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Annotated Bibliographies

“Restoring Whats Been Lost.” U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Apr. 2017. http://refugees.org/explore-the-issues/refugees-facts/   

“Restoring Whats Been Lost” is a page on refugees.org that gives facts about who refugees are, where they come from, and why they are leaving. It was put together by the U.S Committee for Refugees and Immigrants which is an agency that works both nationally and internationally to help refugees and immigrants all over the world. The intended audience of this particular article is those who are looking to learn more about refugees and those that need to be educated on this issue. The article contains maps and pictures and statistics that are easy for anyone to understand, however it doesn’t give very specific information that people may be looking for.

The map that is found on this page is the one I would like to use as a model for the map we will put on AWE’s website. The information on the website supports my project idea, that information that is easily accessible and understandable is beneficial to donors and the general public. The information can also be used on AWE’s website as many of the asylee’s come from these same places.

World Vision Staff. “Syria Refugee Crisis: Facts You Need to Know.” World Vision. N.p., 16 Mar. 2017. Web. 01 Apr. 2017. https://www.worldvision.org/refugees-news-stories/syria-refugee-crisis-war-facts

World Vision is a non-profit organization much like AWE is. However, they work directly in Syria. This article on their website provides specific information, in bullet lists, as to what is going on in Syria and how it effects women and children. The authors wrote this with the intention to educate but also pull at the heart strings, get them to empathize with all the horrible things that are happening. That being said, there is a slant in the article is it only talks the 100% absolutely horrible that happen and not any normal day to day things that happen.

This article will be beneficial toward my research for AWE’s website as Tiffany stated that Syria is in the top 10 places their clients come from. Also, Syria is a heavy topic in the news right now with the travel ban from President Trump. I think it could be beneficial to include some information from this website on the map we are creating for AWE.

Beltran, Adriana “Children and Families Fleeing Violence in Central America.” WOLA. N.p., 21 Feb. 2017. Web. 08 Apr. 2017. https://www.wola.org/analysis/people-leaving-central-americas-northern-triangle/ 

This article was written by Adriana Beltran, a senior associate for Citizen Security at WOLA. She is heavily involved in the prevention of violence in the Americas but also helping those get out of violent situations and countries. Her main claims include why people are fleeing Central America. It is common to hear of people fleeing the Middle East, but not countries that are in our backyard.

This source will be very helpful in my research for AWE. There were multiple Central American countries in the top 10 place and it is important to include all of these, not just the ones you hear about in the news all the time. It will be beneficial for donors to know that asylees come from all over the world and they need our help whether they are fleeing war or homicide.

 

Annotated Bibliography – Visual Storytelling

Andrew Vetsch
ENG 256 ON1
Dr. Licastro
April 5, 2017

Works Cited

Lawrence, Sarah. “The Power of Visual Storytelling”. Getty Curve. curve.gettyimages.com, http://curve.gettyimages.com/article/the-power-of-visual-storytelling.

Sarah Lawrence is an editor and designer of Getty Images. Her thesis is that adding images and videos make content marketing more effective, claiming it encourages customers to become more engaged with the material. With the right visuals, the customer becomes deeply engaged with the advertisement. The intended audience of this piece are advertisers who want ideas when creating their own pieces of advertising to make it more effective and draw in more customers. No bias is presumed in the article.

The strengths lie the examples Lawrence gives when she delves into what advertisers should consider when employing visual storytelling to draw consumers, such as authenticity, cultural relevancy, sensory currency, and classic storytelling archetypes of the visuals. The main weakness, though, is that each category is very brief and needs more content. The information in this source strongly supports the thesis of my research project because it explains how visual storytelling is one of the most, if not the most, captivating methods of drawing consumers in. This piece, though brief, is very relevant to my research since it demonstrates archetypes that are extremely relevant to my analysis on visual storytelling as a means of communication.

Rhonda, McEwen, et al. “Through the Lens of a Tetrad: Visual Storytelling on Tablets.” Journal of Educational Technology & Society, no. 1, 2016, p. 100. EBSCOhost,

Rhonda McEwen is a university professor of media and communication at the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Institute of Communication Culture and Information Technology. Her thesis is that social interaction and self-initiated communication are observed better when tablets were used to create art, as a result of a study . The intended audience of this piece is academic students who want to know how visual storytelling affect artists. No bias is presumed in this article.

