Here is your goal for this assignment: Assess the reliability of information and its effects in a variety of situations

Read the account of the Flood in Genesis (Chapters 6 through 8); then read the account of it in The World Book or another encyclopedia.

1. Are these accounts different?
2. In what ways?

Type a paragraph explaining why. Use your Christian point of view.

Remember to document your sources properly, using MLA format. Click here to review the MLA Style Guide.

Sensational Subjects. Ask ten people the following questions:

1. Do you believe in large ape-like animals such as Bigfoot?
2. Why or why not?

Record their answers. Organize your data, and write a short paper about people's willingness to believe in sensational subjects.

Remember to document your interviews properly, using MLA format.

Slanted Reports. Using the following details, type two separate paragraphs.

Slant the first paragraph toward belief in Bigfoot.
Slant the second paragraph against belief in Bigfoot.
Use any promotional, propaganda, or slanting technique that you think will work. Here are some details to use in your paper:

1. A pair of hunters report seeing a giant animal in the mountains of northern California.
2. They describe it as being ten feet tall, shaggy, and dark in color.
3. They say it walks upright.
4. Both hunters trailed it into the woods where it disappeared.
5. They have tracked it by following the huge footprints that other people have reported.
6. No other animal known to science makes these tracks.