I have been busy reworking my inquiry for a while now but I believe I have got a solid question now that can be hit all over the place without breaking apart. So I will answer the next few questions in a precise manner that this upcoming essay will dictate.
1. The people I will be writing to will be people dealing with stress. Whether they already know how to cope with it or still trying to figure out how.
2. I believe my topic is timeless. Since the dawn of time people have had stress. Over time there has been studies for it but till this day we are still figuring out ways to use or get rid of our stress.
3. I care about this topic because I deal with stress a lot as well. I like to believe most people do. It's something people can really get behind regardless of optimistic or pessimistic point of view. And I believe why high school teachers didn't want you to be objective in high school was to see if you even had the basic intelligence to make the cut. But in college it's more about differentiating yourself from everyone else. College teachers want to ask the question. What can you offer the world that others haven't?
4. While the negative views of stress outweigh the positive ones. The positive ones seem to asses the aspects of stress better. For instance a negative viewpoint lists how stress doesn't help us get work done proficiently but the positive view says that without stress we wouldn't be doing that work in the first place.
5. I have learned that researching is difficult for the aspect of shifting through all different view points which can be sometimes very similar yet different viewing outcome. As a researcher I need to zoom in on those aspects and look at how they are important diverging view points from the rest.
6. While I didn't reply to her blog. I did read over Samantha Vineyard's research on optimism vs pessimism and realized that we share a correlation in looking into how one's view can affect themselves.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
2nd blog post
Since last time my subject has changed drastically. This is because I could not find very much information about fast food companies business plan on the web nor the questioning of it on people's health. Therefore I have changed my inquiry AGAIN to how relationships effect one's health. Hopefully this is the last time this proves necessary. This subject is not one I am used to and find it rather difficult to understand it.
I guess the most interesting source I found so far is the first one. It's an interview with an author about loneliness (Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection by William Patrick) in which it states that loneliness is not about being physically isolated but more about what each person perceives as loneliness. This leads to the question of if loneliness is created by the certain types of people we meet and how they act. This is a interesting concept that I may or may not delve more into in the future.
I guess the most interesting source I found so far is the first one. It's an interview with an author about loneliness (Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection by William Patrick) in which it states that loneliness is not about being physically isolated but more about what each person perceives as loneliness. This leads to the question of if loneliness is created by the certain types of people we meet and how they act. This is a interesting concept that I may or may not delve more into in the future.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
first post (i know, so original)
-What is your research question/inquiry question?
My inquiry started off as asking about the fast food and how they interact with people. But I soon realized it would be better to look at the companies themselves. So my question is "is the buisness model behind the fast food industry hurtful to people's health?"
-Why did you settle on this question? What interests you about the topic? Explain
Because I was always curious how McDonald's and other fast food places defended themselves against the criticism of the production of their foods and how they sometimes get away with it.
-How is your question/topic timely? Why is it important to address this topic? Why should people care about it?
Because to this day McDonald's is still trying to change their policy and their food production and regulations.
-What do you expect to find in your research? What preliminary research have you done that makes you expect this?
The more cold side of fast food business than people know and love. But also how crazy some of the health nuts are in their criticism. I read up on the history of how Mcdonald's got started and also watched the movie supersize me.
-Are you coming across scholars w/ different answers to your question, or different views of your topic? (If you're NOT and people seem to all agree, then your research question and topic probably aren't worth pursuing, right?) Explain what these answers/views are that you are finding. (Remember that our textbook warns us of the dangers of binary thinking on pg. 6.)What do you think about the different viewpoints? Where do you stand on the issue, and do you think your mind could change the further you get into this semester-long inquiry?
I have not gotten to looking into scholars yet. I've been mostly looking at incidents so far.
-Any questions or concerns you'd like to address?
My inquiry started off as asking about the fast food and how they interact with people. But I soon realized it would be better to look at the companies themselves. So my question is "is the buisness model behind the fast food industry hurtful to people's health?"
-Why did you settle on this question? What interests you about the topic? Explain
Because I was always curious how McDonald's and other fast food places defended themselves against the criticism of the production of their foods and how they sometimes get away with it.
-How is your question/topic timely? Why is it important to address this topic? Why should people care about it?
Because to this day McDonald's is still trying to change their policy and their food production and regulations.
-What do you expect to find in your research? What preliminary research have you done that makes you expect this?
The more cold side of fast food business than people know and love. But also how crazy some of the health nuts are in their criticism. I read up on the history of how Mcdonald's got started and also watched the movie supersize me.
-Are you coming across scholars w/ different answers to your question, or different views of your topic? (If you're NOT and people seem to all agree, then your research question and topic probably aren't worth pursuing, right?) Explain what these answers/views are that you are finding. (Remember that our textbook warns us of the dangers of binary thinking on pg. 6.)What do you think about the different viewpoints? Where do you stand on the issue, and do you think your mind could change the further you get into this semester-long inquiry?
I have not gotten to looking into scholars yet. I've been mostly looking at incidents so far.
-Any questions or concerns you'd like to address?
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