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Sam Ple (Sam) PLES1903 GSWS 101 Gender Talk Instructor: Sandie Dielissen November 27, 2019 Leave 2 lines for space, and start here with your title of your research assessment Gender Bending Binaries: TRANSforming Identities Part 1 – Annotated Bibliography – It is helpful if you use a heading for each section, but not

necessary. List your sources in alphabetic order by lead author’s last name. Use MLA

citation and refer to a style guide. This is an example and may not be formatted correctly.

D’Elia, G., Jorgensen, C., Woelfel, J., & Rodger, E. J. (2002). The impact of the Internet on public

library use: An analysis of the current consumer market for library and Internet services.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 53(10), 808-820.

doi:10.1002/asi.10102

In this study, the researchers examined if the Internet had affected public library usage in the

United States. This study is distinct because its researchers surveyed library nonusers as well as users.

The major finding was that 75.2% of people who used the Internet also used the public library.

However, the researchers surveyed only 3000 individuals in a population of millions; therefore, these

results may not be statistically significant. However, this study is relevant because it provides future

researchers with a methodology for determining the impact of the Internet on public library usage.

Leave some space between each annotation – remember alphabetic order by author’s last name

Lozier, Jeffrey D., et al. "Predicting the Distribution of Sasquatch in Western North America:

Anything Goes with Ecological Niche Modelling." Journal of Biogeography, vol. 36, no.9, 2009,

pp. 1623-1627. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40305930. Accessed 14 June 2016.

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This paper critiques the use of Ecological Niche Models (ENM) and species distribution by

performing a tongue-in-cheek examination of the distribution of the fictional Sasquatch, based on

reports from an online Bigfoot archive.Lozier's paper powerfully demonstrates the issues faced by

ENM, when reports come from non-specialists, and highlights key problems with sourcing data

from unmediated online environments. The author neglects to compare the reliability of the many

wildlife databases with the single Bigfoot database, as well as other key issues; however in closing,

the paper briefly mentions that many issues lie outside the scope of the short article. Lozier's paper

advises professionals in fields using ENM to carefully assess the source of the data on which the

model is based and concludes that the distribution of rare species in particular is often over-reported

to misidentification.

Leave some space between each annotation – remember alphabetic order by author’s last name

D’Elia, G., Jorgensen, C., Woelfel, J., & Rodger, E. J. (2002). The impact of the Internet on public

library use: An analysis of the current consumer market for library and Internet services.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 53(10), 808-820.

doi:10.1002/asi.10102

In this study, the researchers examined if the Internet had affected public library usage in the

United States. This study is distinct because its researchers surveyed library nonusers as well as users.

The major finding was that 75.2% of people who used the Internet also used the public library.

However, the researchers surveyed only 3000 individuals in a population of millions; therefore, these

results may not be statistically significant. However, this study is relevant because it provides future

researchers with a methodology for determining the impact of the Internet on public library usage.

After your last annotation, start a new paper with your research assessment

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Part 2 – Research Assessment – It is helpful if you use a heading for each section

Gender Bending Binaries: TRANSforming Identities You can restate your title here

This is a sample essay made up of different parts of various assignments. Many people

believe that all Canadians have equal access to education, but this, sadly, is not the case. The

editorial, “Challenges in Education: Literacy Among Aboriginal Children,” published in The Globe

and Mail on January 14, 2008, addresses the question: “are Canada’s aboriginal children learning to

read?” Through its analysis of this question, the editorial invites discussion on a larger issue facing

Canada—the education of Aboriginal children. For too long, the specific educational needs of

Aboriginal children have been ignored, and this editorial works to bring awareness to this

importance issue. Although the editorial succeeds in informing the public that Canada’s education

systems are failing Aboriginal students, it does not include any discussion about the socio-cultural,

political, and historical factors that are causing the failure, nor does it include any solutions on how

society can fix it. Inadvertently, the editorial also reinforces several prominent stereotypes

surrounding Aboriginal Peoples, implying that they are unintelligent, lazy, and that they often engage

in crime. Overall, the editorial, “Challenges in Education: Literacy Among Aboriginal Children,”

highlights the problem of literacy rates among Aboriginal children without providing any solutions

or explanation regarding the low literacy rates, and because of this, it gives strength to various

common stereotypes that are applied to Aboriginal Peoples.

In comparison to Kolata's perspective towards Aboriginal peoples, there is little to be said

about how Aboriginal peoples see the problem of alcoholism in the article itself. While Kolata's

focus remains on how alcoholism will affect the next generation of Aboriginal peoples (Kolata,

D.24), an examination of the past should be regarded in order to make sense of the present. A study

conducted by Ross et al. (2015) looks at the connections between alcohol abuse and the residential

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school legacy amongst First Nations peoples in Quebec, for both those who attended the

institutions and did not attend but are linked to the schools through other means. On a national

scale, it is estimated that “20.3% of Canada's Indigenous adult population attended residential

schools for an average of five years” (First Nations Centre, 2005, qtd. in Ross et al., 185). Moreover,

other scholars also argue that mortality rates may have influenced the overall number of attendees at

the institutions (Fournier & Crey, 1997; Hylton et al., 2002, qtd. in Ross et al., 185). Although this

draws attention to the statistical nightmare addressing the problem of the influence of residential

schools on Aboriginal peoples, Ross et al. (2015) found that alcohol abuse tripled amongst their

study sample with those who attended residential schools, as oppose to those who did not (187).

To place blame for the oppression that First Nations people face in Canada on the article

“The HBC Museum Collection: ‘Mere Curiosities Are Not Required…” (1994), by Robert Coutts

and Katherine Pettipas would be misplaced. However, it is an excellent example of how common

and undetected oppressive attitudes are within Canadian society against Indigenous folk. It is an

attitude that fetishized, owns, and takes control of their culture, distributes it without their consent,

represents it as ‘dead’, while simultaneously rejecting the living Indigenous People whose culture and

items are being represented. Although this article was written in the early 1990’s, it still holds truth

to today. In order to change Canada’s future so it does not reflect our past and present, we must

own up on these unconscious attitudes, and acknowledge their existence. Then, we must listen to

the First Nations populations, and use our positions of privilege and power to lift them up and put

them in control of their own cultures. This would lead to us stepping down in order to give them

the right to fully represent themselves, instead of simply being ‘consulted’. Until we as a colonial

nation take these steps, we cannot truly say with an honest heart that we are the Truth North Strong

and Free. This is the end of your essay. No additional reference list is required.