This page is purely devoted to explaining my approach to this research project. Scalar offers the opportunity to provide more than one guided pathways for people to proceed through the information at hand. For instance, while I have attached the traditional order to view this project, I highly encourage viewers to explore the site through alternate sub-sections. Allow me to break down the paths that I have created in the visualizer above:

1. The first path begins at the introduction and proceeds in an orderly fashion through the rest of the topics. Think of this path as how one would read a research paper- an essay-like project that methodically transitions from one section to another in order to give the best overview of the subject at hand and crafting an overarching argument throughout.
2. The second path, which starts at "Race, Not Symptoms" seeks to explore how the historical perceptions of race and its value impacts the disease outbreak discourse and action, especially in relation to the media blaming of the Mexican people during the swine flu epidemic. 
3. The third path is epidemiologically focused, and thus will connect the biology of H1N1 to the industrial pig farms, and how the name swine flu is more complicated than previously assumed.
   
4. The fourth path specifically concentrates on NAFTA and its impact on the U.S and Mexico. This path seeks to address the global structure of inequality under the harmful ideology of  neoliberalism. I will analyze  the relationship between the corporation of Smithfield Foods and the town of La Gloria captures the consequences of exploiting cheap labor in poor living conditions.   

Regardless of what path chosen, my project will be remain consistent in the following features.

1. I will try to end my sections with guiding questions for the audience to consider, as a way to facilitate further discussion. 
2. I will attempt to provide additional resources in order to expand understanding and learning.
3. At the end of each page, I will also have a works cited and consulted section to make my research and analysis more transparent. 
4. In particular, for any online articles I use, I will directly link the sources for the audience to read themselves. Not only will this make the process easier for students to further continue their exposure with undergraduate research approaches, but also allow them to read the articles / watch the videos and make their own judgments.

The reason why I have provided these different alternate pathways as well as the multiple attachments at the end of each section is because I wish to present my research in a way that mimics the very topic I am addressing at hand. Much like how the H1N1 narrative can not be reduced to one single factor or one single group to be blamed, this site should not be processed in one linear fashion either. Therefore, I hope that users of this project will make use of this plurality and engage in open ended thinking themselves. 

Before we begin, I would like to address the following note: Scalar has many unique functions as a presentation model, however it cannot support certain video players or embed particular links. That is why in certain spots I have been unable to provide a hyperlink or directly have the video on the page. Instead I just pasted the url of the page with the desired video or information. Thank you for the understanding.