Vanessa Vaquerano

Project Sandbox #1
Topic 1
I)

Question: What politic reforms or solutions can be made to shrink the gender
gap in India?
Read an article
a. talk about the history of inequality in India
1. Why it happens
2. How big is the problem in Indian society?
b. the effects gender inequality provides
1. Health?
2. Education?
3. Violence? Etc
(Provide necessary statistics)
c. what has been done about the situation
1. efforts
2. impact these efforts have had over the last decade
d. future; what can we do?
Educate others

Directions: trying to really focus on the reasons why this occurs, educate others about the
problems while also learning about it myself
-focus more on the women
Problems: too broad? Should a specify a certain problem? Should it be focused more on
what can be done or focus more on the situation?
Topic 2:
Question: Education provides a country with the ability to prosper. What measures can be
taken to provide education in third world countries?
*ideally the same as first topic outline
Topic 3:
What is China doing to control their air pollution?
1. Before- what was the status in the 20th century?
a. What lead to the build up
i. Industrialization
1. Reliance on coal
ii. Rising middle class
1. Consumerism
a. Increases the demand for energy sources
b. Now the largest car market
i. Emissions from cars
2. Now
a. How bad is it
i. Stats, numbers, graphs

ii. Effects on china

1. Health
a. Deaths
b. Biggest environmental cause of premature death
c. Sicknesses
d. Use examples (children)
iii. Environment (in china)
1. Lack of clean water
2. Inability to see
iv. Economic
1. Costs its had on the people
a. Connected with illnesses?
2. Any fees china has had to pay
v. Government
1. People going against the communist party
b. Effects on the rest of the world
i. Influential?
ii. Talk about neighboring countries
1. Reaching as far as the US
2. Influence on pacific storms
a. Cloud formation
b. Storm intensity
c. What is china doing about it currently
i. Strikes against coal- fired power plants
ii. Communist party is talking about..
a. Promotion of policies and measures
b. Shutting down factories
c. Pollution tax
d. Cut vehicle emission
3. Future
a. Regulations and Reform
i. Action
ii. Vehicles
iii. Factories
iv. Improved public transportation
b. Enforcement is needed
i. Needs to be strengthened
ii. Outside forces
needs ENFORCEMENT
Direction: use a lot of statistics (logos); huge numbers can help others envision how bad
the situation really, emphasis the effects (pathos), the growing problem (kairos)
Problems: dont know if I should include the rest of the world? Keep it simple by just
talking about china?