For the third essay I chose to talk about the effects of global pollution found around the world. My main argument for the essay is mainly to talk about how pollution affects people in cities where pollution rates are higher than others. I would also like to talk about, and cross examine the different types of pollution that these major cities are undergoing as well as why. Personally, I believe the large amount of pollution in places such Asian countries and India is directly responsible from overpopulation of the city. Issues such as pollution has been worsening for years and will continue to worsen if things are not done. Studies have shown that the air quality in large cities around the world is almost like breathing in toxins. Particle matter found within air has been related to causes of cancer levels amongst citizens living in areas of PM2.5 or greater. Smog found within cities is due to the overworking of factories as well as people moving through the city giving off emission with their vehicles. This smog is thick and heavy causing major respiratory problems. While in china there are a lot of health issues because of pollution being high the major one that is specific is indeed the smog. Scientists all over have been working on solving this problem for these Asian cities and countries, but there is not really anything that can stop control the issue. Countries like China used to enforce a law amongst the citizens that would limit them to one child per adult. There are a few questions I have about this law, and its affects not so much on the people but their country. While the law was predominant more in the earlier 2000s how does the health of economy compare to then versus now? Did limiting the citizens ability to have children show positive signs of helping the environment even if it was long term, or was it all just a waste of time? I believe this method could actually work with population control without turning to some drastic measure that would injure people. This method is not the most popular and even hated by many people, but I think if there is a positive that could come out of it and none of the citizens could get hurt there might be a way to enforce a law like this to help control pollution. Less people in a given area could mean less waste being produced. Setting a limit to the number of children a person could have could certainly be what it needed to help other countries and it could be as simple as this. For every person that resides in the area of interest or surrounding area would be limited to one child per person, if that person were to have twins, triplets, etc. In the case of triplets those children could count as one child meaning that person still has the ability to have one more. The same rules would apply for adoption. There would be other limitations that would go into the law, but I am just curious on how this would work for a period of time and what the affects would be.

The tests that websites build to determine someone’s political standpoint are definitely not a new thing to me. I think some are more accurate than others I don’t believe the ones that were listed on the websites to take were very accurate. The first test from the website that goes by the name all sides was not the best test to help determining one’s political views. While I believe it is good that the test offers you a choice of neutral there are not nearly enough questions to determine someone’s standpoint on the political spectrum. The topics this particular website focuses on and questions you are asked to answer are very broad. When I completed the test, I was given results of mostly a center bias. I don’t believe this is completely inaccurate, I know that more questions would completely change the results. I share strong standpoint from both political parties, I don’t agree with one and at the same time I don’t disagree with their arguments either. This can be seen in the second test by 8 valves. Amongst all of the test listed to take this was for sure the best option. 8 Valves test gives the taker the option to choose a centered unsure unbiased opinion on topics as well as asking lots of different questions. I still do not believe this makes things more accurate though. A lot of the questions I had complex viewpoints on whereas other ones had simple straight forward answers. My results for this test were pretty close to the first one leaning around a center standpoint for most of the results. They reported me having a 65.5% for equality compared to a 36.5% for markets deeming my economic axis as social. The site goes through and categorizes your results under three different axes, then I am given what the average of those results looks like. This average for me was determined to be “Social Liberalism”. Like I stated before while I don’t necessarily disagree with the results, they are not completely accurate do to complex standpoints on certain issues. With that being said, the final test we were given to take by political compass I believed was the worst of all. The test did not give you any ways to choose neutral ground on subjects, you either were forced to disagree or agree.  I did not like this method of question asking, because some of the issues I was not quite sure what my standpoint was, or I felt like I didn’t know enough about the subject to have a standpoint. This can greatly affect the results of the test and it did. This test categorized me as authoritarian left, I believe if were given the option to choose an unbiased standpoint on certain topics these results would change drastically. I think these kinds of tests are hard to design for just having a computer grades the results based off the answers given. My idea to strengthen these results to give more accurate answers is to take have a test set up like the second one I took. Test takers should also be given the option for short answer responses with a character limit set to the responses. The character limit will make things easier on the graders for the tests. They then should be graded individually by three different groups. People who claim to have a more of a conservative standpoint, one with liberal point of views and finally one who claims to have a neutral standpoint for the most part on some subjects. The tests results being graded by real people as well as increasing the amount of people grading will help with accuracy of results instead of a computer based system that uses an algorithm that categorizes you based off of results that are this answer makes you have this standpoint, another answer makes you have the opposite standpoint, and so on. Even with the system I described these tests will always be difficult to give completely accurate data. I believe the idea of where you land on the political spectrum should be based off of the finite beliefs you have for things and can only be dictated by yourself truly. The tests are however fun to take just to see where the computer thinks you land.

Saturday afternoon just outside of Cooperstown, NY police reported to a call about a man dressed as a wizard that allegedly pushed an old lady down a manhole cover. When the police questioned the man, they found he was clearly a rank 10 wizard. Being forced to call in the experts to translate, they immediately phoned up Danial Radcliff. When Mr. Potter arrived, he bravely played the man in a game of quidditch to determine his reasoning for pushing the old lady. The wizard stated that his reason for pushing the old lady was that “She wouldn’t battle my Pokémon”. The police placed the man in cuffs, and he was appointed to “Guantanamo Bay school for wizardry” to be retaught how to properly use his magic. The fire department assisted in pulling the old woman from the manhole. When she was up paramedics noticed she was quite flustered, so they gave her a carton of milk to calm her down. Once calm, the lady exclaimed, “I was walking home from my rock climbing seminar when a man that was 5’11”, dressed in a long purple robe with gleaming stars placed exactly 3 inches apart from each other with a diameter of 2 inches on each star, and a black wizard hat that stood exactly 17 inches tall, with a brim circumference of 74.4 inches.” The woman was relieved to hear the authorities caught the man being that she didn’t get a good look at his face. After the lady was checked over by the paramedics, she was released and escorted home by the chief of police. Reports have shown that attacks similar to this one had been rising at an alarming rate, law enforcements recommend traveling in herds when running your daily errands throughout the city.

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