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This week we'll be posting a special 5 part Research Tip Week to help you get prepared to vote! Check back each day for a new tip. In Part 2 we'll take a closer look at tracing quotes, facts and images to their original source.

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Find out more about ways in which media outlets have been known to manipulate consumers and practical tips on training your brain to recognize when it happens. 

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In part three of our Election Edition Tips, Student Ambassador Emily provides practical tips on brain breaks you can use to help slow the surge of information and filter out the noise.

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In the final tip of our Election Edition series, Emily offers insights on how to get more out of your research and fact finding by focusing on the topics and issues that mean the most to you. 

For more resources to help you make informed decisions visit https://ucf.guides.edu/rtt

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This week we'll be posting a special 5 part Research Tip Week to help you get prepared to vote! Check back each day for a new tip. We'll kick of the week with Fact Checking!  This video will share questions to ask yourself when evaluating information, and resources you can use to dig deeper.

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VOTED!

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this is such a nail biter

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Movie Trailer Tuesday: Election Edition

For this Election Day, Fully Operational is bringing you a Special 'Election' Edition Movie Trailer Tuesday. How is it special? Well, we are going to knock out some presidential previews. One is Lincoln. Featuring the brand-spanking new, International trailer. What's an International trailer? Well, typically it's more nuanced for an International audience that doesn't need to be placated with big explosions. In other words, Americans are simple-minded violence-mongers.

Then we have a couple of old school trailers that we pulled from the Internet's basement and reviewed as if they were new movies coming out now because imagination is a wonderful and powerful weapon.

Lincoln:

Dre: If Day-Lewis's voice ruins the movie for anyone, it's ruining it for stupid people. Historical documents support Day-Lewis's take on his voice more than they do, say, the guy who said, "Be excellent to one another and... PARTY ON DUDES!!!!" in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure [Ed. note: great quote]. The word on this movie is very strong. Day-Lewis is a lock for a nomination and I'm hearing Tommy Lee Jones will nab a supporting nom as well. 

The American President:

J. Goodman: I guess Annette Bening is attractive, but I feel like most audiences would've preferred Sandra Bullock in this role. But the concept is cute. The President is single and needs love (don't we all). Apparently, Richard Dreyfus is still acting. Good to see Michael J. Fox getting roles. It's like a fairy tale, I get it. And you can't beat Aaron Sorkin. Am I right?

Dre: OK, remind me to never let you cast a movie. Bening is one of the best things about this movie. Sidney Ellen Wade. I remember her name, that's how good she is. By the way, Bullock was about 25 years younger than Michael Douglas at the time So that would have been weird. Really good flick. One of those constants on TNT that never gets old. 

J. Goodman: Dre, we're pretending it hasn't been released yet. Ixnay on the TNT-ay.

Dre: I refuse to participate in this farce.

Nixon:

J. Goodman: A few things. Wow, that's a big cast: Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Joan Allen, James Woods, Ed Harris, Powers Boothe. Joan Allen apparently learned acting at the Amy Adams in The Master School of Acting. Hopkins has a little Jack Nicholson in The Shining thing going on. And the music makes it seem like this is Star Wars: Episode 7. Is the story not compelling enough on its own? What is the story? Here's hoping Oliver Stone still has something in the tank.

Dre: You left out J.T. Walsh, Paul Sorvino (amazing as Kissinger), E.G. Marshall, Dan Hedaya, Larry Hagman and Madeline Kahn. This is Oliver Stone's unsung great film and it features one of John Williams's best non-Spielberg scores. Everything is big because this is essentially a Shakespearean tragedy and Stone infuses those proportions with echoes and homages to Citizen Kane. It works beautifully.  It's the first movie I really took notice of Joan Allen and she's one of the best things in the movie. And no, her character is nothing like Amy Adams in The Master. There are no shades of Lady Macbeth. 

J. Goodman: Um, Dre...remember...we haven't seen this yet.

Dre: Your weekly FullyOperational Movie Trailer Tuesday everyone!