The presentation helped me realize how little I truly know about the topic. I know that women are restricted from being clergy, but I’ve never listened to any sort of validation for it. Granted, the one I usually got was “It’s just that way.” I’m very excited to see if there is possibility for change within the Catholic Church as it becomes a far larger religion across the country. It also helped me come up with an order for the paper to flow in, with information at the forefront and arguments following.

The questions afterwards made me validate that this topic is an important issue. I’m also going to work on focusing the exact wording of my question so that my topic becomes easier to understand. With the pointers I received from the questions asked, my topic has become narrower and far easier to execute.

Putting together and eventually presenting my research pecha kucha to the class made me realize that i have two things that I must now focus on. One is finding a way to make my topic less broad and refine my question to a specific part of the civil war and secession. Another is finding a way to craft my question and research so that there is a clear and present “they say” and a way for me to respond to that with an “I say.” As of right now I’m not really sure what I say, and how I’m going to make a dent in the circle of secession discussion.

The questions after my presentation pretty much made me realize the same thing. I kind of just have a bunch of information about an extremely broad topic and not really a focus of what I want to say.

After putting together my presentation it helped me to realize a more firm direction of where I was going with my research. It also helped me to decide on a more specific topic and made me realize that I had to do more research than I had done up until that point.

The questions after my presentation helped me get ideas as to where I’m going to be focusing my direction and a sense of what I really wanted to learn. It also gave me an idea about what other people wanted to learn about my topic which helped me to figure out what I wanted to find out too.

Overall doing this presentation gave me a firm direction as to where I was going with my research and made me realize I needed to narrow down my topic. This was due infact to the idea that I would only have 12pages to right about my topic and needed to have a set goal as to what I wanted to tell people and how I was going to accomplish this.

Putting together the presentation, it made me realize that there really is enough information to fill a 12 page paper about my narrowed down specific topic of PowerPoints use in education. At first I was sceptical, but now I think that there is more then enough information out there. Also, the questions after my presentation just really helped reinforce what I was going to say in my paper, and how I was going to stand apart from what “they say.” Overall, the presentation really helped me get more focused in on what I really am going to say in the paper.

Assembling my presentation helped me to clearly organize my thoughts. It enabled me to coherently describe what I wanted to research. Additionally, it may serve as an outline for my paper. Moreover, the question afterward made me back up my claims, as well as conduct further research.

One of the difficulties I came across in preparing for my presentation was that it was very hard to find information about HFCS that didn’t relate to obesity.  For my paper, I would like to find more relating to the lesser known problem of mercury contamination.  One of the most helpful suggestions for my paper was to look at the allergies of other countries and their consumption of HFCS.  I think this would be helpful in looking at whether this is an international problem, or if it is somehow related to the US consumption of HFCS.

Sinha, Rajiv K, and Naomi Mandel. “Preventing Digital Music Piracy: The Carrot or the Stick?.” Journal of Marketing 72.1 (2008): 1-15. Communication & Mass Media Complete. EBSCO. Web. 13 Oct. 2010.

Bender, Mark T., and Yongsheng Wang. “THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL PIRACY ON MUSIC SALES: A CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS.” International Social Science Review 84.3/4 (2009): 157-170. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 13 Oct. 2010.

Janssens, Jelle, Stijn Vandaele, and Tom Vander Beken. “The Music Industry on (the) Line? Surviving Music Piracy in a Digital Era.” European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law & Criminal Justice 17.2 (2009): 77-96. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 13 Oct. 2010.

Bhattacharjee, Sudip, Ram D. Gopal, and G. Lawrence Sanders. “DIGITAL MUSIC AND ONLINE SHARING: SOFTWARE PIRACY 2.0?.” Communications of the ACM 46.7 (2003): 107-111. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 13 Oct. 2010.

Easley, Robert F., John G. Michel, and Sarv Devaraj. “THE MP3 OPEN STANDARD AND THE MUSIC INDUSTRY’S RESPONSE TO INTERNET PIRACY.” Communications of the ACM 46.11 (2003): 90-96. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 13 Oct. 2010.

My most promising source appears to be “The Music Industry on (the) Line? Surviving Music Piracy in a Digital Era.” I think this will helpful because I haven;t really seen data on the impact of piracy in the music industry. I’ve only seen what lawyers claim to be damages for filesharing(often absurd), and heard “lost sale” claims.

