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Google Sites Web Design - 4 views

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    For technical help with WP4, check out "Video Tutorials" and the "Resources and Links"
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The Best of[ HOWARD HUGHES]Part 1 of 3 - YouTube - 0 views

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    Actual footage of Hughes facing Senator Brewster
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Aviator "Howard Hughes Answers Senator Brewster, Pan Am" - 0 views

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    Mastery of logos, pathos, ethos appeal to refute charges of Hughes Aircraft embezzling money on a WWII US Government military contract. In-particular, Hughes' shrewd sense of logos annihilates the opposition's ethos, taking both Brewster and Pan Am head-on.
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Buy Me That: Helping Kids Understand Toy Ads - YouTube - 0 views

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    Critical reading in-context of analyzing children's toy ads. Critical reading of ads' logos.
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McDonalds - Super Bowl XVL Commercial 2011 - YouTube - 0 views

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    Ethos & pathos, primarily through father-son relations & how bears obtain McDonalds.
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Logos, Pathos, Ethos Braveheart speech - 0 views

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    Amid a skeptical yet movable audience, William Wallace rouses 'em, primarily with pathos: "They will take our lives, but they'll never take OUR FREEDOM!"
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - 0 views

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  • The master is frequently compelled to sell this class of his slaves, out of deference to the feelings of his white wife; and, cruel as the deed may strike any one to be, for a man to sell his own children to human flesh-mongers, it is often the dictate of humanity for him to do so; for, unless he does this, he must not only whip them himself, but must stand by and see one white son tie up his brother, of but few shades darker complexion than himself, and ply the gory lash to his naked back; and if he lisp one word of disapproval, it is set down to his parental partiality, and only makes a bad matter worse, both for himself and the slave whom he would protect and defend.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - 0 views

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  • My new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first met her at the door,—a woman of the kindest heart and finest feelings. She had never had a slave under her control previously to myself, and prior to her marriage she had been dependent upon her own industry for a living. She was by trade a weaver; and by constant application to her business, she had been in a good degree preserved from the blighting and dehumanizing effects of slavery. I was utterly astonished at her goodness.
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      Douglass' well-rounded perception of Sophia Auld, a "woman of the kindest heart," that had mostly avoided the "blighting" and "dehumanizing" effects of slavery.
  • Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman. There was no sorrow or suffering for which she had not a tear. She had bread for the hungry, clothes for the naked, and comfort for every mourner that came within her reach. Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities. Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness.
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      By being submissive to her husband's demands, Auld embodies the archetype of the enslaver: a person who not only robs another of humanity; a person who by being the oppressor robs herself of humanity.
  • door,—a woman of the kindest heart and finest feelings. She had never had a slave under her control previously to myself, and prior to her marriage she had been dependent upon her own industry for a living. She was by trade a weaver; and by constant application to her business, she had been in a good degree preserved from the blighting and dehumanizing effects of slavery. I was utterly astonished at her goodness.
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  • Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman. There was no sorrow or suffering for which she had not a tear. She had bread for the hungry, clothes for the naked, and comfort for every mourner that came within her reach. Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities. Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness.
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How to Use Footnotes in Microsoft Word - YouTube - 0 views

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    YouTube video for anyone struggling how to insert a footnote into a word processing document. You can also search "footnote" in the help application of your word processing program (e.g. Microsoft Word).
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Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) - 2 views

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    For nearly any writing issue you're struggling with or want to improve, the OWL is a valuable resource. Search the site by what specific writing area you want to focus on and explore.
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Purdue OWL: MLA Formatting and Style Guide - 3 views

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    The left navigation bar can serve as a guide to any specific formatting issues you may be struggling with when writing in MLA format.
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    From Prentice Hall, a brief guide on proofreader's marks. Note that I use abbreviated Six Traits terms to focus on a given quality of your writing (I=Ideas, ORG=Organization, WC=Word Choice, SF=Sentence Fluency, VOI=Voice, and CON=Conventions). A check mark during a passage denotes a positive writing quality and may be followed by a proofreader mark. This lets you know what you're doing well, according to my point-of-view.
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Purdue OWL: "MLA Formatting Quotations" - 0 views

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    A guide for incorporating quotes into sentences, in-text and parenthetical citations included. When considering incorporating quotes, consider if paraphrasing or quoting adds most to your sentence, paragraph, etc. When selecting a quote, consider the "10-word rule," to get to the most valuable information from the quote (anyone can cut-and-past paragraphs), decrease in conventions errors (less unnecessary words = less opportunity for errors), and fluency. Once you've incorporated a quote into your sentence, try reading the sentence out loud, same sentence, without the quotation marks. If it's unreadable, revise how you've placed the quote in your sentence.
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MLA Format Model Paper - 9 views

