continuing of research

how ever, education is part of being successful when you know what your doing with your life, but besides all that it is important for the future and for others because we would need the knowledge to become doctors and teachers, professionals etc. in today's world In order to teach the people the skills for our future generations and to take care of our needs. I also think that we cant live with out education because of those purposes, we need it for our own good and to become better in what we already know as humans and to fulfill our goals and dreams.

Robinson , Diana. "How Dreams Become Goals ." 22 May 2008 .

Depression .... How can we solve this growing problem?

I started to think why do people choose medication over counseling. While I looked into more information about depression I found an interesting paragraph found on the Drug Digest online page. While reading this article I found out that many people go on antidepressants such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) (Depression ). The antidepresents are taken for about four to nine months, and after their treatment is finished the doctors usually suggest their patient to see a therapist for a while. Doctors don't take depression as a joke, because depression is dramatically increasing within our age group we should be worried. What we need to do is ask ourselves why are people becoming depressed?

I think that depression may be the cause of people letting others getting to them. I also believe depression may start at a early age and just sticks worth you throughout your life. This illness spreads through the younger generation more because as teens we want to fit in. We change who we really are so people would like us. If teens weren't so worried about their image and worried about what there people think they wouldn't let themselves get down. I know your probably saying that "I don't care what people think of me", well your lieing because I know that within every teens mind there is that little voice that echos in your mind. A teens we tend to take that voice seriously and you get worried. I think depression can be prevented, we as the younger generation has to make the difference. Look around you I bet you don't talk to half the kids in your classroom. I bet you make fun of someone everyday. You don't know how much your laughter can make them hurt. Depression among teens in my options is because of home problems and normal teenage problems.



"Depression." Express Scripts 01 03 2008 25 04 2008 .

1st research post!!

I found my information at this one place called InfoTrac that was introduced to my class. It works better than google, If you try to search for a subject on google and it is blocked for example my topic is "violence" With infotrac, it does not block anything because that site gives you articles about violence and what you are searching for, it does not give you pictures of things that involve violence. The site has articles that explains what violence is and what happened where just like the newspaper and it talks about how it should stop. It has alot of information that i need to answer my question "What makes everybody on the streets so violent and how could it affect people in everyday life?" This site is so easy to use we just have to type the subject of what we want in to the search bar and it will come up with tons of articles that you could choose from. In an article I found called "HUSBAND ARRESTED AFTER WOMAN IS SLAIN" It talks about how this woman was killed by her husband when he allegedly stabbed her on a late friday night. He was arrested for attempted murder and illegal entry. This kind of violence needs to stop in the world, this is very dangerous. This kind of stuff happens all the time, even other kinds of violence one other example is rapes.

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Wong, Brad . "Husband arrested after woman is slain." gale cengage learning 21 04 2008 24 04 2008

Beginning of research. The Importance of education

Throughout my research on education I found out that more people say college is necessarily not a requirement unless you want to be something professional.(yahooanswers)
when it comes to education, you have to know what you want to do with your life and what career you want to per sue, and that will determine whether you need a college education.(questionsaboutcollege)
It is certainly a requirement to get a college education if you want to major in something such as becoming a doctor or dentist, veterinarian etc. or any of those fields, it is something you can't just teach yourself how to do because you wouldn't want any self taught doctor to be taking care of your needs you would have to go to school and learn the proper training of that type of career.
Also having some kind of degree can help having a higher paying job.
Stats have shown that on average, a person with a Master's degree earns $31,900 more per year than a high school graduate (earnmydegree)
but all in all it depends on really what you want to be, you can make it on your own and be successful its just all up to you and putting yourself out there and making the most of what you can be it doesn't matter on how much education you have there's many people out there who didn't finish high school and their millionaires, I believe there is success in each one of us you just have to be creative.

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The Research Has Begun!!!

