I found the most interesting of this weeks assigned readings/viewings to be Chapter 7 “Owning the Past” As a low school bound undergraduate reading about how copyright law is an ever evolving set of principles was particularly interesting. The article discusses the idea that the law needs to be balanced to protect both consumers and […]
For this exercise I examined the Wikipedia page for a research topic I am heavily considering: The life of Henry VIII Although I am not a scholar on the topic, I do consider myself to possess a fair amount of knowledge about the life of Henry VIII. As far as I can tell the information listed in the […]
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/photography-as-a-weapon/ In the New York Times Article “Photography as a Weapon” by Errol Morris the author poses the question as to whether or not photographs serve as reliable evidence for fact since they can be easily tampered with as was the case with a recent fake photo of Iranian missiles. He brings in an […]
I found the most interesting part of the assigned reading to be the section that discusses the costs and benefits of digitizing. The author compares the digital preservation to the analog version by saying that “The continuous sweep of the second hand on a wristwatch compared to a digital alarm clock that changes its display […]
Was General Eisenhower an effective commander during World War II? In the image above we see Eisenhower going around and greeting members of the airborne division just hours before many of them would parachute to there deaths over northern France as a part of the allied invasion of Normandy. Eisenhower Newspaper The Article linked above as well as […]
I found the assigned video “History of the Internet” to be incredibly informative and complex yet not overwhelming. I didn’t realize that it was a government agency, The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency that planned the first large scale computer network. Although it may have been the first the video notes that at around the […]
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