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When was the information published or posted? Has the information been revised or updated? Is the information current or out-of-date for your topic? Does currency matter for this topic? Why or why not? Do the links work?

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When was the information published or posted? Has the information been revised or updated? Is the information current or out-of-date for your topic? Does currency matter for this topic? Why or why not? Do the links work?

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Who is the intended audience? Is the information at an appropriate level? (i.e. not too simple or advanced for your needs)  Would you be comfortable using this source for a research paper? Why or why not?

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Who is the intended audience? Is the information at an appropriate level? (i.e. not too simple or advanced for your needs)  Would you be comfortable using this source for a research paper? Why or why not?

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Who is the author/publisher/source/sponsor? Are the author's credentials or organizational affiliations given? What are the author's qualifications to write on the topic? Is there contact information, such as a publisher or e-mail address?Does the URL reveal anything about the author or source?.com (commercial), .edu (educational), .gov (U.S. government), .org (nonprofit organization), .net (network) Does the source contain advertisements or forms of commercialism that may bias the information? 

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Who is the author/publisher/source/sponsor? Are the author's credentials or organizational affiliations given? What are the author's qualifications to write on the topic? Is there contact information, such as a publisher or e-mail address?Does the URL reveal anything about the author or source?.com (commercial), .edu (educational), .gov (U.S. government), .org (nonprofit organization), .net (network) Does the source contain advertisements or forms of commercialism that may bias the information? 

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Where does the information come from? Is the information supported by evidence? Has the information been reviewed by experts? Can you verify that the information is accurate by cross-checking with other reliable sources? Does the language or tone seem biased and free of emotion? Are there spelling, grammar, or other academic errors? Is it well written and organized, enabling you to learn something from reading it? 

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Where does the information come from? Is the information supported by evidence? Has the information been reviewed by experts? Can you verify that the information is accurate by cross-checking with other reliable sources? Does the language or tone seem biased and free of emotion? Are there spelling, grammar, or other academic errors? Is it well written and organized, enabling you to learn something from reading it? 

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What is the purpose of the information? (such as to inform, teach, sell, entertain, persuade, generate controversy and provoke) Do the authors/sponsors make their intentions or purpose clear? Is the information fact? Is it an opinion? Is it propaganda? Does the point of view appear objective or subjective? Are there political, ideological, cultural, religious, institutional, or personal biases?

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What is the purpose of the information? (such as to inform, teach, sell, entertain, persuade, generate controversy and provoke) Do the authors/sponsors make their intentions or purpose clear? Is the information fact? Is it an opinion? Is it propaganda? Does the point of view appear objective or subjective? Are there political, ideological, cultural, religious, institutional, or personal biases?

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October 8, 2015. The information is not out-of-date for my topic.  Currency does not matter for this topic as it's been a very long time before Christopher Columbus lived. The links work

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-October 8, 2015
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-Currency does not matter much because Christopher Columbus is pretty much history and most of it's history has been discovered. The links work

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- October - 8 - 2015
This article isn’t updated and currency doesn’t matter as well. The reason why is because the topic columbus has been a long time and most of the histories that columbus discovered, were discovered why more people. The links in this article works.

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The intended audience is most likely to assist college or university students in their research projects. I would feel comfortable using this source but the lexile and vocabulary used might be a tad bit higher than what i understand.

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Kris Lane is the author of this article, and as a Latin American history proffessor at Tulane University, He has a major in latin american studies. The proffessor can be contacted  at 504-862-8622 and klane1@tulane.edu. You can find his account on facebook and twitter by searching up k.e.lane. There aren't any forms of commercialism as his intention is to educate. The website washington post is 80%non profit but nothing much is adverstised.

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The information comes from washingtonpost.com and it shows evidence to support the idea stated. As a canadian american fulbright scholar, researcher, professor, and author, his information is definetely reviewed by a person with less knowledge of the topic and a higher authority in the organization. If there's evidence shown, there's no reason to be biased. There's a google extension named apogee which can find what sources the particular website uses. Using Apogee, it traces to many other websites of the evidence they've shown in the article. Being similar to a tertiary source, it analyzes the topic and summarizes it also asking questions just like a persuasive essay. If Kris E Lane was aboriginal, there's a chance he could be biased, but the way he writes from a two person perspective makes his writing creditable. I pasted the entire article on grammarly, and there are no grammatical errors. Either the author self revised and edited it, or the publisher did it. Kris' writing delivers his message without a doubt.

