Thursday, May 19, 2011
Researching the Endless
So this is what I call venting! Lets see, I must start by saying how much I hate research papers. One of the reasons for the endless hate I have come to build up over the past few years of my life, for this is the amount of time that is required to be put in this. I think research papers take the longest to do. One of the essentials in any paper is the background information, which for our luck happens to be the most for research papers. The topic I have chosen to do my research paper in this class is for Iran’s Women Rights, which basically happen to be none. One of the good things about research paper is that no matter how long and dreadful it sounds like to work on one, at the end you always come out winning by learning something new to the fullest. It was a bit hard for me at first because I have never did any research on another country. I never thought I would have to do research about Iran either. Iran is a place where religion plays a big part in. I am not the most religious person alive, I actually have my own little religious belief, but to learn about another system of religious ways was definitely a new look on life for me. I haven’t even come to an understanding of my own religion to be having to deal with the background of another. This is where some of my friends came in to help. I have some friends who know more about Iran more than me and they helped me to understand how they work a little better. Writing this paper has opened my eyes to the cruelty that is taking place right at this moment in another place while I am here living a lovely life, worry free. I never noticed the importance about this topic before and I find it very intriguing. One of the many interesting but sad things I just read about was about how they stoned this woman to death because they thought she cheated on her husband. After her death she was found not guilty but what was the point of that after she died. Another story is about a woman that has stoop up for herself and did something that many would not even dare to try, which is file for a divorce. She claims she got beat b her husband and her husband’s father which was clearly unacceptable, at least for us Americans it is. Well, I am almost done with my research paper but I still have to revise it. I know that when I re-read it I am going to want to change a lot of things on it so I think I should get started on that. Four pages and still two more to go! I hope this research papers comes out good, enjoyable, and an eye opener, because it sure was for me!
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I really hate research papers too. No matter how much research papers I have written in my whole entire life, I still hate them. I Should be saying stuff like “No sweat! Should be easy!” But nope, I rather do a calculus problem that is three pages long and two hours or more to complete. I guess the reason why I dislike them so much is that it is difficult to start the paper; well for me at least. My mind goes blank and I get frustrated because I don’t know what to write about. And you are right about learning something in the end. What always happens is that we whine and complain about the assigned work, but when it is all over we end up sharing what we learned from our research paper. Like for microbiology, I had to do (not a paper) a research for a 30 minute presentation which I hated so much. But surprisingly later in life, I ended up sharing my knowledge about the topic that I had to present. And it felt good knowing something and teaching someone something that they are not familiar about. Anyways, good luck with the research paper. Do well on it!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great topic for our blog right? Venting out is good for the soul. Here I was stressing out about the research paper itself but also wondering how the other students in my class were coping with it. I liked how you had your research paper set up and you had ideas ready to be typed and supported. I looked onto Iran’s Women Rights and found it surprising. They didn’t have many rights because of the never ending stereotype of how a woman should be. As much as writing a research paper was a pain in the butt I actually enjoyed it a lot and wished I spent more time on it. I hope you did well on your paper!
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