Thursday, September 17, 2009

Research Assignment 1

Students will work independently to find, evaluate, and summarize a credible source on a given topic relating to the 1930’s in America (setting of To Kill a Mockingbird.

21 comments:

  1. Emily Maldonado

    Harlem Renaissance

    http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/C20th/harrenaiss.htm

    HuntFor Gate

    The information on this website is most helpful when trying to find information on the Harlem Renaissance. The website has all the criterias that it needs to be a reliable and credible resource. It answers all the right questions: who, what, when, where, why, and how the Harlem Renaissance started. The website also goes into many details on the subject. It gives valuable information you need to know if you’re ever going to write a report about the Harlem Renaissance.

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  2. Quincy Hickey A.K.A Q-DAWgg

    Careers

    http://www.divinecaroline.com/22277/42618-offbeat-jobs-30-s-40-s

    Dahlia Rideout

    Some information on this website is saying how and what kind of jobs there were in the 1930's. they have variety of things. Like be a magician,raising rabbits, be an artist, and many other things. this is very useful information about jobs in the 1930's This site is very great to write a report on. they show a lot of pictures to show you what the job looked like. I would refur this to all of my friends

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  3. Naomi Melancon

    Harlem Renaissance

    http://www.jcu.edu/harlem/Education/page_1.htm

    John carroll univsity

    Information on this website is great for harlem renaissance research.This education welcomes you to an exciting way to look at harlem renaissance.Its very detail it will teach you about the literature,religion, philosophy and so on.Bring to you is not a mere event that happened in Harlem in the 1920’s and 30’s but much more

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  4. Eden Gutema

    Fashion

    http://www.fashion-era.com/stylish_thirties.htm

    By Pauline Weston Thomas

    The Fashion-Era website is most appropriate for my topic. The site contains an About Us page which states that the author has graduated for Textiles and Design and has been qualified to be a teacher since the '70s. Although it might the first link on Google, Fashion-Era is very current up until Autumn/Winter 2009 yet still includes the useful history of fashion in the 1930s. The site also shows variety in styles and changes as each year progresses, and points out differences in clothing that have to do with everyday life. What is quite charming of this site is that it is not only for women, but for men too. Fashion-Era is the best site I have found because it doesn't have the need to sell items or advertise, but extends valuable information to anyone who visits the site, even though it is a personal home page.

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  5. a) Lauren Willis

    b) Langston Hughes

    c) http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/life.htm

    d) Oxford University Press.

    e) This website is very useful and reliable when researching about Langston Hughes. While reading through the biography on him and his career as a poet it didn’t come across biased or made up in anyway. It has resources that also seem just as creditable. It is on the website for Modern American poetry. This site, and all information on it, is intended for non-profit, educational use only. The biography was written by Arnold Rampersad and edited by Cary Nelson. The site was created by Oxford University Press.

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  6. Jazzmin Wilson
    Langston Hughes
    http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3340
    Copyright © 2009 Poetry Foundation
    This website is a good research tool if one is looking for Langston Hughes. It is owned by a non-profit organization and is for educational use only. First, it attempts to remain unbiased throughout the biography. It gives facts not the authors’ personal opinions. It gives possible other sources for the researcher. The information is correct and was last updated this year. The site includes quotes from leaders in poetry and historians. Although closer to the top of Google, this was the best website I found that attempted to be unbiased and include correct, in-depth information about his views and his importance from the 1920s through the 1940s.

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  7. Riley King

    The Great Depression

    http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/great-depression.htm

    Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Sight

    This website has plenty of useful information about The Great Depression. It includes pictures about the dust bowl, bankrupt businesses, and shanty towns. It has many facts and statistics having to do with the 1930's and the struggles of everyday life. The website has work sited and is funded by 'Save America's Treasures.' Finally, it has other links to different sites about The Great Depression if you could not find what you were looking for.

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  8. Michael Reinoso

    Diego Rivera

    http://www.diegorivera.com/index.php

    Javier A. Rivera

    This site includes very detailed information on the artist Diego Rivera. It includes many of his paintings and muarals all on the same website without having to search for different sites. It has a very detailed biography that includes the date that somethig happened and what it was with a sentence decribing what it was. Includes a list of websites for further information and a way to communicate with the person who made the website. I would definetly use this website for a project on Diego Rivera.

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  9. a)Claudia Esparza

    b)Media

    c)http://library.thinkquest.org/27629/themes/media/md30s.html

    d)© Thinkquest 1999 Team 27629

    e)This website has very useful information over the Media in the 1930's. It shows the development of the radio, cinema, television and many more. It gives information of how and by who the media was used. Although this website was on the first page of Google, it gives a lot of educational information, which I could not find on other websites. This site also is good at interacting with the people who have used it. It lets you give ideas and opinions.

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  10. a) William Santos

    b)Amelia Earhart

    c)http://www.ameliaearhart.com/about/bio.html

    d)© Family of Amelia Earhart

    e)This site covers the important events that happened in Amelia Earharts life. Starting when she first saw her first plane to the the time when she was the first women to fly the Atlantic Ocean. The site metions that she became intrested in flying a decade later after Amelia saw her first plane. It wasnt until the year of 1937 when she took on her final challenge to fly around the around the world, on July 2 however a month after her and her co pilot departed from Miami that she was reported lost in a storm. From this day on she has been named after schools, streets, and airports.