The strengths of this article lie with the study McEwan explains to support her thesis. Her outline of the study is very thorough. She presents the process of the study by showing how visual storytelling is beneficial to education technology as opposed to traditional paper-based media. It may not seem so relevant to my thesis, as this is more about using visual storytelling as a means of education for the intellectually disabled, but this supports my thesis to the extent that it demonstrates how visual storytelling is a more effective means in social interaction, which supports my assertion that visual storytelling is an effective alternative method of communication through empowerment to web-designers.

Lafferty, Justin. “Visual Storytelling UX: Why Stories Need Design – Ceros Blog”. Ceros Blog – Interactive Content Marketing & Design Tips. Ceros, Inc., 19 June 2016. Web.

The author of the article, Justin Lafferty, is a blog writer for the Ceros blog. His topics range from storytelling inspiration to marketing practices. The thesis of his article is that having well-designed content will keep consumers interested. He argues that no matter how clean an advertisement’s design may seem, consumers will turn away if it doesn’t meet the consumer’s expectations. His intended audience are people who want to learn how to create engaging content to give a great presentation. No bias is presumed in the author’s article.

The main strength of the article is the simplistic approach it takes for each category to make his point easy to understand. The main weakness, though, is that a lot more could have been said. It would have been interesting if the blog post itself was more engaging. A simple way the writer could have done this is by adding a few photos to show what he is pointing out. The information strongly supports the thesis of my research project because it’s very simplistic about what makes storytelling work. This material is relevant mostly because it explains other aspects of visual storytelling my first source did not. Unlike the other source, which was about the categories of visual storytelling, this source explains how to find the right format for visual storytelling in advertising.

Annotated Bibloiography

Dabrianna Green

ENG 256 ON1

Dr. Licastro

4 April 2017

Works Cited

Flippin, Jr. Reverend William E. “Ubuntu: Applying African Philosophy in Building Community.” The Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 5 Feb. 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/reverend-william-e-flippin-jr/ubuntu-applying-african-  p_b_1243904.html. Accessed 28 Mar. 2017.

The author of this article is Reverend and scholar, William E. Flippin Jr. He is a 2002          graduate of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse School of Religion where he received his Masters of Divinity with a concentration in Church History/Reformation Studies. He furthered his education at Emory University, Candler School of Theology receiving a Masters of Theology (ThM) in 2003, as well as an additional ThM (2005) from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Currently, he   is completing his Doctor of Ministry (DMIN) in Transformational Leadership from Ashland Theological Seminary. In addition, he is a regular contributor for the Huffington Post’s “Black Voices” and guest columnist for Augsburg Press. His extra-curricular experience includes a trip to Cote d’ Ivoire, West Africa as a Mickey Leland Intern for World Hunger and Peace. In this article, he explores the concept of Ubuntu and applies it to the real-world issues of today’s society, insinuating that if we applied this concept to these current events, it would not only improve the quality of the community, but improve the quality of life. The intended audience for this article is the African-American community. Flippin uses this article as a call-to-action for the African-American youth to realize the importance of Ubuntu and incorporate it in their daily lives in order to ensure a    better future for themselves and the remainder of society.

Flippin being so emerged in the African-American culture does create a bias in this article. Though he is African-American and deems it important to reach out and improve his own community to whom he can relate to and vice versa, he is missing out on the opportunity to enlighten the remaining demographics he has unknowingly excluded. This presents a weakness. However, Flippin’s use of statistics and insightful, educational   reflection presents a strength that became useful in my research because I wanted to observe the different ways in which incorporating Ubuntu can be effective. This article     confirms that the principles of this philosophy can be effective in smaller areas such as the community and the church, as well as bigger areas such as economic and political situations.

Mangena, Fainos. “Hunhu/Ubuntu in the Traditional Thought of Southern Africa.” Internet             Encyclopedia of Philosophy, www.iep.utm.edu/hunhu/. Accessed 28 Mar. 2017.

