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Printed and completely finished the bibliography and 3 annotations!! working on presentation tomorrow.. a bit last minute but Ms Brennan said our presentation does not need to be long as we have our video as our product.
Just about to print the research summaries.......
Nearly finished!!!

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We filmed the majority of our campaign today... I have finished editing the video, finished researching the culture/religion part of my research as well as the history... Mhairi and I are going to discuss and practice our presentation tomorrow on the bus!
I also need to do the bibliography and one CRAAP assessment

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We filmed a little bit of our video campaign today and researched into the arguments for and against same sex marriage.

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I'm finding it difficult to find specific information on the media's influence on homosexuality, so my summary is very general and world wide rather than focused in Australia and specific info.

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We decided that time was there were great reference constraints towards the history of homosexuality in various countries and also that time was running out too fast (!), so we had to cut out some of these countries and their history of homosexuality. We cut out Europe as most of these countries follow the christian religion, which we have represented in Great Britain and Australia. We also cut out the Americas as we have covered christianity already.

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TO DO FOR MONDAY (presentation):
- Make slide show including a brief but engaging showing of what our project was and what we found out.
- Make a speech to go with the side show.
- FILM VIDEO: "YES" campaign
- Annotation of Bibliography (3 sources)
- LOG EVERYTHING!!!

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I have looked into the results of the same-sex marriage postal survey using this:
http://www.theage.com.au/interactive/2017/samesexmarriagesurveyresults/ to look into statistical data of the results.

https://www.fgd.com.au/5-legal-benefits-of-marriage-equality/ I looked at this website to find out the benefits of marriage and why same sex marriage should be legalised. This contributes to the politics and results of the same sex marriage postal survey.

http://www.equalitycampaign.org.au/marriage-equality: This website is the official 'Yes' campaign for the same sex marriage debate and is useful to find out more about the results.

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I found a really useful article; https://www.britannica.com/topic/gay-rights-movement#ref1077994
on gay rights throughout history in england.
The site is useful as it is from a reliable website and states relevant information.

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We are beginning to create our presentation today as well as finishing off the last parts of our research. I have to finish the history of homosexuality in various countries.

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It has been quite tricky to find articles on the history of homosexuality in various countries, however, a few videos on the subject are available on youtube...

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Currently writing/finishing off summaries of research that has been conducted for my countries and parts of the second research Q. I have discovered that the generation of people has a heavy influence on their acceptance of homosexuality, as older generations tend to have a more negative outlook on homosexuality due to the conservative era they grew up in.

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IT WAS A MAJORITY YES VOTE FOR THE SURVEY!!!!!!!!!!! YAYAYAYAYA

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Today we refined the countries we are researching the history of homosexuality to  the Middle East, Europe, Great Britain and Australia, Asia and America.
I began research on the influences of the Buddhist and Jewish religions on people's opinions.

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Today I made a survey using google forms. I will send this to a range of people to collect quantitative and qualitative primary data/research into the Same Sex marriage debate. this will allow for a broader understanding of the different perspectives surrounding the issue. :)

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Today I spent all day researching for research studies, focusing primarily on the influences of culture and religion on people's opinions. I finished researching Christian and Islamic religions.

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Began researching the history of homosexulaity in Asia (China, Japan, Taiwan) and researched the influences on opinions and how this changed to contemporary views and opinions. I discovered a trend in most Asian countries, as homosexual relationships were common and seen as acceptable, however with the introduction of western influence and other religions (such as Buddhism), homosexuality became less common and taboo/unacceptable.

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Today I began searching more in depth towards the history of homosexuality and borrowed two books from the library entitled "same sex marriage debate" by Justin Healey and "gay and lesbian rights" by Justin Healey. It was quite hard to find information on the history of homosexuality in specific countries.

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Who’s researching what?

History of same sex marriage in:

- Middle East (egypt etc.)- JOJO

- Great Britain (Australia under same laws so same same-ish)- JOJO

- Europe (France, italy, greece, spain, - JOJO

- Asia- MHAIRI

- russia- MHAIRI

- Africa- MHAIRI

- north America- JOJO

- South america- JOJO

- Polynesia/Micronesia- MHAIRI

Influences of Same Sex Marriage in:

- media; (social media, journalists, celebrities influence through media and articles etc)- MHAIRI

- culture- JOJO

- religion- JOJO

- generation- MHAIRI

- family- MHAIRI

- political- MHAIRI

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Does your elevator pitch need to be edited/updated?
yes, we have changed our research questions slightly.

What research is already out there?
We have found few sources that explain the history of same-sex marriage. However, they only discuss the european perspective towards the history of same sex marriage and are not completely reliable sites.

Where is your project going? How has it changed direction?
We are aiming on
The direction of our project has changed slightly as our research questions have been edited to better suit the project outcome and research

Is your project timeline still realistic?
yes.

What challenges are there going to be?

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We have decided to just do social and history as our interdisciplinary topics. So our new research questions are;

- How has the world's views on same sex relationships evolved over time?
- What influence has media, culture/religion, generation, political and family had on people's opinions (positively and negatively)?
- What is the future of marriage equality in Australia?

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Ways we could research could be surveying groups of people and different social groups, eg, religious/cultural groups or different generations. Also interviewing people from these groups and their reasoning for these opinions. This will help us to discover the reasoning for people's opinions.

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I was away sick today so I did nothing :) Sorry Mhairi :)

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Editing the Research Questions 16/10/2017

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Editing the Research Questions 16/10/2017

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Originally we had three historical questions, however we were able to mix it into one question that could cover the separate questions;
- Why did these opinions occur?
- What were the consequences for having a certain opinion on the subject? (Major events)

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Same sex relationships in:
- Middle East (egypt etc.)
- Great Britain (Australia under same laws so same same-ish)
- Asia
- America
- Polynesia/Micronesia

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We came up with Research questions for each interdisciplinary topic of our project, which are; historical, social and political.

HISTORY:
- How have Australian's views on same sex relationship evolved over time?

SOCIAL:
- What influence has media, culture/religion, generation, and family had on people's opinions?

POLITICAL:
- What are the different opinions within the parliament? (Based on individual view and political/social expectations)
- Marriage equality postal vote/survey.

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What conflicting perspectives have led to the need for a same sex marriage postal survey in Australian?

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We have decided to do the ‘why you should vote yes’ topic because it would be pretty ‘darn awesome’. Our interdisciplinary topics could be social, historical and political. We could focus on the different sides of the argument and look into the history of peoples opinions on the subject, the media influence and social perspective, and the political views of the marriage equality debate. Not quite sure what the final product would be- maybe a video, or debate skit to show the arguments and perspectives.

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In the holidays, (no idea what date) Mhairi and I decided we would go down to Avalon beach for a run, swim and to discuss our ideas for our research studies project. We ran half a lap of the beach and then gave up, instead deciding we would go for a swim. We went in to our hips. We thought maybe doing ‘Why you should have voted yes’ for our topic could be a good idea. Mhairi and I also argued if the project had to involve an experiment AND I WAS RIGHT!