martes, enero 27, 2009

You Can Do Better Than This

Tomorrow is my last class day for January term and I have three things due, including a map, an essay, and a presentation. My presentation explores some of the reasons why Ernesto Guevara became a communist. I am focusing on what Che Guevara saw during his trip through South America, especially the way which large U.S. American companies took advantage of the workers.
I needed a source showing how these labourers were being exploited.

I completed a search looking for working conditions in South America during the early 1900s. I found this: 'The Ku Klux Klan is a secret organization that was formed in South America in the state called Mississippi in the early 1900's which until this day still exists..." The kicker is that you actually have to pay to be able to access this junk (you can see a sampling for free).

2 comentarios:

wren dijo...

I wouldn't cite that as a source. It's someone's sample paper, only 511 words, and you can write better than that. Go into TU's website, to JSTOR or the MLA database for access to those professional papers.

Sounds like a great paper! I still have a strange interest in Che, too.

Josué Greenman dijo...

Wren, I hope to never find myself in any circumstance where I would be even slightly tempted to use this as a source or even worse, submit it as my own.

I was only pointing out that people pay for this stuff...