Original Research

I have never done original research before in any classes or anything but, from what I have leaned in this class is that it is harder to do. For original research you have to be very into it and know a lot about what your topic is about. It is different from library research because library research is more right at it you can find information very easy. Library research is not very time consuming and easy to do where as original research can take awhile needs you to be more into it. Critical thinking is important in anything you do for both of these research ways but, I would say library research it would be used a bit more. In library research you don't always know if the information you are reading is correct or incorrect. Sometimes you have to go out of your way to see if it is valid to use which makes it a little harder to do and time consuming at times. Critical thinking in original research you need more skills of setting to something picking a specific topic and researching on just that. By using specific and keywords to search for to get you only information on your specific topic.

Statistical Information

With the government document that I found it showed how they collected the data that was in the document. The HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research did a study with many different towns in the United States to get their information. The data was collected and analyzed by researchers that put it into table and charts that make it easier to understand. In the scholarly journal that I found it did not clearly state how the data was collected it only stated from research done. This is because government documents are more important, people are paid at the government to obtain all the information from studies unlike those who do it for their own purpose.

Government Document:

Donovan, Shaun. "Strategies for Improving Homeless People's Access to Mainstream Benefits and Services | HUD USER." Document Moved. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 24 Mar. 2010. Web. 10 Apr. 2012. http://www.huduser.org/portal/publications/povsoc/homeless_access.html

Scholarly Journal

Hill, R. (2003). Homelessness in the US: an ethnographic look at consumption strategies<FNR></FNR><FN>Portions of   this article have been previously presented in Surviving in a Material World: The Lived Experience of People in Poverty by University of Notre Dame Press... Journal Of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 13(2), 128-137. doi:1O.1002/casp.718

Checking In!

The success that I am having with my semester research project presentation is that I am getting closer and closer to being finished with it. I have almost all of my questions answered and am continuing to do a little research on my questions still just improving them. I am starting to put my questions on powerpoint slides.

Challenges that I am definitely having is finding all kinds of sources to use for my research.

I am also doing a 10 page research paper for my English class and a research presentation for my philosophy class. In both classes I am learning a lot of what we do in IM and it is helpful knowing all the things we learn that are helpful in class. Its just stressful having so many big things all dues within days of each other.

What is Intellectual Property?

My personal definition of "intellectual property" is different types of media and performing arts that belong to someone who designed that specific thing.
An experts definition of intellectual property is:  Intellectual property (IP) refers to the creations of the mind; inventions, literally and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce.
A few examples of intellectual property that I can see me using from my everyday life are textbooks, books, artwork like paintings, movies, photos and sculptures.
The concept of intellectual property can change by being shared as others use the ideas of it or base their own ideas of off the one someone else has created. In some cases it may be hard to determine if a persons intellectual property is actually there own or if they copied someone else's original idea. So it can be hard to determine if someones intellectual property is actually theirs as being their own idea at the beginning or if they just based it off of someone else's making it no the original.

Urvashi Presentation Reflection

1. My expectations prior to attending this presentation by Urvashi were that she would be sharing some of her personal stories with us and that the audience would be more informed of the LGBT community and what is currently happening.

2. The information was presented in an Auditorium in Atwood that seemed more relaxed and calm. The chairperson spoke for a quick introduction and then Urvashi came up and gave her presentation. A lot of the information she shared with us was new for me to hear I have never looked into the LGBT community or any current events that occur with this community. I learned a lot about the LGBT movement and what it takes to make things actually happen and see a difference for LGBT people.

3. Something that I did not know is that gay marriages are legal in 6 of the 50 states. I didn't know it was legal in any states at all.

4. Yes the speaker's personal, professional and academic background made her a good person for this topic. She knew what she was talking about since she has worked for fighting for LGBT rights and is involved in the LGBT community. She even had some personal stories of hers or others she has heard that help you see what things actually happen to people because of their orientation.

5. This presentation has given me some new information about the LGBT community and has informed me about challenging issues faced. I will be able to use some of this new information in my ALternative Viewpoints Paper.

6. Many people in the audience participated in asking Urvashi some questions I don't know for sure if any of the people were from our class.  But, the questions she answered she gave a understanding answer that was satisfying.

Google 101

During the google exercise we did in class I knew about the google scholar website I used it the week before in my English class so that wasn't new to me. But when searching in google I didn't know that if you add a plus sign it is like using AND OR in the other databases. This google exercise and learning new ways to search for information will help me with my research for the rest of the semester because I now know more ways to search for more on Homeless people. My opinion on google is still the same I used to use it all the time to start off with research projects and now that google scholar has recently been introduces I will use it more often. This will also help me in other class I am taking now and in the future. Knowing all the resources that there are online to find articles, newspapers, scholarly articles, etc. will help so you have many options to chose from not just the same ones I have been using for most of my life.

Personal Viewpoints Paper

Olivia Minor  

IM 204

Alternative Viewpoints Paper

           

            The homeless population that I would like to learn more about is especially families that have been kicked out of their homes and left jobless. I want to know how they survive with nothing left and no place to live. I am curious to where these families get money besides health care, food stamps and things like that. Where do they get the money from for everything else they need to live, especially with a family where there are multiple people to provide for.

            I am not all that familiar with homeless people or a family. I have seen the occasional people standing on the street trying to get money for you that look like they do live on the streets. I want to learn why most families become homeless do they loss their job, blow their money on things they can no longer afford and have gone in to debt. Because the homeless people on the streets are the ones that our money is going to. Our tax dollars and the money taken out of our checks to go to Medicare, Medicaid and healthcare if we are giving to them can’t we know why we have to give to them. I have never really read an article or anything on how most people become homeless besides losing their jobs but I want to know if there are other reasons than just one for the millions of people and families that are homeless.

            Most of the information I have gathered about homeless people are from seeing them in public, articles in newspapers about them, magazines and news shows. Each source gives different information on whether homeless families, students etc. Also, since I’ve done my research I have gained more knowledge about this population and I am looking forward to learning more and answering questions I still have about the homeless.