Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Journal Blog #6: What is your topic Situation?

In class, I presented a sample introduction that referred to Beyonce releasing her single through a Pepsi advertisement. This was one of the first times a major pop star did this, by combining art and business together in such an obvious way. This was a pretty creative marketing campaign for Pepsi that was trying to bring new inspiration into its brand.

I encourage you to consider a real situation to inspire your topic. This will help you to narrow and focus, and moreover... make your topic interesting. Work to avoid general topics about no person in particular, no place in particular, nothing in particular....  zzzzzz.

In this journal blog, explain to me the situation to which you're thinking about for your topic idea. Remember to include your ID# and Section # in your post. Aj. M

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  1. Id-5780042 sec-4

    My situation is in the fields of botany. It is going to be about plants and music/noise i am going to research more into this to find out what type of music or noise is the most optimal for plant growth and if it differs with different plant species. This is subject to change but My situation would be the possibility of gardeners/farmers using music as part of their cultivation in the near future.

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    1. Ok... the situation is that plants are observed to react to music. It will be best if you know a particular type of music for the introduction.

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  2. ID 5780424 sec4
    I believe that development of country comes from good transportation system. Thailand had a plan 1 year ago to build high speed train and extend the route so that it covers most of the areas in Thailand but due to political and economic difficulties, this project is being delayed therefore my essay will be about why should we invest in train system.

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    1. This is good. Describe a little about this situation. There is a debate about whether or not this infrastructure plan is worth the enormous cost of investment. You are say yes it is.

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  3. # 5780445 Section # 4

    My situation is about behind the psychology and motivation of BTK (Blind, Torture,Killer). The true story of the most notorious Wichita serial killer. How can a normal man turn out to be psychopath? The subject is mainly focus on the inspiration of Dennis Rader who committed murder of ten people. There is still some doubt that what factors make him became a sadist murderer. It is because of the substance abuse, psychological issues or childhood violence. This point will help to discover the possible rational circumstance of behind the mind of the serial killers.

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    1. BTK is something you may need to explain (introduce) in the introduction if it is a focus of your essay. You can follow that us with the specific example of Dennis Rader.

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  4. ID#5780534 Section#4

    The area that I chose is the food industry in Thailand. Thailand is one of the eminent countries that exports many kinds of fruits, especially tropical fruits. When thinking of exporting fruits, it cannot be denied fruits are easy to be rotten. Some may say that there are many ways to preserve fruits in these days, but many of them are harmful for human health. Thus, in my project, I am going to research about the healthy methods of fruit preservation in Thailand.

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    1. So, the situation is that many methods for preservation, particularly for tropical fruits (which affect Thai exporters) are harmful. You may need to give a clear reason why they are harmful for the reader to understand the situation.

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  5. The situation that I focusing on is about the failed mission of the virgin galactic spacecraft whether it is ready or not for human to explore the outer space due to passenger's safety. However, the situation becomes a debatable topic whether its pilot fault or the space itself. Additionally, sir Branson have pledged to the flag that he and his family will be the first hence this project still remain and he will first lunch the flight for the passenger next year.

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    1. So, the situation is that the spacecraft exploded and people were injured or killed; however Branson pledges to continue. So... what is the topic from this situation?

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  6. 5780038 sec5

    The situation that I am focusing now is in the field of life particularly about self protection in women. Nowadays, sexual assault becomes the main issue in society. Women especially in teenagers age are the initial victims of the rapers. The narrower situation will be focused on night bar or pub where the sexual assaults are exactly easy to happen. One factor that drives sexual assault to be happened is alcohol. The trick is that putting some drugs which can quickly dissolve in liquid and then, give this drinks to the victim. Of course, it is hard to realize about the drugs in drinks.Therefore, I am going to introduce a new tool for women that can prevent them from this kind of situation. That is the nail polish which called under cover.

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    1. Good. The situation is that many women are poisoned in night clubs and there is very little way to protect themselves from this. This has led to sexual crimes against women.

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  7. 5780492, sec4
    The circumstance that I focus on is about space tourism. It is obviously that space is mysterious, dangerous, and interesting for humanity. Humans hardly endeavor using their ability and knowledge to go space. This movement motivates many space companies to start their project as they want people to go space. However, every step that they take comes up with extremely danger. Recently, Virgin Galactic company try to go space, but unfortunately its spaceship explodes during test flight. Therefore, I would write about that space industries should stop their movement to space because lots of extreme dangerous are ongoing happening.

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    1. Ok... so due to the spacecraft explosion, you doubt the future of space tourism.

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  8. #5780495, sec 4
    My inspired situation that is from my field of interest is about how to be the greatest investor like Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett is regarded as one of the most successful investors in stock market. Nowadays, most people want to be rich by investing in stock market because investors hope to get immediate returns from others. There is a benefit, there is a risk. Because of failure of many people, leading to my situation why and how Warren buffett become the greatest investors and a model of modern investors.

