The document discusses various global issues related to environmental concerns, such as the impact of e-waste on groundwater and the effects of climate change. It highlights the importance of recycling and awareness of harmful chemicals, emphasizing their effects on communities and the environment. Additionally, it touches on cultural identity and the implications of language and names in shaping one’s identity.

1. Assignment: Final Project
Milestone
Interdisciplinary Experience: Identity in a Global
Society (IDST - 1050C - 2)
Paige Parker
Walden University
Angelia Williams
May 8, 2015
“What Effect Does E-Waste Have On
Groundwater?” By Veena Clay
I chose this article because it revolves around economic issues
which are global. These issue deals with groundwater, which
has stated to be one of the most precious resources on Earth
(Clay, 2015). It is also what happens in my community where
many people live. Groundwater as stated by the Clay (2015),
“yields supply water to nearly every community in the country”,
and “without it, most of us would be driven to drastic measures
to accommodate drought conditions” (Clay, 2015). The author
discusses information, which reveal her perspective about how
groundwater has increase throughout the nation, which has
affected many environmental factors. This due to the
contamination of groundwater. When groundwater has become
contaminated, it causes the communities to have less water
resources to support their use. What cause groundwater to
contaminate? According to Clay (2015), “Due to water’s
excellent solvency, it’s easy for runoff” and “even rainwater to
contain contaminates from plastics, pesticides, oil and dissolved
chemicals” (Clay, 2015), which causes e-waste to be a form of a
serious pollution. E-waste has many harmful chemicals that
leaks into the soil and go directly to the groundwater resources.

2. This cause when electronics are dumped illegally and in states
that have yet to enact landfill ban legislation for electronic
waste (Clay, 2015). In order to reduce or protect the
community, learning to recycled or refurbished electronics can
prevent groundwater contamination. Because if we do not learn
to recycled or refurbished electronics it can in up in traveling
from garbage, to the soil, and final to the groundwater. This
will then affect the community.
“Climate Change and Global Warming” by Anup
Shah
Today, many are agreed that climate change may be one of the
greatest threats facing the planet. Recent years show increasing
extremities in weather pattern .The world mostly agrees that
something needs to be done about global warming and climate
change. According to Shah (2015), “Natural events and human
activities are believed to be contributing to an increase in
average global temperatures.” The reason is because of the
increase of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. According
to the author’s perspective “Greenhouse effect is known as the
rise in temperature on Earth as certain gases in the atmosphere
trap energy” (Shah, 2015). This causes the greenhouse effect to
become stronger, which allows a sufficient amount of heat to be
establish on the earth. When this happens the earth become
uncomfortable for humans, plants and animals (Shah, 2015). As
for climate change scientists have provided reports that will
better help to better understand climate change. Climate change
happens when the temperature begins to rise, which can lead to
changes being submitted to the earth. For instance; climate
change can cause floods, droughts, and strong rain (Shah,
2015). Global warming as we know of today has cause a huge
effect over the world for many years. This is mainly because of
the increases in greenhouse gases emission on the earth’s
environment. While continuing to read, Shah (2015),
perspective is more like my own theory. Because global
warming is being cause by things such as fossil fuels. The one
important thing that we should remember is that we can prevent

3. global warming and the effects on climate change. By helping to
prevent these actions, we can make our earth a better and safer
place to live.
Reference
Clay, V. (2015, May 4). What Effect Does E-Waste Have On
Groundwater? on Environmental XPRT. Retrieved May 8, 2015,
from http://www.environmental-expert.com/articles/what-effect-
does-e-waste-have-on-groundwater-483477
Shah, A. (2015, February 1). Climate Change and Global
Warming Introduction. Retrieved May 8, 2015, from
www.globalissues.org/article/233/climate-change-and-global-
warming-introduction
1. John madean experiment by tossing three fair coins. (Faircoin
has the same probability for a tail and head ½).
(a) (5 points) List the sample space for this experiment. (All
possible outcomes)
(b)(3 point) What is a probability of three tails?
(c) (3 points) What is a probability of exactly two tails?
(d) (4 points) What is a probability of at least one tail?
2. Among UMUC students 70% own a car, 50% own a bike and
40% own both.
(a) (7 points) Draw a Venn diagram.
(b) (5 points) Find a probability that a randomly chosen student
own a least one of the above vehicles.
(c) (5 points) What is a probability that a randomly chosen
student own a bike?

4. 3. A division has 12 employees, 8 males and 4 females.
(a) (5 points) In how many ways can a committee of 6 members
can be selected from out of these 12?
(b) (5 points) Find the probability that a random committee
contains all males?
(c) (5 points) Suppose that the committee should have one
President whichhas to be a female and two ordinary members
who must be males.
How many different committees are possible?
4.X is normally distributed with mean 12 and standard deviation
4.
(a) (5 points)Find the probability that X will be more than 10.
(b) (5 points) Find the probability that X will be less than 13.5
(c) (6 points) Find the probability that X will be between 10 and
14.5
(d) (7 points) Finda such that P(X<a)=.85
(e)(7 points) Find b such that P(X>b)=.25
5. (7 points) Which of the following is not a binomial
distribution and why? Justify your answer.
1. Tossing a fair quarter 10 times and looking at number of
heads that shows up.
2. Rolling a fair die 10 times and looking at the number of times
we get six dots showing up.

