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        This site has some very interesting facts and history that is important to American government. On this site shows the history of the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. Many people think that it was just dreamt out of the blue by our Founding Fathers and then we sent it to England. This site shows the role of each of the writers of the Declaration of Independence. It is really interesting to see that the delegates just assigned Thomas Jefferson as the writer of the document and he spent days alone composing what to say. It was then “revised first by Adams, then by Franklin, and then by the full committee, a total of forty-seven alterations including the insertion of three complete paragraphs was made on the text before it was presented to Congress on June 28.” After July 2, the Congress continued to define the document and on July 4^th, the document was instituted. The day after it was published, John Hancock began dispatching copies to army commanders.

Declaration of Independence”. "Declaration of Independence." http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/declara3.html. September 19, 2002.

        This site is the greatest site sense sliced bread. This web site has a biography on every signer of the Declaration of Independence. And what’s even better about the site, it shows the life of every Founding Father. When you read one, you can see that these were ordinary guys that got together and rebelled against the English. For example, when Benjamin Franklin walked into Philadelphia, he “walked through the streets of Philadelphia with an appearance little short of a beggar.” You see, not all the Founding Fathers are as idealistic as people make them. Some of them were graduates of Yule like Lewis Morris and others didn’t even pass the 6^th grade. Other likes Thomas Neilson Jr. were English citizens and others like Elbridge Gerry was destined to a career in medicine but became a merchant.

        This site has a really good source for people who like to know the “real” signers of the Declaration of Independence. This is truly a remarkable site and very credible and incredible.

“Biographies of the Founding Fathers”. http://www.colonialhall.com/biodoi.asp. September 19, 2002.

        This is another good site in which you can see the events of the American Revolution in chronological order. Unfortunately, you may not be able to see the site because of the ton of pop-up ads that attack your screen when you get there. But if you are able to attack back, you will successfully see the site, I hope. When you finally get in the site, you get a year-by-year look at what happened leading to the Revolution. Amazingly, it talks about events that not many people know about like “In April, England's Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Hillsborough, orders colonial governors to stop their own assemblies from endorsing Adams' circular letter.” This site is a wealth of history and a great teaching tool. What’s even better is that you can listen to the Declaration of Independence without having to read it.

        This site is good for the novice person to learn about history of the formation of our government.

“The History Place: American Revolution.” http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/. September 19, 2002.

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        The meaning of life, the universe and government will never be answered until you visit this site. Heck with the meaning of life being 42, this site actually tells you what happens in the government, mainly Congress. If you missed your daily dose of CSPAN, you can come to this site and see what happened. Not only you can see what happened, you can read what happened, including history of bills, laws and reports. I won’t be surprised if it talked when a certain Congressmen went to the bathroom. Well, maybe not that in-depth but it is very in-depth. If you wanted to know about Congressional Bills you can see them here. One example I found was the 104^th Congress Catalog “H.Con.Res.1 (ath) Recognizing the sacrifice and courage of Army Warrant Officers David Hilemon and Bobby W. Hall II, whose helicopter was shot down over North Korea on December 17, 1994”. On top of that, it tells you that the House agreed on the bill. This was fascinating to me and I started reading some. Some are introduced to House and others are Referrals from the Senate. If you wanted to know about what happened during the nth Congress, you could look it up here. This site really shows you what Congress does. Many think that they sit on their butts all day long but they do a lot. Another interesting part of the site was the Congressional Records. This is the coolest thing I have seen on any of the web sites. Its basically an oracle of what happened and how the day went. The one I looked at was the protection of Social Security. Though it is only one page, the paper contains only one Congresswomen talking to the Congress. This just shows that Congress people talk a lot and get their point across so everyone understands.

        If you want to know what it happening, go to this site. I was very impressed.

United States Congress. http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/. October 9, 2002.

          This site is very credible and very informative. When I first looked at the site, it didn’t seem credible until Mr. Haskell said it was credible. As a matter of fact, I thought it was incredible but know that I know it is credible, I guess I will write about. On a second look at the site, I started to see how credible the site was. This is in fact the government site for Congress. Although this site is called Library of Congress, I thought it was something else but it wasn’t. The site talks about research, 9-11 remembrances and Ask the Librarian, which I think is the coolest thing in the world. I clicked on Ask the Librarian and found out that you can actually ask the librarian a question. They ask for your email, your question and even your telephone number, which really doesn’t make sense because the government knows all. After looking at this incredible feature, I started looking for history on Congress and about the current Congress. It is interesting to find information about other things but nothing on the Congress. Funny, the Library of Congress doesn’t have anything about the origins of Congress. I found this pretty odd. Maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough. Maybe there was some government code I had to crack to find it. I even looked in the search and even the section for Blind Persons and found nothing. Does a great job of talking about America and photos and what not but nothing about Congress. Well, it does have this Day in Congress but that’s about it.

        I relations to this site, I give it a B+ on a grading scale. The fact that I couldn’t find anything about Congress was pretty sad. Maybe I was looking wrong but I except to type in Congress and getting searches talking about Congress and history. But I guess that’s too much to ask of the government. This is a budget cut on the part of the government.

Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/. October 9, 2002.

