Doing the Research

In high school I took a research writing class. I loved it! I enjoyed doing research, especially on something that really interested me.  I guess in high school I was considered a bit of a new age hippy. I was the girl who had wished she had gotten to go to Woodstock and lived in San Francisco. I loved the Grateful Dead, Led Zepplin and the Doors. I grew up listening to Carole King and Bob Seagar and still love all of this music. Anyways, I remember I did a paper on singers of the 60's. I loved getting research all of my favorite singers. It's a cool thing when you get to read into the life of people that interest you. Everyone has a story.


When I took this class I was in 9th grade it was the early 90's. This was when the Internet first really became available. It was the coolest thing to be able to go the computer and search for anything that interested you. I did the majority of this paper on Jim Morrison. I had just watched the Doors Movie for the first time and remember thinking Jim Morrison was a very troubled and odd person, but he made some really good music. I really wanted to know more about him and what kind of life he had lived as a child and what had made him so strange.


 I still to this day love to research things. I have always been interested in the holocaust and have done a lot of research and read a great deal on the subject. Researching interesting subjects has always been something I have enjoyed and continue to do a lot of it to this day. Every time I hear a subject that sounds interesting I go straight to my computer and look it up. I also have Netflix; I look up a lot of documentaries. Documentaries are a great source of reseach. I think my most recent was about the Congo. Things you would never imagine happening in this world are happening right now.