Intro: Chill Instrumental fade (in)

Cheane: Good morning everyone, my name is Cheane Nurse and I am a freshman GSU student, and I am joined here with my guest (Guest Name), why don’t you say something for our listeners?
Guest: Hey what’s going on, My name is (Guest Name), I’m not really a GSU student but I’m here 
Cheane: So today, we are going to be talking about the concept of arguing and different forms of arguing, by chance do you know anything about the different types of arguments  (Guest Name)?

Guest: I actually do not, what are they 

Cheane: Well there are three main ways a person can argue, these three being through what is called pathos, logos, and/or ethos. 

Cheane: Do any of these terms ring a bell to you now that you hear them. 

Guest: Definitly not, I’ve been out of school for too long to remember those/They do ring a bell a little bit 

Cheane: Well to refresh your memory, Pathos – is the act of arguing through emotions, Logos – is the act of arguing using logic, and Ethos – is the act of arguing through ethics 

Guest: seems more familiar now 
Cheane: We are going to take look at a reading piece we looked at in class, it was written by Jay Heinrichs, and is titled “Thank You For Arguing”  
Cheane: In his written piece, he uses some personal experiences with his sons as an example, here’s one 
Cheane:  Coming from page 36 of Heinrichs written piece *reads out* “But he just looked at me with tears in his eyes, Next, I tried reasoning with him, using argument by logic. Me: Pants will keep your legs from chapping. You’ll feel a lot better. George: But I want to wear shorts” 

Cheane: Clearly he still failed arguing with a child but that is beside the point, he used logical reason to defend why he should wear pants instead of shorts. Now, for the audience, do you think you can tell them a story about a time you used a form of argument, it can be the other one too 
Guest: Let’s see, *Interjects Story* 
Cheane:  *Interjects Story about personal experiences also* 

Cheane: Well that’s all really, thank you again (guest name) for joining me on my podcast today, see all you another time 
Outro: Chill Instrumental (fade out) 

Cheane Nurse
Andy Fentem
English 1101
19 November 2021

Podcast Outline

The length of the podcast is required to be at least 4 to 5 minutes, my podcast may possibly stretch over that due to conversation throughout it. The podcast will start off, with basic introductions. I state my name and the class that this is for as well as introduce my guest who is one of my personal friends. I give a short introduction for him and he comes in and says something for himself. I then proceed to introduce the topic that we will be talking about in this podcast (which hasn’t been finally decided) which will most likely stem from one of the readings from this semester. I will introduce the topic to my guest and then proceed to ask if he has any prior knowledge or anything to give me about the topic. If not, I would proceed to read an objective summary about to topic to bet get them to understand the topic in a concise manner. If however, they actually do have some prior knowledge on the topic, I would ask them to elaborate on what they know and see if I can relate to it. Since this portion could possibly go by fast, I might prepare a backup topic to bounce onto to discuss. As well as this, I will prepare questions to ask for both topics assuming the guest knows nothing about neither. Questions would most likely be about if they’ve experienced anything where the topic was a dependent factor in a situation and how did they act in it. Even for length requirements or the guest having confusion, I’ll also include experiences of situations where the topic is the main factor. After this, we will proceed to the conclusion where I ask the guest to reflect on what they have learned if it was impactful for them.

The topic I’ve chosen for this assignment is Deforestation and its causes and effects around the world. Deforestation is known as the act of stripping forested land of its resources often resulting in destroyed land. My topic encompasses influencers of deforestation such as industrialization or market gains, and also what happens because of it, such as habitat loss and climate change. One of the sources I plan to use comes from a journal from The University of Chicago Press and is titled “What Drives Deforestation and What Stops It” by Jonah Busch and Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon. Their journal in short introduces reasons for deforestation based on research they’ve conducted. They also include ways that can help prevent deforestation. Another source I planned to use comes from a PLos ONE  journal titled “Impacts of forestation and deforestation on local temperature across the globe” presented by Jayme A. Prevedello ,Gisele R. Winck,Marcelo M. Weber,Elizabeth Nichols, and Barry Sinervo. Their journal provides their research on world temperatures because of deforestation while also including equations to compare with. Their approach is more mathematical and provides a different view on the effects of Deforestation. A third source I plan to use comes from a journal found from Scientific Reports  titled “Deforestation and world population sustainability: a quantitative analysis” and presented by Mauro Bologna and Gerardo Aquino. This journal covers also takes a mathematical approach by setting up a proportion of deforested land to population. Lastly, this source is a journal coming from Barbara Ucelis Lyra and Daniel Rigo and is titled “Deforestation impact on discharge regime in the Doce River Basin”. This journal covers the affects of deforestation in the a wildlife environment, particularly the Doce River located in Brazil. This is one of many environments affected by deforestation and will be used as a source in my writing.
The ensure that I’m using proper MLA formatting and citations I plan on using the various sources provided to me. To make sure my pages are formatted correctly I will use Dr Fentems guidelines on what components go where, awswell as the MLA checklist. Next, in order to have correct citations, I will mainly use the PurdueOWL to ensure I’m citing material correctly. 

