4/24 Homework

1. What was your research question?

What are Free Trades effect on the U.S. economy?

2. What is your argument/position/thesis? (In other words, how did you answer your research question?)

I am opposed to Free Trade.

4/11 Homework

The pros for each of the digital presentations are that it is stylistically nice to look at.  It helps for the user to organize through material and put their information down.  One of the cons in using it is that it is a little hard to read off the presentation.  After doing all of the examples on the page, I am going to do the digital presentation platform since it is easier to organize your information.  I have already done my bibliography, outline, and digital presentation, so I like some of the presentation tips that they give out. I have already completed my presentation on a PowerPoint, because to me a PowerPoint has always been the easiest and most efficient way of doing things.  But I nevertheless liked seeing a different way of making a presentation, such as using a website or a graphical one.

http://prezi.com/w7humdihohq6/edit/

4/4 Homework

A lot of younger people, especially undergraduate students, do not think that getting information from the web is necessarily plagiarism since they cannot find an author to give credit to the source, such as Wikipedia.  Many young people are used to downloading music, often illegally, so they do not think that grabbing information from the internet should be any different.  A lot of critics believe that this is cutting individualism out and creating laziness.  A survey was done, and it was reported that 40% of 14,000 undergraduate students admitted to plagiarizing at some point before in their college career. 

If you go to a see a standup comedian perform, you might use one of his jokes that he said for presentation or for some other reason.  It’s hard to know whether or not to give credit to the joke because somebody else might of said the same one before 

4/2 Homework

Research Question: What is Free Trades effect on the U.S. economy?

Burfisher, Mary E., Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder. "The Impact of NAFTA on the United States". Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15(1): (2001) 125–144. 

            This journal gives a detailed analysis about the effects of NAFTA during the 1990s. It also gives a synopsis on whether the deal had any positive implications.  I could use this article to support my claim that NAFTA had a disastrous effect on the labor force.  I could also use some of their data to back up my claim.       

Hananel, Sam. “Membership in Unions continues to decline”. The Washington Times. January 23, 2011. 

            This website gives information based on the relative power of the unions in the U.S. and how they have declined.  I could use this source as evidence that unions have declined dramatically over past few decades as a result of Free Trade.  I could use this source as an argument that unions maintained middle class jobs.