Exercise 1.1

Step 1:
Places- Fairbury, Bloomington, Wrigley Field, Soldier Field, New York, Chicago, Eiffel Tower, Uppsala Sweden, Illinois State, Stockholm, England, St. Andrews, Turkey, Istanbul, Texas, Oklahoma

Jobs- Football player, Ceo, actor, comedian, telemarketer, teacher, cook, chef, contractor, lawyer, journalist, sports reporter, television host, governor, city clerk, policeman, fireman

Trends- P90X, facebook, entourage, big brother, myspace, HDTV, underage drinking, smoking, comedy tv shows, food network, xbox, baseball, football, ESPN

Things- Baseball, football, soccer ball, tv, lamps, electricity, gatorade, cereal, xbox, stop sign, poster, air purifier, air conditioning, apartment, airplane, cars, trains, bears, lions, tigers, dogs, HDTV, lemons, apples

Technologies-TV, cellphone,internet, wireless internet, lamps, cars, trains, airplanes, computers, doorbells, watches, clocks, printers, fax machines, water purifiers, fridge, microwave, coffee pot, pizza pizzaz, alarms clocks

People- Bob brenly, len kasper, Tony Dungey, Jason Aldean, Barack Obama, John Mccain, Dan Patrick, Keith Obberman, Lisa Salters, Ben Afflick, Jason Bourne, Matt Damon, Chris Cagle

Controversies- Moon Landing, Vietnam, President election, steroids, 9/11, mosque in new york, glen beck rally, roger clemens, p.c. hawks football team party, bank heist,


History-World Wars, Korean War, Ronald Reagan berlin wall, falling of communism in russia, olympics, olympic bombing, olympic massacre at 72 munich games, abe lincoln, civil war, revolutionary war, Benedict Arnold, george washington

Habits-biting nails, facebooking, watching tv, eating midnight snacks, eating fastfood even when knowing it is bad for you, book collecting, stamp collecting, rock collecting, reading while a thunderstorm is going on

Hobbies-reading, watching tv, golfing, playing baseball, playing slow pitch softball, writing novels, writing poems, reading the newspaper, collecting quarters with states on them, watching sports on tv, going to class

Step 2:
Falling of Communism and Berlin wall

I think there are many potential good research projects in this category. There are so many things that happened during this time to write about and learn about. I think this will open many doors because as a political science major this is something that is very interesting to me.

Step 3:
Why did the wall stay up so long?
What did Reagan do to bring the wall down?
Did this help ties with Russia?
Since the fall of communism has it made the world a better place?
What is the biggest impact on people since this fall of the red army?
How many people were displaced while being under this communist regime?
What has Russia done to help countries that are now independent and are they allies now?