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I started out wanting to research why people make the decisions that they do. However, as the research process went on, I realized that that wouldn't be feasible, therefore I changed my topic to find out what influences human character development. This is a broader topic with a lot more available information, and is a great subject for me to write a Burkean Parlor type of paper discussing the different views on it.

I need to figure out what exactly my question is though: 1) What defines character development? or 2) What influences character development?

I feel like they're probably the same thing, however influence might be a better word for me to use since nothing can really define character development. I have learned through my research that there are a lot of factors that play into this whole system, therefore, character development is affected by a wide variety of things.

So far, my knowledge of this topic goes something along these lines: Humans are affected by a lot of outside factors when it comes to personality and character development. You would think that only genes affect this process (which is what I mostly thought coming into researching this), it also really has to do with a person's environment. According to geneticist Dean Hamer, "physical characteristics are the product of both genes and environment interacting with one another."

Now, the problem is, I want to write a paper explaining what exactly influences it and just inform readers. However, I don't want it to be so bland. I don't want to just explain what the diffferent factors are, and blah blah blah. I want to be more creative. So what I think I'm going to do is just write an informative paper but be creative in my language use, throw in some compositional risks, and make it very easy to read and conversational. I don't want to write the typical boring research paper just defining what something is because personally I hate writing like that, and also, I don't want to make someone sit through a reading of something like that.

Although many critics argue that our personalities are inherently genetic, I have my own opinion that our environment really does a monumental part of the job.

Some people with older views such as Charles Darwin's have emphasized the role that natural selection has played in shaping the human brain and body while others believe that most human thoughts, feelings, and actions are encoded in genes.

As long as I am able to incorporate all my findings while still throwing in my own beliefs, I should be set.