Dr. Fainos Mangena is a specialist in Ethics, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Education, and Advanced Logic and Metaphysics. He currently works in the Department of Religious Studies, Classics and Philosophy at the University of Zimbabwe. He has a Doctorates degree in Philosophy, a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy, and a B.A. Dual Honors degree in Philosophy and religious studies. He has fourteen published works in refereed journals and two articles accepted for publication by peer reviewed journals. His professional and extra-curricular experience includes being the coordinator of an HIV and AIDS seminar series. Rather than making a specific claim, this article dissects the history, principles, and components of Ubuntu in Africa. The authors intended audience is anyone who is interested in having more than a surface-level understanding of Ubuntu. Though this article does not seem to present bias, it is possible that it could be biased considering the author is African and is from Africa.

Overall, this is a very strong and informative article. The only weakness it presents is that    it doesn’t really connect Ubuntu with everyday life- which is a big part of it. The information in this article doesn’t necessarily support or counter the thesis of my project.     However, it presents very relevant material. When discussing Ubuntu as a philosophy, it is important to know more than the distinctive components. Knowing the fine details, such as the background and how it became what it is now is extremely useful because this philosophy is more than what it seems to be in its mainstream view. I will be able to use these details to give deeper insight on what Ubuntu means on the website in order to give visitors a scholarly, deeper understanding.

Msila, Vuyisile. Ubuntu: Shaping the Current Workplace with (African) Wisdom. Randburg,         South Africa, Knowres Publishing, 2015. EBSCOhost,   ezproxy.stevenson.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1124517&site=eds-live&scope=site. Accessed 28 March 2017.

Vuyisile Msila is a professor at Unisa’s Institute for African Renaissance Studies. He leads a number of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research projects. He has conducted extensive work in leadership research in educational institutions, and was also a member of the Zenex/ACE research team that worked nationally, evaluating the Advanced Certificate in Education – School Management and Leadership, a project commissioned by the Department of Basic Education. Msila’s thesis is simply that in a world filled with leadership and management issues, Ubuntu is the most effective way to enhance the overall workplace environment. He also sets out to look at Ubuntu in further detail because he believes the idea of the philosophy is so commonly used, yet many don’t know the depth of it. Msila’s intended audience is primarily people who have leadership roles and are looking to improve their workplace environment. However, it is also geared towards people who simply want to learn more about Ubuntu. This article             does have a slight bias due to the fact that Msila has a passion for both Ubuntu and leadership, particularly African models leadership. These special interests could sway his opinion on how effective Ubuntu really is. However, it doesn’t present a weakness.

Through reading this book, it is apparent the author has studied leadership extensively and is applying those principles to what he knows about Ubuntu, which ultimately becomes a seamless comparison that provokes thought because the principles and theories go hand-in-hand. This information supports the thesis of my research because it supports the claim Tiffany Nelms made about Ubuntu improving the employee experience and gives enough information and insight for me to use to support her claim. This is extremely relevant because I plan to talk about how Ubuntu impacts AWE as a whole, including the employees.

 

Annotated Bibliography- Brian Casciero

 

Cohn, Neil and Patrick Bender. “Drawing the Line between Constituent

    Structure and Coherence Relations in Visual Narratives.” Journal of             Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol. 43,         no. 2, Feb. 2017, pp. 289-301. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1037/xlm0000290.

 

The authors are Neil Cohn of Tufts University and Tilburg University and Patrick Bender of Tufts University. They reject the notion that visual grammar, instead of focusing on changes in meaning, revolves around categorical roles for images (narrative structure) The intended audience of this piece consists of those already familiar with previous theories of visual grammar, which are most likely academic researchers or those pursuing education in the subject. Additionally, there is little to no bias shown in the article.

The main strength of this article is that it provides a refreshing viewpoint on visual grammar and offers another perspective. The weakness is that the results in the study indicate that viewers are more aware of meaning shifts than they are of narrative structure. Though the authors concluded that narrative structures are more influential overall, they are not the clear-cut champion of visual grammar. The information in this article supports my thesis because it states that viewers are less influenced by a piece’s sequence changes. I state that viewers are driven by their own statements and the piece’s statements about the world around them. Worldview statements are categorical, narrative roles described by this paper. This material is very relevant, as it supports my claims by breaking down commonly held beliefs on visual grammar.

