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Nt1310 Unit 2 Assignment

Decent Essays

In the first portion of this assignment I read about what makes an internet site believable and factual. Many of the sites that I had looked at didn’t have solid documentation to click on. The links to the sources were almost all non existent. The two sites about aides had me thinking about who got the information and for what reason did they put it onto their site. A very skeptical fact I saw on the first site was saying that “Approximately one in four people living with HIV infection in the United States are women.” My question is, where did that statistic come from? I looked at other sites and didn’t see that HIV was specific to only women, but instead it was many people that live in the world don’t even know they have the disease. After doing more research on the page I saw information of stating why they were doing the study, and they are doing it as a charity for health departments that couldn’t make money. …show more content…

The sites didn’t pertain to what I was trying to find on the web for my topic. The pages were worth visiting, because they showed me what the different was between a reliable source, and an unreliable source. The report on the Bay of Pigs had a lousey source that took me to sign up for Aol.com. Apparently a man named Jason Berry created the site, but I wouldn’t have figured that out without having to think about it. The HIV and aides site had legitmate facts and information that I found on other websites. The sources were factual and weren’t dead. The site had been dated current June 23rd 2015 and was dated recently. The second site that I looked at I knew it was fake, because It had no link to click on the sources, and at the bottom of the page it stated that the facts were not

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