Collaborative task: Cause and Effect

At this point, we have looked at cause and effect from many different angles. Your last collaborative task is to explore one more topic with your group and then write a paragraph about your findings. Group 1 will talk about one of the topics from 1 to 3, Group 2 will talk about one of the topics from 4 to 6, Group 3 will talk about one of the topics from 7 to 9, and Group 4 will talk about one of the topics from 10 to 12.

1. Explain the effects of stress on you. Focus by limiting to a specific situation.

2. How can one individual have an effect on the environment?

3. What are the signs of teenage depression? How can teenage depression be prevented or treated?

4. What are the effects of the computer on the quality of your writing?

5. What are the physical effects of anger?

6. Is the media a reflection of society's ills or does it cause society's ills?

7. What effect has the automobile had on the American society?

8. What is the value of having a pet? a hobby?

9. What are the effects of beauty? ugliness? poverty? wealth?

10. How does pain effect a person's life?

11. Which is more of an influence on a person's life -- genetics or environment?

12. What influence do you have over your friends and/or family? Why?