 

Cohn, Neil, et al. “The grammar of visual narrative: Neural evidence for

     constituent structure in sequential image comprehension.”                          Nueropsychologia, vol. 64, Nov. 2014, pp. 63–70. ScienceDirect,                  www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393214003236?                  Accessed 4 Apr. 2017.

 

The authors are Neil Cohn, Ray Jackendoff, Phillip Holcomb, and Gina Kuperburg. They all work in the Psychology Department of Tufts University. They claim that viewers use a narrative structure when viewing images, offering results of a study. The study shows that the human brain feels disruption when there is a pause in a comic strip. The author’s intended audience consists of those familiar with psychology, neurology, or visual grammar.

The article has no bias. The biggest strength of this article is how it shows the brain’s involuntary actions, cutting deep with undeniable evidence. The one weakness the article has is the study’s relevance to all aspects of visual grammar. The study involved comic strips, which are far different from a single picture. The information here supports my thesis, but the interpretation of the study is not the most useful for my specific use. This material is not as relevant because of it is not as useful as the others. Nonetheless, it supports my project very nicely.

 

Hu, Chunyu, and Mengxi Luo. “A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of

     Tmall’s Double Eleven Advertisement.” English Language Teaching, 3            July 2016, http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1106632.pdf.

 

The authors are Chunyu Hu and Mengxi Luo. They are both writing from the School of International Business at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in China. They claim that Visual Grammar, as defined by Kress and van Leeuwen, is the driving force in visual advertisements. The authors also claim that effective visual advertising communicates through cultural and social statements about the world.

The intended audience most likely consists of business marketers wishing to improve their visual communication. A secondary audience may be those interested in the sociological and psychological effects of advertising (perhaps psychologists or sociologists). There is no bias present in this article; arguments are based in objectivity and on solid research.

This resource is a strong contribution to our visual marketing on the AWE site because it details specific strategies backed by research. However, this resource cannot be completely applied to video advertisement because analyzing video requires frame-by-frame analysis. Nonetheless, this source supports my thesis that people rely on interpretations of the world when viewing marketing. It is very relevant; visual grammar is a framework for any visual marketing and is therefore crucial to this project.

 

Annotated Bibliography

Heifer International. Retrieved from the Heifer International site, https://www.heifer.org/. Accessed 28 March 2017.

The author of this website is the Heifer International organization. This organization, founded in 1944, focuses on providing families in need with agricultural training, animals and what they need to remain self-sufficient. The main claims of this website are to work with communities to end world hunger and poverty across the globe. The intended audience for this site are potential donors and volunteers, as well as people looking for ways to help end world hunger.

There is some bias on this website. This website is in favor of ending world hunger, which is obvious in their mission statement. There are a lot of strengths when it comes to this website. The bright yellow and blue colors make the website stand out. The light background across the top with the dark font makes the site appealing to the eye.

Save the Children. (2015, October). Retrieved from Save the Children Web site,  http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6115947/k.8D6E/Official_Site.htm, Accessed 28 March 2017.

The author of this website is the Save the Children Foundation. This Foundation, founded in 1919, was established to improve the lives of children through education, healthcare, and economic opportunities, as well as provide emergency services when needed. The main claims of this website are to protect children from harm and provide them with the opportunity to learn and give them a healthy start. The intended audience for this site are people looking for ways to help children in need and possible donors or volunteers.

There is some bias from the author on this website. There are links on the bottom of the homepage linking to a petition asking Trump to make early education part of his first 100 days in office. There is also a link urging people to sign a petition to oppose the refugee ban. This site has many strengths. Right away, the eye is drawn to the article links that are on the main page. The pictures and bright colors make sure that it is the first thing someone sees. One weakness of this page is the length of the main page. There is a lot of scrolling that has to happen before reaching the information on the bottom. This website offered several good ideas for planning the volunteer page for the Asylee Women Enterprises website.

 

U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. (2017). Retrieved from the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants site, http://refugees.org/. Accessed 28 March 2017.

