English 101: Lecture on the Cause and Effect Essay

Summary

In an informative lecture by James Boswell, students are guided through the essentials of writing a cause and effect essay. Important focus points include grammar, organization, and understanding MLA documentation. Emphasizing the need for personal work ethic and preparing for upcoming assignments, Boswell stresses the value of staying ahead of deadlines. The lecture also ties into broader educational challenges, like students' readiness and motivation, contextualized within notable literature, ensuring that learners grasp both the practical and theoretical components essential to excelling in English composition.

Highlights

• Remember to complete the grammar packet; answers will be sent for self-check. 📘
• Don't forget about the substantial 100 points for the comparison contrast essay. 💪
• Due dates for exams and submissions are noted, so mark your calendars. 📅
• A cause and effect essay requires choosing one: cause or effect. Focusing on both is a common pitfall! 🎢
• Rappaccini’s Daughter will be reviewed in-depth, tying literature to educational themes. 📚

Key Takeaways

• Always review the grammar packet beforehand and check your work with the provided answers. 📝
• Deadlines are crucial; don't wait until the last minute to get things done! ⏰
• Understand MLA documentation to boost essay format accuracy. 📚
• Thanksgiving might be a break, but don’t forget to keep up with assignments! 🦃
• Comparison and contrast essays should be thorough - they’re 100 points each! 💯
• Reading 'Rappaccini's Daughter' is crucial for discussing thematic points and for exam preparation. 📖
• The cause and effect essay requires a specific focus either on causes or effects, not both. 🎯

Overview

In this insightful lecture, Professor James Boswell dives into the mechanics of writing cause and effect essays, ensuring students understand the importance of focusing solely on either causes or effects rather than both. This structured approach emphasizes clarity and specificity, which are pivotal in academic writing. Boswell uses relatable examples to draw connections between real-world events and academic theory, ensuring students realize the depth of analysis needed in such essays.

Aside from writing techniques, the lecture highlights the implications of poor preparation in academics, encouraging students to engage with provided study guides and supplementary materials. Boswell underscores how distractions and lack of diligence could derail academic performance and how proactive strategies like time management can alleviate this. Thanksgiving break is a key mention as a time to balance relaxation with keeping academic momentum.

Additionally, literature plays a significant role in this lecture. Boswell integrates 'Rappaccini's Daughter' as a case study for thematic development and exam preparedness, showcasing how literature not only enhances comprehension but also prepares students for nuanced discussions. This holistic approach is particularly beneficial for cultivating critical thinking and expanding perspectives, reflecting the lecture's overarching goal of strengthening student capability in tackling complex essay questions.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 05:00: Introduction The chapter titled 'Introduction' begins with a hesitance, represented by the filler words 'um' and 'uh'. It suggests that the chapter may be setting the stage for the content to follow, possibly indicating a casual or uncertain start that could lead into more detailed and structured discussions.
• 05:00 - 10:00: Grammar Packet Instructions The chapter titled 'Grammar Packet Instructions' begins with the speaker sharing their screen to go over a to-do sheet. The speaker mentions having sent out several tasks to be completed over the weekend.
• 10:00 - 15:00: Comparison Contrast Due Date The chapter discusses reminders about completing a grammar packet, emphasizing the importance of trying hard to finish it. The speaker reassures that they will not be collecting it today and advises against attempting to submit it at this time.
• 15:00 - 20:00: MLA Documentation Review In this chapter, the instructor emphasizes the importance of individual effort and advises students to work independently on their assignments. The instructor plans to send answer keys later in the week for self-assessment purposes. There is also mention of multiple attachments being sent out during the week, including previously unsent materials and potentially some items being re-sent for clarity or redundancy.
• 20:00 - 25:00: Final Exam Information The chapter discusses potential issues students might face, such as misplacing materials or having difficulty finding them. To mitigate this, the instructor plans to send important materials more than once, except for the grammar packet, which students are expected to complete independently. Answers will be provided for grammar exercises to aid in preparation for the grammar section of the exam. Additionally, there is a reminder that the comparison contrast section is due soon.
• 25:00 - 30:00: Thanksgiving Holiday Notice The chapter discusses a Thanksgiving holiday notice, emphasizing its importance and reminding people about it. The speaker reiterates that the announcement was previously made last week or earlier. The notice appears to be linked to a hundred points system, though it's unspecified. The speaker assures an additional announcement will be made and is actively working on disseminating the information again.
• 30:00 - 35:00: Cause Effect Paper Deadline The chapter titled 'Cause Effect Paper Deadline' emphasizes the details of an important paper assignment. It mentions that the paper is worth 100 points and should be submitted via Dropbox. The expectations for the final draft include a double-spaced, well-organized document with clearly outlined thesis, plan development, and topic sentences. The instructor indicates that many students are grasping the requirements, which is a positive sign, and stresses the importance of this review in preparation for final submission.
• 35:00 - 40:00: Reading Encouragement and Survey Participation The chapter discusses the importance of understanding MLA documentation, focusing on in-text citation and works cited pages. In-text citation requires an author and page number, without a comma. If the page number is unknown, only the author is referenced; if the author's name is unknown, only the title is used. Works cited requires the author's name to be formatted with a hanging indent.
• 40:00 - 45:00: Course Completion Strategy The chapter discusses various resources and strategies to effectively complete a course. It suggests utilizing online information and tools that allow you to input your data to organize it efficiently. There's a mention of an author who, according to the speaker, might have titled a book in a specific way to complement the strategies discussed. The chapter emphasizes the availability of templates and examples online to facilitate learning and course completion.
• 45:00 - 50:00: Rappertini’s Daughter The chapter focuses on the challenges faced by Rappertini's daughter as she prepares for a major exam. It highlights the differences in teaching methods and the struggles in adapting to various styles. Despite these challenges, the emphasis is placed on studying and utilizing available resources such as reading materials and study guides to prepare for the final exams. The narrative conveys a determination to overcome educational hurdles and succeed.
• 50:00 - 55:00: Student Paper Example The chapter discusses the objective of essay writing and the importance of utilizing study guides effectively. The instructor highlights their efforts in training students to work with study guides through previous quizzes. An upcoming final exam is mentioned, available from December 6th to December 10th, requiring students to allocate a two-hour period within that week to complete it. Unlike other teachers who might schedule the exam for a specific time, this instructor is allowing flexibility.
• 55:00 - 60:00: Cause Effect Theme Lecture The chapter titled 'Cause Effect Theme Lecture' discusses exam scheduling and grading components. Students can take the exam anytime on designated days, with the exam constituting 25% of the grade. Located under quizzes, the exam includes multiple-choice questions. An essay on 'Rappatini's Daughter' is also part of the course requirements. Students are advised to read 'Rappatini's Daughter' and attend the lectures where the text will be discussed.