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The article was posted on October 8, 2015. The information has not been updated. The information is current for my topic. I think currency doesn't matter much for this topic because the events had happend long time ago.

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The site ends with the .com instead of .gov so we can eliminate the propaganda factor. The author, as a proffesor obviously has the purpose of educating. The ads on the website have no relation whatsoever with the topic. Thus, the company is definitely  non profit unlike Owen's unit 1 coffee source. As said earlier, his writing is persuasive from a two person perspective. He clearly isn't trying to create controversy, as the topic is out of date and it's nothing to be controversial about. His purpose is to educate us about the 5 mythical things that Columbus did.

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This article had been posted on October 8 of 2015. There doesn't seem to be any new updates since, but I do think that currency in this topic isn't as important than it is in other topics since this event had occurred decades back. The links in the website work, and it seems to be so that most sources linked are reliable.

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The intended audience seems to be aimed for students and young adults and above, as the article has certain words that may/may not need searching, and also contains details which may be hard to comprehend at first. Perhaps they would even need to take a second look. If one were to click into the main home page of this organization/website, it can also be seen that a lot of the other articles are news, lifestyle articles, andd even reviews which most kids below 7th-8th grade would read at. Personally, I would think that this article is alright for my needs and if i needed to write a research paper with it. But, if I wanted to read comfortably, I would take the lexile level down one notch.

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October 8, 2015. The information on the article has not been updated ever since the date it has been posted. The information that I'm using for my topic is not out of date and is recent. The currency for this article isn't important as Columbus has been dead for years. The links for the article do work.

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October 8, 2015
The information could be out of date if there were new findings. It may have been a long time since the Era of Christopher Columbus, but there could be more evidence to disprove some theories made by historians. The information is current and the link works. The currency of the link still matters because it has no realtime evidence to make it a primary source.

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The author of this article is Kris Lane, who holds the France V. Scholes chair in colonial Latin American history at Tulane University. His credentials are given as seen. This author also works as a professor, scholar, researcher, and author. He focuses on colonial Latin American history. Kris Lane had also been given a few awards: Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada, and has edited these works: Piracy in the Early Modern Era: An Anthology of Sources, etc. His contact information is also given: klane1@tulane.edu
It can be seen that the article had been posted on a website/source with an ending of .com, but although it isn't .gov or .edu does not necessarily suppose that it is not reliable. If one were to look up the organization/company, they would find that washingtonpost.com is a website and is also a company that is very popular in Washington metropolitan area. There are even newspapers given out and this organization had also won an award: Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, etc. This source does not have ads, other than other recommendations usually related to other news from the same source. But that wouldn't affect the overall information given. It does have inadvertent biases though, as the category of the article is sorted as to be an opinion, but there are no actual speech or form of communication that states a biased opinion.

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The audiences in this article are for researchers, students (I think it is for high schoolers), and adults who are interested in Columbus. This article is not an appropriate level for me, because I have some vocabularies that I don't understand. It is advance for my needs. I would be comfortable using this source for a research paper, until I get to know what it means. The reason is that the website includes good and reliable resources that I could use for my research paper.

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The information that the author had  researched and taken bits of to support so comes from multiple reliable websites, one even from the Italian gov, and books that was reprinted from the original copy of Colombus's own writing which can be considered as a primary source in a way. Other websites/sources he used have seen to be reliable by cross-checking with other websites. As the information he had taken was from the sources he had researched from, he was able to successfully be able to back-up his information with evidence. The authority of most of the chosen sources are deemed to be reliable and to have been written with authors that works under organizations/companies such as CNN (Emanuella Grinberg) or Roman Stanek who is a CEO and is an entrepreneur. It does seem that the information he has obtained are mainly (90%) all reliable. The language used shows not much tone or emotion to show bias-ness, but when the author does use ? or ", sometimes it seems as if there is some tone in his writing, although not much. (perhaps it is just me).There does not seem to have any writing errors (grammar, spelling, etc.) It is well organized and easy to read and understand as it is sorted into sections with details and links for further explanation if necessary. I would think someone would be able to learn something from this article, whether or not they agree/disagree.

