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Your Topics and Suggested Databases

Suggested Databases for Your Topics

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Here are some examples

  • Academic OneFile  Provides citations to items in journals, magazines, newspapers, and many other formats. Most entries provide links to the full text or other file, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature. There are also video files, podcasts and transcripts from AP,NPR, CNN, CBC and full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.
  • JSTOR  JSTOR is a collection of scholarly ebooks and journals across disciplines. The journal archive includes back issues and some current issues.
  • CQ Researcher  In-depth chronological overview of important economic, political or social issues.
  • Business Source Complete  Contains articles from scholarly journals and business periodicals, also company, industry and market research reports.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index   Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.

Biography in Context   Biographical information on thousands of people throughout history and from around the world.

Marquis Biography Online   International in scope, this database includes biographies of people in business, law, science, medicine, the arts, government, and entertainment


Your Ideas

rimeGrace Cho:

1. The role of food in one’s adaptation to a new culture (in particular, Korean food when someone is immigrating to the U.S.)

Ethnic NewsWatch 

Bibliography of Asian Studies 

2. The connection between trauma and psychosis in the refugee experience

Ethnic NewsWatch 

PsycINFO 1840-current 

ProQuest Political Science 

Jennifer Gomez-Gallardo

1. The role of music in the creation of opportunities for children in Costa Rica. 

2. The role of nature and environment with a person’s wellbeing.

David Chong

1. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia from 2014-present

 

2. The role of financial independence in one’s journey into adulthood

Aimen. S

1-The role of religion in adaptation to a new culture. 

2- The effect of isolation in a new country/ the effect of feeling stranger in a new country. 

Gabriel Carpenter - 

  1. Latvian Exiles/refugees in and after the Second World War, especially in Germany

  1. The displaced persons act of 1948 → church sponsoring immigrant system after WW2

 

Armando Gonzalez

  1. The role of music in Colombian culture and the differences in music between Puerto Ricans and Colombians 

 

  1. The role of social isolation of immigrants from society. 

Gabriela Quirk 

  1. Latin American refugees in the early 2000’s and the flaws in the immigration process to America 

2. The economic distress and troubles of Guatemala at the turn of the century

Ethnic NewsWatch 

  • Marissa Garnica

  • How does being deported and unwillingly relocated impact an individual's comfort and autonomy, especially when unfamiliar with the place they are moved to?

  • Historical Abstracts 

  • ProQuest Political Science 
  • PsycINFO 1840-current 
  • Criminal Justice This link opens in a new window
  • Indexes a comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals covering law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.

  • The role of the Peruvian terrorist group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) in the lives of residents, particularly those involved with the government or law enforcement, and its connection to forced migration for safety reasons. 

  • Historical Abstracts 
  • ProQuest Political Science 
  • Criminal Justice 

 

  • The Dictatorship, violence, and limitation of  Nicaragua in the 1970’s when people had no freedom of speech

Ethnic NewsWatch 

Your Topics and databases