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    1. Work to be more specific. From this, it doesn't appear that you know why Buffet is successful and so many people are not.

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  9. #5780497 Sec 4

    The situation that I focus on is about sports and social problems. Nowadays, there are lots of problems in the society that people have faced such as drugs problem and violence. However, sports might be an answer to deal with many social problems because they are easy to play and it benefits both physical and mental. Therefore, I would write about why and how sports help people to deal with social problems.

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    1. Do you have any specific example or story or statistic? Is there are a particular situation you could use to introduce this topic?

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  10. 5780509, section 5.
    My situation is about the war in middle-east, the ISIS terrorist. The origins of the issue is about religious since the ancient time. However, these people cause the war with other religious by claiming the God will. So my topic would be the idealism and intrude of Islam that cause war thorn. The essay, first will talk about the crusade war and the second part would be about spread of false believe in Syria and Iraq. Therefore both of the part represented history and current situation.

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    1. Ok... you're thinking well, but be careful not to lose control of the topic because it could get bigger and bigger before you know it. I suggest you stay focused on the current situation and the inspiration for muslims around the world to join this religious war.

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  11. #5780251 sec.4
    For my situation, I would like to focus on Food, especially the development of taste and Cuisine. I want to explore and know more about the Food trends that will boom as well as available for high-end restaurant in the future. I put my focus specific on the high-end restaurant because i am focusing on the hotel and how do they manage their system. Moreover, i feel that at the high-end level or people would bring me the right answers that represent my interest perfectly.

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    1. Can you define the situation better than this? Is the situation that high-end restaurants are under pressure to be at the forefront of taste and cuisine? What do you think?

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  12. 5780496 Section 5
    The circumstance in which I am interested is life planning for a happy retirement. Most people care about their lives in the present time; however, the few of them give attention to their later lives. The essay which I am going to write relates to the strategies of life planning in the working age for the happy later life. In the essay, I will focus on 3 dimensions: family, health, and finance. Thus, my essay would be beneficial for readers on how they plan their lives.

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    1. So, is the situation that most people do not adequately plan for retirement? Do you have any statistics or research that says that most or many people are not ready for a happy retirement when they get to that age?

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  13. 5780452
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    My situation is plastic surgery. I focus on increasing plastic sugary case in Thailand. I want to find out how beauty be able to affect Thai people's life. The reason that people want to get good looking is not only for attract others people. They might gain some opportunity that can change their life. Therefore, The popularity doing plastic surgery, especially in teenager, raise rapidly because of social value.

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    1. So the situation exactly is the rising popularity of plastic surgery among Thai teenagers. Maybe you have some statistics or research to introduce.

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  14. 5780543 sec4
    As I mentioned before about "Area or Field" that I interest I prefer to focus on Food Tourism Industries. The situation here is that tourism is one of the most parts that can bring lots of money to the countries. It is helpful, worth and can make many countries use that money to develop themselves more better. However, if governments do not focus to improve the quality of tourism or find other creative methods to catch those tourists, lots of money will be gone. Therefore, "Food Tourism"a new tourism experience, might be another alternative way to attract the tourists.

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    1. Where? What? Why? Narrow down to a particular country... to a particular economy... to a particular food.... then you can do this topic.

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  15. 5780546 section 5
    My situation is about Marketing of selling product via social media such as instragram and Facebook. On the one hand, E-commerce is the heaven of traders who prefer to spend lowest money for investment because they do not need to pay for rental booth. Moreover, it is very appropriate for sellers who do not have enough time. On the other hand, E-commerce is also proper for consumers because it is easy and can reduce their time consumption.

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    1. Ok... but narrow down. Is there a particular industry or product you're talking about. Is there a particular target market or consumer? If you can be more focused like this, it will help your essay.

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  16. # 5780528 Sec4
    The area that I interested is successful business. For sure everybody want their own business to be successful. Apple is the most successful and well-know business in today world's, so I want to write about why Apple is the most successful business in the world, and how to succeed in your own business like Apple.

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    1. Try again. Waaayy to general. See me if you don't know how.

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  17. My situation would be robot that are able to perform surgery that will only create small size of wound. How the robot develop over time with today's science and technology. It takes time to create a robot that are able to perform surgery. Technology is not an easy things to develop, even today is still a complicate things to do. To develop them we need to understand how their system work.

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    1. Where? What? Who? Be specific. Where is this technology being used? What kinds of operations? When you say "how their system work", are you ready to explain the technical details and process? Be focused.

