Thursday, March 26, 2009

3 annotated bib's!

Was not sure how to post these on my groups page, so i went ahead an did it on mine...
Also, my topic has changed.... errr i know it's bad, but i was unable to find soem legit sources for the topic, "How technology is changing the way we communicate"
So here is what i have came up with instead...

“Young Black Men and Drug Policy.” Editorial. America. 25 Nov. 1995 7 April 2008
This source provides excellent statistics pertaining to minorities and how racial profiling and the war on drugs affects them and inner-city communities. Source states that racial biases are clearly evident as tools in law enforcement. This source will also give me great statistics to refer to while persuading the reader of obvious biases towards ethnic minorities.

Leo, John. “Inventing a Crack in the Law” U.S. News and World Report. 119.18 (1995):
22. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. 7 April 2008 This source focuses on the overwhelming number of black males imprisoned for the use or sale of crack cocaine. The author states the enormous difference in the sentencing between powder and crack cocaine and how the war on drugs is really a war on blacks and meant to imprison minority citizens. This article is an opinion piece and will be helpful when stressing the frustration of racial profiling and the war on drugs from minorities point of view.

Small, Deborah. “The War on Drugs is a War on Racial Justice.” Social Research. 68.3
(2001):896-903. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. DSC lib., 7 April. 2008< > This article is written by Deborah Small who insists that the drug policy in the United States in racially biased. She goes on to explain that not only is this creating a overpopulated prison community of blacks and Latino’s, but it is demographically removing these citizens from voting for any major political office by creating a large felon population in inner-cities. Author also includes many legitimate statistics of arrests of blacks compared to whites regarding racial profiling as it pertains to the so-called war on drugs. This source will be very helpful for developing the importance and relevance my two connected topics.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Back to basics!!

Wow, so even on my last two papers i realized i was typing my first page not in the correct MLA format, the Name, date, course, and instructos name should all be double spaced on the left hand side with the header, Hutchins 1, on the top right corner.. here is an example of how it should be correctly done.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

Communication!!!

COMMUNICATION

How did people communicate before languages were created?
What is the cheapest way to send or receive information?
Who invented the telephone?
How were smoke signals decrypted?
How did people receive messages before there was a telephone?
What is the latest form of communication?
How many text messages does the average teenager send daily?
What is twittering?
How many different email addressed are there? Ex. Gmail, hotmail, yahoo…
How many languages are spoke within Utah?
Should it be required to learn more than one foreign language in high school?
How long has emailing been around?
How many people have an email account?
What is the most used way to receives news/ information?
Why is twittering more well known to celebrities?
Should the amount of cell phone time be limited to children doing poorly in school?
Should cell phones not be allowed in the workplace?
Do more people read about news via newspapers in 2008, or via internet?
How many different networks broadcast daily?
Do other countries use the same communication technology as the United States?
In the 60’s what was the most convenient way to receive news?
When did the postal service first start?
How long has sports radio been around?
What effect would it have on society if news was not broadcasted?


i apologize.. i'll think of more, but this is all i could com eup with at the time...