My source comes from the Wisconsin Historical Society and was written by A.C. Jones. This article was published April 25^th, 1923. I selected this source because it goes back to the 1860’s when Jones was a child. I think that it may be an important source, because he is hearing about the origin of the term “badger” and he has interviews with the women who told him the stories.

            Jones creates an informal distance, while writing this article because he uses I and we which keeps the article intimate. Jones’ credibility is strengthen when he interviews a very old women who is from the Winnebago tribe and she talks about how she was young when the men were coming to the north to mine lead. She recalls from her youth how these white men would come from nowhere and set up camp and stay for around a week then leave the way they came, then they would never see them again. The men they saw would carry rifles and the Indians would think that they were soldiers and they would talk like English soldiers, but they were not they did not know who they were because they were not trappers, traders, soldiers, or farmers.

            These men were miners and they would come from the southern states, they wouldn’t come in the south because the conditions were too intense for them. They came in the spring and left before winter came to return to their homes. The other miners who came from the east stayed in the winter and had built for themselves cabins to stay warm in and would mine the lead mines all through the winter. The southern men who came to Wisconsin would run into badgers, in which they didn’t very much care for these animals. In the spring when the southerners were returning they were asked where they were heading to and they would reply “up among the Badgers.” The men who stayed in the lead region in Wisconsin later became known as the “Badgers.”

            While reading this source I thought was interesting, because Jones starts by arguing with an article that had been published earlier before this one. If he didn’t have and interview with the women from the Winnebago tribe, I don’t think that this would have been as much as a credible source. This source gave me a stronger understanding about how Wisconsin became the badger state. This source is from an Indian perspective I want to go towards next finding out about out about the history of how Wisconsin became the badger state from the white persons point of view and what more does the badger mean to the people of Wisconsin.

My research question is why is Wisconsin called the Badger state? I am interested in learning more about the history of Wisconsin, not being from Wisconsin I don’t know very much about this state’s history. The question is important because I don’t think that very many people know why Wisconsin is known as the Badger state, especially our generation.

At this time I do not know very much about the history of Wisconsin. I am looking to gain more knowledge about the history of Wisconsin. Hearing badger, I think of UW Madison and their mascot the Bucky the Badger. Going to college, and living for the most part in Wisconsin it is important to learn about the history.

I think that this source is important, because you see how what a city in Wisconsin is doing about cyberbullying. This source also shows what the state of Wisconsin does when it comes to dealing with cyberbullying, which is important because cyberbullying is becoming more and more popular with all the electronics that kids have access to. My source is from the “Wisconsin Law Journal” and is written by Jack Zemlicka.        

In Fort Atkins, Wisconsin the city council is pondering on making it so that the police can fine people who are threatening people via internet. The fine would only be fifty dollars, but then you could also press criminal charges which may never be able to make it to court because the district attorney’s office is too busy working on higher priority cases. The victim could possibly never get closure if they file criminal charges (Paragraph 2).The whole state of Wisconsin doesn’t have laws against cyberbullying, but they do penalize people who send messages via the internet to young adults trying to scare them; which gives the offender a misdemeanor which is a criminal charge. Although they are trying to crack down on cyberbullying with the laws they have, it is still hard because the fines the people would get are not nearly enough for how much time it would take to catch the offender.

I believe it is important for these people to get the fines even though it takes so much time; it is worth it for the victim. It would make them feel better; I think that if they make the fines bigger it would help a lot. Since many children have taken their own lives because of cyberbullying I think that it’s important for the police to make it a bigger offense so that if they catch someone doing it, it would set the curve so many others wouldn’t want to deal with it.

This source shaped my questioning next I want to look at some actual cases that have happened in Wisconsin and hopefully find more on how the offender was charged, to see how the victim and offenders life was change, but I want to try and find information on a specific case  that happened in Wisconsin.

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           I am researching cyberbullying and how it has had serious effects on the schools. I think that it is important to research it because it is a fairly new concept because of all the new technology. Schools are having a hard time trying to stop it because it is not necessarily happening on school grounds and they won’t know about it until it is too late. Recently many kids have committed suicide because they are being bullying relentlessly online and they can’t deal with it anymore.

            I am interested in learning more about this topic because of how popular it has become, because people can do it anonymously without ever facing the person whom they are bullying. They will keep going because they don’t even realize how much they are hurting the person, it is turning more popular in the schools because they can do it and usually get away with it because of it being anonymous.

            This question is very important because many young adults have been killing themselves over being bullied relentlessly, and they feel like it will never end.  Being that cyberbullying is newer many schools don’t know how to deal with it or punish it because of it happening off of school ground they can’t do anything until the student comes to them about it. The school officials can go to the police after they find out about it and track it down to find out who is doing it, but they often find out after it is too late.