3 possible topic choices

My first topic choice would be Lou Gehrig's disease. I want to write about this topic because not only is my favorite book "Tuesday's With Morrie", but my cousin has this disease. It is a very sad process that makes even the strongest person crumble into nothing leaving them completely helpless. It damages the motor neourons in the brain and spinal cord. Over time, Lou Gehrig's disease causes these motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord to shrink and disappear, so that the muscles no longer receive signals to move. As a result, the muscles become smaller and weaker. Gradually the body becomes paralyzed. So my question would be, What fully is Lou Gehrig's disease and will there ever be a cure?

My second choice would be childrens beauty pagents. I don't feel that it is right that parents but their kids through the stress of an adult at this young of an age. They get their kids dressed up with layers of make-up on and make them go infront of judges to be critcized. These kids are not living normal lives and most of the time its the parents that are compeating and this is their dream and the kids dont even want to be a part of it. My question for this would be, Are beauty pagents really a good thing for young children to be participating in?

My third choice would be the government providing child day care for working parents. It's hard now a days to get a babysitter for children when parents are at work. And when people do put their kids in day care, the cost to have them in there is extremely high so parents cant even afford it. But if the government could provide a daycare and they would pay for it, it would make it a lot easier for the parents. My question for this would be, Why doesnt the government provide a day care for working parents?

Things i want to know more about and things that bug me

Some things that i want to know more about are:

• LouGaris Disease
• government providing child day care for working parens
• cures for cancer
• if beauty pagents are a good thing for young children to participate in

Some things that bug me:

• why our nation won't elect a woman as president
• why there is not a cure for cancer
• why our school doesnt have snow days/delays

My First Blog

My past experiences with resarch have not been too bad. In my American History classes in highschool we were assigned topics and had to write a 5 page paper, and had to have a workscited page. My first topic was Martha Washington, and my second paper was on Bill Clinton. I felt that my second paper was much easier than my first not only because I had more experience, but because there is so much more information and Bill was a much more interesting person. There was nothing really to say about Martha and it was very hard to write a solid 5 page paper on her. In my health class I wrote a research paper on Leukemia. There was a lot of information on that so it was not to0 bad. For my final english project I had to do a powerpoint and a 7 page paper on any topic. I got a really good grade on it. I feel that once I get a good amount of information and have it all organized I am good to go. But sometimes it just takes me awhile to get started.