Research Journal Assignment #15

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B. I have learned to keep up with everything or I will get so behind. I have learned to be more organized with my work. I have learned more resources for any reasearch papers that are headed my way. I have learned that keeping a blog kind of helps with everything in the class. Thats really all that I have learned.

Research Journal Assignment #14

A. Meehan, Mendy. History of the Holocaust Ed. Mendy Meehan. Kentucky Department of Education, 22 Oct. 2009. www.google.com. Web. 23 Nov. 2009. .
This source was for a table describing what high school students are learning about the Holocaust. Table One.

Mikkelson, Barbara. Snopes.com. Snopes.com, 14 Mar. 2008. www.google.com. Web.
3 Dec. 2009. .
This source helped me with the fake e-mail that was sent to people all over the world.


Strahinich, Helen. The Holocaust: Understanding and Remembering. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1996. 1-91. Print.
This source was a major source for my paper. It described everything anyone needs to know about the Holocaust.

Tito, Tina E. Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust: Liberation. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, 1999. 1-53. Print.
This source is another diary type book. It described what and how people were feeling after the Holocaust when they were liberated.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum N.p., n.d. www.google.com. Web. 22 Nov. 2009. .
This source was helpful in showing some reasons why teachers should teach about the Holocaust.

Research Journal Assignment #13

A. I did a survey/poll with 25 of my co-workers.
The Question: Should the Holocaust be taught in public schools and why?
21 peoples answers were yes that the Holocaust should be taught in public schools.
4 peoples answers were no that it shouldn't be taught in public schools.
Two of the four people gave their responses on why they think that the Holocaust should not be taught in public schools. One reason was they didnt want their child to be taught about hatred at a young age. The second reason was that their family was Jewish and they didn't want their child to know what their ancestors went through until they were old enough to fully understand the content.

B. Ayer, Eleanor H. Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust: Ghettos. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, 1999. 1-55. Print.
This source was a book from the library. It was pretty much a diary of a lot of different people who lived through the Holocaust and told their story. It was a big help for my paper with the background information as well as some points in the rest of my paper.

Giddens Ed., Sandra M. Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust: Escape. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, 1999. 1-53. Print.
This source is a book. It is another diary from a lot of different people that lived through the holocaust and told their story from when some of them escaped. It helped with little points in my paper.

Greenfeld, Howard. After the Holocaust. New York: HarperCollins , 2001. 1-139. Print.
This source had a couple of good facts that helped me in my paper it was not what I expected though. I needed background information and it was just telling about what happened after the Holocaust and what certain people did.

Lightbody, Bradley. Invasion of Poland. 2005. bbc.org. Web.
This source was for a picture in the first page of my paper.

Research Journal Assignment #12

A. 1. I have a little less than half of my paper done.
2. I need to finish the rest of my paper and do my presentation.

B. I did my presentation on the history of the Holocaust as well as some points I will include in my paper.

Research Journal Assignment #11

A. The Holocaust is a major event that happened in our history. It showed how one man is very powerful and is capable of anything. The Holocaust is very real and did occur and their is plenty of evidence to prove that. The Holocaust should be taught in public schools because it is educational, it will help prevent history from repeating itself, and it is an important part of our lives.

B. Graphs, Pictures, Tables, and Quotes.

Internet Research Project

Name of and link to the tool: www.siteslike.com
Summary or description of the tool: You can find similar websites with this tool. For instance if you really like myspace you can find similar websites like myspace.
Strengths: Brings up odd websites that it looks like random people made.
Weaknesses: It's lame
Search engines, directories, and other applications searched: It brings up any search engine or directory that you type in.
Case sensitivity: None
Advanced search function: None
Sorting: None really it just brings up similar websites.
Display: Has recently looked up websites on the front page.
Help function: No help function
Special features: Find related sites, you can vote on websites, can create new website entries, submit reports, and share links with friends and family

Research Journal Assignment #10

A. The Holocaust is a major part of our history and it should be taught in public schools. It is very educational, it is a important part of history, and the world does not want another event to happen like this one.

B. The Holocaust is a major event in our history. One man killed so many people just because he thought one race was the best. He ruined so many people's lives and started a new war. He was a horrible person but children should know about him and what he did.

Research Journal Assignment #9

A. Source #1: Book
Strahinich, Helen. The Holocaust: Understanding and Remembering. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1996. Print.
**This is a really helpful source for my topic.

Source #2:Book
Ayer, Eleanor H. In the Ghettos:Teens Who Survived the Ghettos of the Holocaust. New York, NJ: The Rosen Publishing Group, 1999. Print.
**This source is helpful with the background part of the essay.

Source #3: Website
www.questia.com
**This source is great.

Source #4:Website
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/denial.html
**This source helps with the side that I have to argue against.

Source #5: Book
Giddens, Sandra M. Escape: Teens Who Escaped the Holocaust to Freedom. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, 1999. Print.
**This source also helps with the background portion of the essay.

Source #6:Book
Greenfeld, Howard. After the Holocaust. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2001. Print.
**This source helps me with the background of my subject.