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    Shared through Purdue's OWL (Online Writing Lab), this paper is a model for students struggling to write papers in MLA format. You can download the model.
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    From Time's best websites of 2009: "You seed the online players with your all-time favorite song - or whatever you're in the mood to listen to - and a digital DJ creates a list of other songs you might like and starts streaming them through your speakers.
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    My user name is "Gergemel." How can something like this be used to conduct research?
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Academia.edu - Follow research - 7 views

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    Boasts over 500,000 researchers, academics who post material. This builds on collective intelligence (CI) principles of research. I'd like to see a demo and gain limited access without signing up (yet).
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    Another great resource for academic research.
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Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags - 1 views

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  • the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links
  • The question ontology asks is: What kinds of things exist or can exist in the world, and what manner of relations can those things have to each other?
  • The periodic table of the elements is my vote for "Best. Classification. Evar.
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  • Dewey, 200: Religion 210 Natural theology 220 Bible 230 Christian theology 240 Christian moral & devotional theology 250 Christian orders & local church 260 Christian social theology 270 Christian church history 280 Christian sects & denominations 290 Other religions
  • Dewey, 200: Religion 210 Natural theology 220 Bible 230 Christian theology 240 Christian moral & devotional theology 250 Christian orders & local church 260 Christian social theology 270 Christian church history 280 Christian sects & denominations 290 Other religions
  • It is organized into non-overlapping categories that get more detailed at lower and lower levels -- any concept is supposed to fit in one category and in no other categories
  • The essence of a book isn't the ideas it contains. The essence of a book is "book." Thinking that library catalogs exist to organize concepts confuses the container for the thing contained.
  • hierarchy is a good way to manage physical objects
  • there is no shelf
  • Look what's happened here. Yahoo, faced with the possibility that they could organize things with no physical constraints, added the shelf back
  • The charitable explanation for this is that they thought of this kind of a priori organization as their job, and as something their users would value. The uncharitable explanation is that they thought there was business value in determining the view the user would have to adopt to use the system
  • The charitable explanation for this is that they thought of this kind of a priori organization as their job, and as something their users would value. The uncharitable explanation is that they thought there was business value in determining the view the user would have to adopt to use the system
  • The charitable explanation for this is that they thought of this kind of a priori organization as their job, and as something their users would value. The uncharitable explanation is that they thought there was business value in determining the view the user would have to adopt to use the system
  • The charitable explanation for this is that they thought of this kind of a priori organization as their job, and as something their users would value. The uncharitable explanation is that they thought there was business value in determining the view the user would have to adopt to use the system .
  • if you've got enough links, you don't need the hierarchy anymore. There is no shelf. There is no file system. The links alone are enough. [ Just Links (There Is No Filesystem) ]
  • Browse versus search is a radical increase in the trust we put in link infrastructure, and in the degree of power derived from that link structure. Browse says the people making the ontology, the people doing the categorization, have the responsibility to organize the world in advance.
  • Search says that, at the moment that you are looking for it, we will do our best to service it based on this link structure, because we believe we can build a world where we don't need the hierarchy to coexist with the link structure.
  • You can also turn that list around. You can say "Here are some characteristics where ontological classification doesn't work well": Domain Large corpus No formal categories Unstable entities Unrestricted entities No clear edges Participants Uncoordinated users Amateur users Naive catalogers No Authority
  • where the people doing the categorizing believe, even if only unconciously, that naming the world changes it.
  • "Oh my god, that means you won't be introducing the movies people to the cinema people!" To which the obvious answer is "Good. The movie people don't want to hang out with the cinema people."
  • The problem is, because the cataloguers assume their classification should have force on the world, they underestimate the difficulty of understanding what users are thinking, and they overestimate the amount to which users will agree, either with one another or with the catalogers, about the best way to categorize. They also underestimate the loss from erasing difference of expression, and they overestimate loss from the lack of a thesaurus.
  • We pretend that 'country' refers to a physical area the same way 'city' does, but it's not true, as we know from places like the former Yugoslavia.
  • A: "This is a book about Dresden." B: "This is a book about Dresden, and it goes in the category 'East Germany'."
  • They're able to take my books in while ignoring my categories, because all my books have ISBN numbers, International Standard Book Numbers.
