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My name is Cyntia, I am 19 years old. I have been a student at MDC since the spring term of 2022. I was born in Cuba and I have been living in the U.S. with my family for 17 years now. After I am done with my classes I usually have work after. I work in retail and I like my job. In my leisure time, I enjoy going out with my friends or my family members. We mostly enjoy going to restaurants all around Miami that we've never tried before. I mostly love to travel and go on spontaneous adventures. My spontaneous trips have led me to places like Canada and NYC. I am looking forward to all the places I plan to visit this new year. I am the first in my family to go to college and I am very passionate about earning my degree in psychology not only for myself but to make my parents proud. Though I am still unsure of exactly what career I want to go into with my future degree, I know that I want to help people improve their mental health and feel better about themselves overall. After I earn my master's degree and have my career sorted out I intend to move away from Florida, perhaps to Virginia or New York.

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How much land does it take to power the world?

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How much land does it take to power the world?

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What caught your attention in the video?  Why?

What caught my attention in the video was how it is mentioned that every year, electricity generation is responsible for about 27% of the more than 50 billion tons of greenhouse gasses that are added to our atmosphere. This accelerates climate change. I did not know that in order to get the electricity that we desperately rely on we cause even more damage to the planet.

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The video that I chose to watch was "This Land Is Our Land" The description of the video immediately caught my attention. The video talks about how the company Nestle has been drawing out water from springs and wells within the national forest in California. What I really found shocking was how despite Nestle's permit to remove water from the springs and wells being expired since 1988 they have continued to do this for 35 years. I was also surprised to learn that Nestle takes between 50 to 150 million gallons of water every year and makes millions off of it whilst the U.S. forest only receives $524 from Nestle. I found it very upsetting when, in an interview, the CEO of Nestle was asked if they would stop bottling water in California, and he responded "Absolutely not. In fact, if I could increase it I would." Large corporations like Nestle have proven time and time again that they do not care for the damage that they inflict on the environment or the people who are also affected by their corporation. National forests in California have become isolated islands due to the urban population in South California growing and on top of that these national forests are also being dried out of their natural spring waters that help wildlife and nature flourish. It was deeply upsetting to learn that so far, nothing has been done to stop this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcus410BwX8

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I learned many new things when I joined this course. In these past four months i've become more knowledgeable in different areas of science. Particularly in the areas regarding global warming. I also learned to do the work for this class and enjoy completing it. Through presentations that I have had to do in this class, I have become better at public speaking as well.

My initial reaction to this course was that it would be tedious. I thought that I would be doing a lot of work during and after my class. I also believed that I would be spending a lot of money on a book for this class. I have always done well in my science classes throughout my life, however before this class I had never taken a science course online. Therefore, my expectations for this class were not very high. I was worried I would have trouble understanding the work and completing my assignments.

My experince during this course has been mostly pleasant. This has become a class that I do well on grade wise as well as attendence wise. There have been very few times where I had trouble completing an assigmnet or turning anything in. The class work in this course has always been straightfoward and not difficult to complete. The intructions given to the class was always clear and the feedback I always receieved on the work that I turned in was helpful. I had no trouble completing the activities and a lot of the time I enjoyed doing them. My experince was different than I expected because I ended up enjoying taking this course as well as learning more than I though I would. I also enjoyed that we never had to buy books for this class or do any homework outside of class.

After completing the activities given to us by the proffesor, I feel a lot more positive and open to learning even more about science. Many of the subjects that I learned in this course had to do with global warming and the Earth is suffering at the hands of large corporations and the people of this world. I was able to learn many things that I now apply to my evryday life. For instance, it was in this class that I learned about climate gentrification. I had no idea what it was beofre taking this class but know it has become a subject that I consider often and try to inform other about. I also learned about all the negative affects of plastic and possible solutions being looked at to fix our plastic issue. It was through projects that I did in this class where I learned how so much of the global population faces the risk of running out of clean drinking water by 2030. This course changed me as a person because it has made me more selfaware of the issues going on around me. It has also inspired me to find ways to aid in stopping these issues.

In conclusion, this course was one of my favorites this semsester and if I could take it again I would. The instructions given by our instructor were always clear and concise and that aided me in completing my work. Interacting with my classmates was always a positive experince. Taking group tests and hearing about what everyone else was learning was a nice experince. Overall, I will leave this class with a positive outlook on science and a desire to learn more.

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What I learned after watching Why Hurricanes Hardly Ever Hit Europe was firstly Europe hasn’t had a hurricane reach it’s shore in more than 50 years. Since the year 2000 the remains of hurricanes have reached Europe only about 30 times, where as Florida has seen 79 actual hurricanes. I also discovered that the colder waters near Europe mean that there is less energy to feed storms, therefore they will die out by the time they reach Europe.What remains of the hurricanes do cause a lot of rain and heavy winds, however this mainly affects Ireland and England. The effects have been noted to also reach as far as Greece and even Russia. Global warming also plays a part of how hurricanes will start to affect Europe more. As global temperatures rise the sea surface temperatures will rise in the Northern Atlantic ocean which can lead to more hurricanes reaching land in Europe.

