Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Look Sister Steadman, No Hands! -Research Paper

As soon as I heard about the research paper I was overwhelmed! Once a paper reaches 3 pages it's too much! And to think that one had to do a lot of research and write a 10 page paper was way too much. But it has improved much since then. It took awhile to come up with the topic for the paper, it is to be about an interesting story from my family. I was debating whether I would research about heredity and cancer since it is passed down a bit from my mom's side of the family, or if I would research the topic of name change.

So, what possible benefits may one receive if they changed their name?
Okay. There may be arguments on both sides about the individuality of the name, if one loses or gains it from changing one's name. However history shows that many immigrants were economically better off with having a more American name. It's easier to immigrate with the current civilians and is easier to obtain jobs.

So what? Is it always the case that immigrants are better off with new names? There are origins in names today.
It is true that there may not be as big an issue today as there was a century ago with surnames. USA is a nation with many origins of people, and having different origins of surnames has become quite common. There is diffently quite a difference in today's world than before. However when there were thousands of people......

TO BE WORKED ON............

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