Website Evaluations

http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/ had a lot to offer. There were a lot of links and information that were all broken down into what you were looking for. The only problem with this website it that it is one sided which could be a problem, and some of the information wasn't exactly up to date.

http://usliberals.about.com/od/deathpenalty/i/DeathPenalty.htm was ok but you had to scroll through the whole page to find information. This site is looking at the pros and cons so you could use it to write a report or use it just to get some useful information.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty is a news site so they only had a page to talk about the death penalty, so you wouldn't have enough information to really do anything with it. This site is also one sided, leaning away from the death penalty. All together, this site isn't that helpful.

http://kkk.org/ is one sided toward the KKK but it gives us information about the KKK. This website could be easly used to write a report, but only if you were to be on their side or write about their histroy or latest news.

Online Saftey

13-year old Alicia Kozakiewicz had a chatroom friend who convinced her to sneak out of her Pittsburgh home on New Year's Day. When she was a grown man pulling up to the curb she hesitated about her "friend," but it was too late. He grabbed her, threatened her, and threw her in his vehicle. For days he tortured and raped her, keeping her chained in his basement in Virginia. Four days later he told her they would be "taking a ride" that night, and she knew he would kill her. But then the FBI stormed the house and rescues Alicia. She is now telling her story, and preaching the dangers of online predators and cyberbullying. Kozakiewicz said that everyone knew her story and blamed her for what happend and people started to bully her.

Online Safety

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Identity Theft

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Google

Google has a new privacy policy that is freaking people out. What they are now going to start doing is tracking every website that we visit. It's not that this is a new thing; almost every website that we use has been recording what we look at, Google is just being more open about it. What they are trying to do is set up Google in a way so that we have the best experiance while looking for things. They are making the gadgets easier to use, and using our information to figure out what adds would interest us the most. The new policy isn't really such a big deal because for the last few years we haven't really had privacy on these website so anyone could figure out our information.

http://techland.time.com/2012/01/31/the-basics-behind-googles-new-privacy-policies/