Urcashi Vaid Presentation

1) I have been to a couple LGBT movements before so I somewhat expected how it would go. I actually do know quite a bit on this topic because of my few family members who are gay or lesbian and because of my few friends who are gay or lesbian. Yet I still learned more than I learned more than I knew before coming to this presentation. 2) It was very informative and presented in a very respectful yet affirmative and even funny matter. She has very good point and views on everything she was talking about. I do and have almost alwas have had the same opinions as her. 3) I didnt know how bad the LGBT suicide/ attempted suicide rate was. It's very sad and scary to think that people are pushing and bullying this group of people so far off of the edge. 4) Yes! she is a lesbian, has been fighting for thirty years for the LGBT movement and has wrote a few books on the topic. she is most definitely an authority on the topic. 5) Everything she's brought up is something I can use in my paper. She was very informative and will be a huge inspiration for my paper!

intellectual property

intellectual property to me is the different types of creativities and creations of each mind. an experts view on intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized under the corresponding fields of law. some examples of intellectual property rights include copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights and trade secrets. it changes in the fact that as soon as the ide is out it can be man ipulated and changed into something else from thier own idea and mind.

google 101

it is a lot easier to use now that i have learned all of the different tools in google. before knowing the different tools google was a very broad tool to use to find information. it is easier to narrow information and research questions down to get exactly what im looking for.

assn. 13

I feel as though I can answer almost all of the questions givin in our semester research project. I still have much more research to do for each question, with supporting information and just more information on some things in general. I am however finding good information though! Just need to find some more up to date info. as well!

LGBT

It took me a while to pick just one topic on LGBT that I wanted to learn about because first of all I have quite a couple of gay men and lesbian women in my family and friend circle. I feel as if I do know a bit on those topics and I have done a paper on the transgender population before so I would really like to learn more on the broad spectrum of bisexuals. I think its crazy that there are people out there who are sexually and physically attracted to both sexes. Not that it’s a bad thing in anyway whatsoever, I just have no prior knowledge on the matter. I have heard rumors of bisexual people being “sluts” and doing whatever they want and so on, however I do not believe this about them, because I don’t lump a group of people together based on there sexual orientation, nor do I know much about this population to make a judgement on them. I think the biggest challenge on finding information for my paper on bisexuals would be finding relevant and very informational results for it.

subject specific database

I chose to google as my specific database. My search string was “homeless AND poverty AND Minnesota”.  Most databases brought up relevant websites and information for my paper. Although, google brought up thousands of results it still did give me a few good results. Other databases such as the academic search premire website gave me quite a few results, but not as much. They seemed to be something that I would trust a little bit more than something off of google, maybe that’s because I’ve always been told not to use google for a scholarly database.

Getting to narrow down results was very easy for ASP, I just simply added some more describing words in my sentence. Google, on the other hand was harder to try and narrow down. Although, I did narrow it down a little bit by adding some more specific words, I still ended up with thousands of results to dig through.

ASP had about 5 or 6 relevant results for me, that I most likely will use in writing my paper. Google did have a few that were informational and relevant, but there were simply too many to sift through to find all that I wanted.  ASP had only one full text available for me and google obviously had all that I wanted to go through, ready for me to read in full text.

My research questions definitely have changed. Being able to narrow down questions and twirk them in ways to get better answers and results was a learning experience.

My biggest challenge in composing questions for my search string would be narrowing things down. It took me a few tries to get a good search string on my topic with good results. I think this is just going to take practice in figuring out better words and connecting words to use.

magazine article vs. scholarly journal

I found an article in glamour magazine called Poverty, Equality, Money and Little Pink Houses: What You Need to Know Today. The article, all though informative on views of our government’s opinions on the matter, it really didn’t have the information I was looking for. There wasn’t much information on what we can do about the poverty problem, how bad it is or even any information on how people have gotten there or how people suffer trying to get back up. The majority of the article was what Obama and such think, who to vote for, and where to focus our money; this article would not be something I would use for information for my paper. The scholarly journal article that I found was called Healthy Generations: the Impact of Childhood Poverty on Health and Development. This article is very informative and helpful for me! This is most definitely something I am going to use for my paper; it has everything I asked for and more. This article gave the exact definition of poverty, race differences in poverty, facts on families, children’s health, and populations in poverty from year to year.  Not only does this article have more of the information I was asking for, but it has all of the sources where the information came from and an author’s name, book references and so on; I’m very happy I found this article.

carpentier, M. (2008). Poverty, equality, money and little pink houses: What you teed to tnow today.

Oberg, C. (2003). The impact of childhood poverty on health and development. Retrieved from http://www.epi.umn.edu/mch/resources/hg/hg_childpoverty.pdf