I started searching Wikipedia just do get an idea of what I was researching. I know not all the info that is posted on Wikipedia is factual and can easily be edited by anybody with an account, but I promise if I give a bit of false info from this site, it will be corrected later on in my research. So like I said, I was doing my research and found one definition of Web 2.0. They described Web 2.0 as a trend in the use of world wide web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. (Wikipedia "Web 2.0"). Next, I decided to use a web 2.0 site. I went to the very popular, user generated site, YouTube. While on YouTube i used keywords like Internet, technology, and web 2.0. I came across a video called Tim O'Reilly on What is Web 2.0? It was just a short 50 sec interview with O'Reilly. He explained his rule of Web 2.0 is that "Users add value" This basically means that the more users that use the website the stronger the website becomes. The user, for the most part, creates the website.("Tim O'Reilly on What is Web 2.0?")
So i think that's all the info I was looking for from that website and I turned my attention to a new source, the television. I was flipping through the stations and luckily caught the middle half of a program that was talking about web 2.0. I didn't get a specific name but i think it was called "The Machine is Us/ing Us" and it was definitely related to my topic. It gave me a better understanding because you could see visually what he was talking about instead of reading a bunch of jumbled words from a wiki that may not be true. So as I watched I took notes. The program brought to my attention that Web 2.0 involves programs that almost all teens with Internet access are using. This includes blogs, message boards, E-mails, instant messaging, video sharing, audio sharing and a ton more. A lot of the big name companies involved in Web 2.0 are Myspace, YouTube, Blogger, Facebook, Digg, Wikipedia, and AIM. There are a whole list of others but those are the big name sites that most teens use on an everyday basis. ("The Machine Is Us/ing Us"). OK, So how does this effect teens communication?


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The beginning of my research........

As I sit here thinking about how depression has many effects on someones everyday life I found a website that had alot of good information about depression. While reading through the information I found out that there are many reasons for depression. These include traumatic life experiences such as the death of a loved one, certain diseases or medicines, substance abuse, hormonal changes, or a family history of depression (Causes of Depression). I was shock to find that there are so many reasons for depression. As I looked into another site it stated that "Like any serious medical condition, depression needs to be treated" ,which I believe is a true statement(Understanding Depression).

Although sometimes depression cannot be stopped I found out some ways that doctors try to help their patients with depression. The three most conventional treatments for depression include medication, psychotherapy, and Electroconvulsive therapy, however new treatments and less conventional options are also available, including self help, life style changes, and vagus nerve stimulation("Clinical Depression"). I know that depression can have major life influences and I hope that people with depression don't let it take over their life. Receiving help in any way is better then leaving this problem untreated. Although I know that most people take medicine to take away depression and sometimes it works but how about the other methods? Do they work just as well? Well I got lucky because just the other day I ran into an old friend on Seneca Street. She was always a close friend of mine but she was always depressed. She told me that she is now going to counseling which is helping her. She spoke to me about all the issues her and her counselor speak about. Before saying our goodbyes she told me that with counseling she hasn't been as depressed anymore because she talks about her issues more often. So why do people take pills if counseling can help just as well. I guess I'll have to research and find out more.

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Web 2.0 =]

I am very interested in Web 2.0. I am constantly surfing sites and sending messages over the web. I use Myspace, Blogger, Youtube and a bunch of other user run websites. I became interested in Web 2.0 after i seen a special program about it on The Discovery Channel. It caught my attention because i thought to myself "I use these programs and i never knew how much i could possibly contribute to the voice of the world"

I don't know much about Web 2.0. I only know what I've picked up from my personal experiences using the internet and from what i seen on the show. I know that Web 2.0 involves everything you use to communicate over the internet. This includes Videos, Songs, Chat Channels, Instant Messages, E Mails, Blogs and more. Web 2.0 has more to be discovered in the future. It could change the way we communicate with each other. I know that there are feuds within the web industry, but I think that requires little more research before I start a fight.

