Finding Evidence
There are many resources at our disposal that can help us conduct research and attain accurate information for research papers, test study guides, or even for our own personal curiosity. One of the biggest resources that we have is our college’s library system. As long as you have access, you can obtain countless sources of information from our college’s vast library collection and be able to get a hold of information that isn’t available on the Internet/Web. Since our library’s database is so vast, typing in certain keywords to be able to narrow down your results is an important skill to learn. There are also various ways in which one can obtain data on their own such as by performing their own experiments, making their own observations, conducting their own interviews, conducting their own surveys, or by drawing upon personal experiences. This article was extremely helpful to me because it showed me resources that were extremely close to me that I was previously not aware of. It also helped me become familiar with how to narrow down my searches and the different ways in which I could obtain data by myself.
Under My Thumb
In the article Under My Thumb by Chelsea Booth, she writes about the inequality between men and women in the music industry. She brings awareness to the problem that female musicians aren’t as talked about as compared to their male counterparts even though there are numerous female musicians in history who have made just as great, if not greater, contributions to music. Male musicians are naturally held to a higher standard while female musicians have to try twice as hard just to get half the amount of recognition that men do. Booth brings up the valid argument that if there is enough time to listen to John Cage’s 4’33”, which is quite literally just four minutes and thirty three seconds of complete silence, in six different classes, then there should be enough time to include a few important female musicians into the curriculum. Booth also brings awareness to the amount of sexual assault that happens to women when they attend concerts. Although these cases of sexual assault are extremely prominent and are higher than what it should be, most musical concerts provide no solution or closure to the people who have gone through this sexual assault and fail to even acknowledge it as a problem. After reading this article, I found that I actually agreed with all the statements that Booth was making in her article. Female musicians are generally less talked about than men historically and often go through more situations of inequality within the workplace than men do. I also agreed with what she wrote about sexual assault during concerts and found that it’s ridiculous that there are still no solutions offered at the majority of music venues on who to report to/what actions to take when a sexual assault has occurred.