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Still you have to include a cross section of all scholarship views. You needed to eliminate some redundant ones in favor of the liberal ones just to show you are accounting for all views. Especially in a bibliography piece you should do this every time.
I think that might depend, though. If you had to write a list of the top ten books on the Civil War, would you include flake-o books just to include "variety"? Probably not. However, if you are trying to write a list of ten recent books on the Civil War as a means of showing the different directions that Civil War scholarship is going, you might have more flake-o books on that list. It all depends on the type of bibliography that Scout was writing. I do agree that if the bibliography is supposed to give an overview of the scholarship in general and is wide in scope, some more important works will have to be left out in favor of the flaky works. If the bibliography is primarily supposed to cover the most important works across the board, the flaky books will be left off.
I saw Karl Rove analyze those poll results which put Romney ahead by a lot in swing states, and he showed how they are not reliable. They are inconsistent with the kind of support Republicans and Democrats received in previous elections, which suggests they were not reflective of the way people will actually vote. I thought it was a compelling argument, so I don't accept those kinds of polling numbers which put Obama on top by that much in those states.
Yeah, it would be interesting to see how well it works out. But according to that map, FL and OH are red states…..that's not what the NY Times polling is saying right now (whatever that's worth).
I agree that making claims without support is not helpful. I am guessing you are referring to a specific instance of something that you have read about. In my experience, current archaeologists have the same rigorous standards as people in other fields, and so they will not be taken seriously if they don't support their conclusions. I think, also, that archaeology is sometimes all we have to go with if we want to learn about an ancient culture. If there is no documentary evidence telling us about that 4000 year old village in Iraq, archaeology is really the main way that we figure it all out.I will say this: archaeological finds often appear in the popular media because of their "wow" factor. I would not be surprised at all if I was told that the media misrepresents those finds, or makes the stories seem more significant than they are in real life. The media would be far more likely to report on sketchy finds and conclusions than a respected journal would.
I don't share your and Donnie's disdain for archaeology, so I would wouldn't be surprised if this is another good example of what it can do. I think there are good and bad “experts” in every field, but on the whole archaeology is tremendously important to the study of history.
By the way, when I first saw the subject of this post (“Getting an IT degree is hard”), and before I saw who wrote it, I thought to myself, “here we go again, another spammer!”
Ok, well you're both right. I suppose the giveaways were a) the fact that I put it on the Renaissance board, and 2) the fact that the quote contains the word “prince”. I guess I need to be sneakier next time!
Very interesting, but for this:
Double-entry book-keeping, which is widely believed to have been introduced to Europe in the early 16th Century by the monk Luca Pacioli, is a financial accounting system. It recognises that all transactions have two aspects, a credit and a debit, and in a properly constituted set of books, the two sets of figures always balance.
I am almost positive that double-entry bookkeeping was invented in Italy by the thirteenth century, as it was used in the Venetian maritime trade in the late Middle Ages. Other milestones that go unnoticed:The invention of the television (Philo Farnsworth)The invention of the automobile
It was not with much surprise when I found that you copied and pasted this article from another site. http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2012/042012/04062012/692146Please refrain from pasting whole chunks of copyrighted articles here in the future.
Yeah, but don't you have to build each one differently? That is, don't you have to give individual logos to each subdomain site, its own color scheme, articles, etc.?
I think the attraction is for the crowd which wants to discredit Christianity, a la the da Vinci Code crowd. If there's scandal in things which some people consider sacred and inviolate, then it gives license to people who do not want to behave in an upright manner.
