Posts tagged with crime

Hacking and Omeka Site

Our online activities are not as secure as we think! After the speaker presented his information, I found out a lot about internet safety. Passwords are easily hacked and it is easy for hackers to get private information about our lives. So far I only have a few items on my Omeka site. I did, […]

Washington DC: The Murder Capital of the US

  The URL to the map I created can be found here. I did not run into any problems while creating my map. I actually found it to be very useful! By creating this map, I am able to see where the different neighborhoods, parks, etc are in relation to one another. I also found […]

Topic

The topic that I really want to look into, and will probably do my research work on, is focused on the crime and murder rate in Washington DC. The steps I am going to take is to do a minor search on google, then once I get a good understanding, I’ll then move to the […]

Research Questions

The first topic that interests me is crime and murder in Washington DC. This interests me because one would think that D.C. would be an extremely safe place, but there are always crimes going on in this area, such as auto theft, robberies, etc. William Cronon’s process for creating questions really helped me think outside […]

Topics of DC

My first topic that really interests me about the history of Washington DC, is the monumental architecture. Why did they build the buildings the way they did? Was there a certain reason? The Capitol, Union Station, US Supreme court, and the White House are all huge with white designs. Also, could there be a reason […]