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My previous experiences with research projects have been good because I love finding out new stuff about a topic that I have no prior knowledge of. I also like to learn more information about topics that I know about. In high school I was required to do a handful of research projects. I remember doing my graduation project. It was about should college athletes get paid or not. I had to do a 10-15 long slideshow trying to convince people that paying college athletes was good and bad. I remember doing research for about a week for the project because It was a lot of good reasons why they should and should not get paid. The pros of paying college athletes are it will support the families, the players may stay in college longer instead of leaving for the professional leagues early and limits corruption from external influences. The cons were the college athletes will be financially irresponsibility with the money because the athletes don't know how to manage money. Unfair compensation between the players is another con for college athletes getting paid. Think about it for a second in the professional leagues the best players on the team are normally paid the most so if colleges started to pay the athletes the star players would want to get paid more than everyone. The athletes will not want to go to class if they are getting paid a lot of money. Many of them don't want to go to class already so giving the athletes is another reason they won't go. Lastly giving 18 year old millions of dollars will most likely make them lose the passion to play the sport. I passed the project with a 97 and personally I think it was my best work I've ever done. In my current research project I am writing and doing research about What are the most dangerous male archetypes in American media.
This research project question interested me because we watched a film in class called The Mask You Live In and it follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America's narrow definition of masculinity. Pressured by the media, their peer group, and even the adults in their lives, the protagonists confront messages encouraging them to disconnect from their emotions, devalue friendships and resolve conflicts through violence. These gender stereotypes interconnect with race, class, and circumstance, creating a maze of identify issues boys and young men must navigate to become "real" men. If you would like to watch the film I will link the film. For my research project I am doing an MLA paper because I feel more comfortable because I've been doing MLA style paper my whole life.
Draft #1
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Final Draft
Works cited
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