Validity,Credibility, & Reliabilty XBCOM275 Feb 8, 2013 Validity, Credibility, & Reliability When seeking out the validity, credibility, and reliability of a source there can be a vast array of sources to compare when seeking this answer. For example, when validating a source we can research the author and his or her background pertaining to the data in question. Data within a claim can be meant to sway the reader one way or the other, with this in mind, I look at who and what there
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Nick McIntosh Do violent video games lead to real violence? This topic has been tossed around quite a bit lately since unfortunately there has been a string of ridiculously violent acts lately. Some would say it all dates back to 1999 when Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris opened fire in their Colorado high school slaying 13 people. It was revealed that both Harris and Klebold both were into playing violent games, like Mortal Kombat, Doom, and Wolfenstein 3D. As of 2009, roughly 91% of America’s
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and ended many others. After their morning bowling class, together they shot and killed 12 students and one teacher from their Colorado High School (Lally). Others were injured and still live with the scars and stories that haunt them today. This massacre created a lot of unnecessary pain and trauma for innocent victims. It also created a story for Michael Moore.
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It’s Only Me The article ”It’s Only Me” is written by Nancy Gibbs in April 7th 2008. Nancy Gibbs wrote this article because of the school shootings in the US. The boy Charles Andrew Williams shot at his school in Santee, California and the surrender in the boy’s locker room. His last sentence was “it’s only me” and is just a hint for the police to not search for any other possible backer. Nancy Gibbs writes “no it’s not only you” because she points at the other 16 kids who were inspired by Williams
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of the Columbine High School Massacre that happened on April 20, 1999 in Columbine, Colorado. Cullen uses a peculiar style of writing; he alternates between the story of the aftermath and the planning details of the massacre to demonstrate how Eric and Dylan plan worked and how it affected the people that were injured as well as what caused Eric and Dylan to do the things that they did. He does an excellent job in letting the reader know what happened during the massacre and what the outcome of that
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Most are unaware of the kinds of family matters they can have at home. This is thoroughly brought to light in the case of the Winslow family, The family consists of a group involved in incredibly questionable home behavior. The demise of several family members occurred on the fateful day on May 5, 2005. The Winslow children's distant cousin, Steve Urkel, walked into the Winslow's house unannounced as usual. In the foyer, he bent backwards with his stomach facing upwards and his hands and feet touching
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I do agree that there is a lot of violence in the entertainment industry, but there are a lot worse things out there in the world today. Violence is triggered from emotions, not what we view on television. Television was designed for entertainment and violence on television is entertaining. People enjoy action packed TV shows and movies, but if a person sees a man jumping over buildings to escape the police it does not mean that they are going to go rob a bank and evade the police by jumping over
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internet that provides people (especially student and teenager) bad knowledge such as pornography,crime and so on.The teenagers who are not conscious enough easily imate the sexual and violence clip or images on the internet.A typical example of this is massacre at Columbine High School.Two students embarked on shooting spree in which a total of 12 students and one teacher were murdered because they were suspected that is in addiction to the
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Social Constructionism and Columbine shooting Social constructivism focuses on the important parts of culture and the context used in understanding what happens in society. This constructionism is built around several assumptions, which are based on knowledge, reality, and learning. Knowledge is socially created to create views of objective reality; moreover, reality is strongly influenced by shifting cultural trends. All these assumptions come together to change perception in society. It is important
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SCHOOL SHOOTINGS I am going to write about the topic school shootings, based on the two texts “Warning” by Terry McCarthy and “It’s only me” by Nancy Gibbs, who both deal with an event which happened 10 years ago. A school shooting is an incident in which gun violence occurs at an educational institution. It most commonly describes an act committed by either students or intruders from outside school campus. They are to be distinguished from crowd-containment shootings enforced by law personnel
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