So my original research question was “What causes school shootings, and how is this linked to the education system and social media?” my idea was to go from the rhetorical analysis essay into more issues regarding young adult death such as school shootings and how they are all linked. However, I could not find any credible source that would provide a decent essay model to go off that talked about how the education system in this country is also a relevant factor when it comes to school shootings and suicide. Which was honestly very strange to me, considering how many students are in depression (mostly because of the school system and the environment, rather than bullying, not to exclude that as also a relevant and important factor). Besides the point I decided to revisit some other issues I was interested in. So, my question is “How can Marine Pollution be prevented, what causes it, and how does it affect our environment?”. I chose this topic that for a long time now Marine Pollution was something that has been bothering me. There is a 20+ long island of garbage that is in the Pacific Ocean that has been growing at a steady pace over the last decade. It is now bigger than Manhattan and is continuously growing. Earth has been dying slowly over the past couple of centuries, issues like Global Warming, and Green House Gases are leaving our planet in a wreck. Its all because of the way we treat it. I want to break down one of the worst ways we do so. Garbage Pollution. So, it is my goal during this paper to reiterate the facts and opinions of professionals to raise awareness and thoroughly explain the topic.

My paper will be modeling the article/encyclopedia entry published by National Geographic on July 5th, 2019 called “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”. The reason I chose this entry/article is because it is almost the perfect breakdown of the issue, explaining what it is, how it works, and how we can fix it. The model essay used the information gathered by National Geographic’s experts and teams as credible information to present this issue to the world, so more people are aware of it. This article will help me structure and write my paper, with a lot of other articles acting as secondary sources that I will analyze to break down the issue even more. Going into as much detail as possible. The targeted audience of this research paper will be people who are unaware of this issue. Surprisingly despite its massive size very few people know about it or bring it up when talking about the state of the environment. So, the purpose of this paper would be to spread awareness regarding the garbage patch providing different perspectives, statistical analysis, and ways people can help. Furthermore, there are also people that may have heard about this issue and are trying to learn more because they see that action needs to be taken to help our planet.
Model Article/Entry: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/
Works Cited:
Lebreton, L., Slat, B., Ferrari, F. et al. Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic. Sci Rep 8, 4666 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22939-w
Egger, M., Sulu-Gambari, F. & Lebreton, L. First evidence of plastic fallout from the North Pacific Garbage Patch. Sci Rep 10, 7495 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64465-8
Thomas M. Kostigen Discover “The World’s Largest Dump: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch” July 9, 2008 8:00 PM https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/the-worlds-largest-dump-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch
https://theoceancleanup.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch/
Laurent C. M. Lebreton, et al., “River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans,” Nature Communications 8, no. 15611 (June 2017), http://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15611
Merel Kooi, et al., “The effect of particle properties on the depth profile of buoyant plastics in the ocean,” Scientific Reports 92, 1-2 (March 2015): 170-179, http://doi.org/10.1038/srep33882
OR&R’s Marine Debris Division “Garbage Patches” Last edit was 10/18/20th https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/info/patch.html

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