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The purpose of this article is mainly to inform and persuade, although it can fit in the category of being controversial, as the article states the opinions of the author based off of whatever accurate information he researched (article category: opinion) It can also be seen in the comments section that people have retorted to his opinions, and had their own thoughts towards what he had tried to persuade and inform others of based off his research. It can also be seen though, that while he tried to back up the 5 myths of Christopher Colombus, he used information from his research that had been cited to back up his opinions. This therefore can also be concluded to say that the purpose is to inform and persuade, and somewhat controversial. I would also think that this article could be used to entertain those who find history a fun subject, or those who are interested in Colombus and is interested to participate in a discussion about myths. Moving on, the author does make the information clear, and example which at the end of every section he restates the main point he would like to make in a sense to almost persuade the readers. The information is mainly facts with research to support any opinions, and the fact that knowing the article sorts into the opinion category makes me think that there is a slight bit of propaganda. (Although still mainly facts) Relating, the POV of the article written seems mainly objective rather than subjective as mentioned above about the resources, adding on his speech. It seems that there are few to no evidence to show biases about the 5 myths on Colombus, while mentions of political (interactions between the king(s)/queen(s)/vip) and institutional (Colombus is Italian section) talks can be seen more vividly than I was able to see from any other.

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The information on the source was posted on October 8, 2015. The information has not been revised or updated, because the author haven't changed any information on the website. If it was updated, the data should be written on the article. I don't think the currency matters in this article, because Christopher Columbus's voyage is not on-going. Sad to say *not trying to be mean* but since he is dead I don't think the currency matters. Some of the link works however some doesn't. (For example, this link does not works. It says 404 Page not Found. https://www.niaf.org/culture/march-with-niaf-in-the-columbus-day-parade-in-nyc/)

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I believe that this article is intended for high school students because there are a lot of difficult words that elementary and middle school student don’t understand. Yes because this article may have difficult words but most of the information are very helpful. If some words are difficult, researching the word can have a better understanding of what the word mean.

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The author of this article is Kris Lane, he holds the France v Latin American history. He also studied in B.A. university in Colorado Boulder, 1991 Ph.D, university of Minnesota, and he is a historian.

This is his contact information:
Tulane University

6823 St. Charles Ave.

115 Hebert Hall

New Orleans, LA 70118

klane1@tulane.edu

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This information comes from the information of Christopher Columbus’s trip and the history of the Colombian Exchange. Also, this evidence supports the idea of the trip of Columbus’s trip. This information is accurate because I checked with another website, and it shares the same information. Also, this article was wrote from a American historian. This article isn’t biased because the author of the article didn’t choose a side or talk negative about only one part. There isn’t any spelling error or grammar issues because maybe when making the article, there are people proof reading for any errors in this article. This is well written and organized because the topic of the information didn’t change and each paragraph are easy to understand. There are also headings for every paragraph that talks about different parts about the five myths about Christopher Columbus.

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I think the intended audience for this article is for students that has a higher level in English because the article gives us informations about Christopher Columbus. The level of this article is a little advanced for me since it has some hard vocabulary and sentence difficult to understand. I would be comfortable using this source for research paper because it gives us specific informations about Columbus. Also I can just search up the words I don't understand.

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This article is mainly to teach the audience about the five myth about Christopher Columbus. Also, to inform because this articles inform the audience about the myths of columbus. The author made the purpose of the article clear to understand because people could understand what this article means and talks about the purpose of five myths about Columbus. This article doesn’t talks about facts about the five myth of Columbus. It talks about the myths of columbus with clear information that was provided in the article. This isn’t opinion because there are a lot of websites and articles that is talking about the same thing like columbus said the world is round when other people agreed that the world is flat. This is objective because this article is talking about the five myths about columbus, not talking about other random stuff that isn’t based on the article. There isn’t any personal opinions that was talked in the article.

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The author of this article is Kris Lane. He is a professor of colonial Latin American history at Tulane University. The author can be contact through his email klane1@tulane.edu. The URL of website is commercial so it is not very reliable. The website only has a few advertisement. The advertisement is not bias to this topic.

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The author showed the sources he used in the form of hyperlink in the article. The article provided some evidence that helped supported the information in the article. The information is accurate, I know it because I have cross checked it with KofC.org. The language used in the article is not biased and I cannot find spelling or grammar errors. I think the article is well written and organized, I am able to learn something from reading it.

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The purpose of this article is it to inform and teach people. The author made the purpose of the article clear and lets the audience clearly know it's purpose. The information in the article is mainly talking myths about Columbus. I think the point of view of this article is mainly objective. There are no personal biases or opinions in this article.

