University of Toronto, Canada Printable PDF Version Fair-Use Policy What is an annotated bibliography? An annotated bibliography gives an account of the research that has been done on a given topic. Selecting the sources: The quality and usefulness of your bibliography will depend on your selection of sources. What problem am I investigating? Summarizing the argument of a source: An annotation briefly restates the main argument of a source. Example 1: Only lists contents: McIvor, S. Example 2: Identifies the argument: McIvor, S. The following reading strategies can help you identify the argument of your source: Identify the author's thesis (central claim or purpose) or research question. Assessing the relevance and value of sources: Your annotation should now go on to briefly assess the value of the source to an investigation of your research question or problem. Are you interested in the way the source frames its research question or in the way it goes about answering it (its method)?
The 7 Most Bizarre Fast Food Industry Lawsuits McDonald's and the Case of the Mean Italian Critic In 2002, Italian food critic Edoardo Raspelli went on a foul-mouthed tirade against McDonald's, going as far as to say that the ambiance at McDonald's was "mechanical" and that the bread was "poor." Vulgarities such as that could only come from a man who sits at the right hand of Satan, his ink well fed by the blood of innocents and the semen of Hitler. McDonald's, probably after some intensive rounds of therapy and some veterinary-grade tranquilizers to calm themselves, did the only responsible thing they could in the face of this irresponsible attack: they filed a $25 million lawsuit for defamation. Above: Artistic rendering of an Italian critic. The Result: Little progress has been reported in the suit since, but Raspelli wound up with a massive amount of free publicity since the suit became huge news in the Italian press. Somewhere there are probably some McDonalds executives wishing they had just had the man quietly killed.
WP2 Reading 3 Can Employers Ban Turkey on Thanksgiving Day? ‹ American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia By Kent Willis, Executive Director When Bon Secours announced last week that it would no longer hire individuals who smoked, the calls came pouring in to the ACLU of Virginia. Can they do this? Doesn’t this violate some kind of law? The answer is no, it doesn’t violate Virginia law. I’ll start with a slight correction. This leaves private sector employers, like Bon Secours, free to discriminate against smokers in Virginia—although that was almost not the case. Governor L. In all this back and forth no one—not Wilder, not the state legislators, not the tobacco lobbyists—got it right. The ACLU has long supported bills that prevent employers from reaching deeply into the private lives of employees and dictating what they can and cannot do. What most people don’t realize is that employers can discriminate for any reason they wish, so long as there is no law or constitutional provision preventing it. So far, the market has tended to correct for employers who overreach.
Jeffrey Kluger: Why China's Moon Mission Is a Good Thing Nobody gets to the moon by accident. If you’re a rocket scientist and know what you’re doing, Earth’s little sister ought not be such a challenging target. It’s huge — a whopping 2,155 mi. (3,468 km) across. And yet a trip to the moon is one that only a small handful of countries have made with robot ships and only one country has made with astronauts. (VIDEO: Layoffs and Hardship for Space-Shuttle Workers) But the U.S. has not been thinking much about manned space travel lately. And yet the sad and spent U.S. and Russian manned programs are not the only ones out there. Just last week, the Chinese government released a white paper detailing its plans for space in the years ahead — plans that were impressive for their candor, specificity and ambition. (PHOTOS: 10 Strange Objects Launched into Space) Manned space travel is a uniquely elective business. The follow-through, of course, is a wee bit harder than the choice, and in recent years, that’s where the U.S. has performed abysmally.
Swedes create light from absolute nothingness, God updates resume Creating light is something that's usually done with a light switch, right? But what if you didn't have a light switch? A team of Swedish physicists were presented with such a conundrum, so they've gone and convinced a bunch of photons to spontaneously create themselves out of nothingness. Creating something out of nothing really should be impossible. Quantum theory predicts that empty space isn't really empty. If you're very clever, like these Swedish witches physicists, you can take those virtual particles and turn them into real particles, effectively creating something out of nothing. In principle, it's possible to use this same technique to create other particles out of nothing (including protons and electrons), but it would take an impractical amount of energy. Nature, via Kurzweil AI
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr Illustration by Guy Billout "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? I can feel it, too. I think I know what’s going on. For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. I’m not the only one. Bruce Friedman, who blogs regularly about the use of computers in medicine, also has described how the Internet has altered his mental habits. Anecdotes alone don’t prove much. It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings.
