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Ivory is an expensive thing that comes from an elephant's tusk.  I'm just wondering, why and who decided that it is something to use for piano keys or whatever else they make out of ivory.  It's expensive because the supply is lower than the demand, that's obvious.  I just want to know when and where it all started.  I also want to know where and how much the killing of elephants for ivory is still going on.  I want to find out what the laws are against it, and what companies still use it. 

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Color is a crazy and difficult subject.  It's too broad if you just talk about it without putting it subcategories.   I want to know more about color pigment.  I've learned a little bit, but there's so much more to learn.  Plus, I may have forgotten somethings, so I want to revisit the history of pigment, and how it works in paint today.

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I've been wondering for a while what exactly Buddhists believe in, and just everything about it.  I don't really know who Buddha really is.  I just know he's a happy fat man statue.  I would like to find out about zen and tao.  I also want to know where it originated and what countries are still mostly Buddhist.

things i want to know about

• how camera's and film work
• why the simpsons were made
• deep sea fish
• cutting down redwoods
• what Buddhists believe
• why is ivory so valuable
• how did animation begin

Things I don't know much about and I want to know more about

• If Reagan was as good as a President as people make him out to be
• How exactly a camera and it's film really work
• How did the Simpsons start out.
• Why do those people people with long necks do that
• The origin of the clock
• Why are owls considered wise?
• deep sea fish
• cutting down the redwoods in the 1800s
• trains
• history of bread
• pattern
• color
• who invented plaid? 
• medical treatments and medicine in other centuries
• how do video games work?  nintendo
• 
  

things that bug me

• the sound of cotton balls rubbing between peoples fingers
• the feel of chalk boards
• high screeching noises (chalk, when some metal pans rub together in the wrong way, etc..)
• when people don't stop talking about themselves
• when people will argue until they win even though they know they're wrong
• snoring
• when people whine moan in their sleep
• being asked "whats up" as soon as i wake up.
• that horrible noise when people move the snot from their nose to the back of their throat
• people being obsessed with someone and having to be around them 24/7
• people who try to 1 up you in everything, even sob stories, or who's parent is smarter. pathetic.
• paper cuts
• dry skin
• spilling coffee on myself, or anywhere else
• carrying my big drawing bag, a container with supplies and coffee while my pants are falling down because I forgot to wear a belt.
• doing dishes
• accidently breaking my favorite coffee mugs
• losing things all the time
• dropping my phone
• plants dying on me
• falling
• dreams about losing my teeth
• getting a filling (worst experience of my life)
• people who believe anything they're told
• when my car won't start
• SCRATCHED CDS
• people who believe in something so strongly that they won't listen to any other reason (such as obama is the devil, racism, etc...) stupid people
• know it alls
• ear aches
• doctor visits
• bruised apples and bananas, and super unripe bananas.
• shots
• being so tired you ache.

Research History

Throughout high school, most of the papers we had to write were research. I think the longest one I wrote then was a 7 page paper. It was hard to find book sources because our library was so small, but it was required to have at least one. Here it's way easier to find sources in books, this library's massive compared to my small town high school library. Anyway, I don't mind doing research if I like my subject. If it's some subject assigned to me that i have no interest in at all, I'll have a hard time writing it, but who likes researching something that doesn't give them back anything. If I learn something, that's pretty cool. haha. In English 101 we wrote maybe two research papers. Those only had to be 3-5 pages I believe. Mine always ended up being around 7. We had to write a paper on a trend, and I chose digital cameras. I had so much information on it, and I liked learning about it. My professor liked the amount of information about the trend I had, but I failed to talk in depth about the background cause from what he said. I only had two paragraphs discussing it.



katie