I really want to find out as much as I can about Web 2.0. It is a modern, interesting, and exciting wave of technology that has brought the four corners of the world into our reach without us even knowing. I want to find out How can we use Web 2.0 to become more effective communicators? To figure this out i will have to answer these foundation questions: What is Web 2.0? What are the programs we use to communicate? How did we communicate before Web 2.0? How do we communicate now? How did Web 2.0 make communication better? How did it make it worse? What does the future hold for this new age of the internet?

Is College Necessary...?

I choose my topic on education because I think it is something important to everyone especially to me because I'm at that point where graduation is just right around the corner and don't have any plans after high school and I have to make a decision whether to go to college or just begin work. This is were my question comes into action. Do people necessarily have to go to college in order to be successful in their career or can they just become just as wealthy or as good as some one who went to college?

From experience, I know people who went to college for four years and are making just as or a little much as one hundred bucks higher as some one who has a high school education and also people who went to college it didn't do any better for them.

Essential Question: Is College Necessary?;
Does education determine whether your successful in life?
Should you go to college to better your self?
do jobs require a high education or a skill trade?
do women prefer men with a high education or do other factors play a role?

Depression........

Depression has always been a part of my life weather it was a friend or family member. Most of the females on my mother's side of the family have depression. So since I have been surrounded by it for so long I want to know more about it. I see what depression can do to people and it makes me feel bad because it feels like there is nothing I could do to help them. Watching my mom taking medicine and seeing the scars on my friends arm makes me feel useless. I want to know how these things can make them better. I want to know more about their issue.

Since I've been around this almost my whole life I can't tell you much since I got use to seeing things happen. I know that when my mother gets depressed she usually hides in her room or lays down somewhere to sleep. I use to know a friend that would cut herself and when I asked why she said it relieved her of stress. I don't understand the reason of depression and I hope to find out more so I can relate to people with depression more.

So I wounder about the ways I can relate more to depressed people such as my mother. I want to know what is the real reason for depression? Is their a way to prevent depression? What are signs of depression? Is depression increasing with the younger generation? Why are so many teens becoming depressed? What are some effects of depression?

Why cant the world be violence free?

I became interested in this topic because of all of the interesting facts that run through my mind. I first got involved in this topic last summer when there was a shooting going on down the street from me. It all started when i was sitting on my couch and i have heard gun shots outside, all of a sudden all these sirens started speeding down my street past my house. Me and my family went out on the porch to see what all the noise was about and then there was this one kid (dont remember his name) came out starting trouble and shot this boy down the street from me because he didn't like him, he got sot in the leg and couldn't get up, he was rushed to ECMC but he is still alive. He is fine now his wound is all healed now. Also that same night, after that boy got shot in the leg, the shooter ran around the corner and shot another boy that hangs out with the kid that got shot. This was a terrible night. Since i went in the house after that night i was in the house for the night, i dont trust that kid. I would hate to be shot and harmed, i will do anything to save myself from getting shot or harmed.

Another thing that got me interested was that new gang (MS13). They are the ones that would bump cars then either shoot them or kill them or do more things to harm them in anyway they can to stay in the gang. When more people join that gang, the other gang members will beat up the new ones horribly so they know how it feels to see if they are brave enough to be in that gang. They say that is the most harmful gang in the world.

About this topic, i know that violence is everywhere in the world and it is very harmful. This could be like child abuse and animal abuse and killing and even more like shooting someone or beating them in any way they can to hurt them. Violence is everywhere in the world and it should stop now.

Essential Question: What makes everybody on the streets so violent and how could it affect people in everyday life? Before i answer this question i was wondering where does violence come from? What are the bad things about violence? How is violence part of everyday life? What kind of objects are involved in violence and what can they do to hurt you? Is rape part of violence? why or why not? What could be done to make people less harmful? and also Why do people use violence to make money? Why cant they just make money the hard way and work for it instead of harming people for it?

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