Katie Douthitt

After some research on the internet, I found that the comic strip was printed between May 20th and June 6th 1992. According to the library copy right website since the cartoon was published after March 1st 1989 there might be permission needed in order to use the comic strip. It is also copyrighted and protected for 70 years after the death of the creator. Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, will not license his characters. This means that his characters can be taken and used to be manipulated, adjusted, or formatted in different ways for anyone to use.

According to this website http://thecalvinandhobbes.webs.com Calvin and Hobbes coming strips can be published as long as the individual has written permission or if it is for a review, like giving an opinion.

Watterson refused to merchandise his characters because he believed it would cheapen the image of Calvin and Hobbes. However, people have taken his characters and “revised” them into the individuals own style.

Technically the use of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip on the class website is not allowed. Since there is no opinion being given or credit being given the use of this comic strip is illegal. Though it is obvious this is a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip it isn’t given any credit to the creator, Bill Watterson.

The first topic I chose to research was the establishment of the Library of Congress. On April 24th 1800, President John Adams established the Library of Congress by approving $5,000 to purchase books. In 1801 the first books were shipped over from London and brought to the U.S. Capital. However 12 years later the British came to Washington D.C. during an invasion and burned down a 3,000 volume library. When Thomas Jefferson became president he sold his books to congress for the use of the government. Today the Library of Congress has more then 17 million books and keeps expanding.

I researched briefly the opening of Union Station. Union Station opened on September 29, 1988 as a private/public ownership. In 1981 Congress restored the station with $160 million to preserve as a national treasure.

I then researched the Cinco De Mayo riot in Adams Morgan. In Adams Morgan, Mount Pleasant a riot broke out on the 5th of May. A new officer tried to arrest a Salvadoran man for being drunk in public. The police man shot the Salvadoran who was unarmed and the Salvadoran community broke into chaos. Creating a riot within Adams Morgan.

I think Diigolet is a good source to use if you’re in a group situation and need to focus on a specific topic. However, I would not use it for my own personal use unless I was working with a group. Diigolet allows you to post information to the group for easy access, but there are other tools like Google Docs and Email that allow for the same outcome. I do think for History 390 or any type of class, this is an effective use of communication.

The initial start of my research began with the search engine JSTOR, accessed through the George Mason University online library. I used the keywords “History of the District Columbia 1989-2013” as my starting point to find different articles about Washington D.C. starting from 1989. A variety of journals, each displaying different topics, were available starting with dates as early as 1900. I pulled three journals from this specific search. The next step of the assignment was to search the key phrase “Records of the Columbia Historical Society” looking for articles dating before 1989.

The first article was published by the Journal of Negro Education during the summer of 1999. The journal, Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining New Teachers: A Retrospective Look at Programs in the District of Columbia Public Schools, is about looking back at a wide range of programs starting in the 1960s to help teachers in the D.C. area make education more engaging for students. The funding came from federal money. However, the programs eventually faded away as did the programs.

The program was originally called the Cardozo Project but renamed to Urban Teacher Corps (UTC). It was based on an internship platform of taking people who did not have a background in education (or very little) and grouping them with five other interns, all receiving a small stipend, who would work with a senior teacher. They would teach two classes in the morning then take seminars in the afternoon about education.

The difference with this article compared to the more recent articles was the layout style and content. Two out of the three other articles which are from 2004 and 2010 both used a significant amount of statistics, graphs, and comparisons. This article did have statistics and facts that could have been formatted into graphs but instead was displayed through sentences. It was more like reading a story instead of reading facts and information set up in a more visual way.

Citation: Judy U. Aaronson The Journal of Negro Education , Vol. 68, No. 3, Recruiting, Preparing, and Retaining Qualified Teachers to Educate All of America’s Children in the 21st Century (Summer, 1999) , pp. 335-342

The second article was published by the Center for Disease Control & Prevention on March 19, 2004. The name of the article is Tuberculosis Outbreak in a Community Hospital-District of Columbia, 2002. In this article, the names of the hospital are disclosed and the writer uses “Hospital A” and “Hospital B” instead. Another difference in the writing style is the article is broken up into sections instead of being clumped together like the article from 1999. Each section is about 5-6 sentences long, some with charts and graphs about statistics on patients who had Tuberculosis. The references was also set up differently, this article uses footnotes while the previous article used MLA formatting.

Citation: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report , Vol. 53, No. 10 (March 19, 2004) , pp. 214-216

The third article was also published by the Center for Disease Control & Prevention on June 25th 2010. The article called, Expanded HIV Testing and Trends in Diagnoses of HIV Infection-District of Columbia, 2004-2008, was to raise awareness to D.C. residents. This article like the other CDC article had statistics and numbers from different HIV tests done on numerous people across the United States. However, the difference is that it is more focused on raising awareness on how fast the disease is spreading throughout America. There is an added sub article about National HIV Testing Day-June 27th to allow the readers to know how serious the disease is and to get tested. Compared to the first article, this article is focused on facts and not story telling.

Citation: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report , Vol. 59, No. 24 (June 25, 2010) , pp. 737-741

The final article was searched by using the key phrase “Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington D.C. before 1989.” The article was published by Penn State University Press in January 1973. This article like the first one is more opinionated and focused on telling a story rather then giving facts. It is not chopped up into different sections but put together like pages out of a book.

In my opinion it makes reading articles like this and the one on education from 1999 more difficult and less interesting to read simply due to the format and styling of the article. There are no key words or statistics making it more of a process or to retain information.

Citation: Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D. C., 1969-1970 by Francis C. Rosenberger Review by: Melville J. Boyer Pennsylvania History , Vol. 40, No. 1 (JANUARY, 1973) , pp. 112-113

I am currently a senior and majoring in Foreign Languages with a focus in Chinese. My passion and interest revolves around the history, culture, and language of China. My interest in China came from a High School study abroad program I did to Beijing and Qingdao for a summer. China was a completely different world that I wanted to learn more about and currently still pursuing my interest in the country.

I also enjoy hiking and being outdoors in general. I live a life style based around being a vegetarian and being proactive towards the humane treatment towards animals.

In the past, I have taken a blogging class at the University of Mary Washington. This class taught me the wonders of Word Press and creating media on the internet such as making YouTube videos. I was also introduced to Creative Commons, a nonprofit group that allows work to be shared over the internet easily.

I have also worked with social media closely during two of my internships at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum and Freer|Sackler Gallery. During these two internships, I worked in the Public Relations department, I would monitor the twitter, facebook, and Quora websites for each museum. I became especially fond of Quora by reaching out to scientist and researchers with questions that followers would ask the Natural History Museum. I also became familiar with Google and all that is offered on this search engine.

Currently, like any other college student I use social media websites including twitter, facebook, and instagram. I also am an avid texter on my Iphone.

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