• 60:00 - 65:00: Cause Effect Paper Structure The chapter discusses the Cause Effect Paper Structure, highlighting an important announcement about the Thanksgiving holiday. It reminds readers that the community college will be closed on Thursday, November 26th, and Friday, November 27th, even though there are no classes on Friday. This is a crucial reminder for those who might forget the holiday during their busy schedules, especially since it might not be a traditional event for everyone.
• 65:00 - 70:00: Student Thesis Example The chapter discusses a typical schedule around a holiday, mentioning the absence of classes on a holiday as highlighted in the syllabus. Normal classes will resume the following Monday. The immediate schedule includes meetings for today and Wednesday, and then next week's Monday and Wednesday sessions will focus on a cause and effect paper in the workbook.
• 70:00 - 75:00: Causes vs Effects The chapter titled 'Causes vs Effects' discusses the assignment deadlines, the submission process, and organizational guidelines for a writing task. Due by Friday, December 4th, 2020, the assignment details include drafting a two to four-page document which requires organized structuring such as a theme, outline, and thesis plan of development. Students must also incorporate topic sentences and adhere to five-paragraph formatting, supported by revising and rewriting techniques. Resources including handouts and topic instructions have been distributed to aid in the completion of this exercise.
• 75:00 - 80:00: Poem Analysis In the chapter titled 'Poem Analysis', the focus is on the upcoming report due on November 30th. The instructor reminds the students about the emailed report sheet template that needs to be used, emphasizing the importance of adhering to the format. The report should be double-spaced and submitted via email. It is a significant assignment, valued at 200 points, as it counts twice in the overall grading. The readings for the course have not changed and remain consistent.
• 80:00 - 85:00: Cause Effect Essay Structure The instructor encourages students to respond to a survey evaluating their classes, emphasizing the value of their feedback. The instructor reiterates the importance of participation and thanks those who have already provided input.
• 85:00 - 90:00: Thesis Statement Lecture The 'Thesis Statement Lecture' chapter emphasizes the importance of keeping up with work and maintaining objectivity in assessment. The lecturer assures students that points will be tallied by computer software, ensuring impartial grading. The lecturer also commits to ensuring the accuracy of inputted information. However, the chapter ends abruptly and shifts topic slightly, mentioning the start of 'signs', which may indicate a transition to a new subject in the lecture.
• 90:00 - 95:00: Student Essay Analysis The chapter focuses on the importance of timely submission and development of comparison contrast papers. The instructor emphasizes the need for students to have drafts ready well before the deadline. Students who have not submitted their topics for feedback may face challenges in achieving a passing grade, as they miss out on valuable guidance and suggestions to improve their work. The instructor encourages participation to ensure student success.
• 95:00 - 100:00: Conclusion The narrator expresses a sense of having fulfilled their responsibilities and encourages the listener to dedicate six more hours to their tasks despite the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. There is a specific emphasis on converting necessary documents and a repeated mention of tutoring.

English 101: Lecture on the Cause and Effect Essay Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 um uh
• 00:30 - 01:00 okay now share my little screen here my to-do sheet which i sent i sent you a number of things for this weekend beyond you know
• 01:00 - 01:30 we want to remind you first of all um the grammar packet you know try as hard as you can to get that done let me i'm gonna get back to my screen here uh say oh there it is i thought something but i'm just gonna continue what i was doing today's the day i'm not going to collect it don't try to give it to me
• 01:30 - 02:00 don't want it won't look at it um i want you to do the work on your own you know and sometime this week i'm planning to send the answers so you can check your own work you're probably going to get a number of um um attachments this week you know because there's some things i did not send and i don't think i want to wait till next week and some things i resend you know send more than once
• 02:00 - 02:30 and so you know that might get a little confusing but sometimes some of us we misplace things or can't find things or i don't get what i'm asking for so i'm going to send some things more than once but i won't send a grammar packet again um so do it on your own i provide answers to the exercises and that's how you study for the grammar section of course comparison contrast is coming due quite soon
• 02:30 - 03:00 um in fact i announced it a while ago last week if not before um but it's coming due now um it's a hundred points you know please remember i don't have that written there but they're principally all a hundred points i'm going right in there no no no no no yeah yeah i get to announce this one more time so i'm gonna type it right in there now you know so when i send it again um
• 03:00 - 03:30 well when i announce it again um that will be on there it's 100 points in the dropbox you should be used to dropbox by now uh theme organization worksheet i want that final draft outline post writing exercise type double spaced underlying thesis plan development and topic sentences a lot of us are you know doing that we're getting it at this point and that's good review we're going to
• 03:30 - 04:00 deal with cause effect we want you to review the pdf i sent you on mla documentation mla documentation is author page number no comma if you don't know the um page number it's just author if you don't know the name of the author it's just title you know that's in-text citation then works cited you need to uh author hanging in dead
• 04:00 - 04:30 and if you google you can find all these info all this information you get examples and they also show you um they have what they call a um um one of these items where you can just plug in all the the information that you have and it'll set it up for you you know i saw that when i was looking online you know you know the author titled the book i don't know why they don't
• 04:30 - 05:00 maybe they do teach it i you know i mean they taught us i know i did this in ninth tenth grade um it was still mla different in mla but you know i'm i'm not understanding but you know you can't undo what wasn't done you know except to study harder rapper cheney's daughter read all the materials that's gonna prepare us for next week final exam preparation um you review the study guide i sent it
• 05:00 - 05:30 it's objective an essay some of you know how to work a study guide you know i've been trying to train you to work a study guide with the last two quizzes that's the purpose one final exam is available um december um sixth through december 10th it's two hours you need to put aside two hours during that week now some teachers are going to have you at a certain time take a final exam i'm giving you you you
• 05:30 - 06:00 choose the time you know and so you can take it any one of those days any one of those days at any time that's most convenient for you but please note that it's 25 of the grade and it's located under quizzes you know multiple choice that's what the objective means and the essay is on rappatini's daughter you know and so you need to read repertoire's daughter you need to be in class when i go over rappatini's daughter and
• 06:00 - 06:30 please note the thanksgiving holiday because people sometimes you know get so busy uh and the community college that they forget that because mighty not even being their tradition um thanksgiving um holiday is uh thursday november 26th through friday november 27th i know friday don't have classes anyway um but the college will be will be uh closed um and november 26 is thursday we um we don't have classes
• 06:30 - 07:00 anyway but you might have classes on that day well there won't be you know that's the um holiday you know i always used to put that on the board and it's also in your syllabus classes resume monday so we will we'll meet today and wednesday and then next week monday and wednesday cause effect paper uh in the workbook this we're working on
• 07:00 - 07:30 this week i hope to finish it this week due friday december 4th 2020 uh in the dropbox again two to four pages they've always been that way theme organization worksheet final draft outline post writing exercise underlying thesis plan of development topic sentences handouts will be emailed in fact they have been i forgot to delete that you know they have been emailed all of them now five paragraphs topic due
