PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES What is Primary Sources? * Primary sources are original materials. Generally‚ primary sources are not accounts written after the fact with the benefit of hindsight. * Information for which the writer has no personal knowledge is not primary‚ although it may be used by historians in the absence of a primary source. * Primary sources provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation. They are created by witnesses or recorders
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Primary Source Essay Assignment In my point of view‚ history portrays the past. While reading a American history book‚ people would only focus on the essential events that trigger their emotions; however‚ they should recognize the American history are dominated by three elements- race‚ class‚ and gender. In the rest of the assignment‚ I would use several primary sources documents to analyze how gender had made a big impact in the American history. It would signify the hardships that women endured
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Primary Source Analysis In order to determine the validity of a source‚ to prove it is a primary source and not a secondary source‚ one must look at several things. There are many aspects about it that show its validity. These include; when the event the source is talking about took place compared to when the author wrote the piece and when they were alive‚ whether or not it was an eye-witness account‚ and the reason the author wrote about it. Also in the evaluation process of the source
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Source A is supposed to be a valuable one because it’s adapted from Lenin’s April Theses for Peace‚ thus offering a perspective on the Revolution from the Bolshevik Party leader himself. However‚ the fact that it’s ‘adapted’ lowers its credibility‚ as the document might have suffered misleading changes‚ meant to portray Lenin and the Bolsheviks in a certain way. Moreover‚ the extract is published by the official communist newspaper which indicates a clear bias in favour of the Bolshevik Revolutionaries
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HIST 100 Primary Source Analysis Part I: Paragraph Assignment—Authority & Order in the Classical West (20 points) Introduction & Purpose The first‚ and some would say principal‚ job of the historian is to discover both the meaning and the significance of historical evidence. This assignment will help you to continue to engage with a key problem facing historians of the early West: how to evaluate primary source evidence that can be both upfront and in some ways full of deceit. You will be
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A primary source is a document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study. These sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event. Some types of primary sources include: original documents (excerpts or translations acceptable): diaries‚ speeches. creative works: poetry‚ drama‚ novels‚ music‚ art relics or artefacts: pottery‚ furniture‚ clothing‚ buildings Examples of primary sources include: Diary of Anne Frank
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In a patriarchy‚ male dominates holds primary authority of land and household. Although patriarchy puts male authority over women’s‚ it did not prohibit the opinions of women. The three Primary Sources‚ Ban Zhao’s Lessons for Women‚ the Psalms of the Sisters‚ and Livy’s History of Rome address the women’s experience of living in a Patriarchy society as well as their behaviors to conform or resist what is expected of them. Each document also address how even the social class of a women can determine
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slave trade in Africa began‚ many authorities formed alliances with Europeans in hope of strengthening their government. This happened to be the case with the King of Kongo‚ he made a deal with the King of Portugal so that they could trade goods with each other. The Portuguese had their own plan for arriving to Kong‚ capturing people to turn into slaves. That is when King Affonso takes the initiative to write his concerns to King Jao. He states that King Jao’s merchants have come to Kongo to do great
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Marketing information must be timely‚ organised‚ useful and in a simple form if it is to ease decision making. It should also be easily manipulated to satisfy the changing and ad hoc requirements of management for information. There is more to marketing information than marketing research. Indeed‚ marketing research is a subsystem of the marketing information system. A Marketing Information System (MIS) is a structure within an organisation designed to gather‚ process and store data from the organisation
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Sources of Criminal Law. Statute/”The Book” vs. Common Law/Case Law A statute is a codified rule or written form of law. A statute identifies a particular rule of law or condition of a particular state or government. Each State has its own constitution; the states constitution and its laws are considered statutes. Generally‚ statutes are named through numbers or codes. Example: In Illinois‚ the definition of a forcible felony is found under : 720 ILCS 5/2-8. 720 is the criminal code‚ ILCS
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