Conclusion

§I feel that it is no easy feat in the research on how books can change a person’s perspective of the world, as a large part of that is purely opinion, and very little about this is fact based. The best possible research on this topic is probably opinions form credible sources, like famous book critics or websites or even daily newspapers. While all information that I gather might not be real and reliable, I feel that people’s opinions are mostly accurate as this entire topic is mostly opinion based, on what other people think about books and their emotional changing effects.

§I also feel that this could be one of the questions with no right or wrong answer, and that it is far less fact based on something like, how do tsunamis form, or how devastating they are.

Plan for Day 4

My Plan for today is to:

• Tie up some loose ends of research.
• Finish up Powerpoint Podcast.
• Write brief speech to go along with my podcast.

How do books have an effect on a person's emotional state?

I also asked fellow students on how do books change their emotional state, and I received some interesting feedback. Several student claimed that they didn't experience any change in their emotional state. Quite a significant amount of students (around 30%) claimed that 'When I read an interesting story, I feel as if I'm spectating the story', or, in other words, addiction to the story, as if they 'captured' that person's brain, and then their real life emotional state becomes captured and changes, according the the theme of the world. Also quite a significant portion of the fellow students I asked also commented on how reading a book has relaxing properties, helping a person to relax, and, as one student claims, 'like adults with alcohol'

Survey/Poll Results

After asking fellow students on how books change their perspective of the world, I found out that 69% of students tend to think that books change our perspective of the world, 7.7% think that it doesn't, and the remainder of the students do not have a good idea on the psychological effects of books.
People who voted on books changing their perspective of the world also made several interesting comments. A few people tend to think that non-fiction books were the ones that change your perspective, as one person says 'Well, it depends ... when you learn more about the world i guess it does change your perspective.'
The majority of the people claimed that not only do non-fiction books change your perspective of the world, even reading fiction books change people's perspective of the world, simply by seeing other people's point of view. 'I think from books you can learn about all sorts of things even in fiction books. It can change your perspective because of the way it is written- for example from someone's point of view. From non-fiction books you can get new ideas which changes your perspective of the world.
Other people stated that 'I think books are just a subject with nothing special in it. It can be used for entertainment saying it changes my perspective of the world won't happen.'

Plan

My objective for day 3 is to:

• Summarize what other people have to say Done
  
• Find a more credible source, like physiological expert Done
  
• Research what makes a good podcast
  

Day 2

Well, its the end of day 2, and it had been mostly spent reflecting on things I did in day 1, and working out a good time frame for my project. Although I feel that I am making steady progress,I feel that I will have to speed up in order to meet the deadline of day 4.

5 Planing Questions

What do I need to do?
Research; personal opinion, other peoples opinion, more creditable sources, observations from other people, online questionnaire.
When do I need to do it?
I will need a laptop, people to ask, if possible access to people and books.
What do you want to do?
If I had time, I also want to read and see known records for how books change your emotional states.
How do you know its done?
For polls, or questionnaires, I think that, say a number like 15 sets of results would be enough to prove that my sets of results aren't biased, and that they are reliable and creditable.
How do you know its done successfully?
My idea of successful will be when, I actually think that I have found good information, with credible sources, or when i feel that I have satisfied my own curiosity, and that when I myself have a much deeper understanding.