What is "intellectual property" ?

 I believe an "intellectual property" will be the the right of your mind. What I mean by it is that whatever comes from you mind has right and belong to you. First, because it is unique and comes from you and has to stay unique because it shows you existence and how you contribute to the world you belong to. No one has the right to steal and publish what you build with your reflexion because it had been done with the work of your nerves and meninges.
A " expect's" definition of intellectual property is one from WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization). According to the website the "Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind such as inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce.

IP is distributed into two classes:  Industrial property,which consist of inventions, trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source; and Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs.  Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and those of broadcasters in their radio and television programs

Also examples of intellectual property we observe everyday  is the work we are using from academic research such as books, journal articles, said in movie and video we are watching in class....

However we are using all of those properties  for education  the concept of PI will not change at all because we have to respect the laws and rights stated for the copyright and fair use of any documents and sources  which from someone else.

Never end !!!

My God! this research will never end up. Today, with a little chance I have find my three articles( I am waiting for the review). While I was searching for those I just made a new point which raise my curiosity... Why gay female have more chance to adopt children than Gay men? Here is a new question but a this time I want search anymore and that answer will wait until I have a time for myself. At this time of the semester I have to be ready for the comings exams and assignments due.

First Draft of Alternative Viewpoints Paper

I am reviewing my findings and hope to post everything by the end of this week. I have already found my three articles ...

Research Reflexion 2

I am back after two long week of fatigue and being struggling with some personal stuff.... God Bless Me!  I am out of that trouble. I have being looking for good articles everywhere for information regarding  my alternative viewpoint paper. Unfortunately, I could not found some good one on my topic. I went to the library and asked for help and the librarian who worked that day could not help me as much I expected. He sent me to the LGBT organization to talk to someone who has eventual knowledge on the topic and whom  may help me better; but however the person who supposed to help me ,  did  not do as much I expected to.
So  based on this tragic research of the Truth in the world of the press and news , I have to reshape my topic or find myself a correlation between my findings and my topic.After talking to the organization, I  have learn that Gay men from the Midwest moving from Minneapolis because of  good lifestyle that the city offering to them. Also there are couple other advantages such as safety, welfare, and organization such as "outfront" which help them to live without stress and away front people behavior like in the sub region such as in Chicago, Wisconsin and others. But this viewpoint I had from people working at the LGBT organization at St Cloud State University is not enough to make a decision or to have a general opinion. For this reason I came out with another subject which is adoption of same sex marriage in USA because they are a lot of gay couple and parents in our community who want to adopt children but this is not easy at all for them and even if some states allow them to care about children it is under certain rules such as fostering them not be able to have a right on them such as considering them as part of them ( adoption). Also, it seems like even if they have a chance to have children most of them have to surrogate and this process has other difficulty such as children do not belong to all parents. One of the parents have more right then the other etc...

Google 101

 I missed the class on March 13th so I had to do my own research on Google.

I found good information on google regarding my research on adoption by same sex marriage. I did not know that we can find relevant articles on google such as scholarly an popular ones. Actually ,based on google search I was able to  find one of the three artcles for my alternative viewpoint paper on google. I found it funny and I did not known that we can choice the language and the country of where you want to take the information. For instance, you can trace and see which news are in top of the press in one country versus another country. I also learnt about how to narrow down result in google.  I always thought that these options where only available in library database search website and no somewhere else.

Research Assignment Questions

When reviewing my  reasearch questions on my population, I did not have any issues about answering questions I had raised. However, I am working on name of organizations that educate people  from my population.While, I was reading the articles I  found on my topic, I noticed the name of one organization called Colage which helps children from gay parents to understand the socail environmentyal and help them to deal with social issues that the societies such as peers at school can create to them. I am not sure about the way  it works. I have to make more research on it.  

Blogs are legitimate forms of scholarship or news?

Based on your knowledge about how to evaluate an blog, I would say a blog which one has multiple features (social networking features, RSS feeds,blogroolls, tags, and archives) and functions can be considered as a form of scholarship or news.
As we known the blogosphere has always included sites by students, professors, librarians, administrators and other university members, more scholars are now tying their blogs to their work-related activities and making the connection between online presence and career development. Mostly the function of the blog depend on the purpose about why it has been created. For instance, some blogs are create simply to collect information and provide to the reader more information regarding his research and interests. The collection of that type of information can include reference questions and answers, themed websites, links to news articles or reviews, MP3 files, videos, or artwork. However, not all blogs can be considered as good  resources. This qualification as a scholars form will depend on why,how, and who wrote the blog and what kind of work cited have been cited to persuade the readers.
Academic blogs by definition tend to focus on professional rather than personal topics, showing explicit connections between blog content, research issues and academic life. Peer-reviewed articles are still the benchmark for academic professionalization, and some graduate students and early-career academics feel that blogging is a waste of precious time that could be spent on “legitimate” publishing. Because it’s a form of self-publishing that lacks peer review, blogging isn’t usually viewed as a legitimate form of scholarship.
 The issues with the blog is that information can be scooped and no one want to use an information which can be copied from another source without knowing if this information is relevant or not.
In regard of blog which cannot be use as scholars source I will cite here the following that I found  while i was doing my  research on  the following topic: the influence between gay parents and their children in their sexual orientation from Eric Harris ( Eric Harris. ( Fall 2009).  Child and Infant development : Are gay parents better?   Retrieved from http://psy3215.wordpress.com/)
The blog entry is not that rich based on the work cited which I found did not concise which the entry because I did not found this relevant. Eric Harris posted the following a resources : 
http://www.gayrightswatch.com/2007/05/gay-parents-better-parents.html.


http://www.narth.com/docs/does.html.


 However, if we check the following blogs , I would say that is a good form of scholarship and news because the writer has a knowledge  about the topic he/she develop and discuss : http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://freegovinfo.info/