Monday, March 28, 2011

proposal

My group and I decided that our topic will be having some sort of “safe ride” from campus to downtown Wilmington and the beach.  I was thinking that it should run at least from Thursday night to Saturday night until three am.  It should be free with your student ID and a small fee for others.  The safe ride should be used to prevent people from drunk driving. 
At Castleton State College in Vermont, the drivers were students who had to do community service for their sports teams, or to get hours in order to graduate.
We plan to do research through surveys, and looking at the research that has already been done.  

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Next Step in Space Exploration

In Michael Benson's proposal "Send It Somewhere Special" he says that we are wasting time and money on the International Space Station. He says, "[The project] is going nowhere at a very high rate of speed."  His proposal is to send it somewhere.
I would like to see the ISS go to Mars, or a near-Earth asteroid.  Both of these places would be beneficial to the world because we may find some type of raw material that could be used in place of our non-renewable resources.  We may also find a resource that may be more efficient than ones we are using now.  Some may argue that this would be a waste of money, but so is letting the ISS sit in space with no real use.  

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Defining a Soldier

For my essay, I plan to look into the history of a soldier to see if there are any stereotypes that have lasted through the years.  I plan to use this source as a place to start looking at the history. http://140.234.1.9:8080/EPSessionID=7c7f1b966868a49e99e39e268153d2f/EPHost=www.jstor.org/EPPath/pss/2674359  I think it is credible because the author is a professor of history at UVA and an editor in chief of the Papers of James Madison.

I also plan on interviewing a soldier and a Marine to get their perspectives on the subject.