The author of this site is The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. This committee, founded in 1911, is focused on the needs and rights of refugees and immigrants. The authors main claims are to provide leadership and services to communities and refugees who have been uprooted from their homes. The author’s intended audience would be potential donors and volunteers, as well as anyone looking to get involved with an organization like this one.

There is bias on this website. This website is clearly in favor of protecting refugees and providing them with the resources necessary for them to rebuild their lives. This website uses colors and videos to keep the audience interested and keeps them going further into the site. These strengths keep the audience interested in the site. This website provided me with serval ideas for the volunteer page I am trying to create.

 

Annotated Bibliography – A Day In the Live of Asylum Seekers

Barry, Frank. “15 Techniques Used by Top Nonprofits to Boost Donor                  Acquisition and Online Fundraising Results.” NpENGAGE,                              npengage.com/nonprofit-fundraising/boost-donor-acquisition-                online-fundraising/. Accessed 28 Mar. 2017.

The author of this article is Frank Barry. Frank Barry is a director of digital marketing at Blackbaud and a blogger for the non profit site npENGAGE. He helps nonprofits use the internet for digital communication, social media, and fundraising. He has worked with organizations including LIVESTRONG, United Methodist Church, American Heart Association, Big Brothers Big Sisters, ChildFund Int’l, InTouch Ministries, Heifer International, University of Notre Dame and University of Richmond. The author claims that there are fifteen donor acquisition and online fundraising techniques that nonprofits can use to get the most amounts of donations.

The intended audience would be people who are trying to actually get more donations for their non-profit, or somebody who is helping a non-profit design their website to be more effective. The people who come to this article would most likely want to try and get information that will help a website attract people to donate, and keep traffic coming to their website. There is a slight slant of the article; it wants people to think that these techniques are the greatest techniques for getting donations, possibly neglecting other techniques that could work just as well.

One strength of this article is that it provides hyperlinks to other websites when it is making certain claims; this allows the reader to check out the why the author said what he said, and draw conclusions themselves about the validity of the claim. Another strength is that the article provides examples of non profits who have used some of these techniques so readers can see the techniques being mentioned in action. Not only does it provide examples, but it also provides snapshots of these examples as well. One of the weaknesses of this article is that it doesn’t really give the reader ways to actually implement these techniques on their site. This information definitely supports the thesis of my research. It is relevant to my research because I suggested that those who come across a donation website will want to see how their money is being spent, and giving a detailed account of an asylum seeker’s day will help show them how they will be helping.

Bray, J.D. Ilona. “Which Countries Do Most People Granted Asylum in the        U.S. Come From?” Nolo, www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/which-            countries-do-most-people-granted-asylum-the-us-come-from.html.      Accessed 28 Mar. 2017.

Ilona Bray, J.D. is an award-winning author and legal editor at Nolo, specializing in real estate, immigration law, workplace wellness and nonprofit fundraising. Bray’s working background includes solo practice, nonprofit, and corporate stints, as well as long periods of volunteering, including an internship at Amnesty International’s main legal office in London. The thesis of her article is saying from which countries do most people granted asylum in the United States come from. Her thesis, based on empirical research from the Executive Office of Immigration Review Statistical Year Book, concluded that the countries who have the most amounts of immigration is as follows: China, Guatemala, Honduras, India, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Nepal, Mexico, Soviet Union, Somalia, Egypt, Eritrea, Syria, Russia, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Albania, Nigeria, Haiti, Colombia, Gambia ,Pakistan, Iraq ,Burkina Faso and Sri Lanka. The author’s intended audience could be anyone who is interested in where asylum seekers coming to America are coming from, whether they want to help them or simply know more about the subject.

There is a bias in the article, but that bias is recognized by the article itself. It says “keep in mind that while these statistics may include applications originally filed affirmatively with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that were denied and referred to the immigration court, it does not include those asylum applications that were originally approved by USCIS.” This is saying that it should be recognized that about 16000 people who were originally approved for asylum status were not counted in this study. One of the strengths of this article is that it is based off of empirical evidence; statistics taken by a rather neutral source should be acknowledged as a good thing. The information supports my research because I learned that the US is indeed taking asylum seekers from a variety of places. This is relevant to my research because I need to know exactly where the largest amount of asylum seekers are coming from in order to properly document their experiences. Since I am doing a “Day in the Life”, depicting them correctly is a necessity.