1. Thompson, Audrey. “For: Anti-Racist Education.” Curriculum Inquiry 27.1 (1997): 7-44. JSTOR. Web. 11 Oct. 2010.

2. Bond, Cynthia D. “Laws of Race/Laws of Representation: The Construction of Race and Law in Contemporary American Film.” Texas Review of Entertainment & Sports Law 11.2 (2010): 219-265. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

3. Park, Ji Hoon. “Representation of Asians in Hollywood Films: Sociocultural and Industrial Perspectives.” Conference Papers — International Communication Association (2005): 1-22. Communication & Mass Media Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

4. Williams, Patricia J. “Talking About Not Talking About Race.” New York Magazine 41.29 (2008): 26-27. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

5. “The Last Airbender Primer.” Racebending. N.p., 2010. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

Of these five sources, I think that the last one would be the most useful because it most directly relates to my paper’s topic. However, I think that the second one is the most promising in terms of being a scholarly source. Although it focuses on the the lawyer-hero/law in film, I think that it has interesting discussions regarding how film and race are related. I feel like a lot of what I know about film and race is “stuff I’ve learned along the way” (i.e., from secondary sources and also it might be kind of superficial), so it’ll be interesting to examine how race and film are discussed in a scholarly paper. Most of the papers that I’ve found (when I’ve looked up race and film) talk about a specific film and what the film says, which is what I want to do for my topic, but I feel like they explore the film’s themes (more of a narrative analysis) whereas I want to focus on what are the unconscious messages the film gives (e.g., based upon how a film portrays Asians, what does that say about how… Asian-Americans are seen in America, or something like that?). Actually, the main reason that I see this paper as a “promising source” is because it gives definitions of film, law and race. I know how the words are used in everyday life, but I’m kind of confused about how they’re used in academic settings (if their meanings are even different at all…).

1)      Graham, J. Walter. “Origins and Interrelations of the Greek House and the Roman House.” Phoenix. Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring, 1966), pp. 3-3. Classical Association of Canada. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1086313>.

2) Larimer, Mary E.; Irvine, Daniel L.; Kilmer, Jason R.; Marlatt, G. Alan. “College Drinking

and the Greek System: Examining the Role of Perceived Norms for High-Risk Behavior.” Journal of College Student Development, v38 n6 p587-98 Nov-Dec 1997.

3) Cahin, Jeffrey R.; Presley, Cheryl A.; Meilman, Philip W. “Alcohol Use in the Greek System:

Follow the Leader?” Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Vol. 59, 1998.

4) Wechsler, Henry; Kuh, George; Davenport, Andrea E. “Fraternities, sororities and binge

drinking: Results from a national study of American colleges.” NASPA. 2009. Vol. 46, No. 3.

5) Borsari, Brian E.; Carey, Kate B. “Understanding Fraternity Drinking: Five Recurring Themes

in the Literature, 1980-1998.” Journal of American College Health. Volume 48, Issue 1

July 1999 , pages 30 – 37.

My third source, “Alcohol Use in the Greek System,” looks to be my most promising source as of now. This is because it relates alcohol to Greek life and houses. In most social fraternities, alcohol and parties are the main components in attracting rushes, and therefore pledges, and eventually brothers. This is helping me narrow my topic even more, as I am now considering focusing on alcohol consumption in houses of both fraternities and sororities.

1)     Vinovich, Brett. “Can We Talk?.” American Salon 133.4 (2010): 14. Associates Programs Source. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

2)     Smith, N.. “luv 2 txt. ” Scholastic Choices  1 Sep. 2010: Children’s Module, ProQuest. Web.  12 Oct. 2010. 

3)      “Teens Who Text.” Communications of the ACM 51.11 (2008): 19. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

4)      Katz, James E. “Mobile Communication and the Transformation of Daily Life: The Next Phase of Research on Mobiles.” Knowledge, Technology & Policy 19.1 (2006): 63-71. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

5)  Tucker, Patrick. “Hooked Up or Just Hooked.” Futurist 43.2 (2009): 16-17. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.    

The most promising source in this list is the “Can We Talk?” article. It discusses the implications of people constantly being on their cell phones. It mentions that face-to-face conversation has become “a lost art.” My research topic is going to focus more on the pyschological side of cell phone use, and this article discusses exactly that.

