::In case anyone read my previous posts and are still wondering what happend to the project, I shall write it down here. =)
Basically, that idea has been put down. Shot! dead! Ended!
I went to my teacher to discuss the idea with her. I explained my concept and thoughts to her and she tried to make sense of it. In the end, she had to involve a more experienced teacher to help me =s. ( i must have a really messed up idea..)
well, the verdict? Still the same, the idea is too far-reaching. It is too broad and requires intensive information management, correlation research, measurement skills and much more in depth research. Just interviewing a few successful individuals(in my proposal, scholars..) will not provide sufficient proof for a conclusion like the one i was seeking. To carry out such a paper, it needed a much larger range of specific information and of course, someone with slightly better analysis skills and experience than me..
In short, he told me, good idea, boy, but ur too noob to materialize it.
I was told, this kind of research is done in big institutions and required huge amounts of research and analysis to make a solid case from it. *shrugs* (teachers have a way of consoling students, don't they...i appreciate it very much. =p )
anyway, hehe... we eventually came to a consensus that if i still wanted to go in the direction of my orignal idea, we had to narrow this topic down ALOT.. Instead of focusing on natural selection, how among the singapore youth the fittest survive...we can focus on the unfit low life in Singapore and how do they integrate back into society..o.O
..fine by me I guess... as long as i still can do this. (this is also my HRP btw..haha..Im still sticking by this for HRP)
Will I still enter it for Projects Day? I don't know..=/ plenty of people responded with interest regarding joining my project..I already have my lovely computer geek for all my website-designing need.. so I guess there is nothing preventing me from joining Projects Day. The question now is what project?
I can enter Cat3 and use the narrowed down version of my original idea. This would mean a Quantative Analysis project, with a set thesis, research questions and many surveys and interviews.
The hypothesis would be that the society is constantly changing.. and some people that do not fit into the society gets marginalized. The research questions for example would be like "what do these marginalized people do to get back into the society?", "what made these people supposedly 'fail' and others to 'succeed'?", and "What are the effects of these people being marginalized?"
However, I can just as well go into an S-L project. Marginalized groups, the poor, the unfortunate, these are people that needs our help. Instead of just interviewing them and collecting information to test our thesis, we could be lending them a helping hand to pull them away from their misery! Besides, isn it the trend that Sec4s always do S-L projects? =p so i came up with another idea..
a simple one actually.. S-L..It's about providing service to the community and learning from it. Well, if others can provide free math tuition to kiddos, I thought we sportsmen can offer to lead free exercise sessions for diseased children or elderly?! Why not huh? Instead of letting their life rot in the hospital wards, we can teach them sports and let them keep fit. We get to have fun, they get to see hot-looking young dudes sweat, the hospital saves the expenses of hiring a physio, thus we all benefit! win-win situation! =) seriously, that would be a workable proposal dn you think?
It's a start nonetheless, Im more than willing to listen to comments and suggestions and change the idea. Bottomline, it's about a team doing a suitable, enjoyable S-L project for the community.
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still mauling over which project to doo...leaning towards the S-L side, consulting leeks for feedback...if that's the case, then i'll have to dissolve the original team for Cat3 project and build another..hmm...=/
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