• 07:30 - 08:00 november 30th you know a week from today um on report sheet which i uh have i emailed you on a blank one email to me i my my uh email address using your hotmail double space typed and we said it's worth double 200 points since it is counted twice that's what it eventually is the readings have remained the same
• 08:00 - 08:30 did not make any changes there we're still trying to encourage you to respond to the uh survey where you get to evaluate the class all your classes respond to all of them you know if you're taking more than one class we do need that information i highly value it and i thank those who have already provided it and then i have the same things from the last couple of weeks and months um uh trying to encourage you every time you may you know i've gone over this so many times that you probably just you know
• 08:30 - 09:00 scroll right past it but we do want you to keep up with the work you know because i'm just going to add up the points actually the uh uh my computer software that i use is going to add up the points it doesn't know you you know and so it's going to be quite objective yeah relative i'll make sure that it's it has been you know done so as it should have done um that i didn't make mistakes put inputting the information um and then it says start on signs as
• 09:00 - 09:30 soon as the sign you know if you were wise you should already have a draft of the comparison contrast paper and those that's due on wednesday and those of you who did not submit a topic don't poke out your lip if you don't get a passing grade for what you do because i try to help people shape the paper by making suggestions and saying what's going to make it work you know and if i don't even know the topic you know i can't do that but
• 09:30 - 10:00 that's on you you know i'm you know i'm i've done my best so anyway i think i've gone beyond the call of duty so you still need to put aside those six hours in spite of the fact that um thanksgiving day is coming up you know and then only those documents that are converted that need to be converted um pay attention to that again and then i keep mentioning tutoring
• 10:00 - 10:30 in your hearing every time and registering for classes every time and then the care center that's now a live link and of course i i said i'm gonna send little pictures from time to time and i think that's an appropriate one you know that you have a happy thanksgiving if you read the email very carefully you have plenty to be thankful for you know we all do even even if we
• 10:30 - 11:00 have some things that we're not so thankful for now let me get back to what i sent you i already sent well i sent you the cause and effect stuff but that's not what i want to deal with at the moment um [Music] some of the rapper cheney's daughter stuff is what i would like to deal with if i can find it all [Music] let me see i don't think i but uh i missed an item
• 11:00 - 11:30 in my preparation this morning oh boy i'm gonna go see if i can't find it because i want to show it to you give me bear with me a minute let me see i don't know why i didn't put that on there there it is okay [Music]
• 11:30 - 12:00 stop my share because i don't know if that's gonna do what i wanted to do technology is such a pain sometimes this is rappertini's daughter i sent you the story you know and this story is studied not only nationwide but at many different levels that means it is taught in some high schools as well as colleges as well as graduate school you know because i came across actually
• 12:00 - 12:30 in graduate school and it's become one of my favorite stories of all time rabbitini's daughter we're going to look at in detail the main character is beatrice and one of the focuses the focus is going to be on how she's treated and so i sent you this item which will be going over in class and we'll also look at um the two two other characters the professors her father and professor bagley only i already went over a little tidbit on it already you know when i shared um a few uh
• 12:30 - 13:00 oh i guess a few months ago now when i was dealing with paper number three i um use as an example a paper i had written on rappertine's daughter you know and it deals with these two issues you know how she's treated and you know the professors and how they factor in critical analysis i also sent you this you know it's only one page it analyzes rabbitini's daughter
• 13:00 - 13:30 i also sent you this a lot of this will be going over in class um introduction to robertini's daughter that one page explains the story quite well uh and then how she has been treated again some of the research i've done sharing it with you you know so when you write the essay you have all kinds of uh items there um i will uh make you aware of the fact that there is a video i recommend um
• 13:30 - 14:00 that you see um on rabbitini's daughter that you can find um when i get to preparing for it i'll let you know where it's at you can get it uh um through google um and there's the the version that i like is the um national endowment of humanities version i think that's who produced it um it's an old uh production 1980 um but that's the one i think um the last time i checked the entire
• 14:00 - 14:30 videos only an hour is on online and so you can launch it if it will help you and then you can use this guide to help you understand what you're watching some of the key concepts which we'll be going over in class on rappertine's daughter i'm going to be very thorough some of the key themes in rappertini's daughter so when you write the final exam there's some pointers on the essays as well as the objective section the objective
• 14:30 - 15:00 section um deals with uh grammar and and some of the key things of the course and this is a synopsis of that video i recommend uh that you look at the major characters and pictures of the people who acted in that particular film and so i would not you know waste too much time i would use my time wisely because remember you're at home or you're somewhere i don't know where you're at actually but um in the classroom
• 15:00 - 15:30 which may be fine may work better for some people but you're under pressure and you're not able to use any of these materials you know for the most part but you can use them all in repairing uh the essay part and i got an essay over the spring from a actually a student who was still in high school that was better than all the students i mean it's one of the best um uh piece of writing i had seen you know it
• 15:30 - 16:00 was just that well done you know and she got all that done all that written final exam you know it's comprehensive this describes it it's under quizzes and so you've had some practice at clicking you know but you haven't had any practice of writing you know you'll be typing um a little prayer there
• 16:00 - 16:30 that page is blank some reason scrolls so quickly there are the essay questions i will teach them you know just like they do and some high schools they sort of teach to the test i'm gonna you know sort of do that a little bit um and my hope um let's see yeah i don't need those two at this point my hope is that you will do well now let me see it's taking me a little
• 16:30 - 17:00 longer to anticipate but that seems to always be the case um i sent you let me move on here report sheet a blank one this is actually for cause and effect i've sent you so many of those i sent you way more than a number of papers um that i have let's see i think that's what i just did i won't do it again
• 17:00 - 17:30 and i sent you one filled out this has helped some people i don't know if it will help you or not but it has helped some students and i've already gone over this three calls of student failure attitude time management and for uh poor attendance so you can see how uh the items are done you know i'm still getting people who will say uh for comparison and contrast they just give me the topic but no points or anything you know i don't
• 17:30 - 18:00 change my tune you know i know what i want you know and either you fill out the form which some people do um you know the my topic is 0.1.2.3 or you just put it in the email you know my topic is point one point three you know um that's uh you know well you know your last opportunity of the semester now i
• 18:00 - 18:30 need to get to my powerpoint finally essentially where i believe i left off trying to explain what cause effect is uh i'm gonna move quickly because i would like to get to a student paper i've got so many examples uh that i want to share with you um remember remember um comparison is due you know this week comparison contrast
• 18:30 - 19:00 finish that unit moved on to a new one so i can get it get it done and as i try to explain i call myself giving you extra time to do some of the papers that's why they would come in on a friday instead of a monday or wednesday you know uh that's what we're trying to do um and for most of us it has worked quite nicely but now we're you know near the end of the semester
