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= Article Evaluation: Film Censorship = -small grammar mistakes

-Brazil had a nice list of example films banned, would be interesting to have lists for other countries

-information was neutral since no sides can be taken for this topic

- the links worked, but i cannot confirm most of the information for correctness/biases because 10/14 articles are in a foreign language

-one of the articles was archived so it needs to be updated

-i liked how the article I evaluated linked each sub-article to a different wikipedia page so that I could gain a deeper knowledge or fact-check the page.

-It has been rated as a start project with mid-importance. It is apart of wikiprojects freedom of speech and wikiprojects film

-there is not much conversing for this article, feels like it needs help

-to relate it to class it could talk about how censorship affects people

= Choose a Topic = Cyborg

-topic is relevant to course

-it is neutral and informative

-has citations but still needs more

-citations are reliable

List of U.S. jurisdictions banning conversion therapy for minors

-topic discusses expression for LGBT (which is relevant to course)

-It is neutral and informative

-has citations

-citations are reliable

Internet activism

-topic is relevant because we talked about how people are using the internet to share their problems and gaining support to fight back.

-neutral

-has citations

-the citations are reliable

= Add a Citation = Cyborg

"Cyborgs are also often portrayed with physical or mental abilities far exceeding a human counterpart (military forms may have inbuilt weapons, among other things), such as Robocop." https://newrepublic.com/article/131221/cyborgs-real

= Final Topic & sources =

California Insurance Equality Act
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Prior to enactment of AB 2208, California law required insurance providers to provide benefits to domestic partners as dependents. The California Insurance Equality Act now requires domestic partners to be covered as spouses. The act also prohibits employers from asking for more proof of partnership of domestic partners than they ask of spouses. This Act should render insurance benefits payable to domestic partners more easily, without reference to inconsistent and confusing statutory and case law definitions of what constitutes a “dependent” under California law. The act also prohibits employers from asking for more proof of partnership of domestic partners than they ask of spouses. However, some types of employee benefit plans are exempt from the law.

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Prior to enactment of AB 2208, California law required insurance providers to provide benefits to domestic partners as dependents. The California Insurance Equality Act now requires domestic partners to be insured as spouses. The act also prohibits employers from asking for proof of partnership that is more invasive than the questions posed for normative spouses. This Act should render insurance benefits payable to domestic partners more easily, without reference to inconsistent and confusing statutory and case law definitions of what constitutes a “dependent” under California law. Before the passage of this act, gay men were half as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to get coverage for themselves and their dependents; only a quarter of homosexual women garnered dependent coverage when compared to the heterosexual women (1). While the economic and domestic rights of LGBT+ people have been expanded under this act, some benefits, such as self-funded plans or out of state programs, were left out of the equation initially (2).


 * 1) https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2009.0583
 * 2) https://www.shrm.org/ResourcesAndTools/hr-topics/benefits/Pages/CaliforniaRuling.aspx