Abstract

Hello all, I wanted to post my abstract as is and see if anyone has any major issues with it. Thanks for your time!

The focus of this paper centers on identity and ability. Through a series of oral history interviews in combination with in-depth subject specific interviews, I explore the relationship between working to overcome physical/mental disabilities attained later in life and working also to recreate identity and space within society; recreate self image. My research will be more exploratory and descriptive than it will be explanatory. This study investigates the relationship between identity and ability, the process of rehabilitation within the context of physical/mental disabilities attained later in life, and to the literature on identity, ability, and recovery.

Also, I found the packet very helpful along the lines of organization and getting things moving. I'm looking forward to completing the proposal and moving past the IRB.

abstract

Hey everybody,

I have my abstract below, I was hoping people could take a look at it and give me ideas on how I could improve it.

As of lately, crime in the border cities of Mexico have come to an all time high, especially in Juarez, which has recently become the new murder capital of the world. The biggest cause of the increase in crime in border cities is due to drug selling and usage. Though many of the drugs that come into the United States are smuggled through these border cities, and are then distributed throughout the U.S, many people feel distanced from the problem. In this paper I will investigate the effects distance has on the perception of border crime by interviewing various people of different backgrounds, culture, and heritage as well as distance from the United States-Mexican border. In doing so we found that there is a direct correlation in how far a person is from the border and how much they pay attention to the news on border crimes because many seem to believe the distance makes it effect them less.