This past week I have been brainstorming and creating research questions for my topic on the veterans’ suicide epidemic. I came up with most of my research questions as soon as I knew that my topic was going to be about suicides. I thought of questions such as why and for what reasons veterans are committing suicide after returning from battle. I thought of these immediately because I was appalled at the fact that after someone survived war that they would kill themselves. Therefore, the main reason for doing research on these questions was because I was surprised. Even after formulating these research questions I still have many more questions to ask my expert. I am glad that I have been introduced to all of these new research organization tools because this helped me take my research and put it in a place that I could go back and access all of the information when I needed to do some in depth information gathering after deciding on my three main research questions. I think that some of the causes could be stress, memories of events that impacted them mentally, and having nothing to go back to after the war; however, I think that there could be many more causes of suicide. The other research question that I decided on has to deal with whether or not the aspects of a soldier’s life such as age, gender, and background affect whether or not they commit suicide. I am very anxious to answer these questions and learn more about my topic.
Research Reflection 3 (4-16)
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