Extra Credit Assignment #1

Research Journal Assignment #8

A. Resource searched or tool used: Cloudlet.com
Keywords used: Holocaust denial
Search strategies used: Search engine
Date of search: 10/14/2009
Number of hits: 368,540
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 5

Resource searched or tool used:Cactisearch.com
Keywords used: Holocause denial
Search strategies used: Meta & Multi Search Engines
Date of search:10/14/2009
Number of hits: 20
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 2

Resource searched or tool used:Odyssearch.com
Keywords used: Holocaust Denial
Search strategies used: Directory
Date of search: 10/14/2009
Number of hits:1 page
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 1

B. Resource searched or tool used: blogpulse.com
Keywords used: Holocaust denial
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): Social media search tool
Date of search: 10/14/2009
Number of hits: 4219
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) : 1

Resource searched or tool used:soovle.vom
Keywords used: Holocaust denial
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): Other tool
Date of search:10/14/2009
Number of hits: Brings up 7 sites with different information
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 5

C. Resource searched or tool used: Blinkx.com
Keywords used: Holocaust denial
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): Video websites
Date of search: 10/14/2009
Number of hits: 474
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 3

Research Journal Assignment #7

A. I always use google. I feel that they are pretty acurate with the topic that I need to research. I occasionally use yahoo if I want to find something different or depending on what I research.

B. The internet tool you provided me was just to find, tag, rate, and share websites it didn't really help me with my topic at all.

C. I honestly have no idea what I should do for my field research. Its hard to really do any of the options because of my topic.

Research Journal Assignment #6

A. I can't find no periodicals dealing with my topic.

B. I didn't recieve any comments on my search strings.

C.http://www.protopage.com/lsalaz18#Untitled/Home

Research Journal Assignment #5

A. I looked at infoplease and found some helpful definitions and information. I also looked at debatepedia and I am not sure if what I found deals with my topic, so I will have to look more into that website.

B. Resource searched: Auraria Library
Keywords used: holocaust denial
Date: 09*17*2009
# of hits: 1,165
Relevance of hits: 4

Resource searched: Library of Congress
Keywords used: holocaust denial
Date: 09*17*2009
# of hits: 210
Relevance of hits: 3-4

C. http://alexandria-alieng1020.blogspot.com/2009/09/research-journal-assignment-4.html#comment-form

http://melissacahilleng1020.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja4b-writing-search-strings.html#comment-form

Research Journal Assignment #4

A. *Denial-disagree
*Holocaust
*Racism-prejudice, discrimination
*Hatred-hate, loathe, disgust
*Genocide
*Killing-kill, murder

B. Denial+Holocaust+Hatred
Holocaust+Killing+Denial

holocaust AND denial AND racism
holocaust AND prejudice NOT discrimination

C. http://nataliesresearchpaper.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-3c-developing-research-question.html?showComment=1253194281687#c3079119829114209321

http://sofiaf1020.blogspot.com/2009/09/eng-1020-rja-3c-developing-research_06.html#comment-form

Research Journal Assignment #3

A. I started my search in google and yahoo and I found some interesting articles and links to other pages that relate to my topic.

*http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/?WT.srch=1&WT.mc_id=10003&gclid=CLizm_TG1ZwCFR5HagodHCk3KA

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial#The_Z.C3.BCndel_trials

*http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/denial.html

*http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=holocaust+denial&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8

B. I need to narrow down my topic to something specific. I have to talk about a certain word or phrase that deals with holocaust denial like revisionism. I still don't know exactly how I want to go about my topic but I know it is important to me that I keep the fact that such a horrible thing happened to all these people and some people believe that it was all a lie. I want to write using this topic to try and get people to believe that this was real and did happen. I just don't know how to write that in a question.

C. 1. Why do people try to deny the Holocause when there is actual proof that it happened? What was the reason people started to deny the Holocaust? Should the Holocaust be taught in school? When the revisionists see the actual evidence, will they then believe the tragedy that happened? Why should they not believe that it happened when there is evidence and living people who were there?

Research Journal Assignment #2

A. Some topics I have selected are voyeurism, sex crimes, sexual assault and the law, mental illnesses, serial killers, prayer in public schools, and Holocaust education.

B. I am want to do something on the Holocaust education or something to do with serial killers. They both are very interesting topics to me. I chose Holocaust education because when I first started learning about it in school it broke my heart to find out that just one man can do so much damage to the world and kill so many people because of the way they look. It also caught me off guard when kids in my class said that their parents don't want them to learn about the subject because it never happened. It is a very controversial subject so that should help with researching the topic.
*Adolf Hitler was the man behind this
*Concentration camps
*Some techniques he used to kill people
*He separated families and made them work hard
I am sure that I still don't know a lot about the subject which is why I want to research this more and get a better perspective about the topic and why it is such a controversial topic in schools.

C. http://delicious.com/Liani13

Research Journal Assignment #1

Areas of Academic Interest
*History
*Law
*Civil Law
*Criminal Law
*Psychology
*Education