Internet Security & The Rise of Union Station
April 28, 2014
Internet Security My personal activities online could probably be more secure. I tend to not worry too much about social media sites and my privacy on those; however, I am more cautious with what goes up on those sites. I dislike long passwords, and tend to have not amazingly strong passwords, which could be dangerous. […]
Exhibit
April 16, 2014
In my research I found that Union Station was actually built in the middle of a working class neighborhood, called Swampoodle, of Irish immigrants that worked on a lot of the monuments and wanted to be close to work. Union Station ended that neighborhood and ultimately the Irish immigrants kind of disappeared. I found this […]
Text Mining and Update
April 9, 2014
Text Mining I found text mining interesting. The tools we used were nice to compare and look for trends through large documents or sets of information. However, I struggled to see how it could be used as strong evidence for anything. There was definitely a use for personal analysis, and as illustrations for larger points, […]
Mapping History
April 3, 2014
Maps Creating my map was interesting. It took a bit of a learning curve to understand how points helped or could tell a story on a map. I had no issues creating my map, but it was oddly time consuming as far as creating a spreadsheet. At the moment I don’t have much more insight […]
Research Question
March 23, 2014
Rob Ketcherside – “Taken by my great grandfather Sidney Duff in Washington, DC. Union Station was completed in 1908” My Research question is: What is the historical significance of Union Station and its construction both economically ans socially as a large part of Washington DC’s history?
Calvin and Hobbes Copyright
February 28, 2014
The Calvin and Hobbes was published originally in 1993. It is still under copyright, and you must request the rights to use it from this site. However, because it being used for educational purposes in the classroom, it is acceptable. This includes in class presentations and student handouts, like syllabuses. According to the rights, it […]
Who Am I?
January 23, 2014
My name is Hannah Eve and I am currently a freshman majoring in Global Affairs at George Mason University. I currently live in Alexandria, VA, but I didn’t grow up here. I grew up in the United Arab Emirates and have lived there half my life. It is where I would call my home. While […]
