Thursday, November 21, 2013

Exercise 5.6

It's time for another dialogue with Dave.

DAVE                                                                             YOU
1. "Hey you, I think you can't really                           Dave, I actually do not agree with you.  I do
say that one opinion is better than                             not think that one opinion is better than
another one.  Don't you agree?"                                  another.  Everyone is entitled to their own              
                                                                                         opinion.  No one is to say whether their
                                                                                         opinion is better than another.  Their answer
                                                                                         will be bias.  You can have an opinion for
                                                                                         what time of food you like, but someone else
                                                                                         could have a totally different opinion.  This
                                                                                         subject does not really affect anything or
                                                                                         anyone, but there are subjects where people
                                                                                         disagree that are much more serious.  For
                                                                                         example, I think that sex trafficking is
                                                                                         wrong and that people should set up and help,
                                                                                         but there are people in the world that think that
                                                                                        sex trafficking is alright.  In this example, the 
                                                                                         person who thinks sex trafficking is acceptable
                                                                                         caused a huge problem in the world today.  I 
                                                                                         believe that your opinion was worse than mine.  
                                                                                         I think that the culture we live in today
                                                                                         is confused about what opinion really is.

2. "There's all this stuff in the book about                Well, I discovered a variety of things.  First
research as a process of discovery. What                   off, I learned that human sex trafficking is
did you discover?"                                                         happening right in Lancaster county.  I was
                                                                                          shocked but this fact.  Sex trafficking is the
                                                                                          modern day form of slavery.  I was amazed at
                                                                                          the number of people being trafficked into the
                                                                                          United States.  I learned that 14,500 to 17,500
                                                                                          people a year are being trafficking in the U.S.
                                                                                          alone.  I learned a lot about the emotional and
                                                                                          physical impacts that trafficking has on its
                                                                                          victims.  I learned about The North Star
                                                                                          Initiative, which is an organization right in
                                                                                          Lancaster that provides survivors with "safe
                                                                                          homes."  I learned so much through my
                                                                                          discovery process.  These just touch the
                                                                                          surface.

3. "What do you figure was the most                        The most challenging problem I had to solve
challenging problem you had to solve                     during this research project was the way I
while working on the research project?                    approached actually writing my paper.  On the
How did you solve it?"                                                previous essays I have written, I have rushed
                                                                                         rushed though them.  I never really gave them
                                                                                         too much thought.  The book The Curious 
                                                                                         Researcher has really helped me look at
                                                                                         writing papers a whole new way.  I solved
                                                                                         the problem by doing the exercises we had to
                                                                                         do from the book very carefully.  I actually
                                                                                         put a lot of thought into this essay.

4. "After all this work, what do you                          I took away a lot from this experience.  I have
take away from this experience?                               learned how to write a paper properly.  I
What have you learned that you can                        learned that I need to break the time I write
use?"                                                                               into small chucks; doing this will help keep
                                                                                         me from being overwhelmed or stressed and
                                                                                         just throwing information down on the paper.
                                                                                         I learned that I can use many different
                                                                                         methods to help me along the whole process.
                                                                                         One method that I will definitely use again is
                                                                                         the double-journal entry.  I thought this was
                                                                                         very useful for actually writing my paper.
                                                                                         I know that all of the exercises we had to do I

                                                                                        would definitely use again.

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