For this assignment, I took a paper I wrote on Andrew Jackson and the Nullification crisis of 1832 and used Wordle to make a graph which shows the major themes and players in the crisis.

For my slide presentation, I have picked the attempted assassination of Andrew Jackson

Courses taken at mason:

Site’s I use to procrastinate:

For this map, I plotted the Civil War battles occurring in West Virginia. I plotted them as close to the battlesite as I could.

I have used Google Docs before in high school to easily move documents between my house and school. It was useful for me then and is really good to use for group projects for collaboration. I am also registered with Zotero.

I feel like I’m in a fairly okay place with my security. I do what I can to use different passwords for different sites. I had it preached to me from a young age to do so by my father who works in systems analysis. Sites which I use for Mason require the same login information which makes it tempting to use the same tactic outside of Mason’s sites.What makes it more tempting is the fact that sometimes I can not for the life of me remember a password for a site and have to go through the process of creating a new one. Some sites make it easier but others create a long, drawn out process to create a new password. So far in my life, I have been lucky in not having accounts compromised and I hope that trend continues. I hope that I never have to deal with what Matt Honan had to deal in his article How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My epic Hacking with but the way which I set up my accounts, hopefully I never have to. I can’t even imagine how I would handle that situation.

http://www.historichwy49.com/hisphotos.html

With a brief glance at the homepage for this site, it would appear that the goal of the site is to display photographs of the Gold Rush in California. If one looks at the site further though, it is actually a travel site for the Highway 49 area. The site offers some photographs from the period but also states that “some photos and drawings are available framed or on t-shirts in our general store”. This plug to buy shirts from their store with the photograph or drawing on the shirt detracts from the point, in my mind, from the point of having an historical resource but on the type of site that this site is, an advertisement for shirts is commonplace. Right below the t-shirt advertisement is a rights statement for Fair Use of photographs which reads

“Research: photos may be downloaded at no charge for use in non profit, educational research projects for students and teachers. Please email us with your name, educational affiliation, project name and a list of photos used. Please give credit under each photo: ‘Photo Credit historichwy49.com'”

By including this, the site can brush off more than fair use as the problem of the user who uses the photos. Overall, this site is not a great resource for historical research but as others has noted about Wikipedia, it could be a good starting place for research about the gold rush.