Princeton University Computer Science Dept.

Computer Science 291 Put Your Title/Topic Here

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Introduction

This is where you should lay out what sort of issues/web sites you'll be discussing in this web page. You should give a very brief overview of the issue such as "The Child Online Protection Act was first discussed in 19XX. It was intended to blah blah blah. Because of reasons x, y, and z, it was declared unconstitutonal by the ?? appellate court in 19YY. This led to the creation of the second Child Online Protection Act...etc." This introduction should probably be a paragraph or two long and should help the reader become acquainted with the basic facts of the issue.

Relevant Links

Here you should have a short statement or two describing the links you have found; something like "Below are some links relating to the Child Online Protection Act. These links have been grouped by their stance on the issue." These links should then be subgrouped in some way that is useful to the reader. Each link should have a nice description of the site. This is where the objective descriptions should come in. I've stolen the following links from the April 12th edition of Yahoo!'s "Picks of the Week," but obviously your sites should be relevant to the topic at hand.

Example Grouping 1: Groups in Favor of the Child Online Protection Act

• Life After Tyranny -- Travelogues with a twist. The site's author, Simon Bone, has been documenting places in transition from authoritarian rule to ... well, some kind of other rule. Read travels essays set in Belarus, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Bosnia, and beyond. The project is a work in progress, so be sure to check in regularly for updates. Interesting reading. You'll be glad you did.
• Red Scare -- This collection of photographs, magazine illustrations, and newspaper cartoons chronicles a turbulent period in U.S. history, from the end of World War I to the mid-1920s. Fear provoked by hyper-inflation, a deadly flu epidemic, race riots, and major labor strikes led to reactions like Prohibition, women's suffrage, and anti-immigrant and anti-labor legislation. Images from the popular media of the day depict the mood of modern uncertainty.
• Pop History Now -- Just in case you missed the action the first time around (or, more likely, you weren't even born yet), here's a site that each weekday features a random year in pop history. When we visited recently we learned that during the week of April 9, 1973, Pablo Picasso died, scientists developed a way to produce human blood in mice, "Scarecrow" starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino was released, and Donny Osmond's song "The Twelfth of Never" was a Top 40 hit. Pop history now, indeed.

Example Grouping 2: Groups Against the Child Online Protection Act

• Universal History Translation Project -- Since the Annals of Improbable Research first published the "History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less" in 1997, it's been translated into more than 30 languages including Klingon and Pig Latin. We were most comfortable with the original English, although the Elmer Fudd and the "English to French to English to German to English to Italian to English to Portuguese to English " versions have a poetry all their own. If you enjoy reading keywords, this is the history for you.
• Death by Curry -- In words of the site's author: "[M]ost people have some idea how they would like to end their mortal existence on this planet. Some would like to go quietly in their sleep while others would prefer to 'kick the bucket' while making passionate love. My own personal preference though would have to be 'Death By Curry.' To find a curry so hot and so mean that it would render me lifeless on the spot." There just might be a recipe right here with your name on it.
• eMeringue -- The frothy wave of Net fluff crests with this latest egg-citing offering--the Internet's #1 meringue shipping service. eMeringue delivers lighter than air toppings in a choice of shapes and flavors, with consistencies that run the gamut from jiggly to firm. Specialty meringues include "Baby's First" and "Devil's Tower." Egg-trepreneur and wiseguy Larry McCloskey seems to have found his e-commerce pie-in-the-sky.

Personal Opinion (You should put a better heading here)

Here is where you should, in one to two paragraphs, state your own personal opinion about the issue and why. For example, "I feel the Child Online Protection Act is a bad idea because blah blah blah." As part of the defense of your idea, it would be a very good idea to cite arguments made in the websites you've just listed above. If you are still fundamentally undecided about an issue, it's okay to say that, too. Just say something like "The correct position on this issue is still unclear to me. Pro COPA advocates make compelling arguments x, y, and z. However, Anti COPA advocates raise the equally powerful arguments a, b, and c."