Abi Lin A-Guard

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Citing Sources

I like Citation Machine better than EasyBib for many reasons. One, I have worked with Citation Machine and am more familiar with the website. Also, i liked the way Citation Machine fills in more information than EasyBib. I felt there was more work involved in EasyBib than Citation Machine.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Timeline

Theodore Roosevelt Articles

1. In all three sources it talks about Roosevelt’s son Kermit and their father-son expedition across the River of Doubt. Also, all sources talk about the dangers they faced on the journey. In addition, all three articles said that Theodore suffered from depression and he went down to visit his son Kermit to escape political problems.

2. In the first two articles it said that both Theodore and Kermit made the expedition but in the last article it says that Kermit ending up committing suicide. Also, in the first two articles it said that Theodore’s decision to abandon the Republican Party and run as a Progressive had been bitterly criticized and caused many problems for him.

3. In the first article it talks about how Theodore Roosevelt carried a lethal dose of morphine with him for many years. Also, it said that Theodore though about taking his own life. It did not say this in any other article. I think this is a very good possibility that Theodore thought about taking his own life because of all of the troubles and diseases he went through on his journey. I could verify the validity by going on several more websites to confirm these facts.

Monday, February 27, 2012

Site Evaluations

http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/, http://usliberals.about.com/od/deathpenalty/i/DeathPenalty.htm, and http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty were all reliable. Although http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/ and http://www.amnest.org/ were biased/slanted they were still very reliable on the topic they stated at the begining. Also for all of the websites that were reliabled, the author and the credentials were clearly stated. On the other hand, http://www.kkk.org/ was not reliable; the author was not stated, and it was very biased. Also, when I clicked on the link only pictures showed up, with no words.I am not sure if there was a networking problem or if the website just had pictures. But as I went to different parts of the site there were words, but still not reliable, therefore I found that http://www.kkk.org/ was not reliable.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Online Safety

In this article, it tells a story about a kid named Ryan Halican who took his own life because the bullying got so bad. It all began in 5th grade, not online bullying yet, but verbal assaults. His parents told him to ignore them and just walk away. This continued until about 8th grade summer when they started bullying him online through AOL instant messaging. Pretty girls would message him saying embarrassing stuff acting like they were attracted to him. The girls would laugh amongst themselves at Ryan's expense. Also the girls copied and pasted there private message exchanges and posted them into other conversations with her friends. During the summer of 2003 was when Ryan took his own life because he just could handle the bullying and antagonizing at home through the internet.

http://www.ryanpatrickhalligan.org/