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I don't know if anyone else saw this on the news...

Studs Terkel died Friday (yesterday).

here's a link: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gqxU04B1GBLlG4zzBf64o1ZdcV3QD9460Q0O0

Useful Web Pages

While surfing the Internet I found these two web pages, which could benefit all of us. I already got approval from our Professor to post this on the blog.

This one is about how to write Annotated Bibliography.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill28.htm#process

The second web page is the MLA Citation Generator. This thing is really fun and educational.
http://www.palomar.edu/dsps/actc/mla/

Sanel K.

Extra Credit Rn--by Razi

Razi
Emma Goldman -Address to the jury
Emma Goldman is a hardcore rebellious Anarchist, who was arrested for radical protesting against the government in 1917 in New York. This reading is about her address to the Jury that addresses the reasoning used by the government officials to convict her as well as her defense if that may be considered one by the court.
In her speech she states how the U.S Marshall McCarthy barged himself with his comrades in to her office and ransacked it without a search warrant and only to find and arrest Goldman and Berkman working in separate desks while they were writing. Then she continues to state the facts of the event and persuade the jury by informing them of the reasoning used by government is flimsy due to the fact that it is too flimsy and absurd to convict them of conspiring against the “Military Draft”. Ordered by President Woodrow Wilson to shut the down the anarchist factory and any other literature or communication, Mother Earth was banned and no other article was allowed to rebel or confront the Drafting conscription.
She and her fellow anarchist mate Berkman became patients of social injustice, for revealing the biggest social injustice experienced by people, which has not been protested for. Her argument: “The state /government does not have the right to draft any one for war. It is merely a trade issue between capitalists that is resolved at the expense of lives of the lower or working class; and therefore it was illegitimate”. This went obviously undigested by the government, President Wilsons answer: “Shut down all anarchist reforms and printing companies and impose a ban Mother Earth”. Later the matter went to an extent into deporting all foreign anarchists back to their country. This was an act of injustice, for raising voice against injustice.
Thesis here very simple and clear, that is don’t mess with the government or military..ever. Theme in this article is clearly injustice more specifically about hierarchical domination and control over people by any means if that means exploiting them by false accusations and convicting them illogically. Some thing I heard was about the government injustice in Saudi Arabia due to a diplomatic ruling all non citizens are in much severe surveillance and are subjected to all changes of law without any protesting or the result could be life threatening. This can result in a discussion regarding government affairs with the civilians who are born citizens and non citizens. Three topics I would research are protesting laws, control process of radicalism against government procedures and anarchist theories on controlled environment. I didn’t find words that were unfamiliar in this speech.

From Mary Thill, our librarian:

Mary's responses to your survey questions . . .


1. Can I access these external NEIU library resource databases in my own home, off campus?

Perhaps it would be a good idea to remind all of the students that they can access all of NEIU’s online resources from home through our website, www.library.neiu.edu. They’ll need to enter their NetID (the same that they use for NEIUport) and password when prompted.

2. I’m just having trouble finding empirical articles.

Perhaps it would be helpful to remind students that different databases have different ways to limit information. Psychology databases (like PsycINFO, for instance), allow you to limit results to empirical research under the limits screen. General databases like Academic Search Premier may not present “empirical research” as a limit, but have similar limits, like “Primary Source Document.”

3. I had this one assignment in my anthropology class, that I had a hard time doing. I was given a list of questions and had to find the answers in a book or journal. I also had to give the reference number of the book or whatever is the proper name for that. I googled the question or part of the question, but I had to use or make up a book that I didn’t really find the answer in. In the end, I decided not to turn what I came up with in, and I accepted the incomplete.

I have seen this anthropology assignment. It was a scavenger hunt designed to get the students to use the Library. One thing that this student did not learn from the lecture/anthropology assignment is that the Library has private information that you can’t find on Google. The student would have needed to use the Library’s online catalog, or one of the Library’s databases, to complete the assignment.

Important . . .

In searching for the citation info for IMY's 5 Faces, I had to resort to googling the title.

First of all, I did find book info for those of you interested:
Iris Marion Young. "Five Faces Of Oppression." Oppression, Privilege, & Resistance. McGraw-Hill, 2004.

But, also, I found this student blog.


You'll see he is doing a lot of what we're doing.

Hey! (Part II)

Please note that we voted to change the due date of the Introduction (explanation of your SJ DOC Project, defense according to class criteria, connection to research topic). It is NOT due on Monday.

-Olivia