ORIGINS

What's the point?

Our main interest in this topic began with both of our family backgrounds. Given that we both have quite culturally diverse family trees, we wanted to dig deeper into our families' past and ask some of the important questions as to where we really came from, and how we ended up where we are today. From that we broadened our topic to be about not only the origins of ourselves and our families, but of everything! We expanded on the more specific topic of immigration and began to study the word origin from multiple standpoints: history, science, and math, all of which can be read about more on our website! What we began to discover quite quickly was that everything has an origin. Therefore there is no definitive time period that you can pin-point as the beginning. How we live now is really just an origin to the future.
What do we want to know? 
One of the main ideas involving origins that interested us as we began conducting our research was how they effect our future. Does the environment and manner in which you were raised truly determine where you end up as you get older? What can we do to prevent the bad parts of history from being repeated? We came to find that the answer to many of these questions are different depending on where you come from, but we hope to spark some interest in you and help you think of some of your own questions and answers.

Line of Inquiry
  • Where did we come from? - How the world and man was created.
  • How did we get here? - Analyzation of immigration and its effects on our country.
  • Where are we going? - How the past and our origins will effect and predict our future.

Sources
  • http://b4rl1sbi.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/white-dwarf-spiral-wd-03-ga.jpg
  • http://www.whenwegetthere.com/tourist_attraction_images/land_tourist_attractions/butterfly_watching/butterfly_watching.jpg
  • http://farm1.static.flickr.com/212/498110539_7ed7560bdf.jpg
  • http://keetsa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/ikea-tree-planting1.jpg
  • http://urbangardencasual.com/wp-content/uploads/raspberry.jpg
  • http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/pretty-baby-and-mom.jpg
  • http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/sites/misc/img/16047_puppies_1.jpg
  • http://www.lisisoft.com/imglisi/5/Screensavers/36223mountain-summits.jpg
Sources from Home Page
  • http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/origins
  • http://www.vaughnsphotoart.com/uploads/images/catalog_src/beginnings_src_1.jpg