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    wrong. Teenagers often use electronic devices before they go to bed, which can result in losing up to two hours of sleep (Source E). Students also seem to not have interest in changing their sleep schedule. “Students in the past have said, ‘I’m not going to change my sleep-wake schedule unless you can prove to me that it’s going to make a significant difference in my grades’” (Source B). This shows that students

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    use of these applications provides a more effective outcome of everyday lives. However, the overuse of the technology and social media has negatively impacted those who abuse their time on technology and the use of social media platforms. The first source explains why the overuse of technology negatively effects adolescents and gives data to support their idea. The point of this article is to promote awareness for the younger generation and their abuse of technology. The author gives statistics and

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    My first source is Huff Post Green, its a news website for all over the world news. Huff post green talks about what need to be done to stop the extinction of wild life tigers. It gives information on how to bring back and double the population of tigers. One of the country that this website talks about the most for the decrease in the tiger population is China, because of the medicine they use from tigers. The main point of this article is getting the plan ready to save the tigers before 2022

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    In Bartlett, Myke. "Sex Sells: Child Sexulization and the Media", one of my sources, makes references a portrait of a thirteen year old girl painted nude. Does this fall under a sexulizased, pornographic image or is it simply art? How and where do we draw the boundaries? This broad definition leads to much controversy over whether

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    Getting to the source of reliable sources: In today’s world, with all the technology that is readily available, finding information that is credible can pose a challenge. With social media and everything being online, it seems as if anyone from everywhere can post whatever they want, whether it is deemed to be accurate or not. In using the topic of national debt in the United States as a guide, I was able to analyze plausible sources and compare them to inaccurate sources. Journalist, Brandon Greife

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    The first of the two sources to be examined here is Allen Guelzo's House Divided: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Political Landscape of 1858. This source took a more technical examination of not just the speeches and overall influence of Lincoln during this time, but also on where politics stood around the middle of the nineteenth century. To begin with, this source took a more critical examination at the Lincoln-Douglas race from the perspective of the complex political situation that was inherent during

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    People wonder whether Wikipedia is actually a reliable source or not. Others just assume it is because there is a lot of information about the topic they looked up. The Wikipedia article on Robert Smalls is one example of explaining whether it is a reliable source of information or not, and why. Also, this research helps understand what exactly is a reliable source of information. The Wikipedia article on Robert Smalls is not a reliable source of information. Simply because Wikipedia is a form of

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    I used this website because it looked very trustworthy/credible since there was a lot of information and a lot of details to back it all up. I understood all of the information because I have seen it in textbooks and other sources. There is also a lot of information on it about my topic, and the author had written it to be very well understood. Also, it has .org at the end, which is usually better than .com and more reliable than .com websites. Commercial websites usually aren’t the best for researching

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    Wikipedia, a source we all know and love. A source with extensive amounts of information, some true, and some fabricated. How are we to know what is true and what is not? All the information for anything you really ever wanted to know is right at your fingertips and easily found. I have always been taught, from teachers mostly, that Wikipedia is not a credible source. I have used Wikipedia in the past, but only to obtain general information, to be able to use this in my classes I then was required

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    citation is required for each? Why is properly citing sources important? What are the possible consequences of improperly citing references? In most writing the content and ideas are not always your own. There for it is important to give credit to the original source of your writing. You can do this by quoting, paraphrasing or summarizing the original text in which you obtained the ideas for your writing. Properly citing you're source is necessary when using one of these three ways of

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