  • Now imagine a world where everything can have a unique identifier. This should be easy, since that's the world we currently live in -- the URL gives us a way to create a globally unique ID for anything we need to point to.
  • Now imagine a world where everything can have a unique identifier. This should be easy, since that's the world we currently live in -- the URL gives us a way to create a globally unique ID for anything we need to point to. Sometimes the pointers are direct, as when a URL points to the contents of a Web page. Sometimes they are indirect, as when you use an Amazon link to point to a book. Sometimes there are layers of indirection, as when you use a URI, a uniform resource identifier, to name something whose location is indeterminate. But the basic scheme gives us ways to create a globally unique identifier for anything. And once you can do that, anyone can label those pointers, can tag those URLs, in ways that make them more valuable, and all without requiring top-down organization schemes. And this -- an explosion in free-form labeling of links, followed by all sorts of ways of grabbing value from those labels -- is what I think is happening now.
  • Tags are simply labels for URLs, selected to help the user in later retrieval of those URLs. Tags have the additional effect of grouping related URLs together. There is no fixed set of categories or officially approved choices. You can use words, acronyms, numbers, whatever makes sense to you, without regard for anyone else's needs, interests, or requirements.
  • Tags are important mainly for what they leave out. By forgoing formal classification, tags enable a huge amount of user-produced organizational value, at vanishingly small cost.
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  • And if you can find any way to create value from combining myriad amateur classifications over time, they will come to be more valuable than professional categorization schemes, particularly with regards to robustness and cost of creation.
  • because you can derive 'this is who this link is was tagged by' and 'this is when it was tagged, you can start to do inclusion and exclusion around people and time, not just tags. You can start to do grouping. You can start to do decay. "Roll up tags from just this group of users, I'd like to see what they are talking about" or "Give me all tags with this signature, but anything that's more than a week old or a year old."
  • With tagging, when there is signal loss, it comes from people not having any commonality in talking about things. The loss is from the multiplicity of points of view, rather than from compression around a single point of view.
  • Tagging, by contrast, gets better with scale. With a multiplicity of points of view the question isn't "Is everyone tagging any given link 'correctly'", but rather "Is anyone tagging it the way I do?
  • The Web has an editor, it's everybody.
  • the decision about which tags to use comes after the links have been tagged, not before.
  • This allows for partial, incomplete, or probabilistic merges that are better fits to uncertain environments -- such as the real world -- than rigid classification schemes.
  • You merge from the URLs, and then try and derive something about the categorization from there. This allows for partial, incomplete, or probabilistic merges that are better fits to uncertain environments -- such as the real world -- than rigid classification schemes.
  • Merges are Probabilistic, not Binary - Merges create partial overlap between tags, rather than defining tags as synonyms. Instead of saying that any given tag "is" or "is not" the same as another tag, del.icio.us is able to recommend related tags by saying "A lot of people who tagged this 'Mac' also tagged it 'OSX'." We move from a binary choice between saying two tags are the same or different to the Venn diagram option of "kind of is/somewhat is/sort of is/overlaps to this degree". That is a really profound change.
  • You can see there's a tag "to_read". A professional cataloguer would look at this tag in horror -- "This is context-dependent and temporary." Well, so was the category "East Germany." Once you expand your time scale to include the actual life of the categorization scheme itself, you recognize that the distinction between temporary and permanent is awfully vague. There isn't in fact a binary condition of a tag that can or cannot survive any kind of long-term examination.
  • It comes down ultimately to a question of philosophy. Does the world make sense or do we make sense of the world?
  • If, on the other hand, you believe that we make sense of the world, if we are, from a bunch of different points of view, applying some kind of sense to the world, then you don't privilege one top level of sense-making over the other. What you do instead is you try to find ways that the individual sense-making can roll up to something which is of value in aggregate, but you do it without an ontological goal. You do it without a goal of explicitly getting to or even closely matching some theoretically perfect view of the world.
  • "A lot of users tagging things foobar are also tagging them frobnitz. I'll tell the user foobar and frobnitz are related." It's up to the user to decide whether or not that recommendation is useful -- del.icio.us has no idea what the tags mean. The tag overlap is in the system, but the tag semantics are in the users. This is not a way to inject linguistic meaning into the machine.
  • Some of those categories are starting to look a little bit dated
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    Informative piece on tagging as a method of categorizing information
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    Fascinating article on tagging.
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Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources | OEDb - 3 views

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    This site opens you to various sites and categories for research
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    Utopia for the researcher.
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EasyBib: Free Bibliography Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago citation styles - 1 views

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