• 19:00 - 19:30 can't keep doing that so therefore um we moved on to cause and effect uh which isn't due um until the uh end of the next week the end of it there's a there's a vacation or a break in between which you can use to catch up hopefully you'll do some relaxing i'll be just catching up um and then the final exam please note that the final exam is 25 of the grade you know
• 19:30 - 20:00 25 of the grade you know if it is skipped and you had a hundred percent on everything else and none of you do the grade would be only a c one point less is a d you know and so you cannot miss that item you cannot you know you gotta do your best you cannot you know and you must do it all you know uh in order to get the maximum value and then you do the papers
• 20:00 - 20:30 you know cause and effect which i'm working on now two grades you know two grades it must be done to the best of your ability you know in comparison contrast this uh most of us have done everything up to this point um but i do have students who kind of skip stuff you know and unless you are a very very high a you know you can't afford to do that and if you do have a high a and you skip something
• 20:30 - 21:00 major you can end up with a c or a d anyway you know so that's how the numbers were i've waited you know put weight in the papers you know they weigh heavily the final exam weighs heavily because most people tend to improve and get better instead of things getting worse they get better yeah so you're on you know it's up to you causal analysis six explain why something has happened has happened what happens when there's lack of food well that's an effect
• 21:00 - 21:30 why does a person become depressed well i didn't finish i'm going so quickly whatever happens when there is a lack of food all those particular things that occur and i think you can use your imagination their effects i just hope you are only using your imagination why does a person become depressed well whatever those reasons are causes what is the result when a a student fails a study you know
• 21:30 - 22:00 fails to prepare well all those things that occur those are called effects so some of the key concepts are cause another word for cause is uh reasons effect another word for effect is i actually have it on there problems results consequences no um then trends one thing leads to another fickle thinking well some people are
• 22:00 - 22:30 illogical in their thinking they say that this is the effect of a certain cause and it is not they make errors those are called fallacies as well as fickle thinking we have reasons on there the word behavior is on there because a lot of cause effect writing does deal with behavior you know the causes of alcoholism for example or the effects of eating too much turkey um behavior relationships we're going to try to indicate uh
• 22:30 - 23:00 explain that point you know um relationships um relationship between a cause and its effects or an effect and its causes i bet to say it that way maybe i'm going to illustrate it shortly chain of events one thing leads to another conditions you know health conditions you know and there are many health conditions that uh um the word effect would apply to
• 23:00 - 23:30 you know um what's the effect of flu or something you know what's the cause of flu you know there's a cause you know of that condition and then problems uh we'll say more about that as we move forward the objective is to write a sophisticated paper one major objective that requires some research on an important topic now what i want to look at very briefly
• 23:30 - 24:00 i don't have this on the screen but it's the effects of chronic hunger you know and since we mentioned the word hunger we may as well um look at a example briefly that deals with that condition or deals with that situation you know a lot of folk hungry not only throughout the world but also in this country the effects of chronic hunger in the
• 24:00 - 24:30 first five years of life and then this uh document shows two brains you know and two young ladies uh one taller than the other the the shorter one um malnourished the taller one you know she's normal growth uh she was nourished you know she ate well um so and you might not be able to see the the the difference between the two brains but uh but there is a difference there
• 24:30 - 25:00 malnutrition in the first five years prevents the brain from fully developing that's an effect if a child is malnourished in the first five years of life the brain does not fully develop learning and mental capacity is impacted another word for effect impacted both learning and mental capacity often for the rest of the child's life it's quite tragic there are many many problems when it comes to chronic hunger
• 25:00 - 25:30 and then the young ladies we showed you there are from guatemala and they're the same age in guatemala where these uh children live the ones i showed you in the screen if you saw half of the children half of all children under five half are chronically malnourished and that is a tragedy cause effect is another important
• 25:30 - 26:00 pattern of development that we're taking up now we just sort of got our feet a little bit wet the last time now we're gonna go deeper this is paper number six not to be confused that's why you take notes not to be confused with paper number five which is yet to come in paper number six is the last paper cause effect is another important pattern of development it's important that you learn how to organize your paper according to this pattern
• 26:00 - 26:30 the cause effect pattern that is you're either going to write a paper only dealing with causes or you're going to choose to write a paper only dealing with effects one or the other i'll try to illustrate that in great detail this uh in this class and the next one when we inquire into why something has happened there's a phone that happened at the convention when we inquire into why something has
• 26:30 - 27:00 happened is happening or will happen i was hoping it would stop raining and i'd have to get up to do it they're kind of persistent there we inquire into his causes now it's stopped let me start again because that probably disrupted your thinking i don't feel like getting up when we inquire into why something has
• 27:00 - 27:30 happened is happening or will happen we're concerned with causes when we inquire into the results of happening we inquire into its effects let me repeat because we were interrupted when we inquire into why something has happened why is the operative word is happening or will happen
• 27:30 - 28:00 we inquire into its causes when we inquire into the results our concern is with effects causal analysis is examination of relationships between causes and effects two examples two brief examples if you if you were to read in the local paper they still publish them from time to time about a car accident late on a saturday night you might find
• 28:00 - 28:30 an illustration of cause and effect the driver slammed the driver missed a curve slammed into a tree and was badly injured police investigators report that the young victim was drinking heavily with friends and lost control of the car on the way home the cause was a heavy consumption of alcohol
• 28:30 - 29:00 and the effect a serious accident which did happen you know i i still have the newspaper article this is from 2002 it was quite a while ago and i don't know if you can see those six individuals i can't i don't know if you can not um they're all dead they were there they weren't uh the the gentlemen they used to show this in the classroom um down there um in 2002 uh that's shown there
• 29:00 - 29:30 he was drinking driving mr curve this is a mistake the article is entitled um in the blink of an eye all six died you know because he drank and dropped that one individual the oldest was at the time 22 the youngest eight you know um uh horrible tragedy from drinking and driving in real life
• 29:30 - 30:00 no i'm not just an example here's a real live example actual historical fact and they did a follow-up in 2017 15 years later and it's still called um devastating that's an effect lies were devastated people you don't get over something like that you know that's what this article was all about those individuals been a while now you know because 2002 is quite a while
• 30:00 - 30:30 ago now 2017 wasn't yesterday when they wrote the follow-up but drinking and driving is a serious problem now and people do die you know some people think covet is a hoax too and it's not let's say you were feeling history american history and you want to figure out why figure
• 30:30 - 31:00 out the causes so you made a list there's your list you don't like history that'll cause you to not do well in the course every time then you put down on your list of causes meeting time of the class you know you're not a morning person eight o'clock is too early for you you know or maybe one o'clock it's too early for you in the afternoon you know i mean
• 31:00 - 31:30 when you're planning your schedule in the future you want to make sure that you uh uh plan well you know because you can do that you know when you get a job you may not have if you want that job you may not have as many choices you know may start eight o'clock and that's it but when you're taking courses it's best to um create the best schedule that you can you'll do better when you do but in this case
