Monday, October 20, 2008

Finding some of dem sources

At first I was begining to get a bit discouraged when I found nothing on Lexis Nexis Congressional Publications, and Lexis Nexis Government Periodicals Index. I did find some stuff in Lexis Nexis Academic once I broadened my topic from Exxon/Mobil to oil. I found a bunch of good fact here but some were way over my head, and left me really lost. And I mean I had not the slightest idea what they were talking about.
I am still confused on what makes a primary resource primary.
I found ,Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, was the most helpful. It gave sources I knew were primary. It also was easy to find lots of information and facts once I used the control f trick.
I would like to use the adds but I think that it might be to hard. I think that unless I was talking about how oil is looked at in adds (which I am not) they would be to bias.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

new topic narrow

My original topic would be to analyze McCains tax cuts. I narrowed down and decided to go with tax cuts for Oil companies. I then decided to cut down even more to narrow down on a specific oil company such as Exxon/Mobil.
Obviously this affects oil companies. It affects the candidates, and eventually it will affect us all. Where money goes always has a lasting effect on what we do as a nation and individually. I am curios what this does to gas prices. I think that there is more to this than meets the eye. Both candidates are talking about this. McCain is often criticized over this point. The media and the public wonder what he is doing here. I will get to the bottom of this!

Primary sources could include, the websites of the candidates, possibly the media, and hopefully some of our econ profs here on campus.

Sunday, October 5, 2008