Fear and Loathing

Ben Tyer's investigation on the case of whats happening in Homer and the world, asks questions about immigration that is usually not asked or has shed enough light for people to even know about these events being taken place. His investigation style is using personal interviews with people he encounters, like protesters and people in political power, as well as local people of the area. He researches things using articles and quotes and finds different peoples opinions, but the struggle with this is that most of the research is based on opinions and peoples accounts of what they consider of the event.

The way I make sure my sources are credible when I do my own research is by looking for peer-reviewed articles, finding credible authors, using data that's been studied within the past 10 years, and if interviewing anybody I interview someone with a credible background and that pertains to my topic of research. I believe these sources are credible because of the backgrounds that they come from, for example, the peer-reviewed papers are papers that have had to be reviewed as the name suggests, but also it means that the article was published and was edited and researched by more than one person as well. On the topic of whether or not I think that people can talk about controversial topics without being biased, I think that they can, but it's a rare sight due to the fact that most people just side with their own side by nature, even when they mean not to.

The community that I am considering researching is HLSU (Hispanic Latino Student Union), they are an organization here at FSU that I am currently involved with. I chose this community because I'd like to ask the question of how important it is to have an agency like HLSU at FSU.