Jennifer La Vine

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   Look up your home city or state. Any surprises? Now try Greensboro. Then North Carolina. What is your general impression? Any gripes?
   
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      Encyclopedia Britannica
      
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         This source gives the basics about New Jersey, such as its location, geography, climate, economy, universities, and population statues. It states that Atlantic City is the basis of the good economy in New Jersey because of its boardwalk, beach, casinos, restaurants, and shopping areas.(pg 638)
         
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         I was unable to find Greensboro in this source specifically. The index stated to see North Carolina.
         
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         This source states that North Carolina was the first permanent white settlement in 1650s. It also states that it was named for the English King Charles II. It states that it is divided into three physiographic regions, coastal plains, piedmont plateau, and Appalachian mountain. The weather is also listed in this source as well as that the agriculture aspect is very important to the economy. It mentions that the Cherokee Indians were the original inhabitants of North Carolina (pg 778).
         
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      Wikipedia:
      
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         The information from Wikipedia did not surprise me at all. There was a ton of information about the town, and most of it I knew. The information included: the History, Geography, Demographics, government, education, corporate residents, and places of interest, notable residents, references, and external links.
         
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         The information included this information on Greensboro, NC: the History, including early history, Geography, Demographics, cityscape, climate, government, economy, education, transportation, and places of interest, shopping, media, sports, arts, fictional characters, notable residents, sister cities, references, and external links.
         
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         This source discusses the geography, climate, history, with an emphasis on the Civil War, demographics, race, languages, religion, economy, transportation, politics/government, education, sports, tourism, recreation, arts and culture, state parks, the military, references, and external links about the state of North Carolina. This provided the most information about a search from this particular site than my other searches.
         
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      Infoplease Encyclopedia:
      
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         Did not return results on my hometown of Vernon, NJ. The results it did populate were: Vernon: meaning and definitions (Dictionary) Definition and Pronunciation; NJ: meaning and definitions (Dictionary) Definition and Pronunciation; Edward Vernon (Encyclopedia) Edward, 1684–1757, British admiral; Vernon, city, Canada (Encyclopedia) (1991 pop. 23,514).
         
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         Information about Greensboro from this website came up with the battle of Guilford Courthouse. Guilford Courthouse, battle of, in the Carolina campaign of the American Revolution, fought Mar. 15, 1781. The site is included in a national military park near Greensboro, N.C.
         
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         This source provided a lot about North Carolina. It discusses maps, flags, geography, history, statistics, disasters, current events, government, culture, major cities, points of interest, famous residents, state motto, symbols, nicknames, different universities, the capital, Raleigh, different area codes, and temperature extremes.
         
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      Encyclopedia.com:
      
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         This source did not return anything either. It did however bring back information about a town, Clifton, close to Vernon, NJ : COPYRIGHT 2012 The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Columbia University Press. (Hide copyright information)Clifton, industrial city (1990 pop. 71,742), Passaic co., NE N.J., on the Passaic River; settled 1685, set off from Passaic and inc. 1917. It has steel, textile equipment, chemical, plastics, clothing, and electronics industries.
         
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         This website had information about Greensboro populated immediately. It also had references to the battle of Guilford Courthouse, but about the town it had a lot of information about the history, the art and culture, festivals, sports events, and shopping and dining opportunities.
         
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         This source generated a lot of information about North Carolina. It gave where the name originated from, the nickname, capital, when it entered into the union, the song, the motto, the flag, the official seal, the bird, the fish, the flower, the tree, the gem, the topography, and so much more.
         
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            ORIGIN OF STATE NAME: Named in honor of King Charles I of England.
            
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            ENTERED UNION: 21 November 1789 (12th).
            
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            MOTTO: Esse quam videri (To be rather than to seem).
            
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            FLAG: Adjacent to the fly of two equally sized bars, red above and white below, is a blue union containing a white star in the center, flanked by the letters N and C in gold. Above and below the star are two gold scrolls, the upper one reading "May 20th 1775," the lower one "April 12th 1776."
            
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            OFFICIAL SEAL: Liberty, clasping a constitution and holding aloft on a pole a liberty cap, stands on the left, while Plenty sits beside a cornucopia on the right; behind them, mountains run to the sea, on which a three-masted ship appears. "May 20, 1775" appears above the figures; the words "The Great Seal of the State of North Carolina" and the state motto surround the whole.
            
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            BIRD: Cardinal, FISH: Channel bass, FLOWER: Dogwood, TREE: Long leaf pine, GEM: Emerald, CAPITAL: Raleigh, SONG: "The Old North State.", NICKNAME: The Tarheel State; Old North State.
            
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   What can you find on Crazy Horse; Marie Curie; Saddam Hussein; Sacco and Vanzetti? Was Lizzie Borden responsible for killing her parents according to these encyclopedias?
   
