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The Enfield Poltergeist Review

The Conjurng 2 was based on the happenings of the Hodgsons in Enflield London, a haunting of a poltergeist that traumatized this family.

The Enfield Poltergeist Available Exclusively on Apple+ Podcast Review

In 1977, there was a haunting in Enfield, London, England. The Hodgson family’s home in Green Street was plagued by a haunting from a polter

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Research and Investigation Skills Development--Mastery--A Reflection

Although, I can’t quite recall exactly what I was expecting from this class: Research and Investigation Skills Development, verbatim, I know I was expecting to 1) understand what sorts of information that would needed to be researched, 2)what types of investigation would be needed and in correlation to journalism, 3)what sorts of skills does research and investigation really entail. I imagined I would be doing a lot of googling for this class, and I was right about that. 

I learned that there is some public information from Clfoley1 on Youtube, that you could request to receive. I also learned that public records and public information is more trustable for audiences when it’s government owned, and not just an .org (which is short for organization, and I understand now that organizations could potentially be less verifiable than a government owned site), and not just an .edu. When the article is published by a government site, the information is more factual, even the truth that people had made claims of aliens, but never saying that aliens are real at all. 

I always knew that there was information about the claims, but I never knew that there were so many of these claims recorded on a government site. 

Another thing that I learned was about infographics from Clfoley1 on Youtube, and the different forms of it. I never really looked at graphs or infographs before, or as often as I had that second week in that class, but now I understand the difference between a useful graph and a not-so useful graph. The labeling and readability (text and understanding of) the graph matters, and it shouldn’t have to explained by the article it may or may not correlate with. The graph should be able to be understood by reading it on its own, and what each piece of information means. 

I learned that getting an interview on Matador Network from a source that matters to the subject at hand, can be helpful when writing an article, so the audience reading the article would trust the one writing the article.  Also, that it matters that the interviewer is asking questions that are thoughtful, either about the interviewee or about the subject. Also, that the interviewer should have done research on their interviewee, so that they understand them and it would help better for the interview.