Research

My first primary source only have a few things that make it primary. It has a couple of statistical data graphs that chart growth of transnational corporations. I had trouble finding concrete statistical studies with lexis nexis statistical. It was difficult because, this one was not already explained to us in class, and once I found a study that appealed to me, I couldn't even find the full text because the links on the abstract would never lead me to it, and when I looked up the titles on the general search, I never found the particular study that I wanted. So my first source has a lot of secondary input on foreign direct investment of transnational corporations. My second document is a primary source of a transcript of a capitol hill hearing testimony dealing with the inability of the Federal Regulation and Oversight of Energy's inability to discern the regulatory failures of the company Enron. This was found relatively quickly on the Lexis Nexis congressional studies

Corporations

Even though this is a prominent theme within debates, it can still be narrowed down to specific issues. It can be narrowed down to issues on how much power they have, how to tax them, and changing their role in the world. I want to base my paper more specifically on decreasing their power, and this can be further narrowed down to issues such as changing their status in the nation as being an "individual". Also it can be debated on whether or not corporation should be allowed intellectual property rights on living organisms. I think I want to stick to the topic of decreasing their power and uses the other narrowed down issues as points of why their power should be decreased.

A lot of people have experience with this issue, because many people are tied to corporation whether it be scientists manual laborer's politicians, and etc. Their role in society affects all social classes. Although most of these strata of society deal more with being impacted by corporations, I would Say that people who have the most experience in it are employees of the main office of the corporation.

everyone in the world is talking about this issue because of the rapid pace of globalization that has hit our society. Foreign relations have a lot to do with corporations considering that a lot of the factories are based in countries with a lower cost of labor.

Primary sources that I would like to tap into are statistical studies of corporations actions. Another primary source would be finding an employee from a corporations and interviewing him or her. What I really want to find is the positive and negative affects corporations have, and for example how growing advances in science have allowed corporations have some amazingly close to owning life as we know it.

Humurous Piece

My piece is a new-talk show skit of a business meeting with John McCain and the current Chinese president Hu Jintao. I wanted to exaggerate John McCain's stand with corporations. I highlighted the Republican stereotype of sometimes forgeting the needs and wants of the lower class or foreign entity's to implement free market and capitalist policies. I also used a few tendencies that John McCain seemed to emphasize in his debate against Obama as well as some influence from the Saturday Night Live Debate.

I feel like my piece lags at some point, and the joke or exaggeration does not get across. What could I do to spice it up a bit? Does it catch your attention from the beginning?