HW 4-Feb 18-20

I) Whois.com

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

Domain Name: UH.EDU
Registrant:
University of Houston
4800 Calhoun Road
Houston, TX 77204
UNITED STATES

Administrative Contact:
Dennis Fouty
University of Houston
221 E. Cullen Bldg
Houston, TX 77204-2770
UNITED STATES
(832) 842-4603
@uh.edu

Technical Contact:
Charles Chambers
Manager of Network Planning and Development
University of Houston – Information Technology
5000 Gulf Freeway
UBP3 Room 277A
Houston, TX 77204-4012
UNITED STATES
(832) 842-4624
@uh.edu

Name Servers:
NS1.UH.EDU              129.7.1.1
NS2.UH.EDU              129.7.1.6
MESQUITE.CC.UH.EDU      66.140.111.1

Domain record activated:    21-Oct-1987
Domain record last updated: 08-May-2012
Domain expires:             31-Jul-2013

II) Wikipedia search: John F. Kennedy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

I searched John F. Kennedy in Wikipedia. This Wikipedia page is extremely details and provides contents that range from “early life and education” to “administration” and “assassination”. While looking into the history of this page I noticed that in its lifetime the page had received over 500 edits. I noticed that in place of the “edit” tab was a tab labeled “sources”. When I clicked the “sources” tab, it told me that I did not have access to this page. I was not able to edit or even see the sources used on the page because of how important a figure Kennedy is in regards to history; and Wikipedia has experts in charge of writing and editing his Wikipedia change as time goes on.

III) Jane Browning’s Blog: 

Browning broke her research down and pinpointed the ideas that she needed to cover in order to make her argument much stronger. First, she wanted to see if she could find any newspaper articles of robberies that happened on the bay, as well as the social history of Virginia and Maryland during that time. Second, Browning would talk to locals and see what they have to say about this “tale”. She then planned on looking up the crime in the area to find the time period that this pirate would most likely have been around in. Lastly, Browning would try to discover the type of boat the pirate had as well as any other accessories that he used.

Browning then went on to research the following topics: Pirate facts, history on the restaurant that first prompted her research idea, the Local Jargon, the panic of 1873 which was a financial crisis, etcetera. Even after all of her research she still did not feel comfortable with the information she had gathered.

Eventually, Browning found enough research material to make her research topic successful. Although Browning’s research topic was probably a difficult one to work with, she still managed to make it work by finding information from a variety of different sources. Not only did she find information from the library and internet, but she actually made phone calls and met with different individuals, such as Edward Owens, and in the end gathered enough information.

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