Art Censorship (Final decision)

Artists of all kind receive some sort of criticism, whether it be helpful, admirable or unexpectedly negative. One form of criticism artists are frustrated over is when critics complain of 'showing offensive content." In an artists world, there is no such thing as 'offensive content', because whatever is created on a canvas with paint or a pencil and paper is what we come to call it as self expression. When critics give the red flag on a piece of work written, drawn or otherwise, we the creators become frustrated and at a loss because the way we express feelings or views isn't the same as when someone verbally protests against or for something, it's entirely different. Putting censor bars over great works, 'offensive' or not, is restricting of our rights of freedom of self expression. 

Potential research topics

Art Censorship: Art censorship is a big thing among the artist community. Being an artist it is difficult to display a piece of art when it has to have a certain requirement before showing, which often ruins the piece.
Links:  http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=S74-104862-0-8240&artno=0000344284&type=ART
http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=S74-104862-0-8240&artno=0000367199&type=ART

Animal Experimentation: Animal experimentation is a growing trend with organizations such as the ASPCA and PETA. The animals are usually tested for medications, and personal products such as make-up and hygienic materials.
Links: http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=S74-104862-0-8240&artno=0000362221&type=ART
http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=S74-104862-0-8240&artno=0000316112&type=ART

Religion: Religion has it's ups and downs, depending on the religion. To me, Religion is there to entertain and give someone something to believe in when they can't rely on themselves to push forward. Being an Atheist, I see Religion being followed mostly by 'bigots' and fanatics, who worship a godly being that doesn't exist and try to force everyone to follow them.
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Student expression & school discipline: Growing up in school, expressing one's self is very difficult in the age of 'equality'. Children tend to go to school dressed a certain fashion, wear or own certain items that stand out from the crowd and are criticized for it for being 'different'. Schools and school systems often tend not to take the situation serious and usually stay away from it depending on the situation.

Extraterrestrial life: While meeting a new race of life would be phenomenal, there are its downsides. Meeting a more intellectual race could result in war/ world domination. 


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What "ticks you off"?
Make a list of four or five things that "tick you off." Explain why. (Choose significant things that others might experience as well. For instance, your little brother might tick you off, but there is little chance that this annoyance will yield a possible paper topic). It is possible that one of these annoyances can be transformed into an interesting, engaging, and researchable project.

        Among the many things that tend to 'tick me off', there are only four that stick out from the bunch. The first thing on my 'pet peeve' list are people who use excessive sarcasm. A few people I happen to know very well, use sarcasm as a means of communicating and most of the time it is difficult to determine whether they're being serious or not. The second thing that 'ticks me off' are flaky friends. It hasn't been the first time I've come across a friend who makes plans to go somewhere, then ditches me when the plans take place; these people get on my nerves very quickly, to me they take friendship as a joke and take time out of my personal schedule to place an ignorant 'prank' like that. Third on my list of pet peeves are bigots. People like these are all over the internet and you alway find at least one making some silly comment somewhere, budding their noses into other people's business and ridiculing it and frankly... It just ticks me off. 

What do you consider interesting?

1. My favorite pass time that I find interesting is being imaginative or creative with the arts. I find myself spending spare time starting from listening to various types of music to writing about deep adventurous stories and characters. There's always an adventure in my mind that's just waiting to jump onto paper. To me this is relaxing and I can self reflect through my characters.
2. The subject I most enjoy reading about is Science Fiction because, some authors create scientific advancements, objects and horrors that you would sometimes only hope to see in books and that just draws me to readings such as that. Reading subjects like Science Fiction and Fantasy help me in my writing because there will be some different techniques of writing. One of my favorite Science Fiction books is Enchantress of the Stars, which is about a young girl named Elana, belongs to a peaceful, technologically advanced, space-faring civilization called the "Federation". Elana stows away on a ship in order to accompany her father on a mission to a planet where intervention has been deemed necessary because a technologically advanced empire has invaded the planet in order to take advantage of its resources. In order to lead a young woodcutter (a native of that planet) against them (without exposing him to the truth about either alien civilization) Elana takes on the role of an enchantress. She gives him various tools, leading him to believe that they are magical.
3. My favorite school subject has always been Science, I grew up watching Science shows on the few science channels that there were on T.V and ever since a young age my interest for Science and it's advancements has never dimmed. It upset me in my Senior year when I found out that I don't have a Science class of some sort, it's almost like something's missing but I didn't let it get me down as much, to fill in that empty gap I read what Science journals and the new things that were discovered in that week. Although some of the things that are discovered tend to scare me a bit like the 'God Particle' discovery but even that doesn't turn me away from the subject of other Scientific discoveries.
4. The type of volunteer activity I prefer are educational and school related activities because they're right in school which is for the most part not difficult to arrive at because it's close and it's a safe way to earn community service hours.
5. If I won the lottery, I would have to wait till after taxes to see how much is left before I could spend it on anything. If the money I received was a lot then most likely I would keep some for a rainy day and save the rest for college, mostly because I wouldn't know what to do with large amounts of money that could be in the six-figures range.
6. If I ran the world, it would be a nerve wrecking experience with difficult decisions and stressful hours. I wouldn't exactly know what to do, but terrorism seems to be at a high right now so I would probably start with that by diminishing it if not stopping it completely.