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You need to print out the perspective analysis templates to complete this assignment.
1. Print out, read, and annotate each of the following:
"Activists Destroy Research Trees"
"Communique from the Earth Liberation Front"
"As a Nation Struggles, Terrorists Brag"
2. Of the pieces on the Earth Liberation Front linked above, which would be valuable to you as a researcher investigating the incidents at the federal forestry research center near Rhinelander Wisconsin?
3. Of the pieces, which is the least biased? Are there any that are unbiased? Are there any that are too biased to be useful in any way?
4. List five specific examples from the pieces above that illustrate the concepts discussed in the handout "Selection, Slanting, and Charged Learning." In other words, list five examples of selection, slanting, and/or charged learning that occur in the pieces above.
5. Apply any two of the perspective analysis templates to one or more of the groups involved in the controversy discussed in the above articles.