Academic Research Onine

   For most people finding information on your topic that you are writing is just plain hard. In our assignment for The Curious Researcher, Bruce Ballenger challenges us to look at some search engines online to help us find information on our topic. Here are a few search engines I used to help me find some information.

www.Dogpile.com

www.Google.com

www.Noodletools.com

Here are some articles that I find on my topic “Foreign Missions in Africa” using these search engines.

“Bible Teaching about Overseas Missions." Bible-Teaching-About.com, n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2014.

"Christian Missionaries in Esat Africa." Elateafrica.org. ELATE, n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2014.

"Christianity and Colonialism." Ask.com. Ask, 1 Jan. 2014. Web. 28 Mar. 2014.

Davis, Ron. "David Livingstone in Africa: The Greastes Exploits of the 19th Century." Articlebase.com. Articlebase, n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2014.

"Missionary Settlement in Southern Africa 1800-1925." Sahistory.org.za. South African History Online, n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2014.

Rosenburg, Matt. "10 Facts about Africa." About.com. About.com.education, n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2014.

 

Inquiry Question

   Is it true that foreign missions is a waste of time, money, resources, and people? My primary purpose is to explore and see if we are commanded my God to go to the mission field and to find out if we should still be sending people to the mission field. Growing up I was always told that God has commanded us to go to the mission field, but I want to find out for myself

 

    For this assignment taken from The Curious Reader by Bruce Ballenger, Bruce tells us to make an inquiry question about our topic that we have picked and tell us the purpose of why we picked that topic. This helps you outline the question that you would like to answer in you research paper.

Interest Inventory

     In this assignment taken from The Curious Reader by Bruce Ballenger we are suppose to make an interest inventory. Now you may ask what is an interests inventory? An interests inventory is designed to help you pick a topic to write a paper on. An interest inventory is made up of ten categories and under each category you write as many words as you can that come to your head. After you have done all ten categories you go through and find a subject that interests you and one that would give you enough to write a paper on. After you have selected a topic that interest you, you write as many question that you can on that topic.

 

 

Places:

Ghana, Africa

Cape Cod

New Orleans

Alaska

Goshen Indiana

Chicago

London

Haiti

New York

 

Trends:

Big glasses

Going green

Healthy food

Low fat food

Silly bands

Duck Dynasty products

Organic products

Laptops

Video games

 

Things:

Toasters

 Fictional characters

Hamburgers

Birds

Dinosaurs

Roses

Amusement Parks

Tractors

Pocket knives

 

Technologies:

Laptops

Ipods

Blackberry

Iphones

Ipads

Voice activated locks

Robots

TVs

Projectors

Cameras

Satellites

Video games

People:

George Bush

Queen Elizabeth

Nelson Mandela

Jimmy Carter

Ray Weaver

Sammy Sosa

Tom Brady

Dave Myer

Andrew Myer

Christopher Columbus

 

Controversies:

Same-sex marriage

Is God real?

Vietnam War

Gun laws

Politics

Drugs

Offshore drilling

Minimum pay wage

Benghazi attack

Is missions important?

 

History:

World War I

Chicago Fire

Cold War

Civil War

Declaration of Independence

Slaves freed

Discovery of America

Yukon Gold Rush

Exploration of Africa

 

Jobs:

Landscaper

Barber

Counselor

Maintenance worker

Construction worker

Retailer

Salesperson

Street sweeper

Secretary

Doctor

Farmer

 

Habits:

Biting nails

Talking with mouth full of food

Picking finger nails

Picking nose in public

Looking at yourself in the mirror

 

Hobbies:

Trapping

Kite flying

Hunting

Canoeing

Camping

Sewing

Knitting

Riding horses

Playing soccer

Running

 

 

Is Missions Important?

 

Does God command missions?

Is missions a waste of money, time, and resources?

Is missions important to God?

Are we commanded to be missionaries?

Do we have to go to another country to be a missionary?

Do you have to be called by God to go to missions?

Does going to missions affect your children and if so is that affect good or bad?

  

Three minute fast write

    Hello my name is Kendrick and I am taking a class at Lancaster Bible College and my professor made us make a blog and post our homework assignments on it. These assignments are taken from the book The Curious Reader by Bruce Ballenger.Here is the first two assignments that I had to do. For these two assignments I had to pick two statements from the list we were provided and write for three minutes as fast as we could without thinking ahead of what to say and write whether or not we disagreed and why? For the first one I pick the statement that we should never use the pronoun I and for the second one I chose the statement that there is a big difference between facts and opinions.

   1)  It has long been said that when writing you should never use the pronoun I. I disagree with that statement that you should never use the pronoun I, because using the pronoun I helps readers to understand your paper better. The pronoun I helps tell exactly what your opinion is when writing and helps to distinguish your voice from the other voices in your paper. In other words using the pronoun I gives clarity to your paper.

2)   I have heard the statement that there is a big difference between facts and opinions. I agree with that statement that facts are and opinions are different. The reason I think that facts and opinions are different is, because a fact is something that has been proven scientifically and an opinion is a belief that someone holds true. A opinion may become a fact if it is proven scientifically, but if it is not proven it remains just a belief that someone thinks is true.