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Article Evaluation
Article being Evaluated: Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court Nomination (This is a current event so the page will change throughout the course of the hearings)

Evaluating Content
Upon evaluating this article I found that the editor inserted a good amount of detail pertaining to who Kavanaugh was before his nomination allowing one to have a good amount of background information on him if they were not familiar with who Kavanaugh was. The article contained many details regarding Kavanaugh such as how he may be likely to vote, who supported him, who opposed him, how he had already been involved with the supreme court and so on. Many topics aligned with information one may need to know while educating them self on Kavanugh's nomination and how he may effect future rulings of the United States Supreme court. The process of selecting a new judge for the supreme court was explained as well as depicted what would go on during Kavanugh's nomination. Almost all of the information was relevant to Brett Kavanugh's supreme court nomination other then the topic of "senate confirmation process" as it only held opinions of one judge. There is no information out of date as it is a current event and the schedule for the hearings are posted within the article. More information could have been added such as what former classmates, colleagues, friends, and aquatints had to say about Kavanaugh's sexual assault allegations as this could have been helpful in displaying reasons to believe and not believe them. No where in the article does it state that Kavanaugh denied the allegations and this should be something that is a prime piece of the sexual assault allegation section. There is a content gap at the beginning of the article that doe not explain much of what Kavanaugh did before being appointed a siting judge in Washington D.C. by George W. Bush.

Evaluating Tone
For the most part, the article stays unbiased although it does show a slight right wing biased when talking about Democratic positions and responses to Kavanaugh's supreme court nomination. There are no claims that are heavily biased or outrageous but a slight preference is noticed. Viewpoints of far left oppositions are far over represented and supportive democratic positions are underrepresented. While the editor does point out two examples of supporting democrats or typically left wing representing organizations, the support from the republican side is overrespresented if the article were to remain unbiased. While a lot of the article is not biased, it does seem rushed and you can pick up on that through the editors tone.

Evaluating Sources
The links to the citations work and multiple sources that helped to build the article are provided. The sources I looked at supported the content and claims in the article but went much deeper into detail. Much of the article only touched the surface of Kavanaugh's nomination while many of the sources the information was pulled from could have been used to go into greater detail. Most of the sources were news platforms and could have made the information biased, however, new platforms supporting both political sides were used. The bias of the articles is not noted but the editor is careful to use sources from both right and left wing news platforms, articles and journals.

Title
I wan to start by changing the title of the article from "LGBT adoption rights in the United States" to "Same-Sex couple adoption in the United States". This is because there is no where in the article that specifically talks about transgender adoption and adoption rights thus making the title misleading to some viewers.

Public Opinion
I would like to extrapolate more on the public opinion of Same-sex adoption rights. There is more information to go along with it than what the original author has discussed. There is data that ranges from 1994 to 2012 in a very well written academic journal and that is where I am going to get most of my information from. There is also more information out now on public support of same-sex couple adoption rights that I will add into this section. Permalink to source: http://ezproxy.bgsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=c9h&AN=98636533&site=ehost-live&scope=site Permalink to source: http://ezproxy.bgsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=sih&AN=51743707&site=ehost-live&scope=site

About the Children
I also want to incorporate a section on the children's thoughts of family and if it matters whether or not they come from a same-sex couple or a heterosexual couple. I think it is very important to look at children's views in this case because it is the children who are effected. In this section I also want to address how people believe the children are affected and why people do not support same-sex adoption even though a child is getting a home. A lot of this topic has to do with the children so I believe that an addition of this topic is necessary to show readers what children think and what other people think about children in these scenarios. I want to discuss the rights of a child and whther or not they should be able to choose the parents thy get to be with versus having it chosen for them by governmental law. Permalink to source: http://ezproxy.bgsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rlh&AN=85516032&site=ehost-live&scope=site Permalink to source: http://ezproxy.bgsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lgh&AN=95533176&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Talking the Law Into Their own Hands
In this new section I want to discuss times when states have taken the law into their own hands. I want to talk about Texas and the ongoing battles same-sex couples have to have in this state for basic LGBT rights let alone just adoption. I will discuss a lot about discrimination of same-sex couples and relate it to why people may not want to allow them to adopt. I want to talk about how our society is evolving and even in this day in age people cannot be with who they want and why this is still happening in politics. Permalink to source: http://ezproxy.bgsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=tth&AN=123951998&site=ehost-live&scope=site