“Mission Trip Itineraries.” Food for the Poor Saving                                                             Lives, www.foodforthepoor.org/participate/mission-trips/sample-              itinerary/. Accessed 28 Mar. 2017.

The author of this article is the organization FoodForThePoor. They are a nonprofit organization that works to get food, housing, and emergency relief to poor people in the Caribbean and Latin America. They also help provide care for orphaned and abandoned children. The author is claiming that the organization is going to provide a relatively set schedule for volunteers who choose to go to various countries. They have each country they send volunteers outlined with an itinerary that volunteers can expect to follow. The organization is claiming that volunteers will help poor people through performing activities such helping to paint homes and harvesting of fish for families. The intended audience would be anybody who is interested in volunteering for this organization. There is a bias; it highlights all of the good things about what people will be helping with solely instead of also shedding light on the toll it can take on the volunteers. The organization wants volunteers, so they are going to highlight the good parts.

A strength of this article is that it really gives a good breakdown of what a volunteer can expect if they decide to volunteer for this organization. Giving a realistic schedule can be the deciding factor of if a person decides to volunteer for a certain place or not, so I can see this being extremely helpful. Another strength is that it gives people the option to contact the organization through email if they have questions regarding anything they read that interests them on the itinerary page. One more strength is that the site offers itineraries for various countries instead of one generic itinerary for people to try and use to get a better feel; they took the time to develop schedules based on the needs of each country. The weakness of this itinerary is that it could do a better job of giving insight to how the volunteers will be interacting with recipients of these services. It largely focuses on what the volunteers will do with one another and leaves out that interaction with recipients. The information supports my research. It is relevant to the material I have researched because I want to recreate this type of article, except focusing on the recipients instead of the volunteers.

 

 

Annotated Bibliography – Transportation

Bose, Pablo. “Transportation, Equity, and Communities at Risk: Refugee     Population and Transportation Accessibility in Vermont.” University of  Vermont Transportation Research Center, Mar. 2011, pp. 1–67. Google, www.uvm.edu/~transctr/research/trc_reports/UVM-TRC-10-018.pdf.  Accessed 20 Mar. 2017.

      The author of this article is Pablo Bose, a professor at the University of Vermont. He has done a fairly large amount of research on helping refugees/asylees navigate a foreign country using mass transit. One of the primary intended audiences is the Vermont state government, but anyone looking to learn more or help with the problem is also targeted.

      The strengths of this article are its suggestions, possibilities and analysis regarding the transportation problems refugees’ face. The information does support out project as many Vermont refugees face similar problems that are comparable to those working with AWE. This information is highly relevant to our topic.

“Maryland Transportation Resource Information Point | MDTrip.” Maryland Transportation Resource Information Point – MDTrip.org, www.mdtrip.org/. Accessed 20 March. 2017

      The author of this article appears to be the Maryland Transit Association, they speak with authority as the site breaks down and explains how to use their own services. The primary intended audience is anyone looking to navigate Maryland using public transportation. The secondary audience would be someone looking to help others navigate Maryland’s transit system.

      The strengths are mainly the amount of information regarding the MTA and how it works, as well as how to use it. The information does support our work with AWE as it would help asylees navigate the city. The material is relevant to our class project as it offers both maps and guides to navigating the greater Baltimore area.

Jones, David W. Mass Motorization + Mass Transit : An American History and   Policy Analysis. Indiana University Press, 2008. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.stevenson.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=242096&site=eds-live&scope=site/Accessed 3 April, 2017.

    The author of this article is David Jones, a researcher focusing on the      social and economic forces surrounding mass transit, specifically in           the United States. He explores the various legislative, economic and             cultural aspects of mass transit, how these factors effect transit and           how transit also effects these factors.

     The strengths of this source are the details and lengths he went to in     his research. The weakness is that it doesn’t relate specifically to                 Baltimore or the refugee crisis, it is more historical in its perspective. This lack of direct relation means that this may be a good source to fall back on, but it isn’t particularly relevant to our cause.

