular policy buy one give one, giving to people in countries that do not have shoes.

There are also many other companies that relatively offer the same policy. Some companies grow more trees, and some companies donate toothbrushes there are probably many other companies that offer that policy. Toms Shoes offer this policy because of many reasons, one being children in other countries who do not have shoes  will not be allowed in school. Shoes can make a huge difference if they actually go to where they are needed. But at times that can lead to competition with other local stores.

Kiera Butler speaks about Toms policy and although it is a good deed, it is not as necessary as other things that could be donated. She also speaks on how people in some other countries do have shoes and by sending them to other countries is making marketplace competition.

Toms Shoes policy, is a very kind and thoughtful policy. But if the people of the countries that they are sending shoes are capable of getting them themselves, then Tom’s should not interfere with the local businesses. There are many other things besides shoes that people in other countries need.

“Men Defining Rape: A History” – Erika Eichelberger

It seems counterintuitive that woman have a very strong say on the topic of rape. A lot of men have their opinions about rape. A common question is when it is and is not okay? Thousands of years ago there were also laws about rape. The amount of trouble people got in, depended on the type of woman that has been raped. Husbands could not get in trouble for raping their wives because they were married. Even skin color made a difference, it did not count as rape if the person with had brown skin.

Erika Eichelberger speaks about the different laws of rape, and the misconceptions  some men had towards rape. There were many excuses for rape one being “you can’t thread a moving needle”. During the 18th and 19th century, questions of how much proof is necessary for “rape”.

Rape is such a serious and sensitive topic. Rape is a crime and a harm to woman. No excuses for it. Men should not be able to have much say when it comes to the rape laws, or the excuses about rape. There should not be any reasonable excuses of why it happened, or any getting away with it. Rape is a violent crime. Woman and men should stand strong together against rape.

My Hypothesis—DoubleA

  1. Global Warming
  2. The recent weather tragedies and climate change
  3. Is global warming really causing these recent tragedies
  4. Due to the fluctuating high and low temperatures and recent natural disasters is global warming the cause
  5. In recent years, is global warming to blame for these worldly natural disasters and the high and low temperatures they bring with it.

Hypothesis 1st Draft—pATricKStar

The comingling of drugs and stress on a college campus

1. With college being stressful alone many students turn to negative ways of coping.

2. Finals week there in a huge amount of abuse of drugs.

3. What are the reasons and how does the brain create a need/want to satisfy this sort of anxiousness.

4. Does media/ society play a role in making people conform.

My Hypothesis- Dancers8

  1. Cyber bullying
  2.  Cyber bullying and its effects on a person within a school setting
  3. Cyber bullying and bullying cases have negative effects on the person being bullied and the bully
  4.  Raising the age of when children should be able to obtain cellphones and access the internet/ social media accounts.
  5.  By putting a strict age restriction on when children are able to join social media will lower the number of cyber bullying cases seen.

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Staying in Touch

I like to start the semester by creating as many comfortable ways to communicate as possible. We’ve emailed back and forth. I’m learning your names with the help of your photographs. I’ve asked you Preview Survey questions to prepare myself for your preferred learning styles. And we’ve traded texts.

Or at least most of us have.

Here’s a chart that shows our progress so far. If you haven’t responded to my email or completed the Preview Survey, if you didn’t text me, or if I don’t have your photograph, please bring yourself into full compliance. The more we communicate, the more help I can be.

NAME EMAIL SURVEY PHOTO TEXT
Taylor Arbitman YES YES YES YES
Emily Baker YES YES YES YES
Larry Birch YES YES YES YES
Aaron Bradley YES YES YES YES
Ryan Bussell YES YES YES YES
Jake Dawes YES YES YES YES
Claire DeMaio YES YES YES YES
Kerrymae Doherty YES YES YES YES
John Dormann YES YES YES YES
Devon Genao Torres YES YES YES YES
Brinsley Granatella YES YES YES YES
Shealyn Gruber YES YES YES YES
Destinee Horne YES YES YES YES
Tyler Johnson YES NO YES YES
Alexis Monguso YES YES YES YES
Kianu Montenegro YES YES YES YES
Michael Nguyen
(no username)		 YES YES YES YES
Nicholas Reina YES YES YES YES
Marisol Smith NO YES YES YES
Theo Sulton YES YES YES YES

Here’s the link to the Preview Survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3RCGGX2

If you haven’t texted me yet:
Text your NAME and C2 SP18 to: (856) 979-6653

My Hypothesis — dudeintheback

  1. Adderall use for children
  2. prescribing Adderall to children
  3. The effect of prescribing Adderall to children, making them addicted in the future
  4. prescribing Adderal to a child will cause addiction to the medication in the future
  5. the prescription of Adderall to children will strengthen the chances of addiction in later years
  6. Eliminating the prescription of Adderall to children will eliminate the chances of addiction to methamphetamines

My Hypothesis-thenaturalist201

  1. Being Biracial in America
  2. What does it mean to be biracial in today’s world
  3. How a biracial person in America is treated by each race
  4. Why do people focus on skin color as a component of a person’s ability to embrace their racial culture and background
  5. What do Biracial and Multiracial people go through when being compared to a single race person, where is the line drawn when comparing skin color

My Hypothesis-dohertyk9

1. OCD

2. People’s perception of OCD

3. Perception of OCD versus the reality of living with it

4. People’s perception of OCD is much more mild than the reality of living with it

5. The public’s perception of the concept of OCD is extremely mild compared to the reality of the disorder

6. The general public’s concept of OCD immensely understates the severe degree to which the disorder negatively impacts the afflicted person’s everyday life.

My Hypothesis-paulajean5

  1. the placebo effect
  2. the placebo effect and antidepressants
  3. the effect of a placebo in place of an antidepressant on people with major depressive disorder
  4. A placebo in place of an antidepressant will help with the treatment of major depressive disorder meanwhile demonstrating a new level of self resiliency in the mind of the one suffering
  5. Taking out the actual active ingredients in the antidepressant pill without subjects being aware may increase the success rate of the pill (in experimentation, of course.)
  6. Once the awareness of self resiliency comes from taking a placebo, people may not have to rely on medicine as much and can focus on therapy and other, maybe more effective, treatments for major depressive disorder.