Finding a Suitable Topic

Finding a suitable topic

After the second conference with the professor, I than figured out a pretty important mistake I had make. I had not yet decided what my conclusion, or say, solution to the issue is going to be. Though I already have a summary in head about what I’m going to talk about, the topic was not yet settled. Therefore, after discussing with the professor and my classmates, I finally come up with a suitable topic for the paper, and eventually, come up with the conclusion of it. However, after reviewing all four of my annotation and the original issue paper, I noticed that there is a lot of revise waiting to be done.

First of all, for not being certain about the topic and the point-to-be-argued, putting these annotations together would seem like a mess and untidy work without its central conflict. So I decided to talked about how technology brings along commoditization and then how such convenience provides us with a wrongly understanding of what happiness is. By discussing the behavioral addiction of online games, we can see that the pleasure we get from those entertainment was nothing but a vague emotion. Though sense of excitements rise while playing games, the players hardly feels any other subtle emotional tension involved.

Secondly, since Aristotle’s’ viewpoint presented in Nicomachean Ethic was somehow too serious comparing to the example of Candy Crush addiction example, I decided to give more examples while explaining his ideas. And also, try to make a connection of what people think of happiness back then differs to nowadays, or even how people pursuit the slavish way of pleasure remains similarly in the society now. Making comparison between two things usually provides the audience a much more thorough understanding about the main issues. But the thing is how to present the comparison to the audience in a clear and easy way?

Whether the conference with the professor or the discussions with other classmate either in class or by their comments, it helps me a lot in understanding the weak points of my paper, because we usually can’t figure out our own problems.