Ronald's post: Identify a global societal issue from the following list that you would consider researching further for your Week 5 Final Paper: Climate change Describe effective methods you used in identifying and narrowing down to just one of the topics to further research for your Final Paper. The first thing I did when looking at the topics was deciding which topics, I found to be interesting to research. Some of the topics caught my attention but I had very strong feelings for one side of the argument verse the other side. I did not want to take the chance of my essay being to one sided, so I eliminated them. Then I was left with Climate Change and Lack of Education. My degree and future career is in education so I feel this is a good chance to do something different, and that is why I chose Climate Change for my final paper. Explain three ways you can critically analyze sources to determine if they are scholarly. There are a few ways to critically analyze sources to determine if they are scholarly, which consist of: Checking the credentials of the Author/s. The Source is peer-reviewed See if the author has provided citations for the sources which the used in their writing. Summarize information from at least two scholarly journal articles from the Ashford University Library that will support your claims for your chosen topic. Hsiang Solomon, & Kopp Robert E. (2018). An Economist’s Guide to Climate Change Science. The Journal of Economic Perspectives , 32 (4), 3.              The information within this source is how each human has led to the change, reshaping, and alteration of the earth’s climate. From making animals extinct, to removing things from the earth, to emissions and what we exhale all effect the   climate. The industrial era has multiplied the damage that is being imparted on the climate, such as the release of carbon dioxide which will stay in the atmosphere for a approximately a thousand years. The physical science of climate change is the focus in this journal and will support the climate changes that are currently happening. Magnus Bergquist, Andreas Nilsson, & P. Wesley Schultz. (2019). Experiencing a Severe Weather Event Increases Concern About Climate Change. Frontiers in Psychology . https://doi-org.proxy-library.ashford.edu/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00220 (Links to an external site.)             Within this source is information about the climate and how it is changing. Climate change is due to humans and thing lick greenhouse emissions. However, this source talks about one of the consequences of climate change to be extreme weather events. The source goes on to mention how to help prepare for and reduce the consequences of climate change, such as extreme weather. The information in this source  helps to possible provide ways that climate change can possibly be reduced. Explain why scholarly sources should be used to support your writing on the selected topic.  Using scholarly sources .

1. Ronald's post:
Identify a global societal issue from the following list that you
would consider researching further for your Week 5 Final
Paper:
Climate change
Describe effective methods you used in identifying and
narrowing down to just one of the topics to further research for
your Final Paper.
The first thing I did when looking at the topics was deciding
which topics, I found to be interesting to research. Some of the
topics caught my attention but I had very strong feelings for one
side of the argument verse the other side. I did not want to take
the chance of my essay being to one sided, so I eliminated them.
Then I was left with
Climate Change
and
Lack of Education.
My degree and future career is in education so I feel this is a
good chance to do something different, and that is why I chose
Climate Change
for my final paper.
Explain three ways you can critically analyze sources to
determine if they are scholarly.

2. There are a few ways to critically analyze sources to determine
if they are scholarly, which consist of:
Checking the credentials of the Author/s.
The Source is peer-reviewed
See if the author has provided citations for the sources which
the used in their writing.
Summarize information from at least two scholarly journal
articles from the Ashford University Library that will support
your claims for your chosen topic.
Hsiang Solomon, & Kopp Robert E. (2018). An Economist’s
Guide to Climate Change Science.
The Journal of Economic Perspectives
,
32
(4), 3.
The information within this source is how each human
has led to the change, reshaping, and alteration of the earth’s
climate. From making animals extinct, to removing things from
the earth, to emissions and what we exhale all effect the
climate. The industrial era has multiplied the damage that is
being imparted on the climate, such as the release of carbon
dioxide which will stay in the atmosphere for a approximately a
thousand years. The physical science of climate change is the
focus in this journal and will support the climate changes that
are currently happening.

3. Magnus Bergquist, Andreas Nilsson, & P. Wesley Schultz.
(2019). Experiencing a Severe Weather Event Increases Concern
About Climate Change.
Frontiers in Psychology
.
https://doi-org.proxy-
library.ashford.edu/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00220 (Links to an
external site.)
Within this source is information about the climate and
how it is changing. Climate change is due to humans and thing
lick greenhouse emissions. However, this source talks about one
of the consequences of climate change to be extreme weather
events. The source goes on to mention how to help prepare for
and reduce the consequences of climate change, such as extreme
weather. The information in this source helps to possible
provide ways that climate change can possibly be reduced.
Explain why scholarly sources should be used to support your
writing on the selected topic.
Using scholarly sources should be used to provide information
to support the claims, solutions, and problems being made in the
writing. The scholarly sources should be used because they
have been supported by other sources, which is even more
support for my writing. Using information from sources that
have already been supported gives more of a foundation for my
paper to build on. That will also give my writing strength to
stand on its own.
References
Hsiang Solomon, & Kopp Robert E. (2018). An Economist’s
Guide to Climate Change Science.

