My thesis is ” the straight edge was unique in its revolutionary approach to confronting societal norms”

My biggest problem as a writer is my lack of a thesis. I have always struggled with creating a concise and coherent thesis. this is obviously a problem as an essay cant function without one. a thesis is central and necessary so that ideas and thoughts can be disseminated. Im not sure what i can do to fix this, but i have found practice and objectivity help significantly.

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Dr Garriott,

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Here is my rough draft.

In my research I have supported my hypothesis from my previous work. The data from this extremely limited research, supports the fact that the Straight Edge Movement was nonviolent. The observed parties never spoke about violence, and this is due to the overwhelming opposition to the violence from directed in response to hardline edge in years prior.

In order to understand the negative public consensus regarding the straight edge movement specifically accusations of domestic terrorism, I browsed several internet forums to observe their association with violent movements. My Findings revealed that the majority of people who posted or commented within the straight edge subreddit had little to no outright violent messages. They promoted their message peacefully, and utilized lots of memes and critical posts to push their agenda.

There are just around 5000 subscribers with normally 10-20 online at any given point or time. As I am writing this, there have been only 6 posts in the Straight edge subreddit in the last week. none of which were violent, plainly criticizing society and the people who uphold these degrading societal norms. This is further supported by the comment section where nobody actually advocated for open violence, simply reform in society.

To whom it may concern,

I am writing this request today in the hopes that I will be able to conduct an observational study in order to continue my research on the Straight Edge Movement. I have already written a preliminary Background research paper regarding the “Hard line edge” movement and its involvement with domestic terrorism throughout the 1980’s and 90’s. I would like to further continue my research through an observational study in Straight Edge and hardline edge online communities.

Due to the nature of the people I am observing, ethical considerations must be made. First and foremost, many of these people have violent and radical beliefs. I expect to see offensive and discriminatory language and ideals. I will not provoke any conflict in these boards, I will strictly observe the members of the Hardline Edge community and not interact with them in any way. I will simply read and observe. I will being using the internet so my identity will be protected. Furthemore I will leave any personal information found in my research in omnicance.

I am formally asking you to allow me to conduct this research so that I can better understand the motivations and differences between the Straight edge and Hard Line Edge movements.

Research Question, were Straight Edgers active in their violent protests similar to the Hard line edgers?

If you were to interview someone to answer this research question, what information do you want and why?

I want to know how many were straight edge and how many were violent.

Examples of questions i could ask?

Were you a member of the straight edge movement?

Were you violent?

If you were to do an observation what kind of information would you need to answer the research question?

I would need to be able to identify which sect of the straight edge movement i was observing, and weather or not they supported violent and confrontational action.

Where would i observe this and get this information?

I would use reddit and straight edge websites.

Thinking of the research question, what information would you want on a survey to answer this research question and why?

This is the same as an interview but more condense. questions would be limited to simple yes no one word responses pertaining to level of activity in the straight edge movement.

I think im going to conduct observation regarding the groups. Im going to study media from the last 12 months on youtube reddit SE webstites and ect.