I researched on my question for the inquiry project and attempted to find some books and movies that cover the topic of my project, I also did a lot of nonacademic research such as trying to find a new roommate, looking for my plane ticket or even trying to find a movie online, research is a major part of our daily life and we might be doing it without even realizing that we are. What prompted this research is my curiosity about the possibilities and opportunities that could emerge. I got some good sources for my project, and helped me in capturing useful information from others experiences or even backgrounds. My research helped me make sound decisions based on factual facts, use resources effectively, modify my direction,  strengthen my credibility , validate my assumptions and approach, learn from others detours and mistakes and do strategic and short-term planning (my plane ticket). This planning helped me discover that the cheapest days to fly are Wednesdays, that the best time to buy airline tickets and shop for travel are Tuesdays at 3pm Eastern and your probably paying too much if buying on the weekends, and finding the safest airlines with the least accidental records.  This information not only helped save me a lot of money on my plane ticket but also assured me that the airline I’m  flying with is safe so I can travel with peace of mind and I would have never discovered it if it wasn’t for research. I'm pretty risk adverse, so I always buy my airline tickets in advance to get the best price. Turns out, there are lots of extra ways and tricks to save by buying tickets early and finding the best time to buy an airline ticket which is eight weeks before my flight. Being a person that travels at least twice a year, I try to take advantage of all the tricks and do my research to find great deals.

Through research I was able to find many different films that could play the role of great sources to my project. Such as Il Posto (1961) Domenico commutes from the rural village of Meda to Milan to land a bureaucratic job everyone assures will have him living in stable, dependable, unexciting and modest comfort for the rest of his life. During the lunch break of his daylong interview, he and his instant crush Antonietta wander around the city, with the glass-concrete-steel architecture already there, dominating the landscape materially and demonstrating to Domenico how close the world he knows is to irreversible change and evaporation. This represents an architecture that is part of the cultural change and the cycle of decay and revival that both the human being and the surrounding environment experience.

The difference is in academic research I had to read a lot of technical academic papers to become familiar with the field. Academic papers are more challenging and time consuming than surfing the internet. Then I came up with ideas that could be implemented in my project. In academic research I did a lot of critical thinking and had to keep an open mind and accept ambiguity. The Similarities could be that I learned about the basic types of research and their appropriateness for my situation, how to be alert to conscious and unconscious sources, the use of common sense and most importantly patience, research is time consuming but it pays off at the end.  Most challenging part of any research is reading the technical or academic papers, most of these papers contain a lot of technical terms that are difficult to understand at times, What I try to do is get past them because even though they may sound good, but in truth not mean much. In technical papers it is like doing a research within a research to find out if there is a substance and an interesting idea underneath these technical papers. I begin my research by reading papers, searching for relevant books that cover my topic, and doing online searches. Then I analyze the data I collected to try to understand the motivations for the problem posed, afterwards I make choices in finding the best solution or answer to my question, then I try to find the assumptions behind the solution, whether the assumptions are realistic and also still keep in mind the future directions for my research and how it will incorporate this data. When doing research I ran into a lot of inaccurate information but by doing a research with the research itself I can learn about what was actually accomplished or implemented and the validity of this data.

Research is another word for gathering of information. The more information we have the closer we get of making our own decision. Research is the result of advancing knowledge created in the past. Ordinary people and extraordinary people that contribute to this gathered information. Everyday people including us all help with the flow information that people can use for self-help. Research is very vital to our everyday decision making. It arms us from wrong information’s and saves us time and money. It is important to our success as we take on life's challenges and decisions making.