Critical Thinking Post #6 - Sharing and Reflecting on Two Research Sources

        The topic for my research paper is Altruism and the Selfish gene. More specifically, I am writing that Roger Mitchell's film adaptation of Ian McEwan's Enduring Love argues for altruism rather than selfish genes. 
        Two sources that I found were as listed below.

Barash, David P. "Are We Selfish Altruists? Group-Oriented Individualists? (Or What?)." Natural Selections: Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution. New York: Bellevue Literary, 2008. 112-14. Print.

Ruse, Michael. "Review of Ian McEwan's Enduring Love." Metanexus 1 Aug. 1999. Web. 13 May 2014.

        The first source is a chapter from a book. I found this source in the library. I was looking up sources online and came across the book when searching for selfish genes and altruism. This source provides a lot of information on the selfish gene and altruism, which ways and when they both appear,  why they occur... It gives all of the scientific evidence and research behind the concepts. The author is not biased toward one part of the conflict, but supports both in his writing. This source matches my research paper perfectly because I needed evidence of how people act and why they act that way in order to compare that information to the way people behaved throughout the film Enduring Love and McEwan's story. 

        The second source is a review of the film. It has information about the characters, plot, altruism throughout the film and all of that good stuff involving the details of the movie and how altruism is seen. This source was found on the internet via Google Scholar. It provides perfect information based on the movie and includes altruism as a theme of the movie. It shows mostly stuff from the film, which can go perfect with details that I found in the scientific sources. It goes well with my paper because it gives me another perspective to see the movie from and to compare my own thoughts with.