Gustafsson, Ewa, Peter W. Johnson, and Mats Hagberg. “Thumb postures and physical loads during mobile phone use – A comparison of young adults with and without musculoskeletal symptoms.” Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology. 20.1 (2010): 127-35. 12 Oct. 2010

Sanchez-Carbonell, Xavier, Marta Beranuy, Montserrat Castellana, Ander Chamarro, and Ursula Oberst. “Internet and cell phone addiction: Passing fad or disorder?.” Adicciones. 20.2 (2008): 149-59. 12 Oct. 2010

Sultan, Fareena, and Andrew J. Rohm. “How to market to generation m(obile).” MIT Sloan Management Review. Jun. 2008: 35-+. 12 Oct. 2010

Jeffrey Zaslow.  “The Greatest Generation (of Networkers). ” Wall Street Journal  4  Nov. 2009, Eastern edition: ABI/INFORM Global, ProQuest. Web.  12 Oct. 2010.

“College Students in the Digital Age. ” The Chronicle of Higher Education  11 Nov. 2005:  Research Library Core, ProQuest. Web.  12 Oct. 2010. 

I think that my most promising source so far is the section from Adicciones that explores internet and cell phone addiction.  While all the other sources are articles deal with the social consequences of cell phones on the newest generation, this article deals with the possible medical repercussions.  I think that I could find multiple pieces of evidence to support both the good and bad sides of technology use.  This piece of evidence is very useful because it is concrete fact rather than opinion.

Sigmond, Robert M. “Learning From The Ghost Of Healthcare Past.” Healthcare Forum Journal 38.6 (1995): 14-20. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

Aruguete, Mara and Tyrene Nixon. “Healthcare Attitudes, Knowledge, And Decision Making.” North American Journal of Psychology 12.2 (2010): 355-364. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

Hyman, David. “Follow The Money; Money Matters In Healthcare, Just Like In Everything Else.” American Journal of Law and Medicine 36.2-36.3 (2010): 370-388. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

Tumulthy, Karen. “The Five Big Healthcare Dilemmas.” Time 23 (2009): 24-27. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

Healy, Bernadine. “Health Reform’s Effect On You.” US News And World Report 146.1 (2009): 24-28. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct 2010.

For the research topic of current United States healthcare reform policy and implementation, the above listed sources will serve primarily as accounts of alternative perspectives on the issues addressed in the legislation itself, which will serve as the primary resource for the research.
At this point in time, the most useful source listed above is the article from the American Journal of Law and Medicine, which is an extensive article discussing the primary factor in healthcare today- money.

Hallam, Susan; Price, John; Katsarou, Georgia. “The Effects of Background Music on Primary School Pupils’ Task Performance” Educational Studies 28.2 (2002). 12 Oct. 2010

Baur, Barbara; Uttner, Ingo; Ilmberger, Josef; Fesl, Gunther; Mai, Norbert. “Music memory provides access to verbal knowledge in a patient with global amnesia” Neurocase: The Neural Basis of Cognition 6.5 (2000). 12 Oct. 2010

Bertz, William;University of California Press. “Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal”
Vol. 12, No. 3 (Spring, 1995), pp. 353-364. 12 October 2010

Salamé, Pierre; Baddeley, Alan. “Effects of background music on phonological short-term memory” The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology 41.1 (1989). 12 Oct. 2010

Janata, Petr; Tillmann, Barbara; Bharucha, Jamshed. “Listening to polyphonic music recruits domain-general attention and working memory circuits”10.3758/CABN.2.2.121(2002) Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2, 121-140. October 12 2010.

Of all of the sources, I think that the article “Effects of Background Music on Phonological Short Term Memory” will prove the most promising. I would like to study the effects of music on short term memory in view of music’s impact on long term memory. This article is specific to short term an to background music. It also compares vocal and instrumental music with speech, meaning that it may be able to provide me with a basic understanding of how the different types of music (not generes, but at least vocal v. instrumental) effect memory differently and how this impact differs from that of other potentially distracting noises.

Burke, Lisa A., Karen James, and Mohammad Ahmadi. “Effectiveness of PowerPoint-Based Lectures Across Different Business Disciplines: An Investigation and Implications.” Journal of Education for Business 84.4 (2009): 246-251. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 8 Oct. 2010.

Harden, R M. “Death by PowerPoint – the need for a ‘fidget index’.” Medical Teacher 30.9-10 (2008): 833-835. MEDLINE with Full Text. EBSCO. Web. 10 Oct. 2010.

Hogan, C.. “Preventing death by PowerPoint. ” Training & Management Development Methods 23.1 (2009): 301-309. ABI/INFORM Global, ProQuest. Web.  12 Oct. 2010.