March 1504 lunar eclipse Columbus predicts lunar eclipse to the natives.[1] A total lunar eclipse occurred on March 1, 1504 (visible on the evening of February 29 in the Americas). Christopher Columbus, in an effort to induce the natives of Jamaica to continue provisioning him and his hungry men, successfully intimidated the natives by correctly predicting a lunar eclipse for February 29, 1504, using the Ephemeris of the German astronomer Regiomontanus.[2] Observations[edit] On 30 June 1503, Christopher Columbus beached his two last caravels and was stranded in Jamaica. The Moon passed west to east across the northern half of the earth's shadow Columbus had on board an almanac authored by Abraham Zacuto of astronomical tables covering the years 1475–1506.[4][5][6] Upon consulting the book, he noticed the date and the time of an upcoming lunar eclipse. The lunar eclipse and the red Moon appeared on schedule, and the indigenous people were impressed and frightened. Visibility[edit] See also[edit] Notes[edit]
Amanda Lindhout, Writer of The House in the Sky, Shares the Story of Her Terrifying Kidnapping in Somalia - Magazine Photographed by Norman Jean Roy, Vogue, September 2013 Kidnapped in Somalia, Amanda Lindhout spent fifteen months in terrifying captivity. Only after meeting journalist Sara Corbett did she feel ready to tell her story. Every life is made up of a series of decisions—good ones, bad ones, opportunities of a lifetime, and those, in retrospect, that look extraordinarily ill considered. Five years ago, Amanda Lindhout, a struggling 27-year-old Canadian journalist hoping to make a name for herself, decided to visit Mogadishu, Somalia, a gorgeous wreck of a city perched on the Indian Ocean along Africa’s east coast. Even seasoned journalists hesitated to go there. Roaming the world, Lindhout found a joy and expansiveness in her life she had not previously known. Like other ambitious young reporters, Lindhout made her way to such post-9/11 hot spots as Iraq and Afghanistan. One night, a friend told her why. Read an excerpt from the new memoir A House in the Sky
Amazon.com Visa – Is There a Catch?: Poorer Than You I’ve been meticulously checking the sites that my traffic has been coming from the last few days, so that I can thank all of the people that have been linking me. It’s a tad bit on the obsessive side, but I want to make sure people know how grateful I am. While doing this, I noticed one visitor came upon the site by doing a Google search for “amazon visa $30 off. Is there a catch?” I don’t know if you’re still around, Google-searching-visitor, but I wanted to answer your question. When you look at your shopping cart on Amazon.com, they’ll try and tempt you by saving “Save $30 on this order by signing up for an Amazon.com Visa!” If you’re already in the market for a credit card, like I was when I got this card, then it might be a good idea – if you shop at Amazon a lot. This is good if you’re a regular Amazon shopper. The card carries no annual fee, by the way. There are actually three versions of this card, but from what I can tell, they’re exactly the same. So, back to the catch?
The Global Dominance of ESPN - Derek Thompson Josue Evilla “This is the chart I was talking about. This is powerful.” Artie Bulgrin, ESPN’s director of research, is hunched over an iPad in a wood-paneled conference room at the network’s New York City headquarters, on West 66th Street, swooshing through the slides of a presentation he’s prepared annually since 1998. Every year, in the second week of September, the company asks hundreds of random subjects for three “must have” TV networks. And every year, ESPN relearns just how much America loves ESPN. Bulgrin swivels his iPad and shows me the money chart. Some critics sneer at the company’s boastful tagline—“The Worldwide Leader in Sports”—but it is unquestionably apt. ESPN’s cable channels collect more than $5 a month from each of the nearly 100 million American households that subscribe to pay-TV, more than any other channel by far. In short, the 34-year-old project out of Bristol, Connecticut, is likely the most valuable media property in the United States.
5 Things I Can't Believe Websites Are Still Doing The general consensus is that the Internet went mainstream sometime around 1996. That's important because it means that for a decade and a half, the experts have been spouting off about how "in the future," all businesses will be dependent on connectivity. Well here we are, we've arrived at the future, and even the corner dildo recycler has a website. Via Sextoyrecyling.com And many of them have no fucking clue how their audience thinks or acts. Otherwise, why are they still ... #5. How many of you have gone to a retail site, loaded up your cart with a hundred dollars worth of shit and gotten right up to the point of paying when you were blocked by a "you must create an account" sign up page? That's not a rhetorical question -- the answer is 45% of you will just bail out on the purchase, rather than give them an email address, wait for confirmation, click on the confirmation email, etc. Photos.com"Hey, can one of you clean that up before someone trips and gets hurt?" Via Loopnet.com Wait.
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