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  11. A.Bria Nervis
    B.The New Deal
    C.http://newdeal.feri.org/morefeatz.htm
    D.New deal document library

    E.The new deal network has a ton of useful links,photo gallery,documents,features,and forums.This website is a really good website to go to for facts and statistics about the 1930's in the great depression.Also there are features about A New Deal for Carbon Hill,Alabama a photo documentry of the impact of the great depression and the new deal on a small southern town.This website would be great to go on for projects,and essays on the great depression.

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  12. Kelan Shotwell

    Amelia Earhart

    http://www.ameliaearhart.com/

    © Family of Amelia Earhart


    This site is very helpful when it comes to Amelia Earhart. Everything on the site is about her. Theres her Biography, achievements, qoutes, photos, etc. Amelia Earhart was courageous, she broke tons of records and set many. She was one amazing women, not afraid of anything. All the information on the website would be very useful if doing a project on Amelia Earhart.

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  13. a. Erin Shirley

    b. Amelia Earhart

    c. http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq3-1.htm

    d. Operational Archives Branch -- Naval Historical Center

    e. The information that i got from this website is really trustworthy because its a website about naval history. This website is not biased, they do not pick one side on wether she is good or bad. They talk about the medals and prizes that she got for flying. The information is pretty current, it was written in 2002. It gives you a list of the other resources, and it gives you a list of bibliographies about Amelia Earhart. It gives you all the dates and times that she either flew or got awards. This is a very good website for information.

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  14. Jonny Santana

    Amelia Earhart

    http://www.biography.com/articles/Amelia-Earhart-9283280?part=0

    © 2009 A&E Television Networks

    The info i got on this site about Amelia Earhart was very useful. It had a full biography, which contained 7 full pages of the life and times of Amelia, including important events like all her achievements and even her death. There are links to a video, related people, and related sites about Amelia. I highly recomened using this site for looking up accurate and up to date info on Amelia Earhart.

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  15. a. Alan Ng

    b. The New Deal

    c. http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1998/4/98.04.04.x.html

    d. © 2009 by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

    e. This website is very detailed if you want to know about “The New Deal” event. In “The New Deal” section, it gives a great processed detailed on how “The New Deal” developed. For some of the acts passed, it also gives a small description and the purpose about it if you don’t know what it’s about. I would highly recommend this website if you need information about “The New Deal” during its event. There is another website that I want to point out, http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/new_deal.htm. This website also talks about “The New Deal” but gives a short main detail about the acts if you just want to know the acts that pass.

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  16. Lauren Martinez

    Harlem Renaissance

    http://www.jcu.edu/harlem/index.htm

    John Carroll

    The website above is a very informative website that gives information about The Harlem Renaissance. This website includes information about the education, performers, French Connection, literature, political issues, religion, and philosophy about The Harlem Renaissance. This website meets the criteria’s necessary to be a credible and reliable website for researchers to use. This website is a great source for anyone that needs information about The Harlem Renaissance. This site includes multimedia resources and links to get even more information about The Harlem Renaissance. This website goes into depth on the topic and I recommend this site to anyone who is doing a report over The Harlem Renaissance.

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  17. a. Destiny Benton

    b. Transportation

    c.http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_08.html

    d.Wessels

    e. This website shows and tell you what transportaion was like during the great depression. Back in the 1930's they had to walk, hitch hike, ride trains and horses. They had no high technology to buy new cars. This also shows how the people got their food to survive. During the Great Depression Hitchhiking was a big thing. It was very popular in that year. It was illegal but people had no other way to get what they need so they did only what they knew.

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  18. D'Vasha ' Davis


    Consumer products


    http://www.imediaconnection.com/printpage/printpage.aspx?id=20821


    By Dave Chase

    This site is a understandable point of view of what was selling during the 1920's and 1930's of the, Great Depression.The sites talkes about Cigarettes which is still avaliable till this day,Chevrolet,a car,which is still used up to this day, Radio which also a important role in our society,and many other produts that is still a big role in life time.

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  19. A. Kimberly Patterson

    B. Scottsboro Trial

    C.http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_acct.html

    D. By Douglas O. Linder

    E. Haywood Patterson, Charles Weems, Clarence Norris, Andy Wright, Ozzie Powell, Olen Montgomery, Eugene Williams, Willie Roberson, and Roy Wright all 9 of what we call the Scottsboro Boys not to mention teenagers were accused of gang rape. 1930s, The Great Depression is when this unfair trial took place. Victoria Price and Ruby Bates were said to be the victims who were raped that day on the train. Eight of the nine Scottsboro Boys had been convicted and sentenced to death although the 11 year old boy was given another trial. Seven of the nine Scottsboro Boys had been held in jail for over six years without trial. Haywood Patterson managed to escape in 1948. By 1989 the last of the Scottboro boys were dead. No doubt was this a unfair trial and it makes us realize how unprejudiced and fair most of the world is today.

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  20. A. Kimberly Patterson

    B. Scottsboro Trial

    C.http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_acct.html

    D. By Douglas O. Linder

    E. The useful information on this website is how it allows you to know about each person who was involved in the Scottboro case. It has pictures to let us see how they were having to live locked up. This is the best website i found because it is credible and reliable.

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  21. Gary Houston

    Careers

    ingrimayne.com/econ/.../GreatDepression.html

    Geoffrey H. Moore

    The website explained all the necessary things needed to bring out some important information. It showed jobs that were hit the hardest by the depression. It explained statistics on graphs. It gave both views of the crash for the poor and the rich. It showed the resons the market crashed and the ones that responsible for it.

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