Goal for today

My goal for today is to finish the first paragraph after the introduction.

The (Working) Outline

Introduction: Media coverage focus on Stacy Peterson. Lack of coverage on the violence. Friend's personal story.

I.Yes to more media coverage in the inner-city
A. Media's focus on the violence outside of the inner-city rather than the inner-city
a. Percieved fears (Heltsley 134)
b. Off Balance (Dorfman 7)
c. Interview
d. Interview
B. More coverage means a better chance at finding the culprits who committed the crime
a. Friend's personal story
b. Percieved fears
c. Off Balance
d. Interview
e. Interview
f. Journal
C. More coverage could help more influenctial people get involve to help curb the violence
a. Tommie Harris article
b. Journal
c. Percieved fears
d. Off Balance
II. No more media coverage in the inner-city
A. Media coverage of violence in certain nieghborhoods over again can create a bad name for that nieghborhood.
a. Englewood-personal story
b. Interview
c. Journal
d. Percieved fears
e. Off Balance
B. It will focus on the bad rather than the good
a. Sun-Times.com survey
b. interview
c. Journal
d. Percived Fears (137-143)
e. Off Balance
C. The crimes in the inner-city are sometimes over reported
a. Percieved fears (134-136)
b. interview
c. Journal
d. Off Balance
III. Conclusion-Recap. Add a story. choose a side and end with a question to the reader.

Thesis (Main Claim)

Thesis: Even though there is an outcry for more media coverage on the violence in the inner-city of Chicago, there are others that believe it will do more harm than good.

Annotated Bibliography

Summary of the Article: Harris Ready to Tackle a Far Bigger Problem; Want to Help stop inner-city violence that’s claiming Children.

Tommie Harris, Pro Bowl defensive tackle of the Chicago Bears, tries to use his status NFL star to raise awareness about the violence in the inner-city and the innocent children that get caught in the crossfire. He started to really get involved after seeing on the news about another innocent kid getting killed in a gang dispute. Since then, he has started to voice his input into helping curb the violence in the inner-city. Tommie Harris and his teammate Israel Idonije have talked about renovating an old skating rink in the Englewood community so the kids can have some where to go after school. He feels that athletes should make use of their status and try to make a difference in the community rather than making millions of dollars and newspaper headlines.

Haugh, David. "Harris Ready to Tackle a Far Bigger Problem; Wants to Help Stop Inner-City Violence That's Claiming Childern." Chicago Tribune 26 Oct. 2007, Chicago ed., sec. S: 5. Proquest. 31 Oct. 2007.

Primary and secondary sources

Why does the violence in the inner-city neighborhoods goes unreported by the media?

My primary sources are few but they have enpugh information for me. I've posted one of my sources on my blog if you want to take a look at it. I should have the other one posted up some time this week. These sources are going to be my stat/fact sheet.

But i think the bulk of this paper is going to hinge on secondary sources. My mom works as a principal at an alternative school and she will share with me some of thier stories and experiences with me to help me with my paper.

sources 4 d topic

1 .http://www.buildingblocksforyouth.org/media/media.pdf

What i learned

I learned from my research that i have alot of work ahead of me if I want to write about this paper. With the limited amount of resourses around surrounding this subject, it is making this a little difficult than it should be. But i am not going to give up. I might have to use personal accounts as my sources until i find an article or source that fits topic perfectly. But it should come together in due time. If you have any suggestions that will help me out in my search for sources, then i will love for you to share it.

Plans to Do

My purpose is of this paper is to bring to light the undocumented killings and violence in the urban communities. I feel as though this would be a great topic in this day and age to do.

My audience would be to anybody who has an open ear and willing to listen. I just hope that this paper can do more than just give me a good grade. I hope that it will inform people of this serious issue and do something about it.

Exploring Your Research Questions

Part I: Exploration

1. Identify the issue or problem that you plan to focus on in your research project.
I plan to focus on the unreported killings in the urban community.

2. What is your personal connection to and interest in this topic?
My personal connection to this topic is that I lived in the Englewood neighborhood and always hear or see things happened but is never reported on the news.

3. What opinions do you already hold about this topic?
I feel that the media don’t think the killings aren’t newsworthy because everybody heard it before. Its like “old news”. So they focus their attention on something else like Britney Spears instead of more important factors.

4. What knowledge do you already have about this topic. What are your main
questions about this topic? What are you most curious about?
I know and heard a lot of shootings by my house that are never reported. My main question is why do the media feel that stuff like this isn’t worthy of their time.

6. Within what scholarly discipline (such as history, biology, psychology) do you expect to do most of your research? How does this discipline approach or study this topic?
I don’t have a clue but I am willing to find out.

