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Cause and Effect: Source Papers

This cause and effect assignment gives students practice in choosing a problem they want to analyze, conducting on-line research to supplement their knowledge, and documenting sources which they use in their essays.

Students wrote "diamond poems" to introduce their topics. Click on a linked diamond poem to read its corresponding cause and effect source paper. Thanks for reading!


Akiko Dogakinai

Collectivism
homogenous, similar
confirming, eliminating, suppressing
Japan, group, individuality, U.S.
individualizing, tolerating, encouraging
heterogeneous, different
Individualism

Hirokazu Tsuzuki

Hybrid
clean, effective
low emitting, regenerating, efficient
kinetic energy, electricity, internal combustion, CO2/NOx
idling, wasting, high emitting
ineffective, polluting
Conventional

Anonymous

Satiety
full, nauseated
stuffing, gorging, filling
abuse, richness, diet, poverty
starving, slimming, dying
pierced, lacerated
Hunger

Mubark Al-Khaili

Pollution
filthy, hazardous,
destroying, poisoning, killing,
waste, pesticide, neatness, beauty
protecting, cleaning, saving
transparent, healthy
Purity

Fumika Yamamoto

Party
fun, excitement,
dancing, chatting drinking
youth, ambition, danger, death
fighting, speeding, drunken driving,
tipsy, desperate
Accident

Ryoko Sakurai

Alertness
awake, tense
watching, aware
watching, concentrating , absorbing
street, classroom, classroom bed
daydreaming, nodding, napping
relaxed, drowsy
Sleep

Felix Ramli

Pro-Choice
distressful, informative
anguishing advising, annihilating
health, future, responsibility, life
opposing, preserving, protecting
conservative, sympathetic
Pro-Life

Saeed Al-Meharibi

Marriage
lovely, passionate
sacrificing, helping, sharing
happiness, felicity, troubles, conflicts
misunderstanding, fighting, arguing
selfish, conceited
Divorce

Aya Katanayagi

Health
colorful, joyful
talking, laughing, running
energy, confidence, fear, obsession
eating, purging, fasting
aimless, horrified
Disease

Lincheng Li

Violence
terrible, sad
killing, stealing, hitting
darkness, basement, home family
laughing, giving, playing
joyful, happy
Peace

Yu-shan Liu

Marriage
sweet, joyful
surprising, loving, communicating
care, help, responsibility, differences
hurting, fighting, arguing
acrid, painful
Divorce

Thanks for Reading!
 

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Updated: 11/14/99