Research Proposal

I plan on starting my proposal by explaining why I enjoy wanted to write about this topic. I am very interested in sports and I also feel that people need help in the healing process after not only national tragedies but also tragedies that happens within a community. One local tragedy that happened just a year ago was the Bluffton University bus crash that happened last March. I live 30 minutes from Bluffton and have friends that go there. I feel that the tragedy there as well as treagedies such as 9/11, Virginia Tech shooting, and Hurrican Katrina are all tragedies that everybody was affected by. I want to write about how sports is a very effective way to help people heal. Sporting events bring not only local communities together but sometimes a nation. After 9/11 when baseball started back up it brought people together to begin the healing process and help people to begin to move on with life again.

Research project

I plan on writing my research paper on how the important role that sports plays in the healing process after tragedies. I will start by grabbing the attention of the audience in my into by talking about some of the tragedies that my paper will pertain to. I will be talking about 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Bluffton bus crash, and the Virginia Tech shooting. I feel that this topic is controversial because of the fact that many do not believe or understand how important sports is to people in heling them heal. The fact that people come together at games to unite and remember and honor those who were lost in the tragedies. Sports also gives those people a chance to get away from reality if only for a few hours. This helps them heal because they start to understand that's it's ok to laugh and have fun again. In my research paper I have quotes from people who feel the same way. I plan on giving other solutions to helping people heal in which I will agrue that sports is the most effective way for people to get on with life or at least get away from reality for a bit.

Hass and Facebook

I thought that this article was very interesting because I have facebook and I have used it in the past to set up parties that I was having. Even though I was 21 at the time I never would have thought that cops would be looking on facebook to find out where the parties were at. I also agree with Hass when she talks about how facebook is almost a way of stalking people. I have many people on my friends list that I barely know but I add them because when I get bored I look at pictures that people have put up which now makes me feel like I am creeping on them. It seems to me that people want the best of both worlds. They want people to be able to see their profile but don't feel that everybody shoould be able to. There is a way that you can keep your profile private when you go to the settings menu. So, in my opinion, I think that the cops are smart for looking on facebook because it makes their job earier. If people don't want them to see it then they should set their privacy.

Research Paper

When thinking about how to go about writing this research paper the first thing i thought about was what my topic was going to be. I wanted to do something that I found interesting because I find it very hard to write about topics that don't interest me. Therefore, I decided to write about football and it's popluartity in America. The first thing I need to do is find sources that are going to be helpful in writing my research paper. I want to first five a history of football in America, when it started, and then go into how it became popular. One thing that might be difficult throughout the process is finding sources from credible sources. I know for a fact that finding book sources about how football has become popular in America might be tough to find and therefore I will have to rely on journal and magazine articles.