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Blog 1 – Biden Mishaps (Revision)
Biden Mishaps
Over the past weeks, President Biden has been ordering soldiers to withdraw from the middle east. Unfortunately, the U.S military admitted to killing 10 civilians in a bombing, seven being children and one being an aid worker, who were mistaken for being associated with ISIS.
Appealing to feelings
The article details the majority of positive acts Zemerai Ahmadi, the aid worker, did in the span of his life. They emphasize how hardworking and how close he was successful in detailing his profession and including the fact of his nearly confirmed refugee status. Pathos is further enacted by implementing pictures with captions to cause the reader to visualize how detrimental the situation is.
Seeing both sides
Throughout the article, the reasons for defending the bombing are inserted in multiple instances. From the excerpt comes “The Pentagon described the accidental killing of Ahmadi as a result of the frenzied evacuation…”. While it is important to see both sides of the conflict, sentences inserted as so should not influence the main standpoint being that US Military was wrong.
The Halo Affect
As reported in the article, Biden was seen publicly traveling to his vacation home after said incident. He remained silent as stated in “He said nothing to reporters on his way out of the White House or upon arrival in Delaware. On first notice, this action gives Biden a poor look, giving him a negative outlook to outside viewers. His silence comes off as uncaring and unbothered. While this may be a justified first thought, its also possible for him to have a contingency already in motion about the situation
Being primed on prior information
Biden’s eligibility of being a president has been a topic through the first year of his term, as early as his first month in. Multiple news outlets/talk shows have nit-picked his ideals and speaking habits during his speeches. From an uninvolved individual, this a very common starting view of Biden (being an incapable elder) forming an already negative bias around him. This already present bias affects the objectivity of Biden in this specific situation, already deducing him as an incapable leader.
Take into account the author of said article and their potential bias.
This article is presented on New York Post news site by Steven Nelson. Steven Nelson has numerous articles in his catalog pertaining to Biden’s decisions. One title of his works is “Biden’s dad worked for corrupt union group that got federal funds, the book claims” without reading clouds Biden in a negative cloud. There are more articles that also do the same, giving off the author, Steven Nelson, who already doesn’t approve of Biden himself and holds a negative bias.
Letting logic effect the situation
Nelson’s article provides points that were stated by Pentagon. These points are used to provide a logical reason for why the attacks were sent out. An example comes from the Pentagon stating “the strike was a successful mission to prevent another bombing of the Kabul airport…”. This alone can sway readers in a more favorable way to the side of the U.S and cause them to agree. It is important to not let the use of logic take away from the subject of the article
Annotated Bibliography 2 – Deforestation
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.