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The article about Christopher Columbus, is aimed at students or scholars that are middle school level and above. The information that is aimed for students has an appropriate level as it's understandable, with only a few new words that could be difficult. It's not too advanced for my needs, as it only takes a bit of time to search up a word that i don't understand. This article seems perfect for a research paper at it includes information on Columbus that takes a deeper look into his nationality, business and finds. As i said before this would be a perfect article to base a research paper on.

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The author and publisher of this article is Kris Lane. He is a professor of colonial Latin American history at Tulane University. The credentials are given above. As an author and professor the qualifications should be of how knowledgable he is on Columbus. Considering how he is a professor of Latin American history his knowledge was qualified enough to write the paper. He also has many other works on slavery, human trafficking and more.The contact information given are as follows:
Email: klane1@tulane.edu
Phone Number: 504-862-8622
The article can be found to have an ending of .com meaning commercial. The website has only some ads on colleges, covid-19 etc. Which mostly has nothing to do with the article itself proving it to not be biased.

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The information that the author, Kris Lane used and provided links to. Had actually mostly came from other blogs and even Washington Post itself. Most of the websites end with .com as well. Most of the websites he has used have been definitions, blogs and the original resources he has used for his own article. As .com isn't the best its still quite reliable. For the original works the websites end with .gov and even .org. By providing the links to organizations and government websites it proves that he was very thorough as he mostly has reliable website to support his article. After researching the sources that correlate with the article the information is mostly similar to the parts that he credited. Unlike some of the interactive blogs he credited, the article itself does not seem biased or have any emotion either, as he didn't use any interactive grammar like !,?. The article has been proofread by the staff at Washington Post and has no grammar mistakes that are noticeable. The points/myths that he's debunking have been organized in paragraphs and therefore it's easy to find the information that you are looking for. As for the language i found it a little hard to understand, coming from a middles schooler. But the fundamental information and points have been proven with ease and are mostly understandable.

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According to the Lexile Range, the article is around 1200L. This is around a 8 grade level. I would be comfortable using this article as my research paper.

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The author is Kris Lane, who studied in B.A., University of Colorado-Boulder, History & Latin American Studies, 1991

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, History, 1996

His contact information:

Kris E. Lane

Professor

klane1@tulane.edu

504-862-8622

Hebert 209

Accomplishments:
Holds France V. Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History.

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The author uses some of Christopher Columbus's actual things to provide evidence for the article. I can verify that the source provides reliable information by cross checking with other sources. The article is organized well as it provides different sections.

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It is to inform and educate people mainly and . It can also be used to entertain those who like history and Christopher Columbus. The information provided in the article are not mainly facts as they are "myths". The author is trying to let the myths spread so that others can know about it. The author does make the intentions clear as the title has the word "myth" in it.

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The intended audience is probably we students or scholars learning about Christopher Columbus. This information is at an appropriate level. I would be comfortable using this source as the author is a professor in American history

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The author is Kris Lane, a professor at Tulane University and teaches colonial Latin American history. The author's credentials are given. The author is a professor that teaches American history, so he probably knows a lot about it. The author's email address is given. The commercials seem very random, with only some commercials on the website itself.

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It was published in October 8, 2015 and the information is not updated. The link is able to open and it's been a long time since Christopher Columbus is still alive.

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After reading the article it seems like its more for high schoolers or just students in general like us. I feel comfortable using this source since it requires many information such as videos too. But the vocabulary was a little bit hard for me to understand at first but after reading deeper and more, it seems neutral for me and i take that as a good way. It makes you learn new vocabulary and at the same time the interesting event that had happened to Christopher Columbus.

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The author of this article is kris lane and he also was studied at in B.A. university Colorado boulder. He is more than an author and at the same time is a historian too. His contact information is given by: klane1@tulane.edu. The website is not that reliable since there were some ads and commercial which has nothing to do with the article it self.

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Because its an article so it does not have information cited at the bottom like most websites provide but the article comes from Washington but by reading the article itself it does look interesting and it makes the audience to wanting to keep reading but they does not mean we can be accurate that the information given is reliable. It was written well and organized by section which is easy to understand and read, at the same time providing other different information for a link to click in. This is a good way for students to learn and for a better understanding.

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The purpose of this article that kris lane had published was for informing, teaching, or just maybe people in general that are interested in, the article itself mainly focused on the 5 mythical things that Christopher Columbus had done in the past. I think the author made the information clear and easy to understand but that does not mean the article is reliable. After reading the article there was no personal opinions mentioned in the content.

