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 * Topic Talk: Event, Issue, or Other Topic of Interest**

List five facts that you already know about this topic:
 * Topic Choice:**

1. Stevie Ray Vaughn was one of the biggest guitarist during the 80s.

2. He is considered one of the greatest guitar players of all time

3. He died in a helicopter crash in early 1990.

4. He started playing in his first bands when he was 10.

5. On the day of Vaughan's death Eric Clapton was supposed to be a passenger on the helicopter but canceled.


 * Answer** **these** **questions** **about** **this** **topic:**
 * 1) How did it/will it impact the world?

Stevie Ray Vaughan was one of the greatest guitarist to date and has influenced rock and roll music. He set a knew high on what a guitarist could and should be.


 * 1) Why is there still interest in it today, or why will there continue to be interest in it?

People still play guitar and many wish to be as good as he was in his time. There will be continued interest in him because people wish to study and continue on his methods.

I myself play guitar and have always have loved his work. I have always had this great intrest in the ways he played and understanding his methods and techinques.
 * 1) Why are you interested in researching this topic?

> I play the guitar and many of my friends play musical instruments so there has always been a desire to play instruments in my life.
 * 1) How do you personally connect with this topic?


 * Topic Talk: Event, Issue, or Other Topic of Interest**

List five facts that you already know about this topic:
 * Topic Choice:**

1. Usain Bolt is a WR holding sprinter in multiple events.

2. He is from Jamica and came from very simple means growing up.

3. He is considered right now the fastest man alive.

4. He will be running in the upcoming summer olympics and expected to wow the crowd yet again.

5. During his 100m WR sprint his shoes were untied, he stopped running full speed 10m before the finish, and McDonald's chicken nuggets were the only thing he ate before the race .


 * Answer** **these** **questions** **about** **this** **topic:**
 * 1) How did it/will it impact the world?

He impacted the world by breaking many world records and raising the bar for athletes everywhere.


 * 1) Why is there still interest in it today, or why will there continue to be interest in it?

He is still alive and currently runs today in many events. As I stated before he will be running in the 2012 summer olympics and people still expect great things of him.

I myself ran track in high school and loved watching the sport on TV so it would only be natural that I took and interest in the fastest man alive.
 * 1) Why are you interested in researching this topic?

> I ran track in high school and always love the sport my coach was a big impact on my life and help shape who I am today and I account the sport of track to that.
 * 1) How do you personally connect with this topic?

What resources do you think will be useful to you? Specific books? Series of books? Magazines? Periodicals? Interviews? Internet sites? Films? Other?
 * Resources**

There are many books and magazines I could use from the past olympics and ivites I could use and currently that I could use. Also there would be multiple periodical and Internet sites I could still use for this topic.


 * Once** **you** **have** **completed** **worksheets** **for** __**TWO**__ **topics,** **please** **answer** **these** **two** **questions;** **be** **prepared** **to** **discuss** **your** **answers** **in** **class:**
 * 1) Of your two topic choices, which one do you think you will find the most information about? Please explain.

I am mostly confident I could find about the same amount of information on both topics because they are both only one person. However, I could see steivie ray vaughan having more information because he was around at an early time.

> Either would be rather suffient to me and would love to do my multi-genre project on them.
 * 1) Of your two topic choices, which one do you really like the best? Please explain.