Introduction History is about learning about the past‚ acquiring knowledge and information to validate facts. Historians will analyse and examine a sequence of historical sources ranging from artefacts‚ films‚ and oral interviews. Such sources may serve as some sort of historical evidence to historians‚ but it’s thus important for them to consider the validity and authenticity of their sources. Evaluating sources and documents is the main priority this paper will be clarifying‚ and thus discuss
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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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1. Describe the attitude you have toward technology. Describe at least two ways in which technology has affected your life. (2-4 sentences. 1.0 points) - 2. Describe a real or made up but realistic example of a situation in which a person’s awareness of their social class might have an impact on their behavior. (2-4 sentences. 1.0 points) - 3. Describe a time when you or someone you know experienced stress. What was the stressor? What were the symptoms? (3-6 sentences. 1.0 points) - 4. Describe
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Humans cannot always rely on intuition to answer all of their questions they tend to ask about the world around them. Such as‚ why was the universe created or why are they here. To find answers to these questions‚ people have to look at some things from far away and others close up using scales. The way someone interprets these scales‚ is the way that person will view the world‚ and how they will develop their own opinion. When looking at things from afar or up close‚ using the appropriate scale
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Project Officer: This interview is being conducted for the project ‘Making history: the discipline in perspective’‚ and the Project Officer Danny Millum will be speaking to Professor Eric Hobsbawm about his experience of‚ and views on‚ changes in the discipline and the academic profession of history. Professor Hobsbawm‚ may we start with your giving us some brief biographical information? Eric Hobsbawm: I was born during World War One‚ in Egypt‚ which has no relevance to my subsequent life
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Chapter 2 Key Terms: Primary Sources of Law: those parts of a legal system that have the longest historical development and represent the system’s cumulative values‚ beliefs‚ and principles. Code: a systematic collection of laws‚ written down and organized into topics. Custom: a long-established way of doing something that‚ over time‚ has acquired the force of law. Convention: a way of doing something that has been accepted for so long that it amounts to an unwritten rule. Secondary
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Humans have roamed the world for thousands of years and their clamoring has yielded an endless storyline. The human storyline is like no other and the narrative is full of intriguing plots and unique characters. These extraordinary tales are not fiction‚ instead they are original historic events that represent the human race. History chronicles the past‚ so future generations can study and learn from it‚ and so it contributes to my philosophy which is “History chronicles the past in hopes of impacting
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Primary Succession Primary Succession is an ecological succession process that occurs in an environment with no prior inhabitants. Primary succession is the changes in species composition over time in a previously uninhabited environment. When primary succession begins no soil exist; rock surfaces like volcanic lava and glacier scraped rock surfaces are the platform on which primary succession begins. In figure 4.4 of the text Primary succession is happening on glacier moraine after the glacier
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My primary source is Herodotus’ description of Egypt and the Egyptians. I found this primary source on our supplemental moodle page under the Egypt heading‚ as it was an assigned reading for us when we were discussing Egypt in class. This primary source comes from the ancient Greek philosopher Herodotus. He was born in 484 BCE‚ and lived to 425BCE. He is most known for his writing of the histories‚ which is a series of 6 books. The second‚ of whom we will be focusing on‚ goes into much detail about
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Tigest Carella 1. What is a primary source versus a secondary source? Please describe each and provide an example of each kind of source that we have used in the class so far. A primary source is a first-hand eyewitness account of an event or time period. Most of the time it is written or made during‚ or close to‚ the event or time period. It could be a creative writing‚ a primary source‚ a historical or legal document‚ work of art‚ music records‚ but original‚ not interpretive. A secondary source
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