How can listening to music made by another cultural group help you to understand their life experience?

While researching The Weavers I learned that many songs from the folk culture deal with world issues/problems. The Weavers were a group who loved to spark controversy any chance they could get with controversial songs such as Goodnight Irene, which is a song about a man who losses his wife and at the end of the song he kills himself. Every member of The Weavers were activists against many different topics, including racism, inequality, and women's suffrage. Many of their songs dealt with these topics so it gives you the feeling that their lives are very complicated because of all the criticism they drew back when they were singing about these issues.

My Powerpoint

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What point I am at for my Persuasive Letter.

My letter is going to be about Marijuana and its dangers. I don't believe marijuana is dangerous and I found an article that says that marijuana is dangerous. My letter will be written to the author of this article. I found some other articles that disproves what this author says about marijuana and I am going to use these articles to help me write this letter.

Persuasive Letter Topic: Marijuana

My persuasive letter topic is marijuana and im going to be arguing on how marijuana has no damaging effects to your health.
Adams, J. (2008, August 18). Damaging Habit? Los Angeles Times, p. 6.

This articles talks about the damaging effects of marijuana. It provides many case studies that try to prove that marijuana is a very dangerous drug, and some scientists even try to prove that marijuana can be more dangerous than alcohol and cigarettes. The article try's to prove that marijuana smoking can cause depression and psychosis. It also try's to explain how marijuana may be one of the most addictive drugs out there.

Kent State Assignment

Centuori, Jeanine. The Residual Landscape of Kent State, May 4th, 1970. Landscape Journal. 1999. The article
talks about how the memorial at Kent State will serve as a site for students to see the government

corruption back in the 60's and 70's. It also goes through the events of that tragic day and gives you a vision

of what it was like to be on the Kent State campus on May 4th, 1970.

I thought the video that was shown in class was very interesting and made me think about a lot of things such as the world we live in now and how people don't protest now like they did back then. I thought it was very informative and I would love to see the rest of that video.

Can you think of a time when you have felt restricted in seeking information or expressing your views or ideas? Did you back up your opinion w/ facts?

In the 12th grade we had a research project to do. My research project was on the blood diamonds in Sierra Leone. My teacher only allowed us to use one online source and six books. I felt I was restricted in seeking information because even though you can get a lot of information out of books, online sources are very helpful and are topic specific. The books I found had like one or two chapters that were relevant to my topic. I told my teacher that only being able to use one online source was ridiculous and she reconsidered and eventually let us have four online sources.

Research Strategy

Can growth hormone supplements help combat aging and reduce weight?

Research Strategy: Boolean Operators - Growth Hormone Supplements and aging and weight
or
Hormone Supplements and combat/fight and aging and weight loss

Synonyms: Weight loss, supplements, growth hormones, combat, fight, dangers.