D#2, HW#4, Narrowed Research Topic

The topic I have selected is Poverty in America. My broad topic was poverty in the world, but clustering my ideas and thoughts helped me to narrow it down to poverty specifically in the United States. I narrowed it down from poverty in general to focusing on poverty in the U.S. because there is so much of it in the world that there would be way too much to talk about. After narrowing my topic down, I used the clustering activity again to get a general idea of sub-topics that I would discuss in the paper. I also can relate more with poverty in America rather than in other countries.