Michael Jackson Pros And Cons

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The “king of pop,” Michael Jackson, went solo and became one of the most successful artist in the music industry. This fact is from Encyclopedia Britannica, which is a source that’s trusted by most teachers, unlike Wikipedia, which is one of the least trustable sources among teachers because it contains information that some random person could have just written it without knowing the right information. Even though E.B. is trusted, it still could have mistakes, and so a comparison of one E.B. article, about Michael Jackson, to information in two other sources shows that E.B. is a credible source.
Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958, in Indiana, and he died on June 25, 2009, in Los Angeles, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. In C.M.,

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