2014年9月22日月曜日

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1.“Michael Brown Shooting, Protests Highlight Racial Divide.” CNN. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Sept. 2014. Alvarez, Lizette, and Cara Buckley. 
This is about the protest against the police law, which legalizes racial profiling. Racial profiling that was done recently was the Michael Brown case. He was shot by a police even though he proved he was unarmed. 

2.Spickard, Professor Paul. Japanese Americans: The Formation and Transformations of an Ethnic Group. Revised edition. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2008. Print. 
This book is written about the discrimination that happened to Japanese American during WW2. I think I can get some historical facts that will support my statement from this book. 

3.“Zimmerman Is Acquitted in Trayvon Martin Killing.” The New York Times 13 July 2013. NYTimes.com. Web. 22 Sept. 2014.
This is about the case that happened in 2012 and the article is about the court rejecting the claim that said the shooting was done just by the assumption Mr. Zimmerman had made. 

I am currently working on my essay and it is going to be about racial profiling. Through having a research through news websites, I have found out that there are lots of problems about it. I am pretty shocked to know that there are still many serious racial issues that also affect human life. I am facing difficulties in completing my essay since it is tough to organize the ideas and sources to support my opposing statement against racial profiling. However at the same time I am also being stimulated by acknowledging facts that I didn't know. I think that is what is enjoyable about writing academic essays.

Using Zotero was amazing. I have been having so many troubles to list the sources in MLA format so the I felt the tool very useful. I hope I can control myself and avoid to rely on it too much since we were told that these tools might make so mistakes sometimes too. Tool is a gift that helps us and not something that does everything completely for us. I have to keep this in my mind.
By saving my time using this tool I can also spend more time on researching and reading. This will definitely make my essay a better one. I am looking forward to getting used to Zotero.


2 件のコメント:

  1. Hi Mirei!
    I totally agree with you. Zotero and other internet devises are surely helpful tools but they are not things which do everything for us. Hopefully by taking this class, we will learn how to make use of these tools effectively not to depend on them and do nothing!

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  2. Hey Mirei :))
    I know I will definitely going to rely on Zotero, haha.
    Because it is so useful...I am so sad Zotero is not perfect!!!
    I am looking forward to see your essay :P

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