Place Based Topics and Sources.

For my paper I considered two different topics for my paper. My first topic was inspired by the article we read in class about the music scene in Boston. I decided that it would be a very cool experience to focus on the music scene around London, England. Specifically Liverpool, birthplace of the Beatles. Since I'm originally from England it would give me a good chance to learn more about my origins and the area that I come from. Also there is alot of information available about the London Music scene on websites like Questia.com and Wikipedia (just for overview not as a legitimate source).
My second potential topic was facebook.com. Facebook has revolutionized the way we communicate with our friends. Instead of calling to check up on them, all we need to do is check facebook to see what's new in their lives via Status Updates (whether we want to or not.) Even as a social networking site, Facebook is unique in several aspects and yet also very confirmatory to the standards of the most basic social network sites. Because of the numerous uses and how integral it has become to our society. In such a respect it is a virtual community which has become more of a place than any place that is physically available. Since I spend alot of time on facebook, this is a very appealing topic for me to research in depth for the paper. Using Questia and the databases available at BC I will be able to construct a very interesting paper about places for Freshman Writing Seminar and I can't wait to start.