Maxwell, Alexander. “Ban the Bullet-Point! Content-Based PowerPoint for Historians.” History Teacher 41.1 (2007): 39-54. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 8 Oct. 2010.

Vallance, Michael, and Phillip A. Towndrow. “Towards the ‘informed use’ of information and communication technology in education: a response to Adams’ ‘PowerPoint, habits of mind, and classroom culture’.” Journal of Curriculum Studies 39.2 (2007): 219-227. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 8 Oct. 2010.

Of the five sources, I think the most useful will be the 4th source, “Ban the Bullet-Pont! Content-Based PowerPoint for Historians.” This seems to be the most useful because in the abstract it talks about how to make presentations better, the author is being proactive instead of just criticizing. This makes me think that although he has his opinions on the subject, he can see both sides, and might present both within the article.

Burns, R. Nicholas. “America’s Strategic Opportunity With India.” Foreign Affairs 86.6 (2007): 131-146. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

Feigenbaum, Evan A. “India’s Rise, America’s Interest.” 76-91. Foreign Affairs, 2010. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

Lagerkvist, Johan. “Global Media for Global Citizenship in India and China.” Peace Review 21.3 (2009): 367-375. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

Petras, James. “Global Ruling Class: Billionaires and How They “Make It.” Journal of Contemporary Asia 38.2 (2008): 319-329. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

Schaffer, Teresita C. “India: Driving the Global Superhighway.” Brown Journal of World Affairs 16.2 (2010): 219-226. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

My research topic is about the rise of India as a global power. Although India is a country with the most poverty, it is also improving its economy rapidly. My paper will explore the developments in India and how it is gaining the attention of America. The most promising source for my topic is “India’s Rise, America’s Interest” because it has subheadings that are closely related to my topic. Subheadings such as “The Fate of the U.S.-Indian Partnership” and “INDIA’S PIVOTAL TRANSFORMATIONS” show that this source is about the development of India. By skimming through the article, I can see that it talks about a meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. It also talks about how India is improving its infrastructure and creating welfare programs.

Coffee, Peter. “Grids get a grip on your brain.” eWeek. 23.41 (2006): 50. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010

George, Sunitha Elizabeth, and Kulathooran Ramalakshimi, and Lingamallu Jagan Mohan Rao. “A Perception on Health Benefits of Coffee.” Critical Reviews in Food Science & Nutrition 48.5 (2008): 464-486. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010

Lemonick, Michael D. “Measuring IQ Points By The Cupful.” Time 167.3 (2006): 94-95. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010

Rahman, Anisur. “The Role of Adenosine in Alzheimer’s Disease”. Current Neuropharmacology 7.3 (2009): 207-216. Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010

Taylor, Sarah R., and Barbara Demming-Adams. “To sip of not to sip: the potential health riskes and benefits of coffee drinking.” Nutrition & Food Science 37.6 (2007): 406-418. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010

After browsing through my five sources, I am most excited about looking into “The Role of Adenosine in Alzheimer’s Disease”. As I was skimming through scholarly articles and other sources on the EBSCO database many of the sources seemed to pertain to the effects coffee has on the functioning of the brain and that sparked my attention. Also, a lot of these articles mentioned its affects on Alzheimer’s disease so I decided to narrow down my research topic onto this subject in particular. For these reasons I am looking forward to reading more in depth into this article to find out what affects coffee has on this disease and whether or not these affects are beneficial.

EDITORIAL.” New Internationalist (1977): 2. Peace Research Abstracts. EBSCO. Web. 11 Oct. 2010.

Howat, G. R. “Eating in 2000 AD- Meat and Two Veg Or Stones into Bread?” Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 44.1 (1985): 3-11. AGRICOLA. CSA. 11 Oct. 2010

Nishikawa, Jun. “The future of international cooperation—hunger and us: the background of hunger.” Peace Culture 1.43 (1999): 11. Peace Research Abstracts. EBSCO. Web. 11 Oct. 2010.

Wedding, Kristin.  “Cultivating Global Food Security:  A Strategy for U.S. Leadership on Productivity, Agricultural Research, and Trade.” Center for Strategic and International Studies (2010): Web. 8 Oct 2010

Wertime, Shirin. “Energy Use in the US & Global Agri-Food Systems: Implications for Sustainable Agriculture. ” Culture Change 5 Jun 2010: Alt-Press Watch (APW), ProQuest. Web.  11 Oct. 2010

The site that looks most promising so far is “Eating in 2000 AD-Meat and Two Veg Or Stones into Break?”.  By evaluating the abstract it pinpoints exactly what I am focusing my paper on which is food shortages.  However, it is advocating exactly what I am against which would help me find flaws in my own argument.  This source is heavily chart based which gives me relevant information directly.  The references of this source will bring me to sites where the charts and information originally come from.  It is helping me refine my topic even more by emphasizing the tradeoffs of agricultural production vs. meat production.

