Primary/Secondary Sources Summarization Project Jeremiah Shivers The book “Night” is the first book of a trilogy (three-part series) written by Elie Wiesel. This book is about his first hand experience in Nazi German concentration camps with his father. It takes place between the beginning of the Holocaust and the end of World War II. Primary and Secondary Sources‚ like books or documents. They help us find out what happened in the past. Depending on how it is being used makes an object
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Sharecropper’s Story of Forced Labor Primary and Secondary Sources A primary source is a resource generated by a participant in or an observer of an historical event. Primary sources include speeches‚ letters‚ diaries‚ and newspaper stories. Memoirs and autobiographies written well after the event also are considered to be primary sources. Primary sources are not limited to written records; images and material objects also serve as primary sources. For example‚ American Indian rock art‚
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Becoming Charlemagne‚ written by Jeff Speck. This book written by Jeff Speck‚ chronicles events around the life of a Germanic king name Karl. Becoming Charlemagne is a factual account of the events that took place in the empires of A.D 800. Jeff Sypeck explains key events in this time period and illustrates how the king Karl became the legend Charlemagne. Question 1 a-c The writer of Becoming Charlemagne‚ Jeff Sypeck‚ did a wonderful job in writing a book that was interesting to read‚ well explained
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Original materials are indispensable for my dissertation. I am going to use a large amount of primary sources in not only the National Archives‚ but also various presidential‚ military‚ and institutional libraries. In these archives‚ the majority of the documents created prior to the 1990s are not digitalized. Furthermore‚ my research field has not been frequently studied by other researchers. Thus‚ the related documents are usually not among the few documents digitalized by these archives. Although
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The Significance of the Coronation of Charlemagne By Monica Fleener Western Oregon University HST 499: Senior Seminar Professor Kimberly Jensen Spring 2005 Primary Thesis Advisor: Dr. Benedict Lowe Secondary Thesis Advisor: Dr. Narasingha Sil I. On Christmas Day in the year 800 A.D. Charlemagne‚ king of the Franks and part of the Carolingian line‚ 1 was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III (795 - 816).
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Mississippi) and any source a historian should look at factors such as: The painter and their motives for painting‚ is the source fact‚ opinion‚ or propaganda‚ and the general purpose of this source. The painter’s name is William Henry Powell and his motives may have been to let others know how Powell saw this event and what happened in Powell’s perspective. The source itself is a secondary source but it is a based on many primary sources‚ that is why it is fact. The general purpose of this source would have
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Yang Yue 301230807 November 6‚ 2015 Primary Source Analysis Contact and Conflict European explorers have great impact on Canadian history. Their Journals are important historical documents for historians to study the Canadian history. Because these journals appeared in many kinds of forms and provided very detailed information about early Canada before confederation. These documents portray very vividly the life in Canada and shows that the process to confederation is full of contacts and conflicts
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Primary Sources: Kant‚ Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Edited by Vasilis Politis. London: Dent‚ 1993. Nagarjuna. Madhyamakakarika. Edited by Kenneth K. Inada. Tokyo: Hokuseido Press‚ 1970. Secondary Sources: Allison‚ Henry. "Kant Transcendental Idealism." In A Companion to Kant‚ edited by Graham Bird‚ 111-124. Oxford: Blackwell‚ 2006. Ameriks‚ Karl. "Critique of Metaphysics‚ Structure and Fate of Kant’s Dialectic". In The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy
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After the death of Charlemagne the Normans invented the long boat. These new boats could sail out into the ocean; as was important for the Normans because they were a society based on trade and warriors. The long boat journeys also brought capitalism back to Europe. At this time the Muslims controlled the Italian peninsula‚ and in 1029 the Normans defeated the Muslim Navy to gain control of the Italy. They also brought capitalism to the Italy and did away with agricultural manors. The manors were
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Thesis: As the Internet becomes our primary source of information‚ it is affecting our ability to read books and other long narratives. This process of rewiring our brains carries the danger of flattening human experience even as it offers the benefits of knowledge efficiency and immediacy. 1) The author begins the article with a description of the closing scene in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey when Dave dismantles the memory circuits of Hal‚ the artificial brain that controls the
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