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Nelson Mandela
Hist 410
Marisea Stanley
Marco Carrillo
April 2, 2013
Nelson Mandela research I will be introducing my findings, which I have collected and used to compile a good imagery of how I wish to structure my research paper about Nelson Mandela. Since my paper is based on the specific person it was somewhat easy and hard at the same time to find valuable information that I could use in this assignment. it was difficult to compare the information about Nelson Mandela because all webpages were nearly equal or similar. Nelson Mandela is very famous throughout the world and history timeline has been well documented and approved from several different sources. The first source I would like to introduce is from Britannica.com 1) http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/361645/Nelson-Mandela
: this webpage has been very valuable to me. Not only through the information gathered and shown but also through its valuable imagery and videos which gave me a good insight in what I need to follow-up on and provide me several other questions personal questions that I could have asked myself of how to improve my presentation and my paper.

2) http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/people-timelines/11-nelson-mandela-timeline.htm
(Timeline)
: I was looking for specific webpage that provide me a structured timeline with the year end dates of specific events from Mr. Nelson Mandela life. However I was not positively surprised with the minimal information this webpage provided me, but it is gave me a good idea what I was looking for and what certain direction I would find it.

3) http://www.nelsonmandelas.com/nelson-mandela-timeline.php
(Timeline )
: I was really pleased with this specific webpage because it was structured and gave me exactly what I was looking for. A clean timeline with important information that I can base more research from.

4) http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/nelson-mandela-59.php
: now that I've made research on a personal level I

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