iBlog: October 2007

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Scholarly Sources

Hong Kong Takes a Study After a Celebrity has Committed Suicide

A More in Depth Statistic Story of Depressive Behavior on Patients Following Media Covered Suicide

Friday, October 26, 2007

Helpful Links to Research

Kurt Cobain Link #1
Media Suicide Link
Kurt Cobain Link #2
Adolescent Suicide Approach
Reporting on Suicide: Media Recommendation
Virginia Tech Report of Copycat Imitations
Nirvana Again

Friday, October 19, 2007

1. What role models have committed suicide, and what were the major impacts of that event?

2. What would drive a person to commit suicide when they already have a great successful life?

3. How does a media story on suicide affect the viewers or fans to take action into taking their own lives too?

Exploring the Impact of Committing Suicide on a Global Scale

1. Identify the issue or problem that you plan to focus on in your research project.

I plan to find out how a role models death can influence others around the world in different ways.

2. What is your personal connection to and interest in this topic?

It shocked me when I read that other teens tried committing suicide when Kurt Cobain took his own life.

3. What opinions do you already hold about this topic?

My opinion on suicide is quite humble--don't do it.

4. What knowledge do you already have about this topic?

Kids aging 15-24 have killed themselves after kurt cobain did.

5. What are your main questions about this topic? What are you most curious about?

Now what is a good reason for throwing your only life away? Even when you had a successful life, why would you throw it away?

6. Within what scholarly discipline (such as history, biology, psychology) do you expect to do most of your research? How does this discipline approach or study this topic?

Psychology is a major role in order to find out what leads to suicide, and also the impact of the suicide that leads to other nonsense deaths.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Exploring My Topic: Steroid Abuse in Sports

1. Major sport stars should be issued a random drug tests to prevent cheating within the game and to prevent damaging within the athletes life.

2. Recently, I've watch many ESPN and other sport networks on Barry Bonds steroid dilemma, and also Chris Benoit's murderous rampage also due to steroids.

3. I believe that if the Sport Commissioning team were to force random drug tests to athletes, it would prevent such debates as Barry Bonds indictment to the baseball's Hall of Fame.

4. Seeing Chris Benoit (my favorite pro wrestler as a child) murder his family due to anger problems caused by steroids, really made me upset. Perhaps if he had never used steroids, his family would still be alive today.

5. Why are there no drug tests to begin with? Just like applying for a job and having to take a drug test, athletes should do the same. If Steroids are illegal to possess, why don't they prosecute the users behind it all?

6. I expect to encounter plenty of psychological issues within this debate.

7. I could watch the sport networks on t.v, there are usually steroid gossips on everyday. I can also discuss the steroid topic with a variety of die-hard sports fans that I know.

~Athletes of all kinds should undergo random drug tests to prevent such astronomical horrors and other crisis's.