Thursday, October 20, 2011

Outline.


I. Introduction
a. Hook
Ever passed through a dumbpsite and wondered, "Geez, how can someone stand that smell?" Well, believe it or not but some people have to live with that smell all their lives. Most of these people live in slums.
b. Slum Introduction
A slum is a run-down area of a city characterized by poor housing, lack of security, and over crowding.
c. Thesis Statement
The existence of slums affects human populations because slums spread easily caught diseases, attract people due to inexpensive costs, and over crowd small areas.
d. Transition
Furthermore, slums easily spread diseases.
II. Defendable Point # 1
a. Main Idea
Because of an unhealthy enviorment, diseases are able to spread easily.
b. Supporting Evidence
i. "Human waste leaches into the water people drink and contaminates the food they eat. It carries typhoid and other diseases that can be deadly, especially to young children."
ii. With unsafe water to drink, diseases are easy to spread.
c. Explanation
When many people get sick, there is a higher chance of death. Easily spread diseases affect the death rate.
d. Transition
But people ignore this and live here for the cheap costs.
III. Defendable Point # 2
a. Main Idea
They idea of something being cheap make life easier for people with low wages to survive.
b. Supporting Evidence
i. " 'With less than a dollar you can survive.' "
ii. You don't need a lot of money to live in a slum.
c. Explanation
People who deal with poverty are attracted to cheap costs because it makes life easier for them. This affects the human populations by increasing the human populations.
d. Transition
Because of cheap costs, many people decide to live in the slums therefore overcrowding the area.
IV. Defendable Point # 3
a. Main Idea
Because of many people living in a small area over crowding occurs. 
b. Supporting Evidence
i. "She lives here with her four children, her husband and her in-laws. All eight of them are crowded into a one room shack."
ii. She has to live with many people in a small area.
c. Explanation
Over crowding affect the human populations by causing comfortableness.
d. Transition
Over crowding 
V. Conclusion
a. Hook
In 2030 two billion of the world's estimated five billion will live in slums.
b. Restated Thesis
The slums are affecting human populations by  easily spreading diseases, attracting people with cheap costs, and 
c. Summary
The enviorment of the slums cause the human populations to both rise and drop.
d. Think About
When looking at how life is in a slum it makes people appreciate what they have.

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