• 31:30 - 32:00 meeting time in the class proved to be a problem putting off reading assignments you know yes you have a lot of reading assignment i mean that's what we talked about uh in the uh um the national convention i attended virtually yeah let's be talking about you know that there's a lot of work at the college level you know and people come into college not prepared for it well you want to step up the pace you
• 32:00 - 32:30 know you don't put off things that are going to impact your future putting off reading assignments and difficulty in understanding lectures difficulty in understanding elections well no wonder you know of course these problems can be addressed you know if you you care to solve but what i cared to do was to give you an example of what causes are
• 32:30 - 33:00 you know and failure in history was the effect so there's a relationship between this effect or this problem in these causes that's the point being made there i found a poem for you i always try to squeeze in some poetry if again you know this is uh richard corey by the gentleman that you can see in the picture edwin arlington robinson famous american poet he lived from 1869
• 33:00 - 33:30 to 1935. whenever richard corey went downtown we people on the pavement looked at him this is going to deal with some effects shortly he was a gentleman from soul to crown clean favored and imperially slim and he was always quietly arrayed and he was always human when he talked but still he flooded pulses when he said
• 33:30 - 34:00 good morning and he glittered when he walked and he was rich yes richer than a king inaudibly schooled in every grace in fine we thought that he was everything to make us wish that we were in his place you know you know we get envious so on we worked and waited for the light it went without meat and curse the bread
• 34:00 - 34:30 and richard corey one calm summer night went home and put a bullet through his head that's what he did according to this poem um suicide is a major problem in this culture major problem um it's probably throughout the world but you know richest country on earth
• 34:30 - 35:00 they keep telling us but those material things do not bring joy or happiness you know uh and many of folks you know that's what's it i was taught is what's inside that counts now we don't know the causes of of his suicide we don't know what causes we do not know the causes because the poem doesn't tell us all it tells us that he's rich he was well educated well-dressed
• 35:00 - 35:30 and even nice to people you know so people were envious you know but he made a decision to end his life now he could have been depressed he could have lost someone who was near and dear to him he could have an illness a terminal illness that caused him not to want to go on anymore we don't know
• 35:30 - 36:00 we don't know the causes we'd have to do an investigation and that's what the authorities would do an investigation to make sure that it was suicide and not homicide you know you see we don't know the effects either you know because it doesn't tell us but somebody has to do the investigation that would be an effect somebody would have to clean it up you know because it's not as sanitized as on
• 36:00 - 36:30 television sometimes you know it could be a veritable veritable horror scene you know um we we just you know may not be aware of that somebody has to make the arrangements you know there may or may not have been a will and people will let me tell you people will fight over two dollars you know they'll fight over an old rag
• 36:30 - 37:00 you know i'm exaggerating that one but you know um when it comes to finance sometimes all sorts of negative things happen when people want to get what he had you know you know and somebody will never get over it you know if there's a person that remains that loved him they will grieve for the rest of their lives and so um well i don't want to belabor that point because it's kind of negative and i want
• 37:00 - 37:30 to move on to these i think i'm going to go to piece of statement because that seems to be the next thing yeah i want to get to a thesis statement shortly um there are two different patterns of cause and effect either going to write a cause paper or an effect paper one or the other not both yeah one or the other not po let's say pattern one this is in
• 37:30 - 38:00 your booklet actually the workbook if you want to write an effect paper introductory paragraph describes or explains a situation or action that brought about or may bring about certain effects paragraph includes an explicit thesis statement the three body paragraphs would be devoted to dealing with effects from that cause so you'd have a body paragraph which would be
• 38:00 - 38:30 a discussion explanation or description of a primary effect spell with an e because it's a noun here then you'd have another body paragraph in fact you'd have three that would be a discussion explanation or description of another primary effect or a secondary effect and then you'd have one more paragraph dealing with effects that resulted from whatever that cause might have been that's pattern one
• 38:30 - 39:00 an effect paper the other pattern is a cost paper the paper's going to focus on causes so the introductory paragraph will describe or explain a situation or action that has already occurred paragraph includes uh includes an explicit thesis statement i want an explicit thesis statement whether you're writing on causes or effects and a plan of development
• 39:00 - 39:30 back to the cost paper the body of that paper five paragraph essay i have five paragraph essay um a discussion explanation or description of a necessary cause of the action or situation the body paragraph that they were causes and you'd have three of them three body paragraph dealing with causes you know because you're writing a cost paper now i'm going to skip down to here i have a student essay i don't know why
• 39:30 - 40:00 i put for the next i'm not ready for it yet but i'm because i want to illustrate that and i'm giving you a choice i do want to strongly encourage that you do some research but you do have a choice you can write a paper um with the documentation and i will accept papers that um do not have documentation in them that's one you write off the top of your head but the better in your own words the better papers of course will have at least one
• 40:00 - 40:30 at least three sources you know you know even if it's just a quote from somewhere you know a couple times would fulfill what i'm looking for in that regard but i'll i'll clarify that a little bit later so this is what we've tried to show you if you're writing a paper primarily dealing with effects you would have a paragraph that would uh the introductory paragraph would deal with some kind of cause that would lead to effects you know so you can see how that
• 40:30 - 41:00 is outlined um if you're focusing on causes you can see it's a cost paper three body paragraph introduction three body paragraphs in conclusion for five paragraphs cause and effect explains reasons why something happened or explains the effects of something you're going to do one or the other about one or the other you know now this one lots of karate
• 41:00 - 41:30 movies in the 60s they were i remember some of them and that's the cause of the following effects many karate schools open that's an effect lots of movies people got interested open up schools that taught karate nunchuck sales increased 400 percent you might want to google the word
• 41:30 - 42:00 nunchuck see what that is if you're not sure head injury cases when went up you know now not all these are problems you know but the last one would be but these are the effects of the cause the cause being lots of movies trying to deal with the thesis statement and that's what we're trying to deal with now
• 42:00 - 42:30 for a cause essay or an effect essay and i already um mentioned lots of things throughout the course dealing with student failure in fact that's one of the examples i used and i sent you you know these statement plan development in topic sentences for that particular subject now these are two different subjects one's for cause essay one is for an effect essay and you're welcome to take notes you
• 42:30 - 43:00 know even though these uh um items are in the d2l shell no and i'm recording the material hmm a student's failure in a lesson is generally called see it use the word c-a-u-s-e-d by three main factors you know factors that's another word for us as a synonym of cause missing classes didn't i say that you
• 43:00 - 43:30 know i went online and got some of these things so many things i came up on my own but um in my own typing but i went online to see where this agreement was my method you know because i'm trying to teach you how to communicate in writing to an audience that's exactly what they said in the convention i attended i said boy i'm trying to do that the student's failure a student's
