Capstone Topic

     For my Capstone project I had two topics that I knew had to be contenders for my main research idea. The very first topic I thought of was on the basis of Crohn's Disease and Ulcertive Colitis. These two illnesses are personally important to me because my Mother and Grandmother both have Ulcertive Colitis, and for a long period of time I had Crohn's Disease. I knew where the diseases were in the human body, but I had no idea how the illnesses formed, and how they were transferred through the genome. That's just something that I really wanted to know and understand.

     The second topic that I wanted to research was animals. Not just animals in general, but actually training them and figuring out the best ways for them to learn. This topic is relevant to me because I work at a petstore, I have my own pets, and I have seen many other animals in my life, and one thing that I keep on seeing time and time again is the lack of training for a specific animal, or the nonexistent understanding between the owner and their pet. I would just love to know and understand the best way to train an animal and get them to learn a thing or two, so they can stay out of shelters, be a positive aspect of people's lives, and so they can have a better life over all.

     The decision between the two topics was a hard one because both are extremely relevant to my life, but the one that I chose overall is on the training and learning process of animals. I think this would be a better research topic out of the two, because I would like to be a Veterinarian someday, and the information that I gain from this research will be very useful in the long run. My question for my Capstone Project will be, "How are animals trained best, by generalized learning, or by training based on the evolution of the specific animal?". Information on the topic of animal training is well explained in this article based around Reinforcement Training.