I have learned to evaluate sources for their legitimacy‚ relevance‚ and authority through the Colby-Sawyer’s library website. The library website has a tab on “Bibliographies‚ Citations‚ and Academic Honesty.” The website tab provides different kinds of information including: OWL examples of citations‚ how to avoid plagiarism‚ how to create and evaluate different sources/citations‚ and academic honesty. Also by doing multiple of these “how to cite correctly in MLA and APA” exercises really helped
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Students Need Homework” aims to convince readers of the need of homework for low-income children. Pondiscio effectively persuades his audience that while wealthy children may not necessarily need homework‚ kids who are born into poverty do in order to increase their lack of opportunities through the use of cause and effect based arguments‚ analogy‚ and generalization. Pondiscio begins his article by disagreeing with a quote of John Dewey that the best and wisest parents know what is best for all children
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Hears a Who seems to be a simple children’s story‚ similar to others written by Dr. Seuss. Before taking this class‚ I had seen the movie once before. Once I had heard that we would be watching it to compare to scripture‚ I couldn’t help but laugh. I could not see any biblical parallels in the movie on the surface‚ however after putting some more thought into it and watching the film in class with the prompt in mind‚ I saw a new story line I had never considered before. Throughout the film‚ many connections
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Impact of Social Media on Dating In today’s society we have a view of relationships that has been shoved in our faces‚ rather it be a positive manner or a negative one. Social media has portrayed relationships to be many different things. It has also‚ affected many relationships in today’s world. Negative aspects on a relationship by social media is that now‚ people make it out to be all about the female in the relationship. They portray females to be the highest person in the relationship and
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In a 1979 excerpt from his book‚ The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Mating and Dating‚ clinical psychologist‚ Albert Ellis discusses the social relationship between males and females‚ and the differences between them. Ellis asserts it is a “fact that most males are much more interested in sex than love.” He urges women to accept men as who they are: less romantic‚ single-minded‚ and sexually demanding. Furthermore‚ he insists it is reasonable for a man to have these distinct manly traits and it would
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their new product- “the rocket volume express” mascara. The ad appears in the Allure magazine from March 2013. According to the Wikipedia‚ the Allure magazine is a US women beauty magazine‚ and that says it all. On the cover of the issue‚ I was going through: the words “beauty” and “makeup” were used more than twice in such headings as “the ultimate celebrity makeup kit‚” or “happy makeup and sunny new colors‚” or “41 secrets of top beauty pros.” That is an obvious prove that everything in the Allure
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Farris’ article is far deeper and less biased then Richtel’s who relies more on personal inference rather than factual evidence. Matt Richtel begins his article “Drivers and Legislators Dismiss Cellphone risks” with a personal account of a young man getting his first car and within the first couple of months of driving ending another’s life because of texting and driving. Richtel‚ conveys the dangers of texting and driving through interviews with teenagers and adults. Richtel’s use of this technique
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"Racial Preferences in Dating‚" an article by Raymond Fisman‚ Sheena Iyengar‚ Emir Kamenia‚ and Itamar Simonson‚ was published in the Review of Economic Studies in 2008. The article was written to examine racial preference in dating by using a speed dating experiment that was designed to observe the decisions of the study participants. The thing about this article which most immediately stood out was that women‚ older people‚ and more attractive people displayed weaker preferences about the race
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The movie Matilda directed by Danny DeVito is about a little girl name Matilda who is enthusiastic and willing to learn but her parents on the hand do not care about that. Her parents are a grouchy couple that finally sends her to a school with a nice sympathetic teacher‚ Miss Honey‚ good friends‚ but a horrible principal‚ Miss Trunchbull. The moral of the story is that Miss Honey protects Matilda from Miss Trunchbull and her parents and eventually adopts Matilda because her parents want her to move
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to our writing and we learned how to write a synthesis‚ rhetorical analysis and arguments. I truly believe that all of these classes prepared myself adequately for what was
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