Why Venezuela?
Before starting this research project I never thought about South America in my daily life. Being of Ecuadorian decent, but being born in America, it is hard to connect yourself to the life your family knows so well. I ask my mom sometimes what life was like and she'll tell me glorious stories of how she would pick and eat fruits with her cousins or the smells her grandmother's soup never failed to produce. I hung onto those memories of hers and yearned to make them mine. When I went to my grandmother's house, I envisioned myself on a farm, out in the country like her, the smell of the potato cakes we call llapingachos, the arroz con gandules. I savored every bit of it. As I got older, I wished more and more to visit Ecuador, but my mom always talked about the corruption and the bad issues the country was facing. I didn't understand. It sounded so beautiful when she described her life their, how could that be tainted by government corruption?
When I began this project, I wanted it to be on Ecuador, but I could find little to no information. I had a conversation with my grandmother later on and she revealed to me that the corrupt has been an ongoing thing in Ecuador revealing why I could not find much of anything on the topic. After I realized I could not do Ecuador, I searched up "Corruption in South America" and Venezuela popped up. I have no ancestry linked to Venezuela, that I know of, but I was still ecstatic to be researching it. The question process was easy, but the actual research was grueling. Realizing your question and the research you are finding are not quite the same is terrifying. Will Mr. Phillips let me change my question? How am I ever going to find enough research? Am I even going to finish? These questions ran through my head on the first research day, but as I dug into the media center's online resources I realized I was going to be more than fine. I wrote down anything I thought I might need and once the time came to write the essay, I had plenty of information to choose from. I definitely would have benefited from more research to use in the essay though. Once I turned it in, I knew there was so much more I wanted to say. I wanted to go more in depth about the protests and how angry it made me feel that the hospitals didn't provide proper care and why the government lost so much money, but I was pleased with what I had written. My recent researching has proved to be helpful in many ways. For one, it made making this website easier. In addition, I have gained some useful knowledge about Venezuela, and hopefully one day in the future it won't be so dangerous, so I can visit with my awareness of past events.
When I began this project, I wanted it to be on Ecuador, but I could find little to no information. I had a conversation with my grandmother later on and she revealed to me that the corrupt has been an ongoing thing in Ecuador revealing why I could not find much of anything on the topic. After I realized I could not do Ecuador, I searched up "Corruption in South America" and Venezuela popped up. I have no ancestry linked to Venezuela, that I know of, but I was still ecstatic to be researching it. The question process was easy, but the actual research was grueling. Realizing your question and the research you are finding are not quite the same is terrifying. Will Mr. Phillips let me change my question? How am I ever going to find enough research? Am I even going to finish? These questions ran through my head on the first research day, but as I dug into the media center's online resources I realized I was going to be more than fine. I wrote down anything I thought I might need and once the time came to write the essay, I had plenty of information to choose from. I definitely would have benefited from more research to use in the essay though. Once I turned it in, I knew there was so much more I wanted to say. I wanted to go more in depth about the protests and how angry it made me feel that the hospitals didn't provide proper care and why the government lost so much money, but I was pleased with what I had written. My recent researching has proved to be helpful in many ways. For one, it made making this website easier. In addition, I have gained some useful knowledge about Venezuela, and hopefully one day in the future it won't be so dangerous, so I can visit with my awareness of past events.
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