The story of stuff: A Critical Analysis

The story of stuff: A Critical Analysis

2. Annie Leonard was trying to reach a youth audience because they are going to be the people who can make change in the future.

4. A video makes the problem seem more real, although the drawings were cartoon, the act of the trees being cut down really made an impact on how i feel about deforesting. A video also keeps my attention on the matter at hand, Leonard was able to always stay on point and it was very educational to watch

6. Industries and big companies might disagree and even i disagreed at a few points. Some facts like our pillows being doused with a toxic fireproof chemical seemed exaggerated. I don't doubt that its true but considering the fact i never heard of someone dieing from a pillow toxin i feel like Leonard was simply creating a problem from nothing. 

8. It has, especially one of the last points that says 99% of what we buy wont last us up to 6 months. I'll definitely try to conserve more from now on.

Video Worksheet the cove

2. Taiji Japan

4. Ric O Berry became so involved in trying to save the dolphins because of the death of flipper. Flipper was Ric's pride and joy as a dolphin trainer and it simply committed suicide in his arms. 

6. Japan

8. Fishermen use long poles that are stuck into the water. By hammering these poles it makes a sound that the dolphins cant stand and that's how they herd the dolphins into the cove.

10.23,000

12.mercury

14.Japanese people still eat the dolphin meat because the meat is labelled as other kinds of meat. 

16.humans are over fishing because 7/10 people on htis earth depend on fish for their main source of protien

18.They distribute dolphin meat through the mandatory school lunch system

20.He shows up with a video of what the dolphin slaughter actually looks like

22.1986

Pasta dry lab using Mark-Recapture

Materials

• uncooked pasta
• markers
• ziploc bag

Procedure

1. A sample population was taken  (figure 1)
2. The sample population was marked (figure 2)
3. The sample population was placed back into the bag and the bag was shaken (figure 3)
4. A handful of pasta was taken out of the bag randomly and the number of previously marked pasta was recorded (figure 4)
5. calculations were performed to estimate size of general population (figure 5) 
6. 2 more trials were performed

Trials

	Trial 1	Trial 2	Trial 3
M	27	27	27
n	27	29	45
m	2	2	3
N	365	392	405

1. After 3 trials of the mark and recapture sampling technique our group came up with 3 estimates. 367, 392 and 405 averaging 387. But when we individually counted the pasta we established with confidence that the true size was 479. Our group was off by 92 pasta and had error rate of 19%.

2. a) Our group only marked 27 pastas which is only 5.6% of the total population. Because only 5.6% were marked it led to our group having estimates way under the actual population size. Also, the pastas we used were previously already marked by similar markers which made it difficult to tell which were marked for this experiment.



    b) Some problems ecologists might encounter are that once the animal is caught, it might become wary of the traps and not get caught again, or maybe other members of the population don't want to associate themselves with the marked individuals because they are different. ecologists may also have to consider the risk of human intervention such factors like hunting, disease or predators may lead to modified population estimates. In the real world ecologists also have to face the very real risk of the population migrating or maybe other animals migrate into the population and disrupt food chains.

3. In order to improve our sampling design and the overall success rate of this experiment, instead of grabbing a handful of pasta we should randomly select each individual pasta. This gives us a more spread out reflection on the population. Also the amount of pasta selected should stay the same giving us a more standardized perspective on the overall population.

Figure 1

Figure 2

figure 5

figure 4

figure 3