Explaining My Topic.

 In your first paragraph, explain your research topic and preliminary findings to a friend (or sibling, parent, etc.). 

So, I'm doing this project in school, and it's basically me finding a topic that falls under the theme of rights and responsibilities. Now my topic is based on the Civil Rights Movement. I have to research this topic thoroughly, and kind of narrow it down so that it isn't to broad of a topic. I know it sounds, and it is, complicated. So I narrowed mine down to segregation in the south (Alabama seems to be the best location); Public Transportation, Voting Rights, and Basic Social Equality. It was difficult narrowing my choices down, but I was able to choose these three, because they cover the points that I want to get across to any chosen audience. So the project guidelines say that I have to have a final project, and on that part I'm still trying to decide. But, this is basically what I have to do for my project. 

explain your topic again more formally, like you might in a paper or a formal class presentation. 

For my NHD project, I chose to focus on the Civil Rights Movement. Now not the whole entire movement, but mainly three specific aspects of it, that I found to be most important. Once I narrowed my topic down, I ended up with a thesis: Transportation, Education, and Basic Social Equality were some of the main focuses when it came to what were big priorities during this time, that influenced the Civil Rights Movement to start. I chose these three, because they manage to capture important parts of the movement within them. I also find the events that occurred within these categories to be very interesting, so I guess that's just a plus to my topic. Now there's the process of choosing a final project to use, for presenting your project. Making videos always interested me, so that may just be my final project selection, but then again I haven't decided yet.