Name: Uyen Nguyen Hill
ENGL 1102-25
Due Date: 8/25/2014
Portrait
of a Researcher
My first strength in doing anything is the interest in
doing it. I appreciate the power of research and do it delightedly. Researching
my favorite topics does not only impart me with interesting information, but
also makes me feel like the world, let alone the universe out there is so unlimited
and I could never discover it all. Secondly, being tech savvy is certainly a
plus for me; as this will help me find something quicker, get access to private
sources, and go further to discover more materials. Lastly, knowing how to filter
and select useful information to put them to best use is definitely beneficial.
My
number one weakness is English as my second language. I read everything slower
for sometimes I take time to look up the meaning of a word. Beyond the meaning
of words is the figure of speech, a word itself means one thing but together, a
phrase could mean something absolutely different. Not being born and raised in
American leads to another fairly related weakness. I definitely lack knowledge
of many previous events in the economy, show business, politics and so on.
I
have conducted various research papers. Academic research varies for many
different classes such as History, Government, Business, Math, Psychology,
Biology, and so on. Personal research includes pre-travelling research which includes
hotels, airlines and plane tickets, car rental, destination’s characteristics
such as geography, local traffic… and things to do at the destination. Everyday
life events also entail personal research such as what restaurants to dine at,
how to cook corn chowder or how to decorate a Christmas tree, and the like.
With the current event involving the young, late Michael
Brown and the police force, I would like to do research on how the police was
trained to react to such situations, what they could have done differently, and
associated events that happened in the past. On a categorically different topic,
I would like to know more about divorcing matters such as what is the divorce rate
and divorce reasons, how the U.S. compares to other countries in this matter,
and what we could do to improve American marriages.
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