Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Blog #1

My end of the term project also known as the Research Project/Paper will be about one of the greatest presidents of all time in American History.

I have chosen to study the whole life history of the sixteenth president Abraham Lincoln.

I chose to write about Abraham Lincoln because even though we know that he was a great US President until his assassination in 1863, I would like to know more about him like how he was when he was a kid and what was he like before becoming the sixteenth president of the United States.

I want to know everything that is possible about him in the fact so that I can get a clearer and well deserved picture or understanding of him.

The research will most likely be web articles and several books from the library about his life from a boy until his death. 

I currently have no research questions about Abraham Lincoln but I’m hoping that after digging around in his life and finding things out about him that it will raise several new questions that I didn’t know before about him and one of them or many of them can become my research questions.

Abraham Lincoln was a great man perhaps but I only know of what they taught us in elementary school from those outdated textbooks. 

After this research I will hopefully be able to see a clearer picture of who’s the man that was Abraham Lincoln.  

I also chose this topic of doing Abraham Lincoln because I think it would completely shock everyone when they hear that I’m doing my research paper on none other than the sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln. 

Abraham Lincoln was known for being an honest man but I would like to know if that was really true or did it just somehow get placed on him like a collar is placed on a dog. 


Tariq Mohamed