• 43:30 - 44:00 failure is a lesson general it's a lesson generally caused by three main factors missing classes ignorance of the lesson in laziness and then one would explain in those three body paragraphs there's a plan of development what that means those particular causes that will lead to failure in a lesson it wasn't for the whole course it was just a lesson unemployment can cause several serious effects spelled with an
• 44:00 - 44:30 e because it's a noun spell with an a for a verb and i have examples you'll see eventually that shows you the different usages of that's that particular word it's a commonly confused word commonly unemployment can have several serious effects on people seed word problems financial problems they use it three times and social problems unemployment can be
• 44:30 - 45:00 a serious issue for those who need to be employed because some people are just independently wealthy they don't need to work they should but even if they don't need to they should there's always something to do to help people you know um unemployment can have several serious effects on people psychological problems and it does and you know this is a big issue financial problems you know that would have to be explained in the body paragraphs and social
• 45:00 - 45:30 problems because sometimes people will rob you you know they don't care about you you know they care about their own problems you know but that's still a crime and an issue let's see do i want to do yeah this is what i want to do next sample thesis statement sample plan of development i always invite you to take notes
• 45:30 - 46:00 all the effects of having professor balswell for composition student wrote this number of years ago and uh and her um cause effect paper are far too numerous to discuss but include and this is what she talks about these are the effects this is what she experiences what occurred from taking my course
• 46:00 - 46:30 time consuming homework assignments you know time consuming of course back in those days i had more papers that i assigned writing is improved by writing i'm quoting someone who said that from major university recently yeah writing is approved with practice she said when he went from the university of michigan and so she talked about it written essays and how it impacted her life
• 46:30 - 47:00 it doesn't seem like that's an effect but it was she wouldn't had written essence as she was in school you know taking in taking a composition course college and finally and this did happen this is a good benefit from taking the course according to her as she reported it and i did see it so i do concur what she's saying here finally improved writing skills you know yeah and those are the things
• 47:00 - 47:30 she chose three major things the time consuming work and there was a lot more of it to be honest with you the written essays that she struggled through because she didn't do well at the beginning and finally she got better she was writing very good papers in the end end up with a b in the course concentrate either on causes or effects not both causes or effects only it says let me emphasize the only not
• 47:30 - 48:00 both and then i've already illustrated a structure for a cause paper three body paragraphs dealing with causes and the structure for an effect paper three body paragraphs dealing with effects you can see the diagram there yeah and the words to go with it then i'm gonna go to i think i'm gonna go to the student paper what i need to do
• 48:00 - 48:30 [Music] um i did not retype that particular paper y'all i thought about it but i didn't you know but anyway this is not the student paper this is just a sample thesis statement that i wrote and i'm calling a thesis review and it deals with school education notice the diploma or the degree
• 48:30 - 49:00 and the hat which is known as a mortar board that people wear at graduations notice that notice that i'm trying to plan to see y'all the effects of staying in school are what are the effects what's gonna um what's gonna happen if you stick to your goals and your plans hopefully eventually maybe not right away less unemployment yeah just less unemployment
• 49:00 - 49:30 people who are prepared do better than those who are not you know okay because some folks when they can't find a job they start their own business i envy those people i think they're interesting yeah more job opportunities i've already shown you that the more skills you have no matter what's going on people work during the great depression not everybody a lot of folk had problems of course but not everybody was unemployed not too
• 49:30 - 50:00 many were but not everybody you know some people even thrive during that time you know more job opportunities and higher wages i showed you that yeah the higher the degree in this country if you find work and have the skills to go with that degree the higher your wages will be on average discuss the three effects in the body that's for um that's for an effect paper
• 50:00 - 50:30 then it's spelled with an e again because it's a noun the causes are reasons why why would anyone make such a choice to keep on keeping on well here's what i think the causes of reasons for people to remain in school include good preparation if one is well prepared for college they do better we need to do
• 50:30 - 51:00 better in our public schools um and a lot of a lot of us are working on that you know trying to make sure that it's not such culture shock you know when you come from that environment to this maturity i think it takes a lot of majority you know uh as well as good preparation you know you have to act like a grown folk
• 51:00 - 51:30 you know you know there are things that you need to do you do things because they're necessary you know not not not not so that you can just feel a little bit better or have a little bit of fun nothing wrong with feeling good nothing wrong with fun but diapers aren't fun when you got to change them and you don't want to abuse the child so you change them you know and that little love in the process to me that's maturity
• 51:30 - 52:00 and some people are immature yeah but you can grow up in desire you know that's the third cause i i i rated that last because uh ranked at last or put it left because i think it's trump's the other two i think it's you know it'll get you through even if you weren't well prepared even if you are immature how badly do you want it you know i mean the degree the career it's not gonna drop into your lap you know we're not gonna pass you
• 52:00 - 52:30 because you smiled at us because you're a nice person you know keep being a nice person um but you also need the skill to go along with the niceness so those are reasons or causes we submit to you now i don't know if i want to do another thesis before i get to the student essay or not because i got a whole lot of thesis and stuff i can deal with i think that's what i'm
• 52:30 - 53:00 going to do cause paper or an effect paper here's an outline a nice outline too i want outlines you know and if you follow my outline format which is similar to this not exactly like this but it's very similar to this you will have a much better paper you spell the words right and even if you don't know how to spell the words it's called writing center they know how to spell words see the
• 53:00 - 53:30 hook thesis statement and there are three body paragraphs it goes on to another slide there couldn't get all on one side the united states is the most that's the hook to capture the reader's attention the most obese country in north america with more than 36 percent of the population having the body mass index are more than 30. more than 30. thesis statement
• 53:30 - 54:00 many suffer from obesity in the united states because they watch too many commercials you know there's food and stuff buy cheap fast food that's not wise even though it tastes so good and play too many video games meaning it's not the video games per se i would assume they would argue it's just sitting they call sitting the new smoking that's why i try to get up as much as i can not while i'm teaching but you know as
• 54:00 - 54:30 soon as i'm done i'm up and about body paragraph one see the plan of development watch too many commercials see plant development is a technique that is used nationwide buy cheap fast food and play too many video games you know it's making a point you know it's trying to communicate to your readers your reasoning and you want to have well this doesn't say
• 54:30 - 55:00 anything about transition but i'm i always share what i learned you know we learned some things about transition watching too many commercials contributes to obesity united states because viewers believe ads and buy foods that are actually bad for their health and then the details that could be explored commercials influence decision making folks they spend millions upon millions of dollars
