Global Issues Project
Over the past two weeks I've been working on this Global Issues project in World History and English class. My initial thought for this project was, "I have to do something HIV/AIDS." I bet you're wondering why I said that I just had to this project on HIV/AIDS. Well ever since I saw the rock opera 'Rent' by Jonathan Larson I have been very passionate about the disease. But I was really disappointed when Mrs.Andermann said I couldn't focus in on the AIDS epidemic in New York in the 1980's. But I moved on to the disease's believed birth place, Sub-Saharan Africa.
My research question is, "What is life like for a child living with HIV/AIDS and a child affected by HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa?" Essentially I'm researching two sides of the story. One side being a child infected with HIV/AIDS with the other side being a child living with the effects caused by HIV/AIDS. When I first started researching I was really interested but then I got lost within all of these facts and statistic and it was frustrating. I made my research question what it is because everything I kept finding was boring and things everyone already knew about my topic. But what I always wondered about was 'how do those child live? What keeps them going in life?' because if I were them I would feel hopeless and lost. That's what I'm finding out for my audience! The hardest parts of this project so far were making the detailed outline and STAYING on task.
Time: {sorry I put it off until Sunday Dr.d!}
Sunday: 150 minutes; went through new sources,read new sources, cited new sources,paraphrased new sources, wrote detailed outline, my outline then deleted itself so I had to rewrite my detailed outline.
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African Children with their faces painted for World AIDS Day {December 1} |
My research question is, "What is life like for a child living with HIV/AIDS and a child affected by HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa?" Essentially I'm researching two sides of the story. One side being a child infected with HIV/AIDS with the other side being a child living with the effects caused by HIV/AIDS. When I first started researching I was really interested but then I got lost within all of these facts and statistic and it was frustrating. I made my research question what it is because everything I kept finding was boring and things everyone already knew about my topic. But what I always wondered about was 'how do those child live? What keeps them going in life?' because if I were them I would feel hopeless and lost. That's what I'm finding out for my audience! The hardest parts of this project so far were making the detailed outline and STAYING on task.
Time: {sorry I put it off until Sunday Dr.d!}
Sunday: 150 minutes; went through new sources,read new sources, cited new sources,paraphrased new sources, wrote detailed outline, my outline then deleted itself so I had to rewrite my detailed outline.
Lauren I really like this blog post. I also have shown an interest in learning more information about the deadly disease AIDS. I have a very basic knowledge of the disease like how it's contracted, the effects of it, etc. I hope I can read your paper to learn more about the disease!
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