Research Journal #5c Search string Check

comments on Paul's Search strings.
http://pault1989.blogspot.com/2009/09/research-journal-assignment-4.html#comment-form
Comments on Kris's Search strings.
http://kpacheco1020.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-4b-writing-search-strings.html#comment-form

Research Journal #5b Books

Book number 1:
-Author: Walter Isaacson
-Title: Kissinger a biography
-Published in New York, NY
-Name of publisher: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks
- Date of Publication: 2005
Book number 2:
-Author: Henry Kissinger
-Title: Diplomacy
-Published in New York, NY
- Name of publisher: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks
- Date of publication: 1994

Research Journal #5a Reference Articles

The first website that I visited was called infoplease.com.
-From this site the only information that I was able to find was a biography of Henry Alfred Kissinger. Although this information was not new to me, the electronic database did refresh my memory as well as list the other books that Kissinger has written.
-I could not find and author of this biography listed.
-The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed.
-2007
-Page Number not available for electronic source.
On this website I did not do a search for any specific terms, I just started from the home page and just followed links until I found an article pertaining to Kissinger.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0827824.html accessed on 9/21/09

The second website that I visited was State.gov
-on this website I found a ton of interesting information. I was able to access a document that Kissinger wrote to president Nixon during the Vietnam war. This information was very interesting to me, I have no read the whole thing yet because it is well over 100 pages.
-Henry Kissinger
-Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National
Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Nixon
-Washington DC
-National Archives
-May 19, 1970
-I used the following keywords in my search:
Kissinger, Henry, Diplomacy, Vietnam
-I accessed the article on 9/21/09

Research Journal #4c Checking Researh Questions

Kris Pacheco's blog comments
Paul's log comments

Research Journal #4b Writing Search Strings

1. Search engine math:
Ex: A) Henry+Kissinger+Diplomacy "Foreign Policy"-Heathcare-Nazi-Gerrmany
B) Kissinger+"Vietnam War"-Obama-Healthcare
2. Boolean:
Ex: A) HenryNEARkissingerANDdiplomacyOR"Foreign Policy"NOThealthcareNOTnaziNotgermany
B) KissingerAND"Vietnam War"NOTobamaNOThealthcare

Research Journal #4a Generating Keywords

FOREST LOG
FO= 60's, sixties, henry kissinger, secretary of state, diplomatic, diplomat, diplomats,
RE/ST= National Security Advisor, Government Advisary, Political Adviser, Foriegn Policy, Foriegn Policies
LOG= Social Science->Political Science->American Political Science->American Foriegn Policy->Diplomacy->Kissinger

Research Journal #3c Develop a Research Question

The text book says that a good way to start is by writing a question that starts off with each of the following words: who, what, when, where, how, why, should, would.

• Who as effected most by the ideas that Henry Kissinger presented in his book on Diplomacy?
• What would be the costs and benefits of making Henry Kissinger's idea of diplomacy our foreign policy?
• When would Diplomacy, as defined by Henry Kissinger, be the most logical route for American to take in terms of foreign policy?
• Where is America's Foreign policy does diplomacy fit in?
• How is it possible to make diplomacy the first line of defense in a world that has related to fighting in order to solve disputes for all of history?
• Why should Henry Kissinger's ideas even be discussed in today's political situation?
• Should America adopt a strict foreign policy that directly correlates
• with the ideas that Henry Kissinger presented in his book "Diplomacy"
• Would the idea of Diplomacy in which Henry Kissinger discusses in his book "Diplomacy" have been a workable foreign policy in the 1960's?
  

Research journal #3b Narrowing research topic

In the textbook the first idea is to develop a list of possible debates that people may have about your topic.

• Was Kissinger's Ideas for diplomacy in the 1960's practice to the full intent that he had originally intended?
• Could Kissinger's Idea's be used in the current political situation involving America's war in Iraq?
• Was Immanuel Kant in fact, the first person to come up with the idea that simple diplomacy could resolve foreign policy conflicts between countries.
  

From these potential topics I feel as though reading deeply into Immanuel Kant would intensely interesting, but it would also be far to much material for a 10 page paper. When It comes to applying his ideas to current situations I do not feel as though I could avoid bringing current political issues into the research and this would become a current issue research paper more than a paper that would stay focused on a concrete topic. At this time I feel as though the best topic to focus on would be whether or not Kissinger's ideas were fully tested in the ending of the Vietnam war or if they were used at all. I also plan to look at his entire idea of diplomacy and argue whether or not his policy is workable or not.

Research journal #3a Exploring Your Research topic

The first step that I took was to do a general search on Google scholar. I searched the words diplomacy and Henry Kissinger. Many of the pages that came up were just online excerpts from the book that Henry Kissinger wrote called Diplomacy. As I scanned through all of the search results I came to an article that Kissinger wrote about his book. In this article I was interested to see read that much of the ideas in Kissinger's book were ideas that were originally thought up by Immanuel Kant.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/20031169

After that I began to look at what website people had bookmarked about Kissinger and diplomacy on delicious. While searching delicious I found a link to an article that Kissinger wrote recently in the Washington post. This article was extremely interesting because Kissinger explains the promises that president Obama has made since taking office and he takes the current foreign policy and compares it to the problems the he himself had faced first hand during the Nixon administration.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/21/AR2009042102967.html?referrer=delicious