What I'v Learned This Year

The River of Doubt Summary

After Theodore Roosevelt lost the presidential election to Woodrow Wilson he decided to map an almost 1,000-mile-long Amazon tributary with his wife, Kermit and Colonel Cândido Rondon. The source of the river was found by Rondon but it had never been mapped or explored. They took a boat to South America in the fall of 1913. There were many difficulties like rain, hard to maneuver canoes, rapids, waterfalls, little food, disease, murder, and drowning. Theodore and Kermit both got malaria but Theodore got it three months into the trip and was really close to death. He had a fever of 105 and lost 50 pounds. He got so sick that he seriously considered committing suicide by taking a lethal dose of morphine, which was very unlike him. In the end Kermit saved him with his canoe and rope skills. All the men, except three, survived the trip and lived to the river get put on the map of South America. The river was nicknamed Rio Roosevelt and a branch of the river was named Rio Kermit in Kermit’s honor.

Evaluating Websites

#1 I looked at two websites, one about Google Gulp Drink and the was about Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanies. The site about Google Gulp Drink is not legit because there is no contact information and in the FAQ they gave answers that a true site wouldn't give. Even though aluminum foil deflector beanies aren't very believable I think it is true because he gave contact info and answered all of his questions seriously.

#3 I looked at three different websites about the city of Mankato, Minnesota. I think the second website would be the best to use for my report because the links took me to the right places and they had contact information.

Overall though, I don't really think any of these websites are legit.

Citing Sources

I used three different online citation machines to cite my sources to three different websites. I used CitationMachine, Cite.Me, and EasyBib. I liked CitationMachine and EasyBib best. I liked CitationMachine because it was simple and didnt make things harder then they had to be, like Cite.Me did. I liked EasyBib because it did most of my work for me, i only had to fill out a few things that it didn't know. I think EasyBib was harder to figure out but after I understood what I had to do it was really easy. Whenever I have to cite my sources I will defiantly use CitationMachine or EasyBib.

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Online Safety

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Identity Theft

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