Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments For me (and probably most people in my class), there have been some tasks and objectives of Senior Thesis that of which I have had difficulty with. Although Senior Thesis as a whole has not been very strenuous in terms of workload and difficulty, I have been able to tackle the difficult aspects of it with the help of various people. First and foremost, I would like to thank Dr. Valenza. With her expertise, she has been of great assistance to me in terms of my research, as she helped me refine search queries and take advantage of the numerous resources that Springfield has to offer in order to receive more desirable results. Secondly, I would like to thank Herr Martin for making this class a lot simpler, unlike what I have heard about the other Senior Thesis classes. This was achieved through his methods of organizing the class in terms of assignments and due dates, and that these assignments can easily be completed on time with the ample class time we are given. Aside from this, he is very constructive when it comes to grading and critiquing, which is highly useful when it comes to editing our thesis statements and research papers. My mentor, Evan Cowdery, has also been of use to me, as he helped me refine my thesis to the point where it is not too broad, and focuses on a specific aspect of Environmental Science, to which my topic pertains. I suppose the rest of the class has helped me as well when it came to refining my thesis (with the exception of the classmates who wrote nothing more than a simple “nice work” or something of that nature). Thanks are also in order to my brother Johnny, who was able to use his knowledge of the topic of Environmental Science to help me devise a project applicable to my topic, which was something I previously had trouble with.