Coral Reef Research

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This site has good information on reefs around the U.S. and around the world. Good site for reasons why reefs are dying and what is killing them. Has too much info for my paper. Goes into detail on what could be done but isn't. This information might make my paper too long. Will have to wait and see how much info I need.

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This site give good personally experiences from scientists and what they have seen. Good background information on what has threatened coral reefs in the past. This site talks about why coral reefs are useful to us as a means of medicine. How they are protect or coastlines.

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This site gives good information about bleaching. How it was once viewed as a minor problem and how it has grown. How it started to raise concern in the past. How coral can recover from algae leaving coral and possibly return. This site talks about how important coral reefs are and why the are a key stone species for our oceans.

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This site is a good source for how the coral dying affects the fish species. How he personally saw what this reef use to look like and how it looks now. Talks about how coral reefs are oldest living structures on earth.

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This site give good information on what needs to be done to maintain fish diversity with coral reefs that are damaged. Don't know how long my paper will be. This good be a good add in for more information. Good for reader to see what it takes to maintain a coral reef and how fragile they are.

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This is a site where 3 different damaged coral reefs were rehabilitated and how each of them fared over the 14 years study. What affected them and how they each of their health increased or decreased due to variations in weather, location, etc..

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This site describes what happens to our coral reefs after a massive earthquake or tsunami. How it affects fish and coral reefs.

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This site focuses on what helps sustain coral reefs in the Caribbean. What it is that helps and how it works. I'm giving a lot of info on what naturally kills coral reefs and having some information on what in nature naturally occurs and helps protect our coral reefs make my paper more balanced.

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This site shows what U.S. plans to do about our coral reefs and what measures they are taking to preserver them. Talks about mapping coral reefs and trying to maintain coral reefs health.

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This site is good information on what coral reefs are. How they aren't just rocks but animals. How they are formed and what gives them their color. Talks about the different species of fish and how they all work together. What one benefits from the other, the other benefit from the one.

Examples of Logical Fallacies

http://jazzroc.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/17-established/
This picture depicks a, 'Personal Attack Fallacy.' This attack is used to make the other person look bad, or not good enough for the job. A lot of politicans use when on campaign, when they are questioned and do not know how to give a good responses. They also use this to make the other person they are running against look bad, doing this makes them seem like the better or logical choice of the two. The picture shows a larger shrimp talking down a smaller shrimp. His size makes him seem like the better shrimp and if this were an issue of which one a female shrimp should choose, then the larger shrimp would be the logical choice. But if this was applied to our goverment this ia not true. A persons size does not make them better or smarter. A persons actions and how they solve a problem is what matters.


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The Red Herring Fallacy is being used here. One duck states he is convinced that the, 'Flying Spaghetti Monster', exsists. When the duck is asked to produce evidence that this monster exists, he states how there is plenty of evidence but doesnt produce a single one and further deflects the attention from himself to him standing on one leg. The duck clearly has no evidence to support his claim and tries to deflect the other ducks attention from the topic at hand to his ability to stand on one leg. A lot of people in our goverment do this. When Obama is asked what happened to how he was gonna "change" our future when he just made things worse, he points out what he HAS done to avoid the question. I thought this one was hilarious and cute. I just had to post it.


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The logical fallacy being used here is that if you use this product, you too can look like Marilyn Monroe.
This fallacy is so commonly used, it is just about in every advertisment to look at. From beauty all the way to business. Every one of them tells you how they are the best and something like the picture above is your result.

Reasearch Topics

1. Whats happening to our water?
2. Why we need a healthy ocean
3. Over population
4. Golbal Warming and our Coral Reefs
5. Global Warming
6. Overfishing
7. Our Ozone layer
8. Ways to protect our environment

5 Topics

~Water as a Resource

1. Where do we get our water?
2. How are our resources recharged?
3. How is our water be affected?
4. Where this is happening and what is the outcome?

~Over population

1. Resources we all need to survive.
2. How numbers affect these resources
3. How the population has grown over the years
4. What the possible outcomes could be

~Global Warming and Coral Reefs

1. What is a Coral Reef and how it survives
2. Why Coral Reefs are important
3. Effects of Gobal Warming
4. Where this is happening and possible outcomes

~Overfishing

1. Why we need a healthy ocean
2. How do people depend on our ocean
3. How has fish numbers decreased overtime
4. Why is overfishing bad?

~Ways to protect our enviorment

1. How has the enviroment changed over the last 200 years?
2. What have humans done to influence this?
3. How will the earth look if nothing is done?
4. Ways we cant help pur enviorment and what the world is doing to change.