• 55:00 - 55:30 to get what's in your pocket in theirs and they wouldn't spend that kind of money if it didn't work it wasn't successful commercial commercials promote foods that contain too much sugar sugar is not good for you you know not too much of it anyway and then body paragraph two deals with second point cheat fast food cheap fast food consumption is another factor that contributes to obesity it is easier to get fast food because it
• 55:30 - 56:00 is cheap and available in some communities that's all they got you know grocery stores you know where we're at yeah we're going to get fresh fruits and veggies i don't say vegetables i don't like that slang veggies where can i get it no it's not in walking distance well if you don't have a car i mean and fast food is readily available you can get a drive-through fast food is harmful because you ever looked at how
• 56:00 - 56:30 much they have to kind of tell you how much salt is that and how much calories you know um some of those burgers have more calories yeah you eat one of those you have enough calories for an entire day and a half it's hard to believe isn't it as in contains fats they're not good for your health so the fats in the not good for your health body paragraph three see conclusion you
• 56:30 - 57:00 know this pretty well follows the very closely the outline the theme organization worksheet and outline format which i didn't show you today because i had so many things to show you um but i'll probably show you again before before the paper comes in paper number um six now see they're all numbered so there's no reason some people get confused some people you know they're all numbered and you know you haven't done number five you know you haven't done it yeah yeah yeah so you gotta do that
• 57:00 - 57:30 before you do this it's very simple as far as i'm concerned transitional topic sentence because people play too many video games um well that's not a transitional topic since i said it wrong their lifestyle becomes sedentary and they gain even more weight you know i would like a transitional topic sentence there but it's the other one video games attract many people who already have extra weight
• 57:30 - 58:00 video games that's what they would talk about consume much time leaving no room for active sports you know because we need to we need to do we need to move you know our bodies are made for movement not for just sitting and notice the conclusion if people in the united states did not buy unhealthy products promoted in commercials that was point one consume less fast food that was point two all this works like a charm i wish more
• 58:00 - 58:30 of you understood it and applied it and made it work even though a lot of you are and spent less time playing video games they will get rid of the problem of obesity you know because it does shorten your life you know it does lead to one being type two diabetic it's hard to see i mean the benefits are like zero you know now i wanna look at
• 58:30 - 59:00 another example i'm gonna move here because i'm saving the last tidbit for the um the student paper see the hook and this might give you some ideas too for paper number six i think paper number five would all be already rewritten uh already written for as i'm concerned you know uh you're probably saying oh my goodness what does he expect out of us i expect you to be great students that's what i expect
• 59:00 - 59:30 climate change is a modern plague is the hook and it is some people say ain't happening no please people won't tell you anything hopefully you won't believe it because the evidence is out there that's what i'm trying to teach you evidence support and it's out there it leads to sea level rise contributes to this is an effect paper that causes climate change it contributes to the extent extinction
• 59:30 - 60:00 of species second point second effect and negatively affects see that's a verb it's spelled with an a negatively affects health now body paragraph one climate change accelerates sea level rise glaciers shrink you've probably seen this on television melt water flows into the ocean to increase sea level that can be a
• 60:00 - 60:30 problem flooding for example losing part of the coast the beach body paragraph two all it needs is transition words to introduce these topics become extinct because of changing climate conditions climate change influences an increase in temperature this is an effect focused paper species become extinct because of unfavorable environment and droughts
• 60:30 - 61:00 well droughts happening now in many parts of the world including where we're at climate change negatively it's built with an a because it's a verb it's a verb affects the health as an action word there instead of a noun heat waves become longer because of climate change people suffer from droughts and extreme temperatures and then the conclusion climate change is a major cause
• 61:00 - 61:30 of and here are the effects this is an effect paper sea level rise extinction of species and negative effects on human health see it's very clear they just have to prove it now let me get to i did everything but student wrote a paper on the american dream this is what i want to very quickly go through now this i didn't do the papers with my hand you know that he wrote um but i retyped
• 61:30 - 62:00 the thesis statement plan and development and topic sentences the decay of the american dream and i'll put that picture in there this morning and the american workforce this is written a number of years ago but it's still accurate there are three fundamental reasons know uh he used the word reasons but those he's dealing with causes it's a cause but may not sound like cosplay but it is for the decline in the global competitiveness of the american
• 62:00 - 62:30 workforce you know here are the causes the decline in educational competency achieved by graduating high school students this paper was researched as a works cited page and all the decrease in scientific and engineering graduates that's what he argues and the lack of ambition in students his topic sentences include without examining the social causes of the skills shortage in the workforce the ability of graduating american high school students
• 62:30 - 63:00 to display competency in fundamental areas of knowledge has been declining since 1992 compounding the effect of failing educational competency this is a transitional topic sentence of the workforce a number of graduates in science and engineering is declining finally the strongest factor in the weakening of the american labor workforce's ability to globally compete
• 63:00 - 63:30 he argues factor meaning cause is the almost lack of ambition among students in america here's his restatement in conclusion by looking at three causes all right re-type what he said please remember to double space when you do the papers the decline in educational competency achieved by graduating high school students first point the decrease in scientific and engineering graduates second point and the lack of ambition of students the american populists must decide to
• 63:30 - 64:00 take action to awaken the desire of their children to strengthen the global competitiveness of the american workforce let me share the paper here i go this is the attention getting material working down to the thesis it was four full pages double spaced that's why i probably didn't retype it the modern global economy is increasing competition amongst
• 64:00 - 64:30 nations at all levels of industry this change has dramatic implications for the american economy there's a rising trend in outsourcing jobs this trend goes beyond the traditional movement of goods production to cheaper environments the service and intellectual property industries are beginning to take their production overseas lose the vocabulary notice the word choice this is college level you know this is what you want to go
• 64:30 - 65:00 uh go for and try to imitate you don't have to have his vocabulary however you can choose a simpler topic these industries were seen as the main source of income for the middle classes and the mainstay of american innovation the shift of intellectual jobs overseas highlights a very damning fact about the modern american job market thomas l freeman writes in it's a flat flat world after all no american wants
• 65:00 - 65:30 to tell you they're they are not outsourcing to save on salary they are doing it because they can often get better skilled and more productive people than their american workers the nation that engineered placing a man on the moon decades later cannot produce a skilled workforce to compete in the global economy of its own creation he argues
• 65:30 - 66:00 now the thesis which i'll put it back on the screen here so you can see it as i read it there are three fundamental reasons for the decline in the global competitiveness of the american workforce the decline in educational competency achieved by graduating high school students the decrease in scientific and engineering graduates and the lack of ambition of students without examining the social causes of the skills shortage in the workforce
