Fear and Loathing

In this interview, Ben Tryer's research into the immigration in Homer was him spending hours late up at night looking up global migration. He took his own research skills and figured he could use them for this topic, too. He reveals he was opinionated in his views against immigrants in Homer. The source of his struggle is him learning terrible stories online about different immigration stories late at night, making him feel worse about his own potential situation. He sought out other information but his initial paranoia with the subject skewed his perspective.

Steps I take to make sure my sources are credible is check the date of the source, be aware where it came from, and try to steer away from less than second-hand accounts. I believe sources from first hand accounts, google scholar, and education URLS are credible because they are made from facts and not opinions. It is tough to find credible sources, and everyone is biased so it is also difficult to find credible sources without even a little bias attached to them. Everyone has opinions and strong ones, it is the facts that keep people level-headed. For instance, the issue in Homer is unnecessary because there are no immigrants in Homer, but with the up-roaring opinion of the town's people, they wanted a resolution. In the research about the immigrants, however, it could've been taken more seriously through taking a survey or accessing records to find out the truth about immigrants in Homer.

I am researching about the early childhood community and how pre-kindergarten can affect children socially. I decided I wanted to research this because early childhood life is such a big aspect in my own everyday life. From my major to my job to my family, i deal with children everywhere. It was exciting to choose this topic for me because when it came to mind it seemed so fitting.