CM 1145 Research Paper

  The semester is coming to an end quite quickly and I already feel so behind on everything. Our blogs need to have fourteen journal entries by the fifth of April. So to make sure that I get this done, I have decided to do one blog entry everyday of the reading break, this one being the first. So I should have about thirteen by March ,12. So this journal entry is about my research paper, also due by the end of the semester and something I feel very behind on.  I plan to start the prewriting process very soon but I did manage to get some research done. The subject I chose for my essay was to research a monument and analyze it's historical importance. I have ( tentatively) chosen to research the Lugou Bridge in China, also known as the Marco-Polo Bridge as it was one of the many places he had visited. The bridge is located about fifteen kilometers south of Beijing and it's historical importance stems from many different things. The bridge itself is over 800 years old, and possesses hundreds of stone lions on each side, all of them unique and different from the others. It was recorded that there were 627 lions oringinally, some dating back to the Ming Dynasty(1368-1664), Quing Dynasty (1644-1911), and some even as far back as the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and Jin Dynasty(1115-1234).  This bridge was also the sitte of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident which sparked the Second Sino-Japanese War between Japan and China. With these facts, I know that there should be plenty of research I can do on this subject so I think it is a pretty safe bet that this will be the subject I choose for my essay.