This week in AS we started junior theme. For me it was very very very difficult to pick a topic and it took me 3 days to finally settle on one. Going through all of my potential research topics I realized that there is so much information about current issues that I have no idea about. My list of questions reached almost 25 in total and I'm positive that there were millions of other questions I could have come up with. For a teenager who thinks she know everything (like most other teenagers)I just thought it was almost a wake up call for me to learn more about current issues. I am now really excited to read my fellow classmates' papers.
The topic/ question I decided on was: Why has the number of Americans on prescription drugs increased so much in the past decade? It is a surprisingly interesting topic and it has been really easy to find research. Now my only problem is narrowing it down. There are too many medicines to generalize the use of them because consider Viagra: it has only been around for less then a decade so shouldn't its number be increasing? And do I argue that the increase in number of people on antidepressants has increased because of advertisement or that diagnosis is much better? So at this point I am confused as to which way to start to narrow my topic. And it needs to be done because after all, we can only have 5-7 pages.
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