Wright, Robert. “Darwinian struggle: is there a place in evolutionary theory for the hand of God? Maybe in Ohio [Intelligent design theory].” Time. 11 Mar. 2002: 48-52. Print.

Bailey, H. David. “Creationism and Intelligent Design: Scientific and Theological Difficulties.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Fall 2010: 62-87. Print.

Interview with Forest, Barbra. “Intelligent Design: Creationism’s Trojan Horse.” Church and State. Feb 2005: 9-11. Print.

Shipman, Pat. “Being Stalked by Intelligent Design.” American Scientist. Nov 2005: 500-502. Print.

Bauman, Emily. “Outfacing Darwin: Intelligent Design and the case of Mount Rushmore.” Critical Quarterly. April. 2009: 61-81. Print.

I believe my most promising source is “Creationism and Intelligent Design: Scientific and Theological Difficulties.” This will provide me with a solid understanding of the new Intelligent Design movement; its differences with creationism and its fundamental principals. I will be able to gather a wide view of the two ideas differences from a science view to  religious standpoint. I will look to this source first.

Fitch, B.. “Understanding the Psychology of First Impressions. ” The Police Chief 1 Apr. 2010:  Research Library Core, ProQuest. Web.  12 Oct. 2010.

Koji, S., and M. Fernandes. “Does It Matter Where We Meet? The Role of Emotional Context in Evaluative First Impressions. ” Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology 64.2 (2010): 107-116. Psychology Module, ProQuest. Web.  12 Oct. 2010.

Willis, Janine, and Alexander Todorov. “First Impressions: Making Up Your Mind After a 100-Ms Exposure to a Face.” Psychological Science (Wiley-Blackwell) 17.7 (2006): 592-598. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

Miller, Jeremy K., Deanne L. Westerman, and Marianne E. Lloyd. “Are first impressions lasting impressions? An exploration of the generality of the primacy effect in memory for repetitions.” Memory & Cognition 32.8 (2004): 1305-1315. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.

Ames, D., L. Kammrath, A. Suppes, and N. Bolger. “Not So Fast: The (Not-Quite-Complete) Dissociation Between Accuracy and Confidence in Thin-Slice Impressions. ” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 36.2 (2010): 264.  Research Library Core, ProQuest. Web.  12 Oct. 2010.

Out of these 5 sources, the first one, Understanding the Psychology of First Impressions, seems the most promising to me.  By reading the title and the abstract, I believe it will be the one source that hits most of my questions, that I have about my research question, all at once.  Most of the other articles talks about the accuracy of first impressions, but this article talks about the perception process and what we are thinking while we make judgments.

1.An Ad Hoc Committee Of The Canon Law Society Of America., . The Canonical Implications Of Ordaining Women To The Permanent Diaconate: Report Of An Ad Hoc Committee Of The Canon Law Society Of America. Washington DC: Canon Law Society of America, 1995. Print.

2.Ferder, Fran. Called To Break Bread?: A Psychological Investigation Of 100 Women Who Feel Called To Priesthood In The Catholic Church . Mt. Rainier, MD: Quixote Center, 1978. Print.

3. Padgett, Tim. “Robes for Women.” Time . 27 Sep 2010: 53-55. Print.

4.Sentilles, Sarah. A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit. 1st ed. United States of America: Harcourt Books, 2008. Print.

5.The Committee On Doctrine Of The National Conference Of Catholic Bishops.,.10 Frequently Asked Questions About The Reservation Of Priestly Ordination To Men : A Pastoral Response. Washington DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1998. Print.

Although all of these sources prove invaluable to my research, I think it is very important to show both sides of the story. I will obtain many sources dedicated to showing the female’s perspective on their inability to be acknowledged priests of the Vatican, but 10 Frequently Asked Questions About The Reservation Of Priestly Ordination To Men : A Pastoral Response will be very useful since it is written by Bishops within the Catholic Church. After all, this is not a persuasive exercise but one of research (even though I would love to make many arguments about this topic). That book in particular will assist me in keeping my paper unbiased and a reliable research source.