I am currently working on a research project for my English class. The topic that I will be researching is a social problem, that in my opinion is not very much cared for by others. I will be researching about people with food allergies, and the severity of their allergic reaction due to the food that was consumed without the realization of it.
Some things that I wonder about is
1. Do the owners of restaurants/workers take food allergies as a serious matter?
2. How many precautions do people with food allergies have to take when going out to eat?
3. Are the labels accurate when it comes to consuming food with potential harm to the people eating it?
4.How severe are the allergic reactions of the people who consumed food they are allergic to?
5. What can restaurants and other dinning place do to reduce an incident of allergic reactions?
6. Why do people develop food allergies?
7. Are cooking utensils properly cleaned off? Ensuring that if there were to be food that someone was allergic to, is completely washed off.

Evaluating these questions for my research topic, I think that number 1,3,5,6, and 7 will be useful in my essay.

My topic is important because, there are many people in the world, (including myself )who have severe food allergies, and I think that it is very important to take precautions about what we put into our bodies. Any little bit of food that I am allergic to will cause a severe reaction. When I go out to eat, I have to be especially careful with what I order, and sometimes it's hard to know with what the cooks cooked with. One never knows if the skillet that was used still contains food that was previously cooked. Even the slightest bit of food could cause an awful allergic reaction, which is painful, and scary at the same time.
 I am studying people's severe food allergies because I want to find out what restaurant owners and other people who do not struggle with food allergies in order to help the reader help the ones who suffer with food allergies to minimize incidents.

Let's start with an introduction

Hello, my name is Dulce. You might not know, but my name means candy and sweet in Spanish. I was born in a small town in NM, nothing incredibly interesting. I grew up in several places, my family moved around a lot, from NM, to Borger TX., then later to Canyon TX., then off to Amarillo TX. The constant moving around made me feel like I did not belong in any of the places that I moved to. Perhaps that is what has led me to believe that I am an expert in knowing how it feels to be the outsider. For many years, the constant moving around made me feel just like that, an outsider. All of the children from the schools saw me as the "new girl" no one was ever brave enough to actually approach me, and introduce themselves. Funny how we would rather shy away from the new things in our lives, than to approach them ready to see what change could bring to us.  Reading my blog, you will quickly come to realize that I am not your typical girl, I do not always see things the way the rest of the world sees things, blame it on my "outsider-ness" if you will,but I find life more interesting that way. I have not ever had a real hobby, I usually like spending my time alone, curled up reading a book, or at a gym running from my thoughts that seem trapped inside my head, or sometimes I manage to keep myself entertained with random activities, never a hobby really.  There are a couple of issues/problems that I feel passionate about. The first is the never really mentioned problem of food allergies. I myself struggle with food allergies, they are now no where near as bad as they used to be, but if people would of been just a slight bit more considerate of others, or just a bit more careful of what they were mixing food with, I would have saved myself a handful of trips to the hospital, and many many awful frights. I feel that food allergies is a serious problem, that most people (unless they have food allergies) never really think about how severe people's allergies can truly be.