English 1006T: Groups, Questions and Starting Points

English 1006T
23 October 2012

Current working groups' questions and starting points


Affirmative Action Libby Boudreau What is affirmation action? What groups does affirmation action apply to? Google & Wikipedia Abby Derrah No email Lexia Dorr Does affirmative action apply to women? What groups are considered minorities? Does affirmative action apply to different religions? Google and Wikipedia Riley Patles What are the racial preferences considered when accepting student? Why is affirmative action being applied to Abigail Fisher? Are minorities in Canada different than the one in the United States? Harriet Irving Library WorldCat Google scholar	Charity vs Taxes Jeremy Altman What is the Republican view on health policies? What do taxes compensate? Google and Wikipedia Doug Jamieson What is the relation between dependency and "the left" (Democrats)? What is the relation between self-reliance and Republicans? Google and Wikipedia Google Scholar Haile McBride Who is Rush Limbaugh What is Obamacare google scholar wikipedia Blaine Reid No email Victoria Vienneau What is Obamacare? Why does Limbaugh take exception to Obamacare? Google Scholar	Creationism Lindsay Kingston What is the Big Bang Theory Who is Archbishop of Cantebury Google and wikipedia Kelly Rittenhouse How creationism is viewed in the Christian, Judaic, and Islamic traditions google and Wikipedia google scholar Alannah Russell What is Genesis and what are its stories? What is the difference between creation and creationism? Harriet Irving Library WorldCat Google Schae Williamson What is BHA? What are some definitions of "Atheist"? What are some definitions of "Creationsm"? Google Scholar Google & Wiki Cylin Leavitt No email


Borders Rachel Augustine what does Canada consider free speech? Is there a possibility that the bill could not be passed before Terry Jones is scheduled to come to Canada? Google and Wikipedia Ryan Nowlan No email Paige O'Blenes s What are the parameters of the proposed bill C-43? Does Canada allow one person to have full veto power? Harriet Irving Library Journals & Newspapers, Harriet Irving Reference Materials Google/Wikipedia Kayla Robbins Does Terry Jones have a criminal past, and or convicted criminal record? Will the proposed bill give this power to one single person?" Google Scholar Google or Wikipedia Catherine Terry What kind of crime can a person commit that would not allow them admittance into Canada? For how long did Afghanistan block YouTube so that the citizens couldn't watch the video? Google/Wikipedia Harriet Irving Library Journals and Newspapers	Climate Change Erin Hachey How can human/natural activity play a role in climate change? Who is Richard Muller and how can he prove that climate change isn't occuring, and if it is why aren't humans to blame? What is Britain's Hadley Center ? Harriet Irving Library Worldcat Google and Wikipedia Rebekah Lockhart What is Solar Variability and El Nino system and how do they contribute to climate change? What is the Intergovernmental Panel? What is Climategate? Google Scholar Google and Wikipedia Erica Messenger No email Jessica Williams Questions 1,2 and 3 in the climate change group Harriet Irving Library & Newspapers Google & Wikipedia

The questions should be ones that it's possible to answer. They should not, for example, be "why" questions about human motives, which usually can only be asked of individuals, and which don't generate much useful information. They shouldn't be questions that are so general that the answers would be meaningless, or so specific that the answers would be trivial. Or questions that could only be answered by interviewing the people involved.

They should, on the other hand, be questions about matters of fact that readers are, or might be, quite ignorant of, or about terms that are peculiar or specific to the instance ("terms of art"). They might ask about other coverage of the event or person or issue, or what other writers or observers have had to say about the event, people, issue. They should be questions you can imagine finding the answers to on the Web, or in print.

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