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The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.

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96.5 percent of the water in our world is found in the ocean. It has salt in it thus making ut undrinkable. Most of the Earths fresh water is locked away in glaciers and therefore unabtanable, making less than 1 percent avaialble to us. By using desalination salt and other impurities can be removed from sea water and can produce drinking water. Reverse osmosis does not require the boiling of the water or use heat it simply pressurizez the water through a sort of filter do force out all the salt. Water desalination is a very reliable option to moany places around the world where there is so much water scarcity. Unlike clean fresh water, water disalaination is not susceptible to things like droughts, natural disasters, or depletion. Water desalination also provides water not only for drinking purposes but also for the agriculture industry. Farms that require a lot of fresh water for their crops can now produce more food for people.

Sources:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90786918/drinking-water-scarcity-is-desalination-solution

https://www.watercorporation.com.au/Our-water/Desalination

https://pureaqua.com/blog/9-advantages-of-seawater-desalination-systems/

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I selected goal 6: Clean water and sanitation because I felt more people should know about it. I found it very upsetting how billions of people worldwide don’t have access to clean water and sanitation. Clean water is something most of us take for granted since it is so easily accessible. Goal 6 is impacted by climate change because warming temperatures caused by climate change further jeopardize the quality and safety of drinking water. Warmer air leads to more water being evaporated which leads to heavier rainfall and floodings that can decrease the quality of water as well as increase health risks.

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From about 300-200 million years ago (late Paleozoic Era until the very late Triassic), the continent we now know as North America was contiguous with Africa, South America, and Europe. They all existed as a single continent called Pangea.

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The law of reflection states that the incident ray, the reflected ray, and the normal to the surface of the mirror all lie in the same plane.

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What Can We Do To Ensure Clean Water and Sanitation For All?

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What Can We Do To Ensure Clean Water and Sanitation For All?

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For my project, I chose Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation. My project explores the unfortunate issue we've yet to resolve of how we can make sure everyone in the world has access to clean water and sanitation. Clean water is a basic human need that no one should struggle to access. With the world population growing, the need for clean water and sanitation becomes direr. According to UN studies, billions of people in the world will not have access to clean water and sanitation by 2030. The UN, however, has a goal to ensure both clean water and sanitation are vastly available by 2032. This can save the lives of an estimated 829,000 people annually who die from unsafe drinking water-related deaths.

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https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/progress-report/

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/water-and-sanitation/

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Magnetic and electric fields of an electromagnetic wave are perpendicular to each other and to the direction of the wave. When you listen to the radio, watch TV, or cook dinner in a microwave oven, you are using electromagnetic waves.

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The smallest solution to one of our biggest problems

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The smallest solution to one of our biggest problems

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What caught my attention in the mini-lecture was that plastic from the 1950s has yet to degrade fully. I was surprised to discover that plastic never fully biodegrades, the first pieces of plastic invented are likely still floating around today. It was also very unsettling to discover that we have 400 million more tons of plastic each year. A lot of it ends up in our oceans in the form of microplastic that pollutes our food chain and then eventually in us.

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The smallest solution to one of our biggest problems - Tierney Thys & Christian Sardet

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After watching the climate gentrification in Miami video what caught my attention was seeing all of the floodings that happen in popular places like Miami beach and Brickell being talked about. Another subject that was talked about that caught my attention was how the activists were talking about people in Little Haiti and Little Havana being displaced and offered money to move out of their homes. This is not the first time I hear of this but I was just now made aware that they were being offered homes in the homestead where they would only be two to three feet above sea level as opposed to their homes in Little Haiti which are eight to ten feet above sea level. It was brought to my attention that, in Little Haiti, 20% of single-family homes and duplexes are owned by some type of company. The people who make Miami what it is are being pushed out of their own city and can no longer afford to live here. What spoke to me was how upsetting it is to find out that people who are usually socially and economically challenged are the ones who are facing gentrification. Also, these very same people are not receiving the help that they should be.

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The topic that I chose was Clean Water and Sanitation. The goal that Clean Water Sanitation is to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Today, an estimated 2.2 billion people lack access to clean drinking water. As someone who has witnessed the damage that lack of clean drinking water can do to people, I find it imperative that we work toward making sure that no one in the world is struggling to find something as simple as clean water to sustain themselves. The Sustainable Development Goal on water and sanitation was adopted by the United Nations as a part of the 2030 agenda to ensure that water and sanitation are available to all.

Source: https://sdgs.un.org/topics/water-and-sanitation

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Can 100% renewable energy power the world? - Federico Rosei and Renzo Rosei

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COLLAPSE

The video that I chose to watch was "Why the US isn't ready for clean energy". Something that was talked about in the video that I found interesting was that some states, like Vermont, plan to have 100% renewable sources to make their electricity by 2032. Another thing that was mentioned which was new information for me was that President Biden wants to reduce emissions in the U.S. by 50% by 2030. I did not know that we were making such great progress in order to have cleaner energy in the near future.

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Which sunscreen should you choose? - Mary Poffenroth

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A guide to the energy of the Earth - Joshua M. Sneideman