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The author does show some sources used to write the articles in the form of hyperlinks. The information is sometimes supported by evidence. I can verify that the information is accurate by cross checking with other sources. The language does not seem biased. There are no spelling, grammar, or other errors. It is well written with clear indications of what the paragraphs are about.

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The purpose of the article is to inform and entertain the readers about Christopher Columbus and the common myths about him, and also because five myths is an ongoing weekly feature. The author makes his intentions clear. The information is partly facts and partly false as the author states myths in the article, which are false. The author then explains the truth with facts. The point of view appear objective, with no opinions in the paragraph.

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The purpose of the information of this text is to inform people about Christopher Columbus's myths that people used to believe. The author made the purpose of the article clear enough to me, as a reader, to know what the article will be talking about. The information is fact with using reliable sources. It is not in opinion or biased or propaganda. The point of view is appears in objective it was mainly talking about facts. In the text, they talk about political and institutional.

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This source is a secondary source, since the author used other sources to gather the information. He also have cited the source of information he used. Yes, the source is supported by evidence in some parts. For example, in the fifth part they gave an evidence of the first humans to reach the Americas, showed evidence using this link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/07/21/these-two-studies-use-genomes-to-identify-the-first-americans-but-come-up-with-different-answers/. I can't find the proof of the information being reviewed by experts, but I think the author has enough power to not being proved by an expert. (Since he is a professor) The information is accurate, and have similar information as the other sources does.
Such as these links:
-https://www.kofc.org/en/news-room/columbia/2020/september/five-myths-about-columbus.html
-https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-christopher-columbus
The tone that the author have used is full of emotion, but not too emotional or dramatic. It is full of emotion in a formal way. I don't think the article is biased, since there is nothing to biased of. The website does not has spelling, grammar, or other academic errors. The information is well written and organized for me to learn from reading the text. However, the only problem was that the usage of words was advanced for my needs.

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The author for the article is Kris Lane. The publisher for this website is Fred Ryan. The author's credentials are given at the end of the website. Kris Lane is a scholar, researcher, professor, and author. He is also teaches Latin American history at Tulane University, so he has the qualifications to write the article. There is a email address written down after the information are given. The URL is .com (commercial) the source is reliable since The Washington Post is a very famous website and a morning daily newspaper that is  published in Washington, D.C. The source contains advertisements that are random, nothing to relate about Christopher Columbus or about history. (E.g. of AD: PayPal...)

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He uses facts and sources to back up his thoughts of the “myths” being fake. This article is not bias and it does not use propaganda

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The purpose of the article, as given in the title. The author had debunked 5 myths about Christopher Columbus, with this it shows us that the sole purpose of the article is to mainly to persuade and generate controversy. Seeing how Kris Lane used solid evidence to back up why or why not these myths are actually real could be debated as no one really knows. As these are myths this could spark controversy in my opinion. Another purpose the article served is to obviously inform and it does a great job of doing that. For example many sources claim that Columbus was Italian but the article stated that was never the case, as it didn't exist back then, in truth it's only called Italy now. As this registered in my mind as new information it proved that it was inform-able. This example also proves how and why it was clear to understand the intention of the article. Moving on as said before myths are usually debatable and many people have different opinions as to why or how Columbus did this or that, since it was never confirmed. i would say that the article is neither subjective or objective. But the fact remains that myths could not be facts and the article itself seems to not have personal feelings towards these myths since the author is just "debunking" using a fair share of evidence. Saying this and how the article has no personal feelings i would say with confidence that Kris Lane does not show any personal biases towards the contents of the myths and states why or how these myths are wrong.

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This article was published on October 8th, 2015. Although it doesn’t seem like it was updated recently, the information, after checking with another source, is relatively up-to-date. Even though I do not quite believe that currency doesn’t matter for certain subjects, this article may balance on the edge of being an exception (although debatable). Since Christopher Columbus died quite some time ago (515 years ago, to be exact), discovering undiscovered facts about him within a few years wouldn’t be awfully likely. Hence, even though this article was written 6 years ago, it is improbable that new facts about him would be discovered, which would prove the ones stated in this article wrong. However, as I have mentioned before, it is certainly debatable, since one never knows when one may find something never found before. Despite the fact that most of the links provided work, one doesn’t (although it may have been deleted by the organisation):

https://www.niaf.org/culture/march-with-niaf-in-the-columbus-day-parade-in-nyc/

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It appears to me that the intended audience would be, well, anyone who is interested in learning about Christopher Columbus and his deceitful reputation. However, if I were to pin-point an exact age group, it would probably be students from 8-12th grades (and maybe even university!). The information provided is quite wordy (in a good sense) and might difficult for students at lower grades to understand. Personally, I felt quite alright reading the article and was able to get through it without having to refer to a dictionary. If I were to write a research paper on Columbus, I would have felt comfortable to use this source; however, since the vocabulary used in this particular article isn’t the easiest, I would like it if it were written in a more to the point manner.

