Turned all the way around again

Well, I have to re-write my entire paper. I am entirely turned around yet again. I really should have had grad project last trimester. I can't think syraight right now, my eyes are burning, I can't breathe, I basically feel like crap.... And I'm supposed to comprehend all of the things I need to do for my paper.

Paper Progress

I turned my paper in for teacher edits. I think I gave it to the teacher that would edit it the harshest, so I'm hoping I don't go too crazy with trying to fix all of the edits and make it perfect. I got an e-mail back from the children's museum, I'm going to e-mail her back in a minute here. Right now I'm just feeling really sick.

Also, I have to look into the professor guy....

Alright Then,

Finally, self revisions of my paper are complete. Now I just need to start sorting through the other pile of things I need to do.

A special thanks to Ms. Anderson, for sending me a plethora of links relating to my grad project.

That also leads me to a concern... There are so many things I can do with this project, and so many things that can affect anything I choose to do with this project. I hope I'm not biting off more than I can chew, I can't afford to this last trimester.

Outline so Far...

How Colors Affect Emotions

I. Intro. .

A. Studies
B. Science projects

II. What colors do what?

A. . Explain what the sources I used said about the different colors
1. . Warm colors= comfort and warmth-anger and hostility (Cherry)
2. .Cool colors= calm, yet sad or indifferent (Cherry)
3. . (Johnson)
4. . (Mood chart)
5. . (color and mood)
6. . (Franco)
7. . (Color wheel)
8. . (Mood ring)

III. Why do colors affect emotions?

A. . Past experience
1. . “Regardless of what your left brain may tell you, color symbolizes and triggers emotions, memories and ideas or thoughts without you even realizing it.” (understanding)
2. . Daffodils inspiring hope (ACS)

B. . Gender?
1. . “Thomas, Curtis, and Bolton (1978)”—72 Nepalese people interviewed, women listed more color names than men (Khouw)
2. More girls liking purple than guys (Hallock)
3. “Purple stands out as a feminine color because it is chosen almost exclusively by women as a favorite color and is strongly disliked by men. Traditionally associated with royalty,the color purple is also spirtual, romantic, and mysterious” (Bear).
4. . Men prefer orange to yellow, girls are opposite (Khouw)
5. . This is changing [manly men wearing girly colors in sports] (color by numbers)

C. Other Factors
1. . . “Birren states, ‘With maturity comes a greater liking for hues of shorter wave length (blue, green, purple) than for hues of longer wave length (red, orange, and yellow).’” (Hallock)
2. Old people can’t see dark colors well (color by number)

a. . people are effected more by the combination of hue, value, chroma, warmness or coolness (Khouw)
b. .
c. .

IV. How can colors affect learning environments?

A. . (Willard)
1. Pink locker room = less aggression (Nolan)

V. What other things can colors improve? ((Work in progress))

A. . The workplace
1. .
2. .
3. .
B. . Homes
1. .
2. .
3. .
C. . Business
1. . Websites
2. . blue=business like [websites] but cold on its own (Nolan)
3. . margarine color marketing (color by numbers)
D. Therapy? (questionable)
1. . Increase blood circulation(Cherry)
2. .Red, Anemia and blood conditions (Stefanidakis)
3. .Yellow= Stomach, liver, intestines, skin healing (Stefanidakis)
4. . Indigo = skin problems (Cherry)
5. .Indigo = blood problems (Stefanidakis)
VI.
VII. Conclusion

Not Making it....

Well, I'm s till really, really, really behind on my paper. I'm writing this so I can take a breather and possibly organize some thought. (Or perhaps I'm writing just to rant a bit...)

Right now, I'm still only on two pages of the actual paper being written. I've been trying to build my outline up a bit more before returning to the paper. It's horrible. I'm having problems finding things related to my foundation questions. I based my foundation questions on what I wanted to learn through my experiment (that I won't fully be able to test do to time)... I did not create questions that could easily be researched. Every source either gives me irrelevant information, contradicts most of my other information, or gives me a HUGE run around.

It seems I'm the only one with this problem though, mostly everyone else is done.
No word back from the Children's Museum either.

I don't think I'm going to pass this year....

Shift in Direction Again.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/color/

Mr. Hamilton suggested I look into this guy.
He also suggested somehow doing an experiment without people being aware of me doing one.
I had a lot more to say here, but I have a lot more to do elsewhere. I'm swamped at the moment.

What I'm up to::
- Fixing up Literary review
- Thinking about website
- Taking more notes
- Looking into this guy ( Eric Rubenstein )
- Thinking about action plan
- Waiting for reply from Children's Museum
- Trying not to lose my mind
- Trying not to fail

Made The Call

I finally called the Children's museum (well, the assistant manager). She was really nice about all of it. I feel like I may have seemed impolite though, I sort of rushed through what I had written down to say (and I actually didn't get to the other questions I was going to get to)

Anyways, she's going to e-mail me sometime next week after she gets in touch with the people that do the program to see if they would be ok with it.

Frustration

So, I'm no where near done with my paper. Why? Well, I'm sure I could give you a bunch of reasons, but you will only see them as excuses.

Mainly though, I'm not happy with the way it's turning out. It sounds elementary and it basically just sucks. the more I look at it and try to write it, my headache gets bigger.

Literary Review and Web Site

My web site is coming along fantastically. Most of my pages are all linked to each other, and every page has a link to this blog. It's very colorful, and works along with my project. I'm hoping it won't give people a headache though, or confuse them...

My paper on the other hand, that's slow progress. It probably doesn't help that I am trying my creative writing class's "crappy" first draft method. My very first draft is probably going to sound very elementary. My goal is to get all of the facts down, and tweak the working later. I'm afraid that I might be judged because of that though.

Here is my introduction though

Everything has color. Color is in the eyes of adults and young children alike. At their young age, children already begin to create their own opinion of a color, and associate that color to other things. Most children will be taught things like, blue is used to represent sadness, red represents anger, and other similar color emotion associations. The question is then, if a color can be associated with feeling an emotion, can seeing that color affect the way that you feel? If the walls around you are green, does it make any difference on your emotions? Colors can affect our nervous systems, (more specifically the pituitary gland, which relates to hormones) therefore altering the way we feel, work, learn, or think.

This might also change. Although I know that it is hormones and what not, it has a lot to do with past experiences and color association. I might also change the order of my outline.

The outline goes from the introduction, to brief facts about what colors are said to do what, to the why all of those are different depending on the source.

It's confusing. It's also really hard to distance myself from the topic and just state the facts...

Never Enough

I thought it would at least be a little later in this trimester before I started breaking down, but I guess I was wrong. I've actually been working my but off this whole time just to get told that it's not enough. Especially considering how hard it is for me to make decisions and accept that whatever I'm working on is ok enough to turn in.

I've been working on notes, my outline, fixing my works cited, working on my website, figuring out what to say to the children's museum, working out the kinks in my action plan, and atempting to organize my thoughts in here. I've been working. That's actually rare for me when it comes to things like this.

I was trying to do the outline without actual notes.... Do we need a certain number of notes? That's..... Grrr.

Turns out we do. Yay. What fun.