A STAND AGAINST WIKIPEDIA As Wikipedia has become more and more popular with students‚ some professors have become increasingly concerned about the online‚ reader-produced encyclopedia. While plenty of professors have complained about the lack of accuracy or completeness of entries‚ and some have discouraged or tried to bar students from using it. “As educators‚ we are in the business of reducing the dissemination of misinformation‚” said Don Wyatt‚ chair of the department. “Even though Wikipedia
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Our National History Day Topic is “Taking A Stand Against Hitler”. This topic sparked an interest to us because it was a catastrophic time during the Holocaust from 1933-1945 that has a great impact on the history we learn today. It was a dark time to have a voice against one of the most powerful and evil men in the world “Hitler”‚but there was one person who had no fear. That person was Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was a german. Although he was part of the so called “Perfect Race” he didn’t believe so
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Wikipedia: Future perspectives Strategic Marketing First assignment 23 · april · 2012 Ariana Mugica Morales Student # s3314547 Wikipedia overview Wikipedia is a nonprofit web-based free content encyclopedia‚ open to any Internet user who wants to contribute or edit it (Wikipedia‚ About‚ 2012). It was founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger with the name of “Nupedia” and changed later to Wikipedia with the intention of adding the “wiki” concept refereed to the invitation to any internet
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Is Wikipedia a reliable source of Knowledge? Information? Why or why not? Knowledge is a justified true belief that are passed down from generation to generation. The ones who have passed down these knowledges and information are known as sources. However‚ not all sources are reliable nor are they all true. Wikipedia is a very worldly wide known website that is used to look up for informations on any matter. Even so‚ this website is also famous for its unreliable information that are given. So
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People always say to never trust Wikipedia or that Wikipedia is always a bad site to get information from‚ but in my opinion I think that Wikipedia is actually a good source to get your information off of. I have never seen any wrong information on Wikipedia. The only thing that you really need to do is to have a little bit of knowledge of that particular subject on which you are researching upon because you may need to double check Wikipedia in case it is wrong. There are many things that have impacted
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A Stand Against the RH Bill * Jesse Chris Basco Our country‚ the Philippines is an archipelago with 7‚107 islands. When you look at the world map we seem to just occupy a small space‚ but it is home to over 90 million Filipinos‚ so yes we are an overpopulated nation. Our government thought that the excessive growth in the number of the Filipinos is the cause of our poverty. So they thought of controlling the growth of our population through the Reproductive Health Bill. But do you know that
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Taking a Stand Against Abortion Abortion is a controversial topic that many are happy to avoid. As law abiding citizens‚ taking the life of another should not be a luxury that mothers are given as a solution to their problems. In this essay I will be explaining to you some side effects of having an abortion‚ scientific evidence of when life begins‚ and reasons why people have an abortion. Most people don’t know that when a woman has an abortion some side effects can include hemorrhage‚ infection
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Term Paper The Stand Against PETA “We love all animals‚ it’s just people we’re not too crazy about‚” is a comment made by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) (Fegan 1). This outrageous comment insinuates PETA puts animals’ rights before the rights and needs of humans‚ which is not the way nature intended. The PETA organization has been around since 1980 affectively with their hyped-up‚ illogical stories of how we need to treat animals as equals and grant them rights that
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Reasons Why Stand Against Abortion An abortion is a violation of the most important human right‚ the right to live. With its practice people not only make one of the grades misdeeds‚ but also puts at risk the life of the mother. The abortion is an action condemned by God‚ and all those who form part of such action‚ will not be welcome in heaven. The abortion causes both physical and psychological damage‚ and doctors should raise awareness to their patients about these consequences‚ instead of
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Credible Information Debate 2 There is much debate concerning the validity and reliability of Wikipedia. The internet has transformed the way we gather and learn information. Fifteen years ago‚ we had internet access‚ but not to the extent we do today. Even in the 1990’s‚ if a paper was required for a class that meant time was spent in the library
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