Useful+Links

ABC-CLIO Database (email me if you forget the username and password that I tell you in class)
 * __Research Links for All Classes__**

__**US History Links**__ Civil Liberties: Islamic Center article from TIME Should the ACLU defend free speech of white supremacists? Free Speech and Picketing Funerals

Civil War: Disunion- New York Times Blog about Civil War

Progressive Era **//Should the government regulate junk food? //** The Sugary Brands Doing the Most Kid-Chasing Sweet Spot: How Sugary-Cereal Makers Target Kids //Food Safety: 9 Major Snafus Of The Decade (PHOTOS)// //Daily Show: The Food, the Bad and the Ugly//
 * //Should the government regulate ANY food? Or does it take away our FREEDOM?//**

//How We Got From Estate Tax To "Death Tax"//

__**World History I Links**__ Religion: Religious Knowledge Quiz ReligionFacts.com

Islamic Expansion: How Big is Africa? Africa's Kingdoms and Empires The Story of Africa: Islam Trans-Saharan Gold Trade Gold Salt Trade Map

__**Media Awareness Links **__ //**Gaming**// Everything Bad is Good for You Wikipedia Entry

Video Clips: Gamer gathering in 2008 (Digital Nation Segment: “Relationships”- begin at 45:38, end at 52:10)  The Rise of Social Networking  Autumn Edows (Growing Up Online Segment: “Self Expression: Trying On New Identities”)  Anorexic girl (Sara) (Growing Up Online Segment: “Private Worlds Outside Parents’ Reach?”)  Virtual Worlds (Second Life & IBM)  Feed Me Bubbe  South Park Facebook clip
 * //New Communities: //**

Articles: Facebook: 25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Does Facebook Replace Face Time or Enhance It? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lonliness in Numbers

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//**Internet and the Brain:**// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Video Clips: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="7039195" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From Andrew Sullivan's blog (originally from The Daily What): <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">**If someone ever asks you to describe the Internet to them in four words look them straight in the eye and say “cats morphing into croissants. The Internet is cats morphing into croissants.”** **Then walk away.**

Nicholas Carr on The Colbert Report!

media type="custom" key="7184161" Magazines: The Power of Print

Articles: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Technology In Your Life Quiz <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Digital Native Map <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wired U

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**//Gender//**: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Males: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tough Guise <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interesting read (we didn't look at it in class): The End of Men <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Common Stereotypes of Men in Media <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The dramatic decline of the modern man <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kanye West alters rap world's perception of masculinity <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The "menaissance" hits the runway <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Salon's Men on Top 2010

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Females: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Killing Us Softly 4 (we watched Killing Us Softy 3, but #4 just come out!) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Irony of My Feminist Photo Shoot <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">About-Face: body image, media, eating disorders, and more Girls, Women + Media Project Demi Lovato: Another Disney princess falls Do Disney Princesses Make Young Girls Obsessed With Thinness? The Shame of Family Films

General: Mickey Mouse Monopoly (gender segment)

//**Music:**// OK Go's Kulash Rewrites Rock-Star Rules Making music without the major labels Effects of Violent Music Lyrics

//**Media Consolidation:**// The Big Six Media Conglomerates AT&T: A Graphical History

//**A Few Links from Eric's Honors Project on KISS & why they should be in the hall of fame (email me if you'd like some more!):**// KISS Concert in Buenos Aires KISS Concert in Boston

Google Earth map of Darfur
 * __Genocide Links:__**
 * Darfur:**