5. 3. Rolling a fair die 10 times and keeping track of the numbers
that are rolled.
4. Rolling 10 fair dice and looking at the number of dice that
have 4 dots facing up.
6. Among companies doing highway or bridge construction,
80% test employees for substance abuse (based on data from the
Construction Financial Management Association) A study
involves the random selection of 12 such companies.
(a) (3points) Findthe probability that exactly 7 of the 12
companies test for substance abuse.
(b) (3 points) Find the probability that at least half of the
companies test for substance abuse.
(c) (7 points) For such group of 12 companies, find the mean
and standard deviation for the number (among 12) that test for
substance abuse.
(d) (3points) Using the results from part (c) and the range rule
of thumb, indentify the range of usual value.
Assignment: Final Project Milestone
Interdisciplinary Experience: Identity in a Global
Society (IDST - 1050C - 2)
Paige Parker
Walden University
Angelia Williams
May 2, 2015

6. “Talking Trash” Andy Rooney
This article discuss issues that involves how American are being
wasteful. For example; Rooney states “how much garbage New
York City makes and where most of it comes from is
packaging” (Rooney, 2002, pgs. 354-355). Since I feel that the
global issue of this essay focuses on national resources, I
decided to choose this article because where I live this is also a
problem with our environment. People dumping trash every day,
which I feel is ok but using other type off garbage such as
boxes, bottles, newspapers, cans, and paper bags can be recycle
and use for other purposes. Today, people do not recycle
anymore and this has cause a problem of people using up all our
national resources. As pointed out by the author (Rooney) “The
Earth could end up as one huge, inhabitable dump.”(Rooney,
2002, pg. 355) This why I believe instead of dumping garbage
we should consider recycling things that we no longer needs in
order to help our national resources and protect our environment
for the future generations to come.
“The Obligation to Endure” Rachel Carson
This article discusses how chemicals are harmful to the
environment. This would be main the global issue in to why I
chose this article because I am concerned about my environment
and what I can do to protect it. People uses chemical every day,
for example; to paint, kill unwanted pesticides, and hair spray.
However, today most chemicals are use in the farming business.
The points presented in this essay shows that we are not as
much aware of how chemicals have become of the biggest
problem that are affecting not only our environment but
animals, food, and people as well. My uncle works as a farm
laborer and they uses many chemicals in order to get rid of bugs
or pesticides that are on crops. Carson states ““Can anyone
believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on
the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life”
(Carson, 1962, pg. 348)? I believe this to true because in some
places chemicals have been a major cause of many health
problems and often death. So, given the article view concerning

7. chemicals, I would have to agree because chemicals have
affected our lives and environment.
Reference
Andy Rooney, (“Talking Trash”, 2002, pg. 353) found in
Muller, G.H. (2014) The New World Reader: Thinking and
Writing About the Global Community (4th ed) Boston, MA.
Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Rachel Carson, (“The Obligation to Endure”, 1962, pg. 346)
found in Muller, G.H. (2014) The New World Reader: Thinking
and Writing About the Global Community (4th ed) Boston, MA.
Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Assignment: Final Project
Milestone
Interdisciplinary Experience: Identity in a Global
Society (IDST - 1050C - 2)
Paige Parker
Walden University
Angelia Williams
April 27, 2015
The two articles that I choice to compare are “Mother Tongue,
(pg.105)” and “Leave your Name at the Border, (pg.99).
In the article “Mother Tongue”, the author highlights in details
that people speak different languages automatically, which is
how we are usually label by the way we speak. Considering
what the author has highlighted in this article, speaking
different languages to communicate with others. Language
based on the author point of view actually defines who we are
as a person and affect our choices as well as our lifestyle. The
article “Leave Your Name at the Door”, the author is
highlighting that we should be proud of who we are and where
we came from. In words, Munoz is sharing that our name is

8. consider our identity. These two essay are similar because they
both deals with culture and communications. They are different
because Mother Tongue share more of a discrimination in
language as being judge. Munoz discusses how people who have
Spanish name are willing to change to English to adopt a new
culture.
While reading these two articles, I believe that the global issue
address is language and changing one’s name just to adjust a
new culture. Language and our name has become a way of
seeing life in a different perspective. Language is what I would
called being able to share and learn more about language use in
different cultures, Tan (pg. 105) is one example that allows us
to see how people can study a different culture in order reduce
cultural conflicts between groups. Changing our name in from
birth to assume a new culture is mixing your old culture into a
new culture. My perspectives do these two articles approach the
issue is culture. Today, there are many people that are in the
United States that uses different languages and have unique
names. However, people should not be ashamed of what
language a person speak or whether a person can pronounce
their name.
Reference
Amy Tan (pg.105) found in Muller, G.H. (2014) The New
World Reader: Thinking and Writing About the Global
Community (4th ed) Boston, MA. Wadsworth Cengage
Learning.
Manuel Munoz (pg.99) found in Muller, G.H. (2014) The New
World Reader: Thinking and Writing About the Global
Community (4th ed) Boston, MA., Wadsworth Cengage
Learning.
To prepare for the Final Project, you will do the following:
Gather the essays you have selected as directed in the Final
Project Milestones. You should have:

9. Two essays that address the same issue from two different
perspectives (Week 2 Final Project Milestone).
Two essays that represent your thinking on your chosen global
issue (Week 3 Final Project Milestone).
Two essays from outside sources that represent your global
issue from different perspectives (Week 4 Final Project
Milestone).
The assignment:
Write a 4- to 5-page first-person narrative essay modeled on the
essays featured in the Muller text. Organize your essay as
described below:
In the Introduction:
Provide your concept of the meaning of globalization from
before you began this course.
Provide your current definition of globalization and your
definition of what qualifies as a “global issue.”
State the global issue you have chosen and why you chose that
particular issue.
In the Main Body:
Analyze each essay that you read by detailing how the
perspective offered by each changed or affected your thinking
about your chosen global issue.
In the Conclusion:

10. Describe how your reading and writing during this course
helped you to see how your particular issue might be connected
to the concerns of your classmates. How might this awareness
change your future behaviors?