SIS Olson Scholars

Month September 2017

Portfolio Post #5

I am proposing to research the humanization of refugees because I want to find out why the number of refugees and granted asylums vary in order to help my reader understand how the international community can better receive displaced people… Continue Reading →

Portfolio Post #4

In “Humanizing the Understanding of the Acculturation Experience with Phenomenology,” the author questions the general understanding of assimilation and instead uses the term acculturation to explain the Latino immigrant’s process adjusting to life in the U.S.A. The author claims a… Continue Reading →

Portfolio Post #3

After reading Abbott’s debates on methodology and ontology, I noticed the debates are interconnected, categorizing the debates into two different types of thinking: one view of world being generalizable and consistent and another view where the world is dependent on… Continue Reading →

Portfolio Post #2

My research mentor is Dr. Rosemary Shinko. During our initial meeting on Monday, August 21 for a half and hour, she helped me understand the importance of having an international theory as the basis of my research. Because I am… Continue Reading →

Portfolio Post #1

When we think of an alien, we think of an extraterrestrial being who usually demands to speak with our leader and wants to take over planet Earth. Aliens are portrayed as threats, wishing to exterminate the entire human race, yet… Continue Reading →

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