There are a few struggles that I have came across in preparing for this major assignment. Most notably would be the problem of paying attention to what I’m writing. When I say this, I’m referring to my very short attention span that causes me to doze off within 10 seconds of writing. This mainly occurs when I don’t have 100% clear idea of what I’m typing and happens most days out of the week. This causes me to lose valuable time and creates panic of having to rush along with work for other classes. Procrastination is a minor problem that comes up very rarely. I  usually tend to procrastinate after I get home from work, since at that time I’m more than likely mentally exhausted. This follows me going to through a period of scrolling social media and fixing a music queue then coming back to attention span issue when starting to actually work. Overall the 1000 word minium I feel is justified for this assignment. I don’t believe I will have much trouble writing it and I should be fine overall. 

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Deforestation: Causes and Impacts 

  Deforestation is the mass removal of plants/trees from an ecosystem. It’s been done over multiple centuries and almost everywhere in the world. While it has been done, almost everywhere, with the constant worldwide industrial growth, it has become a notable problem. Deforestation strips animals of their homes, harming their population, and destroys the soil leading to desertification (the process of turning into desert). Deforestation today is motivated by more economic reasons such as industrial & agricultural expansion, wood logging, urbanization, and more.

What need is there in the mass cutting down of trees? Within the last century, Earth has seen a major human population boost. This comes with the new augmented technology/healthcare that makes living more sustainable. As the population increases, there needs to be a greater resource compensation for it which is where the increase of deforestation comes in. New homes need to be built, more resources need to be produced for consumption, and more land needs to be allotted. To provide this, more trees need to be cut down to supply all of this. Since our population is highly unlikely to decrease as rapidly as it increased, this is an ongoing prominent issue.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63657-6#citeas

How does deforestation affect the living beings of Earth? Trees are the main initiator in our oxygen cycle as well as our water cycle. This means that cutting down trees not only interferes with these cycles, it also weakens the ratio between cycles and human pollution. In this case, growing urbanization is and will outgrow the number of trees able to produce oxygen and contribute to the water cycle. In a quantitative analysis about Deforestation by Mauro Bologna and Gerarado Aquino, they include the comparison of there being 60 million square kilometers of forest but as a result of deforestation, only 40 million square kilometers remaining. In miles, this equates to going from about 23,166,130 square miles to around 15,444,086 square miles in the span of all human development. They proceed to detail how detrimental this is by using a math equation detailing how and at what point there has been too much damage done. 

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Deforestation/deforestation_update3.php

Who are the main causes of deforestation? The cutting down of trees does economically benefit a mass amount of markets. A notable benefitting party of deforestation are logging companies. They cut down trees and use and take the most valuable timber. While they do this, they provide the gateway to developing the land they cut. Examples of this would be building roads or housing on the cut land, sometimes even using the same wood that had been cut down. State influences also play a part in this, logging and agricultural produce can provide considerable income to a country, encouraging deforestation. 

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1093/reep/rew013

 How can deforestation be stopped? Deforestation will likely always be somewhat prominent due to the constant development of society. However, some actions can be taken to reduce the impacts.  Coming from an article from Jonah Busch and Kalifi  Ferrettii-Gallon, they mention multiple solutions in reducing the impacts. They list reasons such as limiting the construction of roads in deep forest ways and directing logging attention away from high-density tree areas. With the progression of  society, these are probably the only measures that can be taken to avoid the greater effects of deforestation.

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