The United Nations Cyberschoolbus offers a variety of information on various social issues around the world from human rights to HIV. The site is designed for students and teachers particularly of the high school level. There is also a good deal of information about the United Nations itself and various countries around the world.
FIRE - The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education promotes and fights for the principle of academic freedom in education for both liberals and conservatives. These freedoms are the freedom of speech, religious freedom, legal equality, due process and freedom of conscience. FIRE recognizes that many of these freedoms are restricted both for teacher and students in the name of "tolerance" or "political correctness" but believes that authentic education requires the unrestrained exchange of ideas. The site discusses problem situations at various academic institutions as well as the nature of academic freedom in the contemporary college/university.
The American Theater Wing is a website dedicated to promoting excellence and education in the American theatre. It offers seminars and advice for pursuing a career in the theater. It also offers several different programs promoting theater and lists of Tony and Hughes Design Award winners. If you are interested in theater, especially in a career in theater - this is a great site.
If you are looking at traveling, especially overseas you will probably want to take a look at the Center for Disease Control's Travel Notices. The CDC gives you information about particular health concerns in various areas of the world, important vaccinations you should receive before departure and advice on keeping healthy as you travel.
Wordcount offers an interactive presentation showing 86800 words according to how often they are used. You can find words by name or by ranking and perhaps even influence the ranking by including seldom used words like "workless", "recrossed" and "conquistador" in your papers and using words like "the", "of", and "and" less often. A literary revolution!
As time goes by, we lose track of friends and acquaintances. findingpeople.info is a web directory, a site with lots of links to other sites, offering information on various locations to go on the Internet to find those people again. Many of these sites require a fee in order to connect you with information and let it be noted that these sites are not for malicious purposes such as stalking. If someone doesn't want contact with you - leave them alone.
Adherents.com offers a good deal of information about the number of adherents to various faith traditions throughout the United States and throughout the world. Not only can you find the number of members of a particular tradition in a particular area but you can also find out what the dominant faith tradition is in any particular geographic location.
The site also includes information on the faith tradition of famous real and fictional individuals, religious references in literature and other information about the role of faith in human society.
Daily Rotation offers headlines from hundreds of tech news feeds - like Slashdot, BetaNews and Major Geeks - for easy access. You can even customize the web page to get feeds from only those sources that interest you. Never be technologically uninformed again!
In order to use MLA, you need to get as much of the following information as you can. For further information and examples you can go to the MLA site.
[Remember, the purpose of the bibliography/works cited information is so that your reader can find the original source of your information easily. Therefore, you should always give enough information to make this possible.]
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Gorrell, Nancy. "Teaching Empathy through Ecphrastic Poetry: Entering a Curriculum of Peace." English Journal. 89.5 (May 2000). 17 Nov. 2003. 15 Aug. 2005 <http://www.holocaust-trc.org/Engl_Jrnl02.htm>.
Weisberg, Jacob. "Evolution vs. Religion: Quit pretending they're compatible." Slate 10 Aug. 2005. 15 Aug. 2005 <http://slate.msn.com/id/2124297?nav=mpp>.
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Wikipedia is the encyclopedia on the Internet with hundreds of thousands of articles in English and many other languages on almost any topic you can think of - and if the article is not available, you can write it yourself. Designed to be written and put together by anyone who wishes, the supporters of Wikipedia do a pretty good job of ensuring that the articles present good factual information as well as good links to additional resources. For any search on the web, Wikipedia is a great and easy place to start.
