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Starting to do this research I came into it with a negative attitude. The paper was way too long and it had way too many requirements. As I was explained what to do, it didn’t seem as bad, and I actually thought I was going to learn something new. There were a lot of challenges that came along with this research, but there was also a lot of things that I learned. In doing this research, I learned more about what kind of person I was, and how to face difficult situations that I am bound to face again in the future.

Writing the paper wasn’t the hard part for me. Collecting the data was the difficult part of my research.

 

Challanges:

At first this research project was easy, because a lot of the information I had to put in I had already written, so it was just the matter of copying and pasting the right information to go into my paper; but as my paper started to progress it started to get challenging. It was hard to collect any type of data that I needed, because the site that I was placed at didn’t turn out to be as great as I expected. The first day on my site was a little exciting and I thought it would be a great place to find all the answers that I needed for my research, the director was nice and the place looked comfortable, but as time went on I was wrong. The director of the program was never there, and that left me in a bad situation. The type of person that I am is one that

doesn’t like procrastination. I like to do my work when I get it, and relieve myself from any type of stress. My process in the research paper was everything but that. The fact that I didn’t have any data left me with a great set back along with some confusion, anger, and annoyance. It was difficult for me to collect anymore data, because I was missing too many school days, therefore I was set back on make-up work. It was extremely complicated to manage both finding data and keeping up with my other classes.

 

What I Learned:

This research has helped me understand that it doesn’t matter how much you complain you’re still going to have to do the work. I’ve learned to accept what I have to do, and that even though I might face some challenges along the way there nothing else for me to do, but to learn how overcome it. I have also learned what different types of research there are along with different types of data, and different ways to get to the heart of the research. The different methods that were taught me will be useful in the future and has helped me to grow as a researcher, not only in the sense of writing a long paper, but also in the sense of how to  actually find the answers that I’m looking for and how to connect everything together.

 

Being Part of a solutuion

This research can convince the youth to be stand up and be activists. In doing this research I felt as if I was actually making a difference, by first allowing myself to understand that there is a problem, what the problem was, and a solution to the problem. Ending my research is an accomplishment that has helped me obtain more knowledge along with discovering what can be done to help the youth of today.

With research like this, the youth will be able to understand what is going on around them, and where they fit into all the graphs, statistics, and readings.

A lot of the information that I came across would have never fazed me if I wasn’t doing this research. I have realized that the question I am researching has a lot to do with me. Being an urban youth that is considered a minority these statistics, and numbers also have a lot to do with myself. If I can help prevent the youth from becoming another number then it’s worth the challenge of writing this paper. It was incredible to learn how much I didn’t know about health related topics. As a youth I feel as if I was deprived in my childhood, because I weren’t taught these things that could’ve harmed myself along with others.

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