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Callye Herbison
Candice Calles
Comp 1302.418
25 January 2011
Research Proposal
THE RESEARCH PROPOSAL
1. Preliminary Title:
Fight for Women’s Equality through the Ages and how the Olympics Show that Fight
2. Research Question:
How the Olympic Games served as a foil to how women are treated in modern society?
3. Purpose (Goals):
Women are fully capable of keeping up in what was thought to be known as a man’s
world. The researching will be about how women and women in different cultures being held
back on reaching their full potential. I love the Olympics, and this is interesting way to see how
women fought for their equality. This is significant because it is showing how strong women
can truly be. I hope I and my readers will understand how women were underappreciated so
long.
4. History:
Since I can remember I have watched every Olympics, and even including the old re-runs
and the biographies on famous Olympians. I am very passionate about the Olympics. I am so
passionate that I have dreams to going to the Olympics in Equestrian.
5. Methodology:
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In my research I will be using search engines, books, articles, the internet, and if I can, I
would like to interview people. I have not found any un-scholarly articles yet, but if I do I will
use them as needed.
I will be looking for how women have fought for equality through the Olympic Games
and the world.
6. Expected Results:
I expect the result to show how women in today’s world will prove to men that women
can survive in being an Olympian or all the way to being the President of the United States of
America.
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Complete final source selection by_________
Complete 1st half of annotated bibliography by__________
Complete 2nd half of annotated bibliography by__________
Complete outline by________
Complete set up of interviews and other field research by_________
Complete thesis statement by_________
Complete interviews and field research by___________
Complete draft 1 of first section of research paper by__________
Complete draft 2 of first section of research paper by__________
Complete final draft of first section of research paper by__________
Complete draft 1 of second section of research paper by__________
Complete draft 2 of second section of research paper by__________
Complete final draft of second section of research paper by_________
 Complete full project by__________
 Complete presentation by__________
7. Bibliography:
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