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BRAINSTORMING SESSION DAY 2

After having so much success on my mind-maps, the next day I revisited them and filled in the blank periods that were influential to Scottish culture. Listed are the time periods below. I did try to divide my idea bubbles up into green highlighted categories of “HISTORY” and purple highlighted categories of “CULTURE”.

I did this in order to solve my research question which I was brainstorming could be the concept of asking “DOES HISTORY DESIGN CULTURE OR DOES CULTURE DESIGN HISTORY”

STUART DYNASTY BEGINS TO FAIL AND ESCALATES INTO WAR

STABILITY OF UNION USHERS IN ENLIGHTENMENT TO SCOTLAND, DEVELOPING SCOTTISH CULTURE TO THIS DAY

UNION WITH ENGLAND IS FINALLY ACHIEVED, SETTING OFF DOMINO EFFECT OF CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN SCOTLAND

STABILITY OF UNION USHERS IN ENLIGHTENMENT TO SCOTLAND, DEVELOPING SCOTTISH CULTURE TO THIS DAY

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DISCOVERING MY TOPIC

In the last semester my agency worked on a business strategy to find a way to preserve historical culture. This semester I wanted to build on that idea and explore Scottish history and culture as my personal research narratives project.

To give you some context, I have always loved UK culture and I love history. Every historian has a sacred region they like to investigate and I love to learn about the history of the British Isles and Ireland. The more I looked into the differences between Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland, the more I felt a connection to Scottish history. Being an American, I could see so many ways in which the Scottish diaspora created the culture in the US. I spent years reading about modern day culture and past history. I came to the University of Edinburgh I wanted to live in Scotland and I wanted to attend the famous school that was such a legend in all of my books. I wanted to use my time in Scotland to discover everything about Scottish culture and history that I couldn’t discover simply through books and television while living in the United States. This is what formed my motivation for choosing this as my Personal Research Narratives Project.