7. How could you research this topic outside the library (for example, through interviews and/or observations)?

Of course you can. I can interview a lot of people to help me out and give me stories, feedback, and personal accounts of killings or shootings they heard or saw that never got reported.

Part II: Focusing Write an initial claim, or an open-ended question, to guide your research on this topic. Make it specific but exploratory. Remember that a good claim opens up an area of inquiry about a topic; a claim should invite evidence, support, and debate.

Why do the media disregard killings in the poorer, urban communities as not "newsworthy"?

Research Topics

I need your views of what you think works as good research topic and question.

1. What effect does economic social class in America have on the amount of people going to college?

2. Have the large salaries of professional athletes had a negative impact on the athletes, the sports, and on America?

3. Why does the media disregard killings in the poorer, urban communities as not "newsworthy"?

Bonus: How have stereotypes affected the way people view each other from differeant parts of the country?

Bibliographic Citations

Ohmann, Richard. "Computers and Technology." Radical Teacher (2002): 1-6.

Stroll, Clifford. "Who Needs Computers." School Library Journal (2001): 46-49.

Kern, Richard G. "Restructuring Classroom interaction with Networked Computers:Effects on Quanity and Characterisics of Language Production." Modern Language Journal (1995): 457-476. JSTOR 1 Oct 2007. www.JSTOR.org

Sources for my synthesis paper

Here are a few sources that I think may aid me in my research.

1. http://www.jstor.org/view/00267902/ap020557/02a00020/0

2. Computers and Technology.pdf (1.449 Mb) by Richard Ohmann. Radical Teacher, no. 63, pp. 2-6, Spr 2002.

3. stoll, who needs computers.pdf (1.135 Mb) from School Library Journal, v47 n10 p46-49 Oct 2001.

4. http://www.jstor.org/view/00138274/ap030751/03a00250/0

Outline of Synthesis

Thesis Statement:The articles "Who Needs" and "Video Games and the Future of Learning" gives people two different viewpoints of the way computers should be used.

Introduction: Summary of "Who Needs" and "Video Games and the Future of Learning"

Body: -The use of computers in the classroom
-How coputers are use in society today.
-The "Who Needs" prospective on schools and computers
-The "Video games and the future of learning" prospective on schools and computers
-Add qoutes

Conclusion:-Sum up the previous paragraphs and articles.
- Add quotes

http://106research.blogspot.com/

Exactly my point: Response to "Don't blame the Eater"

David Zinczenko's "Don't Blame the Eater" states that the fast-food companies fulfill the nutrional needs of kids left by overworked parents. With parents working long hours 5 days a week, it became impossible for them to monitor what thier children ate which was usually inexpensive high-calorie foods. Zinczenko was part of the group he described. Since his sinlge mother worked long hours and was rarely home, he ate at fast-food restaruants like Mcdonalds, Burger King, and other fast food chains and ended up overwieght. I fully agree with Zinczenko. On every corner, there is a fast-food restaurant. You can't escape it. There are probably more fast-food spots located on one street than a healthy food store in the nieghborhood. In my nieghborhood, there are three Mcdonalds in an eight block radius from 71st to 79th street. This does not include the Burger King, Pizzia Hut, Maxwell's, Popeyes, and Brown's Chicken that is also in that 8 block radius too. If there are any alternatives, I don't see any. By the way, they close the only grocrey store in that radius too.

On the contrary:Response to "Don't Blame the Eater

David Zinczenko's "Don't Blame the Eater" states that the fast-food companies fulfill the nutrional needs of kids left by overworked parents. With parents working long hours 5 days a week, it became impossible for them to monitor what thier children ate which was usually inexpensive high-calorie foods. Zinczenko was part of the group he described. Since his sinlge mother worked long hours and was rarely home, he ate at fast-food restaruants like Mcdonalds, Burger King, and other fast food chains and ended up overwieght. Zinczenko's also stated that there are no other alternatives for kids to chose from. In my opinion, there are other options for kids to chose from. The kids don't have to go out and buy fast food everyday. They can fix a healthy sandwich at home to cut down on spending on junk food and have something healthy to eat for dinner. Speaking of sandwiches, Subway would be a great alternative for kids to go eat healthy. People may say that its a fast-food chain like all the rest but before you think that consider this. Jared, Subway's spokesperson (you probably saw him in a subway commericial with Reggie Bush, Tony Parker, and John Cena), used to wiegh over 600 pounds. By a steady diet of Subway sandwiches everyday, he lost over 400 pounds in little over a year. I call that a good alternative for kids to try.

Bad Atheles

This is a link to bad jocks.com It is the reaction to the Universtiy of Iowa football players that got discipline for underage drinking.


http://www.badjocks.com/archive/2007/aug2607.htm