Research History

In the past I have had a lot of experience with writing research papers. In high school I took a persuasive research and writing class. I took it at the beginning of my junior year not only to improve my writing but to help prepare for the ACT. I found that writing research papers were somewhat challenging because even though you have an opinion on something, finding the right type of data to back it up is hard. After you find the research you have to cite it, in high school we had to do notecards. I understand that we have to give credit to the person we got the information from, but it just seemed like a lot of wasted time. I also had to write types of research papers for newspaper. We would do staff opinion papers and we would need supporting details. With that we wouldn’t have to cite everything. I enjoy writing research papers because it lets me state my opinion and then actually support my argument. That is my experience with writing research papers.

Racism in colleges! Cantor Question 2

There are many ways to make a college diverse. According to Cantor the steps that must be taken involve the arts, along with emersing into different cultrues with different races. To start off he beleives that this can be done within a realitvely short amount of time. It can take from a week to a semester. Many of these exchanges need to include people from many different ethnicities and backgrounds. The arts are a very good way to become diverse because cultures can be expressed in so many different ways. Also he beleives that we need to be able to be in different types of converstaions with one another and see each other on the same levels. I strongly beleive that being mulitcultural and have colleges diverse is very important. America is more then one culture. That is what makes us America, by being able to have more then one type of cultural work and live together. Yes there still is racism and there probley always will be, but trying to bridge that gap is very important. I'm not sure if thats what was wanted but i was kind of confused on what canor was talking about. I just know that he wants to make colleges more diverse.

Multiculturalism and Diversity

So this is very intresting to think about...They are saying now that diversity is becoming a part of society, this is true. They are also saying that the white male population in the work force is decreasing, which is the opposite of the white women population in the workforce. I find this an intresting topic because if you think about it diversity has always been apart of the work force it just happens to be acceptable now. Back in the old days, there was slavery everyone was just fine with different races working for them. Then when there were jobs that no one else wanted to do diverstiy was fine. As soon as different races wanted to move up in the work force it was not allowed. So diversity was okay as long as it benifted other people. Now its unacceptable to be racist or negative against anyone that is working with you or moving up in the work force. Mulitclturalism is a very important part of society.