Sunday, November 16, 2014

Pre-research


2. Generate small questions:

  •  Why do people feel more need to help those of faraway other countries than those who need aid in their own backyard?
  •  How does the American Dream play into this?
  •  How do homeless/disadvantaged people feel when they see giant billboards advertising for donations to "End Hunger in Africa"?
    • Enough food to feed everyone in world, yet...?
  • How much does it cost for a tube of toothpaste?
    • SNAP only applies to food - no welfare fund for necessities???
    • How important is toothpaste, really?
      • transients
      • foreign poor (think typical village life)


3. Generate Key Words:

  • Guilt, pride, dignity of recipients
  • Veil Of Ignorance of givers
  • Justification
  • Race, ethnicity
  • "American Dream"
  • foreign aid, foreign poverty
    • scale of foreign vs domestic

3. Generate a list of four disciplines for formal research:

  • Sociology
  • Psychology
  • Anthropology
  • Economics

4. Generate a list of three types of primary source artifacts that might speak to your questions.

  • Social media posts
  • Personal opinion - blog posts
  • Advertising



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