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      Encyclopedia Britannica
      
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         This source gives Crazy horse’s Indian name which is TA-SUNKO-WITKO. He was a Sioux chief of the Oglala tribe. He was also a determined and tactful warrior. He was leading an army against the US who wanted to construct a road to the goldfield in Montana. He left the area and moved north to be with the Sioux people of Chief Sitting Bull on the banks of the Little Bighorn River. (pg 719)
         
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         This source gives her biography as well as her strengths in childhood. She had a very good memory. She won many awards in Russia because of her intelligence, but because of her father’s bad investments she was forced to get a teaching job. She financed her sister’s medical education in Paris. She had two daughters and was a well known scientist’s with her husband. This source gives a detail biography. (Pg 798)
         
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         This source gives is generic biography as well as it references to his political actions in Iran. It also ends discussing the oil he wished to use for his nation and economy. It discusses the war between Iraq and the US over oil beginning in 1991.
         
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         This source talks solely about the case. It states that it is a controversial murder trial in Massachusetts. It extended over seven years. The defendants were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. It states that they were pinned as the murderers because of their anarchist beliefs and their Italian culture (pg 284).
         
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         This source states that Lizzie Borden was only suspected of killing her father and step mother.
         
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      Wikipedia
      
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         Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó ) literally "His-Horse-Is-Crazy", 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota. He took up arms against the U.S. Federal government to fight against encroachments on the territories and way of life of the Lakota people, including leading a war party to victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876.
         
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         Marie Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.
         
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         This source goes into great detail about Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (28 April 1937– 30 December 2006) who was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organisation Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region—which espoused ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism—Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup (later referred to as the 17 July Revolution) that brought the party to power in Iraq. It also talks about his life in general, education, rise to power, Gulf War, and political influence.
         
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         This source had a lot of information about the two men who were convicted of murder during a shoe robbery. The source provides information about their background, the robbery, the arrest, the trial, the decision, the new trials and appeals, and then their execution and funerals.
         
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         This source merely states that Lizzie Borden (1860–1927) was an American woman accused and acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother.
         
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      Infoplease Encyclopedia
      
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         Crazy Horse, d. 1877, war chief of the Oglala Sioux. He was a prominent leader in the Sioux resistance to white encroachment in the mineral-rich Black Hills. When Crazy Horse and his people refused to go on a reservation, troops attacked (Mar. 17, 1876) their camp on Powder River. Crazy Horse was victorious in that battle as well as in his encounter with Gen. George Crook on the Rosebud River (June 17). He joined Sitting Bull and Gall in defeating George Armstrong Custer at the battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25).
         
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         Scientist; Born: 7 November 1867; Died: 4 July 1934 (leukemia); Birthplace: Warsaw, Poland; Best known as: Discoverer of radium and polonium; Name at birth: Maria Sklodowska. Marie Curie is most famous for the discovery of the elements polonium and radium. Prohibited from higher education in her native Poland she moved to Paris in 1891 In 1898 the Curies discovered polonium and radium, and in 1903 they shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Henri Becquerel. When Pierre was killed suddenly in 1906, Marie took over his post as a professor at the Sorbonne, becoming the first woman to teach there. It is thought her long exposure to radioactive materials precipitated her death. The element curium, discovered in 1944, is named after the Curie family.
         
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         This source talks briefly about his life and his power in Iraq, and ultimately his death. Hussein, Saddam, 1937–2006, Iraqi political leader. A member of the Ba'ath party, he fled Iraq after participating (1959) in an assassination attempt on the country's prime minister; in Egypt he attended law school. Returning to Iraq in 1963 after the Ba'athists briefly came to power, he played a significant role in the 1968 revolution that secured Ba'ath hegemony. Hussein held key economic and political posts before becoming Iraq's president in 1979. In 2004 he was transferred to Iraqi legal custody and arraigned on charges stemming from his presidency. The Iraqi government put Hussein on trial in 2005 for crimes against humanity, for ordering the execution of 143 men in the Shiite village of Dujail following an assassination attempt on him there in 1982. In 2006, charges of genocide, resulting from the anti-Kurd Anfal campaign in the late 1980s, also were brought against him. Hussein was convicted and sentenced to death in the Dujail case in Nov., 2006; after an unsuccessful appeal he was hanged in Dec., 2006.
         
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         This source provides search links to the case itself and information involving the case with these two men. It also provides information about the men themselves and their background before the robbery and murder. One link also talks about a movie that was made about the case and murder. The men escaped with $15,000. They were caught after trying to retrieve a car that had been taken from them by the police.
         
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         This source states that Lizzie was tried and acquitted of the killings of in 1893. It also states that the truth may never be known.
         
