Edwin Hubble’s discoveries in the 1920s led to the understanding that the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the Universe. In a 2 to 3 paragraph essay, describe the five types of galaxies within Hubble classification system. Select one of the galaxy types and search online for an example. Include a picture of […]

Week 4 Assignment – Final Project Outline (the paper information is help with the outline) The purpose of this assignment is to create an outline, abstract, and reference page for your Final Paper. The outline must be two to three pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style. […]

Week 4 Discussions and Required Resources Assignment: Must be at least 200 words unless otherwise noted. Please read all attachments and follow ALL instructions. Emergency Response Plan  Using the Internet, locate and read the Emergency Response Plan for your local community. Evaluate whether the plan seems to be sufficient as an emergency planning tool. Why […]

  Response posts to fellow students (optional) are due by Day 7. Prior to beginning this assignment, please listen to the podcast, . Throughout this course, we have been exploring environmental issues and challenges, such as fresh drinking water scarcity and biodiversity loss. But what would our own lives be like without nature? How might […]

In this reflection, you are preparing a scientifically informed response to someone who expresses a question, or incorrect assumption regarding climate change.  You will identify the situation and audience, then write a narrative that informs your audience.  Begin with a section title Situation and Audience, followed by a brief description.   Examples: Situation and Audience: While […]

 1.Describe some ways that the Emergency Response Guidebook is used when responding to incidents involved the release of hazardous materials. Your response must be at least 75 words in length.  2.  Describe how the chemical characteristics, production methods, uses, and associated unique hazards of sulfur can affect the safety of an environmental health and safety […]

–   review the reports or advertisements(link above) about environmental views, beliefs, values, and practices of environmental groups or corporations in the Puget Sound area.  Make sure you apply the theories and categories you learned so far, especially how they use the metaphysical, epistemic or communicative paradigms in combination with anthropocentric, psychocentric/zoocentric, biocentric, ecocentric or […]

Now that you worked on your project, defined your question, and began to think about a possible answer/action, you will start thinking about the “justification” for your action. To support your choice of a paradigm and a sphere of moral considerability, you now need to find complementary information to guide your project. Please identify at […]

  Watch the video lecture on Systems Theory. The link is listed below: After watching the lecture, choose an important or well publicized ecological disaster such as the Fukushima, Japan nuclear reactor meltdown following a large earthquake and tsunami, or the the Chernobyl, Ukraine explosion and fire diaster in 1986, or the BP Oil Leak […]

Find a NEWs article that addresses an example of evolution ( A new article is an article from a media source like a newspaper or magazine tsuch as the New York Times , Fox , The Was Post , Vice etc. that addresses a current event. It does not include  sources like Wikipedia, ehow , […]