Curious Researcher - Blog #7

For this research paper we are writing for my English class, we have been asking questions about our topic. The questions have helped narrow our focus to a specific point. Now we have moved past the basic and are moving on towards forming a thesis. The book "Curious Researcher," gives five different templates with five specific categories of writing a thesis: policy, interpretation, hypothesis, value, or relationship. When asked to chose one of them, I chose to go with the question of hypothesis. My topic asks the question, "is this really true?" In trying to respond "yes, this is true," the best question and category this fits into is the hypothesis. After filling in the template, here is the thesis I came up with: Based on my research, the assumption that the island of Haiti was dedicated to Satan after the Haitian Revolution appears to be true. The argument saying this is false, bases its information on the fact that vodou ceremony dedicated the island to the spirits, not Satan even though the spirits are directly related to Satan.