         This is probably the best site I found on Congress. Not only does it talk about Congress, it has sites for the Senate and House of Representatives. Amazing, the government didn’t have budget cuts making the sites. Its talks about the Senate and its history, which as you know is a huge concept for the government. And for the real honor student that wants to read about government, they have books that have been published since 1789. Someone had a lot of time on there hands. It even has fun “What the Senate did on this day” type of links. And for those hard photos of Congressmen you were looking for, there here too. This is a pretty good site if your majoring in government because it has everything you want and don’t want to know. Aside from knowing everything about the Senate, you also learn how it is run. When you go to the main web site, the one listed below, you find any links that take you to many interesting sites about the government. You can click on one of the links and see the Journals of the House. I thought this was quite interesting especially since every paragraph starts with “Whereas”. These are basically notes taken at the House meeting but only government style. Going back to the main site, you can click on a link and learn about deceased politicians. Just what you wanted, the person you hated is finally died and you find out information about them. So if you hated them before, you can read their biography and hate them even more. Don’t you just love the government? But they do have a Biographical Directory of Congress since 1774 to the present. So if you want to know about the government, this site is the portal to you goal in understanding government.

Therefore, if you want to expand your knowledge in government, this is the site to do it with. Have fun you knowledge people.

Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet. http://thomas.loc.gov/home/legbranch/history.html. October 9, 2002.

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        This was the first site I went to and it was very interesting. On the site, there were links to what the President was doing, listen to a Press Briefing and the nominations the President has selected. In addition to these links, there were many others on the views the President has on national security, currents events and many other issues. I clicked on more issues and found that the President has a lot of stuff to do. One of these issues was concerning house ownership and expanding their opportunities. They even have his famous “No Child Left Behind” thing on education and the ways he wants to improve education. It was very fascinating to see all the issues the President has or has to deal with. They even have the top stories like President Bush signs two bills to improve health care. And if you didn’t want to go to this site everyday, you could enter your email address and they would send you all there is to know about the world and what the President is doing, to a certain extent of course. And if you want to mold your kids in the way of the government, you could go to the special kids section and play government games and fun facts. When I went, they had a picture of Vice President Cheney’s dogs getting off a helicopter. This might seem weird but there was a guard there to make sure they didn’t walk the wrong way like they would do for the President. Even more saddening is that you can click on the dog icons on the bottom and learn about the Vice President’s dogs and all that dog spec stuff. I wonder if they would do the same thing if the President had a fish for a pet? Pretty sad. Any was, I went back to the real site and decided I had seen enough so I stopped.

This site was very informative and helpful to learn how to executive branch works and that Vice President Cheney has two dogs named Spotty and Barney.

The White House. http://www.whitehouse.gov/. October 29, 2002.

        Well, sliced bread is good but with butter and jam is better. If you want the most official official executive site on the face of the world, this is the site. This site has links to what the executive branch does to its agencies to now the White House grass is cut. Well, maybe not that far but you never know, it has quite extensive information. So I went to the Executive Agency sites and found that they are spilt up into different categories. One was the USDA and they had links for all the subsections in that agency. The one I went to was the Rural Development site. It was quite interesting in that it talked about what was happening in that agency, the news of the agency, even an application to apply to the department. Next I went to DOD or Department of Defense. I never saw so many military institutions in my life. There was even a link called NIMA or National Imagery and Mapping Agency. I look at the web site and it was cool. Good graphics, a kids page, a summary of what they do and a chance of employment. I’m starting to see that the government is putting links on their sites to get people to get jobs. That NIMA “provides timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security. NIMA was established October 1, 1996 to address the expanding requirements in the areas of imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial intelligence.” Interesting things the government is doing.

        If you want to know more about the departments in the executive branch, this is the site. There are tons of information of employment and departments that exist. If I didn’t know better, this would be an excellent way for the government to get high school students interested in government.

Official US Executive Branch Web Sites.

http://www.loc.gov/global/executive/fed.html. October 30, 2002.

          This site was very interesting. It has sites on the GOP and the many agencies of government. So I went to the Code of Federal Regulations and read up on the Federal Regulations. It was very interesting to see the regulations in the federal government. So I clicked on Private and Public Law and the first law I saw was the recognition of the 90^th birthday of Ronald Reagan. This was surprising because I didn’t think there would be a law to celebrate someone’s birthday. Next I went to the United States Government Manual. That was an interesting place and then I went to the agencies under the executive branch. The first agency I went to was the Department of the Navy. So I read the manual for it and it was interesting. I waited 5 minutes for the site to load and it didn’t load. I am guessing it was interesting because of the other links were interesting. After having a negative experience with the Navy, I went to the Department of Education and amazing enough the site came up. It told of the people in the different positions like Chief of Staff, Assistant Secretary to the assistant and the assistant to the assistant’s assistant. I was uplifting to know that if one died, the other would take their place. Then it had a definition of what the department does and the laws of the department. After getting kicked off from the government site, I decided I had enough of learning from that particular site.

        This is an inspiration site. It provided me with may negative page loading experiences but had good information after I waited 5 days for the page to load. But, as I said, the page loaded, there was a ton load of information like you would need for a executive project.

Executive Branch Resources on GPO Access http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/executive.html. October 28, 2002.