Background: Michael Hendryx is a professor in the Department of Environmental Health at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Public Health. In 2006, he began a research program focused on public health disparities for people in Appalachia who live in areas close to coal mining, and studying the effect that mountaintop removal had on them. The research shows that people in these areas have an increased risk for many illnesses including cardiovascular disease, respiratory illness, birth defects, cancer and more. Hendryx published over 130 peer-reviewed studies on this topic. You have recently been hired by Fossil Fuel Industries, Inc. as an ethics consultant. The CEO of Fossil Fuel Industries has been concerned about the negative press his company has received over the last several years and wants a young employee to write a short summary paper on the health effects of MTR on local communities. His goal is to hear about what younger professionals think about the process of MTR and whether he should continue pursuing this method for coal extraction. Based on your knowledge about fossil fuels and the videos you viewed on the topic, write a short, 500-word minimum, white paper describing your views on MTR. Include four environmental and health effects and whether you recommend that his company continue to utilize the process for coal production, and why. You begin your research by watching the following short videos before writing your recommendation paper: 1. Smithsonian channel The Land of Mountaintop Removal (Links to an external site.) 2. National Geographic Coal Mining's Environmental Impact | From The Ashes (Links to an external site.) 3. TEDMED talk The shocking danger of mountaintop removal – and why it must end (Links to an external site.)

Competency When possible, synthesize content from the individual course modules. Your content should expand, elaborate, and evolve from the activities in the individual modules, and coalesce to present a cohesive message to the viewer. Student Success Criteria View the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the “This item is graded with a rubric” link, which is located in the Details & Information pane. Instructions Using any slide share or movie making software, you can utilize information gathered throughout the course to create a visual travel log. This multi-media presentation will include images, video, and voice over dialogue consisting of a mix of research and original content that demonstrates your analysis of course concepts. The movie will be accompanied by a paper that supplies the dialogue for the visuals of your film. You may use examples of physics principles in use in everyday life that you previously gave as examples in Modules 01-06, but you cannot reuse the same wording as used in previous modules. For example, if you had mentioned using glasses for Module 03, you can once again bring up that concept here, but you cannot read from your Module 03 submission paper. Requirements Three-minute video in MPEG-4 format. Original voice over (written) dialogue and accompanying paper. Images that help "tell your story." 30 seconds of original video connecting your experience to your topic. Narrative concept Imagine you are a writer for Physics Today (or insert whatever physics pop journal you wish), and you are to create a travel vlog for your an overseas trip. In your presentation, your editor wants you to include all relative physics concepts that you encounter in your journey. For the heart of the presentation, your editor has deemed it essential to address the following core issues and questions: Identify physics principles in various real-world examples. Identify the use of the scientific method in a modern physical problem. Identify the use of classical physics principles in relation to a real life situation. Identify physics principles in various real-world examples, and connect to your own experience. Identify physics principles in various real-world examples and modern technology. Identify a technology that uses quantum mechanics, and connect to your own experience. Rubric: A - 4 - Mastery - Identified several of physics principles in various real world examples. A - 4 - Mastery - Correctly identifies the steps in the scientific method represented in the current research and explained how they relate to each other within the scientific method. A - 4 - Mastery - Listed physics principals including identification of a strong majority of elements, and includes excellent descriptive details; provided personal experience; descriptions of scenarios are clear, analysis of provided in detail. A - 4 - Mastery - Listed physics principals including identification of a strong majority of elements, and includes excellent descriptive details; provided personal experience; descriptions of scenarios are clear, analysis of provided in detail. A - 4 - Mastery - Listed physics principals including identification of a strong majority of elements, and includes excellent descriptive details; provided personal experience; descriptions of scenarios are clear, analysis of provided in detail. A - 4 - MasteryListed a technology including identification of a strong majority of elements, and includes excellent descriptive details; provided personal experience; description of the scenario was clear, analysis of provided in detail.

1. Describe the primary differences between subsistence, capitalistic, and centrally planned economies. Explain how capitalistic and centrally planned economic societies tend to have greater effects on the environment than subsistence economies.2. Define renewable and nonrenewable resources in your own words. Give two examples of each in your answer. 3. Describe the main differences between a cap and trade approach, and a carbon tax as methods to decrease industrial emissions of carbon dioxide.4. List the seven steps of the environmental policy process in order. Among the steps, where would you put most efforts to establish new policy? Why?5. Explain how birth rates and death rates affect population dynamics specifically.6. Fully describe exponential growth and logistic growth.7. How do birth rates and death rates affect population dynamics specifically? When do you see stable populations with regard to birth and death rates? What about growing and shrinking populations?8. Use your own words to describe an age-class diagram. What can you predict about the future for a population that has a triangular shaped age-class diagram?9. Explain how poverty affects the environment.10. Describe the role of women’s rights in population growth.Each question must be answered from the text uploaded. Each answer must be cited in APA format with a minimum of 100 words. Each question should also be referenced to the text uploaded