Choosing topics for my papers

Lately I am discovering that even in classes that are not part of my major (Paralegal Studies) I can still write papers about topics that are relevant and interesting to me. A while back I have taken the class World Regional Geography as my natural science elective and for my final paper on Globalization I picked the effects that Globalization has on the legal profession. It ended up being a very interesting research project. I am also very interested in ethics and I wrote a paper in my Principles of Conflict Management class on ethics in conflict management. In my Principles of Management class I wrote a paper about the company Aveda, whose products I buy and a paper about Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks. It is so much more fun to write a paper about something that really interests you. In every class, even if it is one of those classes you have to take and it is not really something you think is all that interesting to you personally, you can still find a subject that is meaningful to you. Right now I am working on a paper on the Kyoto Protocol because I am interested in the environment and I picked this for my conflict resolution paper. If it is an interesting topic, the paper almost writes itself! As my humanities elective I am currently taking the History of Film class, and for my final paper I watched the movie Philadelphia, a legal drama about Aids and discrimination and the research was very interesting. Plus it had a connection to my major again.

Claudia November #1