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The author of this article, Kris Lane, is a Canadian–American Fulbright scholar, researcher, professor, and author. His academic teaching and research mainly focus on colonial Latin American history. Lane is the Frances V. Scholes Chair of Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University. He previously taught Latin American History at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, and is the general editor of the Colonial Latin American Review. He has written and edited several books and articles about slavery, witchcraft, headhunting, mining, human trafficking, and piracy in the Andes. He has received awards such as Fulbright Lecture Research Fellowship, and the Edwin Lieuwen Memorial Prize for Teaching.

His contact information that was cited below the article:

klane1@tulane.edu

The publisher of this article is the Washington Post, an American daily Newspaper published at its capital, and is the most popular within the Washington metropolitan area with quite a bit of an audience. It has won (among others) 69 Pulitzer Prizes, and its journalists have won 18 Neiman Fellowships and 368 White House News Photographers Association awards. Although this particular website’s url suggests that is is a commercial (.com) and not a educational (.edu) or a US government (.gov) website, we cannot cross out all commercial websites as unreliable. As mentioned previously, the Washington post is a very popular (hence quite reliable) newspaper, and this article happens to be published at its website, giving us a boost into believing that the information provided is true. This article doesn’t have too many advertisements, let alone any that might suggest a biased attitude. The only ones it does have are ads for home appliances, the US elections, updates on Covid-19, and links to a few other articles.

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The article comes from the Washington post, and the information presented in it comes from what I suppose to be reliable sources. Since there wasn’t exactly a ‘sources cited’ section at the bottom of the article (i shouldn’t expect one since it’s a newspaper article), one can not be too sure if all of the information in it is accurate. However, the author, Kris Lane, did refer to quite a few manuscripts and texts which were legitimate and provided information (I’ve confirmed a few by checking with a few other sources) which were definitely real and reliable. Other than that, the fact that a certified professional has written and reviewed this could also be a big push for readers to believe that the information provided was accurate. The language used to write this article didn’t quite seem awfully biased- but it definitely wasn’t how one should expect a completely informative article’s language to be like- it had interactions with the reader, it contained questions, and an undeniably persuasive tone. However, even within that, the sign of a biased author wouldn’t too apparent. The article, overall, was very well composed with the main point being the conclusion to every paragraph so that readers wouldn’t lose the purpose. There weren’t any grammatical, academic, or spelling errors (that I could find) within the article, further causing me to believe that the points stated in it were in fact, true.

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The predominant purpose of this article appears to be to inform, however, the possibility of it also being written for the purpose of persuading, generating controversy and provoking cannot be ruled out. Since it discusses misinterpreted facts about quite a popular historical figure, it definitely fits into the category of informing a reader. Nevertheless, it also discusses facts that are highly controversial to what the general public has been informed of. For an instance, if one was to look at the comments section, it can be clearly seen that a few of the readers of this article weren’t quite pleased with what was said in it and caused quite a heated debate on whether or not the information provided was true. Hence, it also fits into the category of generating controversy and provoking. The author, in my opinion, made it quite clear that this article was meant to inform others, while also knowing that it may cause controversy. In it, the author divided each point into two parts: what the misinterpreted belief was, and what the actual fact is. Another point could be the title of the article itself, ‘5 myths about Christopher Columbus’. By looking at these, we can conclude that the author was well aware that another impression of Columbus was imprinted on people and that the information he provided was contrary to that impression. Thus, concluding that the article was also written in order to generate controversy and provoke some readers. The information, after re-reading the article, appears to mostly be facts. However, upon reading one of the comments, it appears that one of them may be an opinion too. The second point, that Columbus was not Italian, may be an opinion since where he was from is now a part of Italy. However, the author was sure to back up his argument by stating that Columbus spent most of his life travelling, thatwhere he was from was an independent nation, and that most historians hesitate to refer to him as Italian- thus mostly ruling out the possibility of it being an opinion. In conclusion, the article seems objective much more than it does subjective. In other words, the article doesn’t show any signs of the author being biased towards a certain opinion- it merely states facts.