Hey! I'm Trillium's friend and I do FPS too and I'm also going to IC... I so never thought there'd be an FPS community on livejournal. I never thought of searching... well, anyway. I'll introduce myself
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You leave Friday!? So jealous. We don't leave to next Wed (although that will be missing enough school). Anyway, I'll comment more when I have time, but for now: do you find this topic annoying and confusing too? Or is it just me? Because it seems like a crime topic involves law which is specific to country and thus not good for an International topic. Also, those of us here in the U.S. were getting annoyed by the number of USA Today articles in the bibliography. I can't imagine what it must be like to not live here and have to deal with all of them. And finances are confusing and the topic is huge!
very, very confusing. Possibly because we don't actually have access to said USA today articles, so most of our research is Aussie- which apparently is a bad thing. So we've been summarising lots and lots of articles we got yesterday :) It'll depend on the scene, i guess- they'll probably make it a "world" one- that way research from different countries will fit in easier?? Otherwise, it's going to be a bit more difficult. *goes back to turning pages*
I think our qualifying booklet is Agriculture in the 21st century and Finals is Depletion of Oceanic Species, I'm not quite sure. Could be interesting, but I can't say they particularly appeal to me or anything. Are they any good?
You know, I think it's a bit unfair that the finals we're working on aren't the ones you're working on. Like, your state booklet to decide the teams for IC '04-'05 was Oceanic Species, right? Yet our teams did the Media Impact one, which would have been '03-'04 for you, to get into the '04-'05 finals.
Yeah, we've done all this research on Australian business crime, so we're like experts in that sector... but when our booklet gets marked in America the evaluators will be like "what? whats that?" It's a bit annoying that all the indicated research is American... I mean, for a world competition. Variety people!! I agree that the topic is huge... it's like one big umbrella... there's so many forms of business crime.
So is the national (or state? i don't know) topic at the moment terrorism, renegade_panda? That's a daring one. At least you'd know a fair bit of research off the top of your head. But try not to be paranoid. =) There's much more chance of walking out into the street and being run over than there is being in a terrorist attack. Besides, the main objective of terrorism is fear... so if you're afraid, then you're just giving them what they want.
We did terrorism already. It's confusing how you all do it. Do you use the same fuzzies as us then? I remember that for IC last year they had some articles on some Aussie publication (Quadrent maybe) cited in the bibliography. They were really good. It's hard with any topic that is so country specific though. I feel terrible learning such U.S. biased stuff, and it makes me feel unprepared, but that's what all the stuff we find is...
I find it interesting that for immigration, which is very everything-can-be-applied-everywhere, there's publications cited from around the world, but then for business crime it's all Enron and Martha Stewart. I suppose the only reason it's an International topic is that it's hard, really . . . *crosses fingrs and hopes for business crime in space or something equaly ludicrous*
Yeah, but there would have to be space law for there to be crime and that would be really screwed. This is one of those topics where you jsut know that a one-page fuzzy is not going to have anywhere close to enough information and everyone is going to have to make way too many assumptions.
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It'll depend on the scene, i guess- they'll probably make it a "world" one- that way research from different countries will fit in easier?? Otherwise, it's going to be a bit more difficult.
*goes back to turning pages*
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*jealous that lucky people get to go to the international finals*
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You know, I think it's a bit unfair that the finals we're working on aren't the ones you're working on. Like, your state booklet to decide the teams for IC '04-'05 was Oceanic Species, right? Yet our teams did the Media Impact one, which would have been '03-'04 for you, to get into the '04-'05 finals.
Bleh, did that make sense?
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So is the national (or state? i don't know) topic at the moment terrorism, renegade_panda? That's a daring one. At least you'd know a fair bit of research off the top of your head. But try not to be paranoid. =) There's much more chance of walking out into the street and being run over than there is being in a terrorist attack. Besides, the main objective of terrorism is fear... so if you're afraid, then you're just giving them what they want.
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