Conducting Research

Directions: You have to write a research paper about diving on shipwrecks. Don't worry! Research is less intimidating if you break the process into these steps: develop your topic, choose sources, take notes, make adjustments, and then put it all together. Read the step below and answer the question that follows.

Step 1: Develop your topic

In Step 1 of the research process, you develop your topic. That is, you figure out what question to answer or what
problem to solve. Your topic is diving on shipwrecks. What specific information will you use research to find?

Question

Which topic would you be least likely to include in your research?

Select one:
a. what kind of equipment is used in diving
b. what kind of ships have sunk
c. how many shipwrecks are recorded in human history
d. what kind of cargo is found in sunken ships

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the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.

- "he is a very real person and his intent isn't to influence us vonnegut addresses this towards the end of the letter when he says, if we choose to curse, that is by our own individual means."