Nadia Dawson
English 102
Assignment 4
There are many questions that lead to inquiry. A
lot of them are open ended questions. Questions that can’t lead to one
definitive answer can be considered an inquiry question. Actually another would
be questions based upon behavior where there could be many different answers or
solutions to one person's specific problem. Seeing how my major is public
relations, many of my questions would deal with behavior and the human
condition.
Some of my questions that are inquiry questions to
me are:
1. Why is it that when people watch a famous person,
and they mess up, when the representative puts the problem in a different
perspective people automatically changes their reaction?
2. Why is it that when people do not feel as if
they are cared about, they need the connection from a lot of different people
to feel wanted?
3. What draws people to buy things that they see on
television?
4. What pushes people to like certain famous
people, but not like others?
5. We as complicated people like to make decisions
without reason. Why is it that we make bad choices over and over again?
6. Why is it that it was alright to legalize
alcohol after the prohibition, and people are a able to take prescription drugs
that contain a lot of risks, but it is illegal for people to smoke marijuana
that doesn’t have many complicated problems to it.
7. When is abortion truly
considered taking a life?
I think that these are a good start, especially the first 4 (though even these need work). It seems like you are interested in celebrity culture and the media. These areas are good starting points for inquiry-based questions. Maybe you could think about the first question in terms of role models and peoples' responses to both fame, and the media?
ReplyDeleteI don't know if this makes sense, but that could be one way to think about our attitudes toward celebrities and fame.