RJA #1: Areas of Academic Interest

• Child development: Working with children over the years, i have become extremely interested in studying how their minds work. I plan to research what types of affects children develop from transfering to different foster homes to being adopted. Should these children be able to find out and/or contact their biological parents? I studied child development and pyschology in high school, this type of research will help me in my major.
• I took a Sociology class back in Spring 2009. This was one of my favorite courses. All the researches and surveys that were contributed to the textbook have helped me develop an open mind on how people think. Technology has contributed immensely on human evolution. I would like to research more on the countries who have not evolved the way America has.
• Spanish has been a big influence in my life. I would love to continue to research the different spanish countries and contrast on dialects, culture, and tradition. The common stereotype that entails that all hispanics are mexican has always awed me. i would love to write about how this came about and why it is absolutely not true,
• I would also like to conduct research on how children develop imaginary friends. Does this happen only to children without siblings or other children in their family?
• I love music and have always been drawn to lyrics. I would like to know how music affects people and how lyrics seem to tell your life story; event though the writer has never met you.