4. The
Journal of Economic Perspectives
,
32
(4), 3.
Magnus Bergquist, Andreas Nilsson, & P. Wesley Schultz.
(2019). Experiencing a Severe Weather
Event Increases Concern About Climate Change.
Frontiers in Psychology
.
https://doi- (Links to an external site.)
org.proxy-
library.ashford.edu/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00220
JESSICA'S POST:
The global societal issue that I have chosen to write about is a
lack of education. I have chosen a topic that I know little about,
so I would not have a bias or show one side on the subject. The
lack of education can be from many different things such as
poverty, choice, law, etc.
Describe effective methods you used in identifying and
narrowing down to just one of the topics to further research for
your Final Paper.
The method I used to identify and narrow down my topic is

5. Currency, Relevancy, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose
(C.R.A.A.P). Using C.R.A.A.P helped me evaluate the articles
and web sources that I found by makings sure they are relevant
to my topic, current and providing up to date information,
scholarly sources, and the author make the purpose the article is
definite.
Explain three ways you can critically analyze sources to
determine if they are scholarly.
There are three ways that you can analyze a source to determine
if they are scholarly. First, check the credentials of the author.
You can use a search engine such as goggle to see if they have
written other articles. The second way you can analyze a source
is scholarly, and that’s by seeing if they are “peer-reviewed”.
This means and expects in that areas have reviewed and written
their analyses on the topic. The final way you can analyze if a
source is scholarly is to see if they provide other references and
citations. If a source cannot provide citations, you should
proceed with caution. They might not be providing correct
information.
Summarize information from at least two scholarly journal
articles from the Ashford University Library that will support
your claims for your chosen topic.
The first article I have found on the topic lack of education is
Right or Duty: Reinterpretation of the Nature of the Right to
Education in the Compulsory Education Stage. In this article,
the authors Shen Suping and Chen Zijian discuss how under the
constitution in China, whether or not all children have the right
or duty to have an education.

6. The second article I have found on the topic of lack of
education is “United States: Science, Math Education Gap
Fueled by Lack of Knowledge on Career Opportunities, Survey
Shows.” This article states that our youth in the united states
are allowed to attend school, but due to lack of knowledge of
programs, they are not engaging in things such as STEAM.
Explain why scholarly sources should be used to support your
writing on the selected topic.
A scholarly source(s) should be used when writing any paper to
be able to provide support and credibility. It is hugely because
your audience will expect you the writer to be able to back up
any information that you give, not supporting or supporting the
topic at hand.
Reference
Suping, S., & Zijian, C. (2019). Right or Duty: Reinterpretation
of the Nature of the Right to Education in the Compulsory
Education Stage.
Chinese Education & Society
,
52
(3/4), 231. https://doi-org.proxy-
library.ashford.edu/10.1080/10611932.2019.1667698
United states : Science, math education gap fueled by lack of
knowledge on career opportunities, survey shows. (2016).
MENA Report,
Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.proxy-
library.ashford.edu/docview/1785203116?accountid=32521

7. Right or Duty: Reinterpretation of the Nature of the Right to
Education in ...:
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EXAMPLE RESPONSES:
Hello Ronald,
I thought of writing a paper about "Lack of Education" but I
thought that I would sound too biased about the topic. You
choose a great topic "Climate Control", I did a paper on climate
control in one of my courses. You will find a lot of information
when you are doing your research for your final paper. Your
choice in the sources is on point. I am interested to know what
direction will you go in climate control, did you choose a sub-
topic? Since climate control is broad it may be a good thing to
narrow it down to say for instance the issues of climate control.
I hope my reply gave you some ideas for critical thought for
your final paper.
HAMAD'S POST:
Alexander Hamilton, as the Secretary of the Treasury in the
Federal government, believed in loose construction of the U.S
constitution. This meant that the Congress could establish laws
as long as the constitution did not specifically prohibit those

8. laws. Loose construction of the constitution gave Federal
government extensive do execute whatever felt necessary for the
country. This is a belief born from Hamilton’s school of thought
towards human beings and governance. He felt that issues with
governance should be made up of small and sensible group of
characterized with wisdom, talent and intelligence. Hamilton
supported the U.S Constitution that would allow strong
executive in the capacity of a president and powerful Federal
government with influence on the individual states. Through his
series of Federal Papers captured by Kozlowski & Weber, he
firmly backed Article 1, section 8 of the Constitution that
empowered the Congress to “make any law which shall be
necessary and proper(2010).” This clause gave federal
government loose interpretation of the Constitution to make
laws that seemed necessary and proper to the people.
For example, the Medicare/Medicaid issue that has dominated
the Congress since 2017 could have been so far settled without
the involvement of the state governments. The states want
lifting of the caps placed on the minimal amounts and eligibility
criteria employed to settle for a beneficiary. The Federal
government, however, want imposing of these caps on the
minimum amount and eligibility of the elderly, poor and people
with disabilities benefiting from this program. Loose
construction of the Constitution would have bestowed the
responsibility of making a law proper and necessary to address
this condition without consulting the state governments. As of
2020, half of the states have capped the Medicaid at 783 dollars
per month for single applicant and 1,175 dollars for a couple
according to the Kaiser Family Foundation website. This would
have been a responsibility of the Federal government to make a
law that would settle the matter for the welfare of the people.
References

9. KFF.org. Medicare-for-All would eliminate most or all of
Medicaid, But no one is talking about it.
KFF Health Reform.
June 18th, 2019.https://www.kff.org/health-
reform/perspective/medicaid-should-be-a-bigger-part-of-the-
medicare-for-all-debate/
Kozlowski, D. J., & Weber, J. L. (2010).
Federalism
. New York: Chelsea House.
CODY'S POST:
As defined loose construction is seen as laws that were
established that do not prohibit the constitution. A topic that
isn't as controversial as it has been is same sex marriage. The
Tenth Amendment Network published an article on this topic
and the controversy around it. As we know most if not all
states now view same sex marriage as a marriage under the law
and is a valid marriage. This movement in the law explains
loose construction exactly, in the times where the constitution
was written, same sex marriage was not a thing, but the culture
we are in now has changed things. Loose construction is said to
follow the culture and current times but still does not go against
the constitution. Although many people may not agree with
these laws and believe its wrong based on their religion but the
final word is the constitution and this law does not go against it.
http://tenthamendment.net/home/gay-same-sex-marriage-
constitution.asp