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      Encyclopedia.com
      
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         Crazy Horse (a translation of his Lakotan name, Tasunke Witko) achieved notoriety while he was alive for his skill as a military leader and his defiant attempt to resist Westernizing influences. Since his death, his actions have taken on further meaning, and he is highly regarded as a symbol of Lakota resistance, oftentimes considered wakan (spiritually powerful), and he continues to be emblematic of a traditional past.
         
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         This source gave Marie Curie’s detailed biography. It talked about her family, childhood, adulthood, and move to Paris, education, discoveries, marriage, children, achievements, and her death because of radioactivity exposure. This source is very detailed and in great length.
         
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         This source briefly talks about his life and youth, then going into his political party, and in great detail the source talks about his rise to power and dictatorship. Then the source goes into great detail about the war in Iran and the war with the US. The source ends with stating that he was captured by American soldiers after the 9/11 attack in the US. He was then brought to trial and hung for his unlawfulness.
         
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         This is the first source that states that the two were wrongfully accused and executed. The Sacco and Vanzetti case is widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice in American legal history. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants and anarchists, were executed for murder by the state of Massachusetts in 1927 on the basis of doubtful ballistics evidence. For countless observers throughout the world, Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted because of their political beliefs and ethnic background.
         
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         This source does not clearly state whether she killed them or not. It gives evidence that she could be the killer and then it gives evidence that she wasn’t the killer.
         
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   What material with ready reference value is used to illustrate the article on your favorite sport or hobby?
   
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      Encyclopedia Britannica
      
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         Soccer can only be found in this source as football. The source states that football, in Canada, popular game that is played between two 12-member teams on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. It then goes into the rules and the teams that are popular in Canada. It states that Rugby is a popular game in Canada currently that is similar to soccer, football. (pg 871).
         

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   Wikipedia
   
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      This source talks about the American sport of Soccer, which is called Football in most other countries. It also discusses the history, names of plays, gameplay, laws, positions, equipment, competitions, women’s associations, variants, and casual play.
      
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   Infoplease Encyclopedia
   
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      This source mainly talks about the history, rules, and competitions. It also references to Rugby, which is a more intense version of soccer. Soccer, outdoor ball and goal game, also called football. The first recorded game probably was that on a Shrove Tuesday in Derby, England, part of a festival to celebrate a victory over a contingent of Roman troops (A.D. 217). By 1175 the Shrove Tuesday soccer game was an annual event.
      
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   Encyclopedia.com
   
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      This source talks about the history of soccer, and the differences with English and American soccer. Soccer, Despite its organized origins at East Coast universities in the 1860s, soccer—"football" in its birthplace, Britain—has never truly flourished in the United States. Crowded out of the national sports culture by the "American" sports of football, baseball, and basketball, soccer has also suffered from a succession of failed domestic leagues. Between 1930 and 1950, and again in the 1990s, the U.S. national team had some success in soccer's premier tournament, the World Cup. However, since the 1970s, women's soccer has been more important than the men's game in the United States.
      

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   For what audience do you think the article on "Relativity" (the theory) was written? Can you understand it? What about “String Theory?”
   
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      Encyclopedia Britannica
      
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         This source states that relativity, in physics, is the problem of whether and how physical laws and measurements change when considered by observers in various states of motion. It also gives examples of relativity. (pg 1013)
         
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         A type of theory of particle physics that treats elementary particles as extended on dimensional “string-like” objects rather than as the dimensionless points in space-time used in other theories. This source calls it superstring theory. (pg 401).
         
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      Wikipedia
      
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         I feel as though this source makes it easier for everyday people to read about relativity. It provides links to different topics in relation to relativity such as, Galilean relativity, Numerical relativity, Principle of relativity, and Theory of relativity. This makes it easier for the reader to navigate and understand what it is the source will discuss.
         
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         This source goes into great detail about String theory. It also provides a lot of hyperlinked words to reference to; however, it is filled with subject specific words that might need to be researched. I would suggest this source for someone who knows about the topic but is looking to expand on knowledge already known.
         
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      Infoplease Encyclopedia
      
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         This source is very straight forward, but short. The reader doesn’t really get a feel for what it is, but they do get a quick crash course. One consequence of the theory is that space and time are no longer viewed as separate, independent entities but rather are seen to form a four-dimensional continuum called space time.
         
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         This source is good for people who want to know what string theory is and what it is in reference to. It does not go in depth and it does not have words that need to be looked up. It does allow the reader to obtain some knowledge about the theory; however, nothing to substantial and nothing to be used in a research paper or sorts.
         
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      Encyclopedia.com
      
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         This source is not as easy to read. It has a lot of subject specific words that need to be researched for someone who doesn’t know anything about the topic. It is also very in depth. If someone is interested in learning a lot about relativity they should use this source and have a dictionary on hand.
         
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         This source again goes into great detail; however, it is easier to follow than the latter. It does not have as many subject specific words. It also is not as in depth, but it also has substantial knowledge that could be further researched.