What's Over?

Having completed Junior Theme, I have realized many things about the research process and writing process as a whole. In a five to seven page paper like our junior theme, there is simply not enough room to include everything and everything about a given subject matter. I would have liked to expand upon the effects a pregnant mother has on their child before the child is even born. However, smaller unestablished paragraphs would have distracted the reader from more important points that over arched numerous subtopics. The research process could have continued for months if not years, and the short period of time we were given to research was nowhere near the time we could have spent researching our topics. Pediatricians dedicate their lives to answering a question that I attempted to answer in a seven page essay. The process could continue, researching and generating new body paragraphs or reasons for the rise in childhood obesity in America, however, this would be a book not an essay. I can appreciate the depth and significance of this problem in America, and while I have created what I believe to be good explanations, there are an unlimited number of alternative ways I could have went about answering my why question.