1)
a)Genocide
b)Hitler/Nazis
c)Extermination of the Jewish Poplulation in Europe
d)Crematioria in Auschwitz, the most notorious concentration camp
e)Approximatly 1.2 million people killed in the Auschwitz crematoria
2)
a)Why did Hitler even consider genocide?
b)Why didn't the Jews revolt against the nazis?
Monday, January 26, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Research Log Entry 1/20/09
1) A. Delicious is a program that helps you tag websites and other searches of your interest. You can store, save, and share bookmarks on the web.
B. The advantage of using delicious is that you can access your bookmarks from your home computer on any other computer. It also helps you find articles or other research better and faster.
C. I think that maybe in the future when I will be researching more than I do now, a program such as delicious will be useful. But for now I think that my simple bookmarks and search engines are enough for me.
B. The advantage of using delicious is that you can access your bookmarks from your home computer on any other computer. It also helps you find articles or other research better and faster.
C. I think that maybe in the future when I will be researching more than I do now, a program such as delicious will be useful. But for now I think that my simple bookmarks and search engines are enough for me.
Assignment # 2
1) I tried to answer "Why is the sky blue?"
2) First I typed sky-blue.
3) I first used google,yahoo, then ask.com
4) a. I used a hyphen between my search terms.
b. I used a hyphen
5) a.I evaluated my results by looking at the various results and judging them by what I was looking for, which was the scientifical aspect as to why the sky is blue.
b. Althought the different search engines gave me similar and in some cases identical results(web pages) I think that GOOGLE focused more on the scientifical side, YAHOO leaned more towards the public opinion and entertainment, and ASK had the greatest variety(scientifical, merchendise, public interest...)
c. I think that the search engines behaved differently because they tend to have different "searchers" or "audiences". I found GOOGLE to be more informational because people who searh on google are usually students. I found out that yahoo tends to advertise and give you more artsy answers. When I used Yahoo I got music lyrics and other srtsy stuff. I think that Ask has a greater variety of results because you can just type in a whole question and different terms can be used.
6) More interaction?
2) First I typed sky-blue.
3) I first used google,yahoo, then ask.com
4) a. I used a hyphen between my search terms.
b. I used a hyphen
5) a.I evaluated my results by looking at the various results and judging them by what I was looking for, which was the scientifical aspect as to why the sky is blue.
b. Althought the different search engines gave me similar and in some cases identical results(web pages) I think that GOOGLE focused more on the scientifical side, YAHOO leaned more towards the public opinion and entertainment, and ASK had the greatest variety(scientifical, merchendise, public interest...)
c. I think that the search engines behaved differently because they tend to have different "searchers" or "audiences". I found GOOGLE to be more informational because people who searh on google are usually students. I found out that yahoo tends to advertise and give you more artsy answers. When I used Yahoo I got music lyrics and other srtsy stuff. I think that Ask has a greater variety of results because you can just type in a whole question and different terms can be used.
6) More interaction?
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Entry # 2
For one of my classes I have to research and write about the concept of social phobias. I used google as my search engine and I found an interesting web page:Psych central . com. I tried to answer " How do phobias come about?". Since this is a casual phrase, I decided to use "phobias the brain. I got approximatly one million results. When I typed it in with I got approximatly 57 million results. That's a big difference! I think it was because of the Boolean searching. The word AND combines two things together while OR separates the search and gives you more results. For my search I questioned CURRENCY, because new technology in the medical field is always changings so I needed a currenta article. I considered AUTHORITY as well. The page I read is set up by doctors not a medical student. Also OBJECTIVITY, I want information about my topic, not somebody trying to sell me something. The object of that site was clear, they simply want to give the public pure information. After performing this search I realized that C.A.R.D.I.O is very important when it comes to researching. C.A.R.D.I.O helps you find the exact page that you want to read and use valid information from.
Research Log Entry
The boolean searching method was something that I knew existed but I never knew that it had a name, but it all now makes complete sense. I never really even thaught about "authority" in the context of researching. But I did know about wikipedia not being a reliable or a source of "authority", all my teachers in high school told me to never use wikipedia on a works cited or bibliography page because it lacks authority.
Hello!
Well I don't know exactly what to do here yet so i guess I'll introduce myself, hello my nam is MArlne and I am a freshman intending to persue a major in biology.
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