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  18. 5780027 section5
    People always have negative thinking on microorganism. The microorganism is considered to be infinitesimal living organism and some types can be alive every weather condition. There is infinity of them that living all around the world, so we can say that this earth is dominated by this living creature. When people talk about bacteria or virus, they usually have bad attitudes toward them. Some people might mention that microorganism is hazardous and be able to cause disease. However, the scientist has researched the microorganism for many years and they recently found that microorganisms can essentially treat human body some incurable condition in fatal patients who have cancer. Another conclusion of the research showed that some microorganisms raise the efficiency of human immune system. Nevertheless, this is the surprisingly advanced information of benefits from microorganisms.

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    1. So specifically... are you going to focus on the ability of microorganis to fight cancer? That would be a focused topic.

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  19. 5780432, sec 4
    The situation that like to focus on is how multinationals have helped in globalisation. i will look at how these business has helped shaped the world we live today and how they show signs of civilization and development in countries

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    1. So... you are planning to write a book? Narrow down... down... down. See me if you don't know how.

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  21. 5780511 sec4
    My situation is about disabled persons who have an inspiration to do like normal persons do. Music is one of the most imporant inspirations to those with disabilities want to become normal people or perform like normol people. Most disabled people always think that they are useless, and they should not survive. However, with mystery of music, disabled people are able to create entertainment for the world. Like Mozart, his ears cannot be used, but he was able to wirte lyics and create many songs.

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    1. When you say "disabled people", who are you talking about? Be specific. There are so many kinds of disabilities and they are all different. Choose 1 particular type of disability and explain how music serves as an inspiration for those people.... only.

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  22. 5780414 sec4
    To do a presentation for a new product is very important. As you can see, Apple launched their products around 3-4 times a year and there will be a presentation every time. Steve Job was one of the most influential person in the world, especially on the technology device's section. A presentation from Apple always impressed, much or less, they did a presentation to represent their new product and many people watch it live online. So, to present the product is now trending on most of the products in the world, my idea is to explain that you don't need to be famous before you do a presentation job, I did not know Steve Jobs before I watched his first presentation, the product is much more matter than the presenter to the customers to decide if the product is good or bad.

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    1. This is interesting. Are you planning to write an essay about the "presentation style" of Steve Jobs? This could work.

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  23. #5780532 Sec 5

    The situation that I want to focus on is consumption of food and technology. This is because food is one of the four necessities of life. Moreover, technology plays a big role in people’s life in these days including consumption of food. It can make people eat easier, and their life might be better.

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    1. This is not clear. What technology? What food? Consuming food is very different from consuming technology. This is not ready.

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  24. Sec4 5780542
    My situation is about the gender inequality. As we can see nowadays that in some culture or some country men and women are not equal . For examples we always see that most of government or leader always be a man. However, the world has changed, women can now equal to a man. There is no restriction that women cannot get as man get .

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    1. So this is quite a huge topic. You mentioned politics. Do you want to write about the gender gap as represented in Thai politics? That's a narrowed topic.

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  25. #5780565, sec5
    People normally use internet in their life. They may apply many applications for convenience, and mobile applications are designed to make their life easier. However, applications have their drawbacks as people use them in the wrong way or they do not know how to handle with their applications correctly and it leads to the negative effects to the users directly.

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    1. What application are you talking about? What harm? To whom? You need to think about a particular and real situation. This is not ready.

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  26. #5780151, sec 5

    The situation that I am focusing now is in the field of food science, particularly using food as an alternative energy. Alternative energy are becoming more important to human as our main energy sources such as fossil fuel, coal, and petroleum are running out. Alternative energy offers renewable, sustainable and clean sources of energy that offer a new way of generating the power and fuel that we need. Potato is a new source of alternative energy that scientists just found out. Potato power could be the source of energy for our future. However, in my essay i would narrow my topic down to the help of potato power in delivering energy to people cut off from electricity grids.

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    1. You're thinking in the right way. It seems logical that you would focus on a location where there is both inaccessibility to electricity and also an ability to grow potatoes. Not every location is suitable for growing potatoes.

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  27. 5780515 sec 5
    The situation that I focus on is the electric cars and hybrid cars. Technology is developing every day, but, in the same time, it also destroy the environment. Cars are important in people daily life. in my essay i will focus on the innovation of hybrid cars and electric cars because cars release million of tons each year.

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    1. But what is the situation? If electric and hybrid cars are now available, and they perform well... why isn't everyone buying an electric or hybrid car? If the benefits are so clear, not only for the environment but also for the consumer/user, why are they still not so popular?

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  28. 5780222 sec 5
    The situation that I am focusing on is life. Life is something meaningful. We know to know how to live lives. My essay will guide through some important points that we need to know in life. I will also focus on how to avoid taking risk in life.

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  29. The journal blog is now closed. Thank you for your participation. Aj. M

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