Immediately when I began navigating through ProQuest I noticed some disadvantages. It was difficult to find a topic if it was not specific. If you were to go onto the site knowing very clearly what it was you wanted to find then it would be quite easy to locate it. However I went on with no clear intentions so finding something to begin writing about was a challenge. So I used some advanced searching and looked up my birthday (March 26th) in the year 1954. I was bombarded by so many different articles of so many varying topics. There were weather reports and stories of local schools, but the article that I found most 
intriguing was this one about The Soviet Union and East Germany. The article talks about the Soviet’s attempts to strengthen relationships between East and West Germany to one day work towards reunification but the differing governments of the two areas creates a great deal adversity. I have always been very interested in the Cold War and this was completely relevant to that. 
The way ProQuest is organized makes it clear how to use it and find documents from any time when there could be a document to view. I think it is wonderful for when it comes to research for any topic and is great to discover good primary sources.