Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Ethnographies and opinions.

2. http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/gateway_demographics.html

3.

A - I believe it does have an impact, but i'm not quite sure whether it is a positive or negative impact yet.

B - I do believe it's a benefit. It provides a unique insight into other views and thought processes.

C - I would like to think so.

D - I would recommend this type of class structure. It to me is interesting and helps reinforce learning by easily providing links to online readings.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Subcultures.

1. Two subcultures I am interested in learning about are MMORPG(massively multiplayer online role-playing game) players, and emo kids. For the MMORPG players, I can study how the dress, how the talk, their social behaviour, and why they are looked down upon by many people. For the emo kids, I can look at how they dress, what music they listen to, and what makes them so emo.

2. I liked the peer review and thought it was very helpful. I believe we should do more of these.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Project proposal.

The topic that I will be researching and presenting in my paper is the debate over nuclear power. Nuclear power is the controlled splitting of atomic particles and harvesting the explosion's raw power for civil use. The nuclear chain reaction creates heat, which boils water, which creates steam, which in turn drives a steam turbine. I am in support of the use of nuclear energy. It has proven to be a safe, clean, relatively cheap form of renewable energy. People that are against nuclear power are generally ignorant to it's possibilities. Meltdowns like Chernobyl will most likely never happen again due to increased technology over the years, and the problem of nuclear waste has been solved by learning to recycle it into nuclear fuel. There have been many books, articles, papers, and more written about this topic. My research possibilites are almost endless.