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Cause and Effect Paper

Assignment Name: Cause and Effect

Purpose:
To learn and write how a multitude of influences create an event which leads to a plethora of outcomes.

• The argument in this paper is not a linear or "logical" series of events.
  • "Cause and effect" is a lie and is cheap reductivism.
  • No event occurs from just one cause, and no cause creates just one event, or even a cascading of a series of events.
    
    
• Use the following terms: influences, event, and outcomes
  • Must have at least three unfluences
  • One event
  • Must have at least three outcomes

• Write one entry 150 to 250 words long.
  • Use 5% links (thus 150 words has at least 8 links, 200 words has 10 links, 250 words has 13 links)
    • No encyclopedia or dictionary links
    • No image links
    • Links must be meaningful connections to meaningful webpages
  • Embed three pertinent images
    • Warning: hotlinking to images may result in them not appearing in your blog
      
      

Example:

I drop and break a glass in the kitchen.
• Influences:
  • Not holding glass properly
  • Slippery hands
  • Not focusing on task at hand
• Event:
  • Glass breaks on floor
• Outcomes:
  • I feel bad for breaking a glass
  • I berate myself
  • I have to clean up
  • I waste my time

Note that the influences and outcomes are not connected to each other except by the event.

• None of the influences are a series of cause and effects--they are all influences that may have nothing to do with one another.
  • That is, not holding something properly does not mean you will have slippery hands.
  • Having slippery hands does not cause lack of focus.
    
    
• None of the outcomes are related to each other by cause and effect.
  • Cleaning up is not an effect of berating oneself.