• 66:00 - 66:30 the ability of graduating american high school students to display competency in fundamental areas of knowledge has been declining since 1992 competency as a first cause the national assessment of educational progress reports and any quotes less than a quarter of 12th grade students perform at or above levels of mathematics at that time at least and overall performance in reading
• 66:30 - 67:00 declines in grade 12 in comparison to 1992. now he wrote this paper in 2007-2008 friedman links the workforce skills shortage to a growing education gap between america and other countries i'm still on the first point this statistic alone would not affect the american workforce's competitiveness if it was not countered by an increasing number of countries improving their educational levels the
• 67:00 - 67:30 secretary of education's commission on the future of higher education states that even with increasing educational levels in the united states these increases have not kept pace with other countries this leads to the overall educational level of the nation's working citizens to be falling when compared to other nations second cause compounding the effect he's talking causes though a falling
• 67:30 - 68:00 educational competency of the workforce the number of graduates in science and engineering degrees is declining science and engineering are considered to be the cornerstone of growth in the global economy the creation of intellectual commodities needs well-educated scientists and engineers to create and design the future products between 1996 and 2004 the percentage of total college degrees
• 68:00 - 68:30 that were awarded in the fields of science and engineering fell during that time two percent 2.5 percent it's from his research from bachelor for bachelors 7.9 for masters um 7.9 for masters it was 2.5 for bachelor's and 2.2 percent for doctorates his source which he has in parenthesis green which he wrote out for meaning
• 68:30 - 69:00 page 4 in parenthesis before the period the move away from this field greatly impacts the american workforce's ability to be the innovators behind future technological trends this can be highlighted by the internal divisions of many us global comp us global companies ibm for example has many research and development centers in various world locations with the bulk of technological
• 69:00 - 69:30 development moving to asia scientific development in europe and business process development coming from the united states um um let's see yeah we got one page out of order here finally last point finally coming up finally the strongest factor let me get to that slide here so you can see what i'm reading finally the strongest factor in the
• 69:30 - 70:00 weakening of the american labor forces uh ability to globally compete is the almost lack of ambition among students in america united states and becoming the dominant power world has created a culture that expects to be in this position the hard work and sacrifice of previous generations is undervalued and underappreciated by the current generation this is an
• 70:00 - 70:30 argument cost effect deals with argument ambition is measured in personal status not in cultural terms that's why we're having a problem today in the economy and um with coved you know i want to do what i want to do when i want to do it attitude that too many people seem to have the american worker is looking to maintain a standard of high living individually not to improve the standard of living
• 70:30 - 71:00 culturally this lack of ambition is finding itself in the educational system feeding the previous causes and compounding the issue the national science foundation reported 72 percent of teachers noted students coming to school unprepared to learn 72 69 noticed student apathy 65 noted student absenteeism 56 percent noted student tardiness 55 percent noted students
• 71:00 - 71:30 disrespect for teachers and 39 noted student truancy affecting their ability to perform their jobs given the nation's history of hard work and the challenges that lie ahead these statistics are the most worrisome and appalling any employer choosing between workers who want to work and those that feel entitled to a job
• 71:30 - 72:00 will pick the motivated and ambitious i would add you also have to have the skill too go with it in conclusion you can see part of it on the screen there in conclusion by looking at these three causes the decline in educational competency achieved by graduating high school students the decrease in scientific and engineering graduates and the lack of ambition in students that was the third cause
• 72:00 - 72:30 the american populist must decide to take action to awaken the desire of their children to learn to strengthen the global competitiveness of the american workforce and what you have following is the clincher i didn't uh as you can see at it america must reverse the current trends and educate a flexible intelligent and hard-working workforce to compete with the billions
• 72:30 - 73:00 in the market now and he had a work cited page which i did not retype which i'm not going to read to but he did have a works cited page with recent very recent sources i'll get to that some other time let's see what did i not do that i wanted to do
• 73:00 - 73:30 i did all these which was cool yeah i did that my material on fickle thinking i can get too far i'm gonna go a little bit over because i gotta get as much accomplished as i can because i would like to finish up the unit on wednesday i may not be able to but anyway but i'm making nice progress here may not get to that at all but
• 73:30 - 74:00 anyway an effect can be equated to an influence on history or human behavior and teachers do influence and affect others spell with an a because of verb in this case socrates taught for 40 years plato for 50 years aristotle 40 years they taught for a long time the great minds
• 74:00 - 74:30 from ancient greece jesus for three it's been argued that jesus ministry has had a greater impact than the combined 130 years of teaching of the greatest minds of antiquity here are some examples of that influence in the arts i'm just going to drop some names we have rafael leonardo da vinci and michelangelo though jesus painted no pictures in
• 74:30 - 75:00 poetry we have dante and milton you know two of the greatest poets in their countries though no poems were composed in music we have handel bach beethoven and mendelson western music that is though jesus composed no music the influence is felt worldwide now i'm just going to spend a
• 75:00 - 75:30 few i'm not going to finish all this on fickle thinking i'm just going to start it uh i'd like to do half of it and then try to um um i'm saying this still later because it's too much here um and then come pick it up at another time um but we do want to start physical thinking do not mistake for a cause a timer do not mistake a relationship
• 75:30 - 76:00 a time relationship for a cause otherwise guilty of fickle thinking because well let me give you at least one example black cat crosses your path and you say the back black cat cause bad luck that's making a mistake mistaking a time relationship for cause it's also superstition [Music] let me do two more do not mistake for
• 76:00 - 76:30 cause something unrelated for example two people going down the street may be merely coincidence number three do not settle for one cause if there are more usually there are many causes for alcoholism happiness
• 76:30 - 77:00 you know many causes for those two um then i'll just do one more yes one more and then make a note where i stop too okay okay distinguish between know the difference between immediate and remote causes and the example will be you're in college um because your father and mother married hmm
• 77:00 - 77:30 that's not why you know or you're um and um you took english in college because you passed the first grade you know and you know you want the immediate not the remote causes well i'm gonna have to get out of my shear at this point because i do have another class after this one um it was so good to see so many of you um are there any questions before i trot off to my next class
• 77:30 - 78:00 any confusion going on about what we're doing and we're at anyone are we all okay somebody say something yes okay okay miss goss thank you um
• 78:00 - 78:30 uh at least one person because sometimes i think oh oh well i'm going to um on that on that note because i always like to hear at least a voice and maybe even see a face from time to time i'm gonna let you all go we will see you on wednesday morning eight o'clock sharp and we'll continue dealing with causal analysis cause effect uh in the meantime work on that
• 78:30 - 79:00 comparison contract paper you can do the cost effect sometime next week we're over the break mention that well anyway because you know the more you get things done you should be counting down you know my workload's going up up up and yours hopefully is going down well that's all i have for today folks have a wonderful day thank you you too thank you take care now mr bowers this guy the husky santos
• 79:00 - 79:30 see ya ms blevins bye-bye ms barnes