Current Events: Wikipedia

Wikipedia, to many people this is their number one resource for righting a paper,but is that really the right place to get your information. It is in fact not, and anyone can change this giant "encyclopedia" on the web. Wikipedia also has its good uses too, though Wikipedia was finally proved to be a very unreliable resource with a much larger piece of evidence than ever before.

The day that President Obama was inaugurated, an outbreak occurred of false or not completely true changes on very largely known websites.The first thing that happened, happened at 12:01 PM ET, when the newly appointed webmaster of the White House website said that President Obama had been inaugurated four minutes earlier than he actually had. Then, four minutes later, when President Obama had been inaugurated, something new occurred as a person went on to Wikipedia and changed the page on Ted Kennedy. What he changed about the page was that he said that Ted Kennedy was dead.

This page, though it was quickly edited by the president of Wikipedia, shows that Wikipedia is not a resource that a person should rely apon when writing a research paper. Sometimes though, Wikipedia is correct, but as you will never know if it is correct, you should never go there for a first source, unless you are just trying to get the jist of a certain topic. If one decides to use this as a resource, that person should check there information with other sources, and those sources that are best for checking Wikipedia are websites that end with .edu.

As one can see, Wikipedia is not a reliable resource to be used for a paper, unless one is trying to know only what the topic is about, but it also has uses that are good. In conclusion, my opinion is a mixed one, I believe that Wikipedia is a great source for topics such as President Lincoln, as people can tell if the facts that they can see are true or false, but I also know that if one is researching a topic that is widely known, it can be a very unreliable resource as not many people can tell what is not true because not too many individuals know what it is.

Tourism!

People in Hawaiian t-shirts with cameras, an exotic place with a new culture, those are but a few of the things that bring to my mind the word tourism. It is something that everyone enjoys to do, and it is one of the greatest things for the cultural world, and one of the worst for the enviroment.

Tourism is good for this world for quite a few reasons. For one, it helps to destroy stereotypes, as tourists get to see what a race/ethnicity is really like. It also helps the global economy because of the money tourists bring to other countries for souvenirs/travel expenses. It also helps to show people that other places have rich cultural backgrounds, and helps to educate them in those other cultures.

Tourism also does to this planet things that are very bad, it destroys the environment. It does this in both a direct and indirect way. An example of an indirect affect on the environment is that new resorts that are being made to put up tourists are destroying habitats in order to build them. A direct way is that tourists tend to get close into an animals space, and for example, if a kid seal is touched by a human or land mammal, like a tourist petting one, the mother often abandons it. My opinion on tourism is mixed, as i believe that people should learn that lots of stereotypes are untrue, and i also am very passionate about the environment.