i'm still trying to grasp the concept... [updated: 9/5/09]

that there is a difference be an 'essay' and 'report' because I always assumed that they were inter changeable.
so once i understand that maybe I can actually find a topic that can be 'approved by someone a teacher.
this is the point that i just want to to something majorly easy instead of something i believe in, because that's not really working out for me.
so bye bye fun, hello actually stressful work.


Some more random ideas, tell me if you like any of them, and why if there's more than a "its interesting" answer. thanks =]
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Topic: Roller coasters.
Question:who created the firs roller coaster?
Action plan:

this just kind of goes along with one of the careers i would like to pursue in: Roller coaster engineer. now that i think of it, i think that this question is just wrong, because i mean, it's so out there and its just like a one word answer.
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Topic: Music vs Violence
Question: does listening to a cretin type of music mean that you're more likely to be violent?
Action plan: would an action plan be like a study? like, would i be able to try and test this one people and set them up in conditions and let them listen to certain songs/bands that are said to make people violent and put them through the same condition again? and by condition i mean like give them a paper with some questions and each one will be slightly different but still have the same concept and see how they would react? or would that be too much like what they do in PJAS?
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Topic: Us and violence
Question: why is the US the most violent county? [or one of them, ill have to look that up to confirm it is or isn't the most]
Action plan: documentary? like, interview people and ask them their opinions?

personally i think that this would just be a rip off of part of the movie Bowling For Columbine. which in a way may make it easier for me because i already have a source!
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Topic: Music and Parental Advisory
Question: Why should the government 'rate' our music?
Action Plan:

This is kind of related to the bias report, or essay, that we had to do for 10th grade careers class.
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Topic: Gun control
Question: do guns kill people, or do people kill people?
Action Plan: talk to people about the risk of playing with guns [it sounds so cheesy]

the reason i made the question that was because i like the saying "if guns kill people, my pencil must misspell words". But i guess it could also be worded "Will controlling guns make the murder rate go down?", but that doesn't sound interesting. or "would the world be a safer place if the government rules to take away all registered hand guns?", i remember hearing that on the news and it really annoyed me because i know that the answer is no, but it would be hard to find information supporting my answer because [and i hate to bring politics into things] the resources supporting my answer would be more conservative, and the media is more leftist.
i still really like this idea, but it really doesn't apply to one of the careers i would like to peruse, and i would prefer if my graduation project did.
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Topic: 'God-like powers' and murders
Question: Could some people be sent by god to kill?
Action plan:

This one probably makes me seem "sadistic" because im saying that God causes murders, which in my opinion, he does, because he is all powerful and if he didn't want things to happen, why would they? But another reason i would like to ask this question is because throughout my research of murders i found a lot of people that they said they had "god-like powers" and i wanted to see if it is an active imagination, or if they truly have 'un-human powers"
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Topic: the US and its law
Question: If we are the "land of the free" why do we have laws?
Action Plan:

the way i see it, if we were truly "the land of the free" we wouldn't have rules telling us what we can and can't do. and that countries that has a 'government system' of anarchy are the true free countries because they can do what they want, when they want, how they want with not consequences
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i don't want to seem so repetitive by saying for pretty much all of these i would like to do kind of a documentary type of thing. But once one of my research teachers gave me that idea last year its still on my mind.

And i still REALLY have my heart set on doing something about Columbine, but the problem is that all the things that people blame for making them do that, i don't think it has to do with any of that. i think its is truly because they wanted to be remembered, and be 'famous'. to leave a lasting impression on the world so they wouldn't be forgotten.

"It'll be like the L.A. riots, the Oklahoma bombing, WWII, Vietnam, Duke and Doom all mixed together. I want to leave a lasting impression on the world."
~Eric Harris
(http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1211059,00.html)


that may be another reason i can't think of a good action plan, because none of the topics interest me, and i would try to answer the question so it would show that they are wrong...

any ways, i would rather do something 'im really interested in and pass with a low C than do something i fine 'stupid' or boring or uninteresting and pass with a high A. So i am going to fight till i can do Columbine, so be prepared =]