People’s values are far more than abstract assignments of worth that rarely make themselves evident in real life. Instead, values can and have been used in myriad situations to explain human behaviour. The concept of environmental values is particularly important to those working in resource management agencies, since such values are crucial to explaining people’s …
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In an environmental communication class that I took at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the classroom activity one week was to watch four different ads trying to persuade individuals to engage in pro-environmental behaviour. One of these ads on reducing plastic consumption can be found below: After watching this ad, all of us in the room …
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Many of us learned about the stages of the scientific method when we were children. We make observations about the world, formulate a question based on what we see, and write a hypothesis from our question. Then we conduct an experiment and observe the results, and see if the results confirm our hypothesis. The …
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This week, I’m going to tell you about a great man you’ve probably never heard of. His work has undoubtedly had a huge influence on my life. The man in question is Shinichi Suzuki, who was highly influential in the field of music education. As a child, I went to two different violin schools where …
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High school marks the final years of our childhood, and is supposed to prepare us for whatever life exists beyond. Many high school curricula, however, do a terrible job at preparing young adults for life after graduation. Unfortunately, one major focus of high school courses is preparing for standardized tests, whether those be the ACT, …
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When I recently took the political compass test, I realized how many of the questions would make great blogs. This blog is inspired by the prompt “The prime function of schooling should be to equip the future generations to find jobs.” I strongly disagree with this statement, and would like to explain why. At first …
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