Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Brainstorming about social research

I would like to research the social acceptance of chiropractic care, in being a pre chiropractic/ natural science major, i feel it would be a very interesting topic to see how different groups in society view chiropractic as a form of health care. Maybe interviewing groups of people being in the older grandparent/ babyboomer age, the parents, and the young adult or age group of around 18-25. I would like to see how these different social groups view chiropractic care and maybe learn different angles on how to educate them on the topic. This is important to me being a prospective chiropractic student, and feeling that chiropractic care has been important in my life so far, and in wanting to "share the wealth" so to say with others in a way to help better peoples health, and perhaps their life in general.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Thinking back to when i was a child i only remember writing as a means to answer short essay questions at the end of a test, there was not much use other than that in elementary school. As i got older into middle school there were other reasons to write, maybe a paper or something of that sort. But it wasn't until high school that i felt i needed to know how to write, we were tested in our ability to write in different ways, like persuasive, imperative, and a couple other types of writing of which i forget. Later in high school there was a big research paper called the senior project that i had to complete, and other than that i didn't write much because i always avoided writing because i didn't enjoy doing it and had struggled doing it. I have always been fairly good at answering short essays for questions, but when it came to writing longer papers, i have always fell short, not being able to make the length of them what teachers have wanted, and when i did make them the correct length they were normally just filled with bs. I rarely use writing in my daily life, i rarely email, text or write letters unless i absolutely have to.