How To Use Internet To Help Writing?

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Further investigation of the site, however, reveals a disturbing bias. As we looked at other pages, I modeled the process of using the questions to help me understand the author's intent and possible bias. When we followed the links to other pages of the site, it didn't take long to find inflammatory language and content that paints a one-sided and negative image of Martin Luther King Jr. We highlighted Omega Replica some of these words and phrases and talked about their explosive nature; my students felt that such language did not present a fair or objective discussion of the subject. Also, the link we followed to suggested reading lead us to a list of two books: one that discusses King's alleged plagiarism and a biography of David Duke. A quick Google search for David Duke revealed his association with the white supremacist movement in the United States. Again, in discussion the students raised the point that this list hardly represented a balanced view of King and his work.

Most telling, however, was what we found when we looked for more information ...
... about the authors of this site, as prompted by the questions I had set up. When I asked the students to look for a link to information about the author, they called my attention to the "Hosted by Stormfront" link along the bottom of the homepage. Following this link lead us to the main page of a discussion forum for the Stormfront group, which proclaims itself a "White Nationalist Community." Looking at the titles of some of the discussion topics on this forum was enough for students to raise serious questions about the intent of the authors of this site. (Since these sites were blocked by our school district's filter, I had to save these pages for offline viewing and then present them by opening the saved pages in a Web browser on my classroom computer. I saved the pages from home using the browser's "Save Page As" command, which Breitling Replica Watches is accessible from the browser's "File" menu; I opened the saved pages on my school computer using the "Open File" command from the same menu and pointing the computer to the saved pages.)