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Research Portfolio Post #9: Mentor Meeting
I met with my mentor: Professor Anthony Fontes, again in order to discuss the progress of my research project. We met on Thursday, December 6th, 2018 for just over half an hour. Since our initial meeting at the beginning of…
Research Portfolio Post #8: Qualitative Data Sources for Interpretivist Research
If I chose to use the interpretivist method, I plan to research the causes of the current outbreak of violence in Nicaragua that started in April of 2018 because I want to find out why there have been repeated outbreaks…
Research Portfolio Post #7: Qualitative Data Sources
One of the qualitative data sources I would like to use for my dependent variable: economic development, is a presentation given on global and regional outlook during a regional conference for Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic that was…
Research Portfolio Post #6: Quantitative Data Sources
As a note before I begin, I have decided to make modern day development my sole independent variable and removed stability as a variable, due to concerns about the scope of my research. When examining various data sets, I found…
Research Portfolio Post #5: Research Topic Post
I am proposing to research historical levels of violence in independence movements in Latin America because I want to find out what explains postcolonial development trends in order to help my reader’s understand why there is a variation in modern…
Research Portfolio Post #4: Article Comparison
“Decolonization and State Building in South Asia” by Sumantra Bose is a small-n case study which analyzes the political development of multiple South Asian countries: India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It concludes that in the initial postcolonial development, trends are…
Research Portfolio Post #3: Philosophical Wagers
I understand the concept of ontology as the way of thinking about approaching research through understanding the way in which you view the world and larger aspects of your personal philosophy. While it’s the way of understanding what constitutes a…
Research Portfolio Post #2: Mentor Meeting
I have met with my mentor: Professor Fontes, twice over the course of the semester. I met with him once on the 31st of August and once on September 7th. During the 1st meeting we discussed my general idea for…
Research Portfolio Post #1: Research Interests
My topic area of interest is how the level of violence in Latin American Independence movements impacts the modern levels of stability and development in those countries. I originally became interested in this topic while in my History class in…