Describe one of the urban legends mentioned in the article. What lesson or warning is conveyed in this legend? Analyzing What characteristics do urban legends have in common? Why are these stories difficult to disprove?

Summarizing What effect has the Internet had on the spread of urban legends?

Evaluating Several people in the article criticize the news media. Why are they critical of the news media and what would they like to see done instead?

imagine that you are the director of the anne frank house. write a -you letter to bernard elias for his gift to the museum. in the letter, explain why the gift is an important addition to the museum's collection. use ideas from the article, as well as your own ideas, to write your letter. type your answer in the text box below.(burn njigger) : )

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.