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15-minutes spent practicing with these newsy topics and authoritative databases will be sure to hone your research skills.
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Several Shades of Gray: A Different Kind of Research

Focus: Somewhere between an idea and a polished publication is the gray area of "science right now" reports.  Explore the sources of Gray Literature and bump up your expectations of research sources.

Make Joseph Kony Famous

Focus: Lords Resistance Army and Joseph Kony

Protest Movements

Focus: Time Magazine's 2011 Person of the Year: The Protester and past American protest movements.

Marriage Equity

Focus: Major legal issues surrounding same-sex marriage, domestic partners, and civil unions.

Famine in Historic Context

Focus: Locating primary documents that report on famine, food security, and humanitarian aid.  No snacks will be provided for this workshop.

There Be Pirates!: piracy past and present

Focus:  Contrasting methods of reporting news of Priacy from 1790 to present day.

Teatotalers and Bootleggers: the 100 year path to the 18th/21st Amendments

Focus: Primary resources documenting the Temperance Movement, the passage of Prohibition and its repeal.

Looking for Lucretia, Elizabeth, and Susan B.

Focus: Searching for women who put the "Rage" in suffrage!

Underage Drinking

Focus: 1) Iowa City 21-only ordinance 2) underage drinking on campuses nationwide

The Life and Times of Khaddafi

Focus: Foreign media coverage of Libyan leader, Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi, for past and present events.

Environmental Tragedies: Human-Made Disasters

Focus: Find investigative reports and news accounts of events in the aftermath of human-made disasters. The list is long, but here are a few:

  • Dust Bowl (1930-40)
  • Love Canal (1978)
  • Bhopal Gas Leak (1984)
  • Exxon Valdez (1989)
      

    Violence and Mass Media

    Focus: Under Construction

        

      Labor Unions and Bargaining Rights

      Hate Crimes

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