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Together We Stand Letter
Andre Douglas
Axia College
HUM/111 Critical and Creative Thinking
6.05/2011
Benjamin Cornett
Suppose you live in a new suburban community. It offers all the amenities and benefits of a tight-knit small community, with the benefits of living close to the big city. Some years pass, and several children and adults in the community start developing extensive and similar illnesses. You think this is clearly not a case of genetics, and become suspicious that something must have gone wrong in the development planning and execution of your community. You start researching and investigating possible causes for the illnesses plaguing the community and, upon digging further, find out that the gas company’s practices may be to blame for the calamity. You decide, at that point, to spread the word around your community about your findings so that everyone can unite in a fight for justice.
• Write a letter of approximately 500 words in length that you intend to have published by your local newspaper addressing your concerns with the public health of the community.
• Explain what strategies you applied when investigating the problem that helped foster critical thinking and lead you to the root cause of the inexplicable illnesses.
• Identify approaches the community could take together to arrive at possible solutions for the problem and settle the matter with the gas company.
• Cite any sources and references according to the Axia Style Guide Handbook.
I once considered our small community as a safe retreat from the hustle and bustle of the nearby city. But inexplicably random people from our town who are unrelated in anyway seem to be getting sick without any possible explanation. So I decided to do some digging of my own to find out the connection between these people in an attempt to find the reason for this spreading illness. The first step was to speak to all the sufferers in order to find out the actual...