1.Summarize one example illustrating how microbes benefit human health. Can the removal of microbes actually lead to disease development?
2.Trace the path taken by pathogens from various portals of entry, through the establishment of disease, and ending with their exit from various portals in the host.
3.Conduct additional research and answer the following: Discuss what policies are in place at local, state, and federal government levels to prohibit the spread of disease in the case of a pandemic.
4.There are some who believe that HIV does not cause AIDS. Have all of Kochs postulates been met for HIV as the causative agent that leads to the development of AIDS? Cite evidence to explain your answer.

Overview
Public statements in townhall style meetings or summits are a regular part of the decision-making process. Often this includes testimony from invited experts and/or from the public, in which the speaker reads aloud a well prepared statement of their perspective on the issue at hand. In this online class, you will speak out in a virtual townhall meeting on a controversial environmental topic. You will write a stakeholder statement and share it with the class via discussion forum. This is Part 2 of the 3-part Townhall assignment.

Please also upload your script for this assignment to the following submission page and it will be automatically submitted to Turnitin to check for originality.

Assignment
Part 2 of the Townhall Summit will take place in this discussion forum. Students have been assigned to townhall groups, each of which will conduct a “public” forum (public within your discussion group, that is) about a controversial topic via stakeholder presentations. Each student has been assigned the role of a particular stakeholder in a specific controversy, and started researching that stakeholder role in the Week 5 Lab Assignment. Each topic group has been provided a place and venue to set the scene for the summit, and a key question that all comments in their townhall summit will address. You are to research and write your stakeholder statement, then post the statement for your group members (and instructors) to read. You will also need to submit the script to a second assignment where it will be scanned by Turnitin and graded according to a rubric (just like we do with weekly discussions).

Instructions for Writing your Stakeholder Statement
Prepare a script of a position statement at least four paragraphs long (300-400 words, < 5 minutes; we will not grade on length explicitly unless it is overly short or long).  The goal is to be short, but powerful and convincing. Most people only read short comments on the internet, and in a live meeting you would probably be allotted 5 minutes or less to speak. Use the following as a guide to develop your presentation. Please recall that there is a Guide to Identifying Stakeholders and Stakeholder Positions in the LAB Background document.

Summarize the controversy at hand, including environmental (pollution, biodiversity loss, etc.) and human dimensions (health, economy, jobs, social justice, etc.). Briefly acknowledge your fellow stakeholders points of view. Use your sources to support this summary with evidence. DO NOT quote directly from sources paraphrase the material into your own words to demonstrate your mastery of the material.
State stakeholder role and your position/stance (for or against) on the issue. See the Guide to Identifying Stakeholders and Stakeholder Positions in the Background document for more guidance.
Explain several (2-5) pieces of evidence that led you to your conclusion. Demonstrate your mastery of the issue and knowledge of the facts. Again, paraphrase, do not use quotations from sources – demonstrate your mastery of the material.
Cite your sources, including author, date, title, and URL. Use the sources you evaluated in the Week 5 Lab Assignment (The CRAAP Test), assuming you found them to be credible.

World Geography

Region Report

Based on Chapter 8 (Sub-Saharan Africa) and Chapter 11 (North America) posted under Course Documents, write a short report in which you discuss the differences and similarities between North America and Sub-Saharan Africa  in terms of their:

1.    Distinctive physical geography, including relief (or landforms), major river systems, climates,  natural resources,  and environmental problems

2.    Distinctive human geography, including colonial history, population distribution and dynamics, migration, cultural diversity, economy, and  economic  problems

Important Note:
1.    The report should be about five (4) pages in length (double-spaced)

Genre: Cover Letter

Refer to the attached document in order to write the cover letter.

Please make the cover letter the very first page of your assignment. In direct response to these questions, please write a letter to your instructor:

a. Why did you make the rhetorical decisions that you did? Be specific — please pull out specific examples, words/phrases/language choices, and so on to explain.

b. Why did you make the stylistic decisions that you did? Be specific — please pull out specific examples from your text.

c. What did you learn throughout this process? Be specific. As each assignment goes on, please make connections between and among the different major assignment.

The Cover Letter is your way to look back over your work and make sense of why you did what you did to help move you forward, but it also creates a persuasive understanding for yourself and instructor about how well you understand what you did and why you did it.

Research Question:
What kinds of public science education would most effectively convey the information gathered from ice cores so that the ordinary man in the street could comprehend it and recognize the significance threats of climate change?
Or in other words:
find a way to effectively convey information from ice cores to the ordinary man to help him recognize the significant threats of climate change.

Prompt
–    Write an Annotated Bibliographical Entries for each articles (see attached files)
–    There are 3 articles
    The three articles will HELP TO ANSWER THE RESEARCH QUESTION (RQ)

Instructions

Follow the sample of ONE Annotated Bibliographical Entry (see attached files)