Research Topic/Resources

          After doing more detailed research, I’ve narrowed down my research topic: How does education, and the lack thereof, affect life expectancy in America? I'm going to see how the life expectancy of people with little education (less than a high school diploma) compares to that of people with a high school diploma and how that compares to people with a college education.

 
          On GIL-Find, I didn’t really find too many books that seemed relevant to my research. The most helpful sounding one I found is The New Worklife Expectancy Tables: By Gender, Level of Educational Attainment, and Level of Work Disability by Anthony Gamboa. I think looking at the educational attainment section would be a good source of info for my research. The book is at Georgia State University, though, so I’d have to request it first. But besides this book, the other books I found didn't seem to focus much on the educational aspect of life expectancy. I tried key words such as “life expectancy,” “education,” and “effects of education on life expectancy,” but I didn’t get much. Most of the books focused on the health related aspects of life expectancy.

 
          For primary sources of information I could probably use records from places such as the United States Census Bureau.

Research Project Info Sources

For my research project I am trying to find out how education, and the lack thereof, affects life expectancy in the U.S. This is an ongoing topic and the statistics are ever changing, so I think I’m going to have to look to more popular sources, such as newspaper sites, news station sites, or some kind of professional magazine that talks about this issue, I’ve already found some good articles from The New York Times and CNN. I’m also going to try to find some relevant scholarly/academic sources, such as an academic journal, to use for my research. The only problem with that is I’m not really sure what I would look up for that, because keywords such as education and life expectancy bring up way to much information. I may be able to find some information in books, and although the statistics probably won’t be up to date the affects that education has in life expectancy will probably be similar.
I'm really not sure what fields deal with this topic. From what I have found during research it seems like economists and the healthcare field discuss this topic often. Economists seem to be the most worried about life expectancy because is affects the labor force which in turn affects the economy.

Research Topics

Hi everyone!

For my research project I think I want to research either the correspondence principle of truth or why America has a shorter life expectancy than other wealthy countries.

In my critical thinking class we just started discussing the correspondence principle of truth and I find it fascinating so far. We haven't gotten into much detail about it yet in class, but I think it would be cool to dive deeper into the subject.

A couple days ago I read an article in The New York Times that said America has a shorter life expectancy than all other wealthy countries, and I was shocked. Considering our country is so advanced, I never thought I would hear that. I want to dig deeper into the matter and figure out what are the causes of this.

I'm not sure yet which of these topics, if either, I'm going to decide on but as of now these are what I'm thinking about!

 

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Last May I rear ended someone, and my car got messed up pretty badly. I'd already been planning on buying myself a newer, more reliable car, so I decided then would be the perfect time. So I set out on my car hunt. I looked at tons of different dealerships and at so many different kinds of cars. Some were brand new and some were slightly used, some had this some had that, etc.. There were plenty that I liked, but I had no idea which car was best! I looked on websites like consumerreports.org and autobytel.com to help me make my decision. Consumerreports helped me get background information on the different cars I was looking at, from fuel efficiency, to interior, to other customer reviews. Autobytel told me the top 10 most fuel efficient cars, because that was a big factor for me. Although in the end I didn’t end up getting what was on their list, it still helped me narrow down what I wanted and to make a final decision!

 

What I Like About the Library!

 

         My favorite part of the library would have to be having so many resources at my fingertips. I can search for what I need on the computer or using Galileo or in one of the thousands of books. I think it’s very convenient that I can search a specific subject and get results just for that subject, so I don’t have to sift through a ton of stuff. I really like the fact that if the UWG library doesn’t have the book I need I can look at other libraries and request it. I also like that there’s a librarian on duty at all times to answer my questions. My least favorite part of the library is looking for books. It’s so overwhelming for me. I’ve never really been taught how to find a book, so in UWG’s huge library it’s extremely hard for me. Galileo is also still a little confusing for me.

All About Me!

        Hi everyone!! My name is Sarah Clanton. I'm 19 and a freshman here at West GA. My major is undecided, but I know I want to pursue dental hygiene or dentistry. Today's LIBR1101 class surprised me a little because I didn't expect that we would be doing as much work in the class as it sounds like. I've never blogged before, but it sounds like it should be pretty fun.