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Learning Goals of paraphrasing activities: 1. Only use a direct quote when it adds power and style to my writing. 2. Always make it clear, from context, that I understand the full meaning of any quote I use. 3. Whether I quote or paraphrase, I must always be transparent about the source and how I'm using it. 4. If I use another author's exact words or phrases, to any extent, I have to use quotation marks and provide attribution, in the text, so that it’s perfectly clear which words are not my own. 5. If I use another author's presentation of facts or ideas, but put their ideas in my own words, (paraphrase) I must give credit and provide attribution, in the text, so that I show clearly exactly how I’m using the words of another author. 6. The issue of plagiarism is not simply a matter of formal source citation. In different disciplines, sources may be cited or credited in different ways but the key point is to achieve total transparency in my...

"Lincoln believed slavery was immoral, but he also considered the 13th Amendment a masterstroke in cutting away the financial foundations of the Confederacy.  I've rarely been more aware than during Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" that Abraham Lincoln was a plain-spoken, practical, down-to-earth man from the farmlands of Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois. He had less than a year of formal education and taught himself through his hungry reading of great books." -Roger Ebert's Lincoln Movie Review Lincoln was supporting and thought of the idea of slavery being an overall wrong, or inhumane, way through the ideas of personal standards in a consciousness of a human. He thought the 13th Amendment to be a brilliant way of chipping at the economic or money base ground point of the Confederacy. Like many Steven Spielberg very conscious in seeing how simple, blunt, realistic, and focused male of the countryside of Kentucky, Indian, and Illinois. This ma...

In the movie Lincoln, there were several truths that helped to tell Lincoln's story of what actions he did that changed the world as it was known during that time. What many might define as a hero in this decade might consist more of fairy tales or some fictional character with inhuman powers that lets them rise above others in a sense. For Lincoln, one might argue, he did indeed rise above others. He came from a poor family and somehow managed to work his way to the top: Presidency- "I am the President of the United States of America, and I am clothed in IMMENSE power." ~ A. Lincoln In his Presidency, Lincoln chose to surround himself with people who had different views than he did, perhaps another interesting addition to his character or a way to keep himself sharp by having to constantly debate and show his views to others without his like states of minds. In the face of being fought against at every front, he was able to keep just ahead of those who did not ...

There is a difference between Battle Flag and the simple confederate flag, often confused. I learned from analyzing what leaders of the Confederacy said about reasons for seceding the United States was  the Southern states ' desire to preserve the institution of slavery, to keep their true principle of what they thought was the truth For the battle flag of the Confederacy, I used to think of it standing in general as just something people united under sharing similar ideals, though having grown up in Arizona, white supremacy or southern pride wasn't present in my life until later... I now realize it, in fact, stands for the men who lost their lives fighting for a cause, later branching off into much different supposed ideals. I think it is more than possible to separate the battle flag from the stated goals of others using a similar or same version of the flag design as they stood for less overall ideals and more personal ones of the time that distracted the flag's ...