Annotated Bibliography- Ryan Diepold

  1. “Volunteer Stories: Bea (Feb 2017)”. Refugee Support, Feb.
    2017,www.refugeesupport.eu/volunteer-stories/volunteer-stories-
    bea-feb-2017/    . Accessed 26 March 2017.

The author of this source is a volunteer at the Refugee Support center and it is his retelling of how two immigrants emotionally touched him. The author is not credible in the sense that he is using only his first name, but the content of his story speaks for itself. Bea’s clam is that through meeting two refugees, Ahmed and Farres, that he has a better appreciation for life, even though his overall interactions with them were very minimal. The primary audience would be individuals looking to get involved and looking to see how others have helped or been affected by those being helped. A secondary audience would be donators looking to see how the organization is doing and how the volunteers are contributing.

A bias of this site is that it is all told from a limited point of view of the author. He knows very little about the individuals that he has assisted and can only tell a story from that limited information. The author is also of Syrian decent, so he would tend to write about the individuals in a positive light. A weakness is rooted in the bias that was just stated, only a little information is given. A strength is that this story is exactly what I would want the text and the experience to be formatted for the AWE workers. This greatly supports my project giving me an idea of how to tell the AWE workers stories from their point of view and how to not only focus on just questions but the experiences of them. This is highly relevant to my project.

  1. “Refugee Stories: Life threatening sea journeys”. Stories,
    UNHCR,www.stories.unhcr.org/. Accessed 26 March 2017.

There is no singular author for this source, instead it is a collective of various stories told by refugees compiled on the site. The site itself, UNHCR is a highly known and very well regarded United Nations affiliate tasked with the protection and betterment of refugee and asylee status individuals. The page that I am using as the source for this site does not make any direct claims or state a thesis, instead it uses the power of stories and videos of refugees and their struggles to demonstrate the higher need for more assistance for them, in the United States and all around the world. The authors intended audience would be those who are looking to become affiliated with and help in assisting the UNHCR. A secondary audience would be those individuals who are not necessarily getting involved but want to know what kind of lives a refugee lived/has lived to one day get involved.

A potential bias that could be seen in the article can be that It tells the stories of refugees around the world and from different time frames. There are current stories, but some go back as far as the 1940’s. Since there are stories from all around the world and are refugees and asylee’s combined, there is a lot of varying and mixed information. The weakness that I can see is that there is no direct source. There are loads of stories but they are from many different authors. A strength is the design, this is close to how I wanted the page for AWE to look and the kind of idea I was thinking about. Also, the stories themselves are very strong and emotional and gives me an idea of what I would do. This helps  supports the project I am doing. It gives me a very nice and detailed design of how to format the page and how to draft the stories of the AWE volunteers. This material is highly relevant for the project because of its format, design, and presentation.

  1. “Stories”. Exploring the issues, U.S Committee for Refugees and
    Immigrants, www.refugees.org/explore-the-issues/stories/#5740
    Accessed 26 March 2017    .

For this source there is no singular author, more so it is a collection of refugee, immigrants, and staff testimonials. This source is an organization that is from Washington D.C, they focus heavily on the international and domestic assistance for refugees and immigrants who need to be resettled. The sole thesis stated at the top of the page is in regards to the stories of the refuges and how they have went from a negative to a positive. The intended audience would be those individuals who are looking to get away and escape from their current situations. This page alone tells the dramatic stories of those who fled and how much better their lives have become. A secondary audience would be any individual looking to get more involved with this organization.

There really is no bias in the article besides the fact that all the stories are lives that have gone from worse to better. Not every refugee or immigrants lives would become better and the site does not include any negative stories. A weakness, as can be expected for any stories page, is that there is multiple authors of the stories and they do not all come from one source. Each story is different and unique, making it hard to set an expectation or standard. This greatly supports my project, as I have a better idea of questions to ask the AWE volunteers about their experiences with the AWE seekers and how their lives have changed for the better. Also, the formatting and the use of thumbnail videos help as well in the overall idea of the design for the page. The stories themselves make this article critical for my project as it gives me a wide variety of questions to ask the volunteers and how to phrase them.