Motives and Context: The primary source was an interview conducted by Henry Halem in 2000‚ who interviewed a former Kent State student named Rob Fox. Rob Fox witnessed the 1970 National Guard shootings at Kent State University in Ohio. He was a young student at the time who was really against the war in Vietnam and against Richard Nixon’s proposal of sending troops into Cambodia. This source was intended for a general audience‚ who wants to analyze and hear first-hand accounts of what really occurred in
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Chapter 13 and 14 Primary Source Project Your Name University HIS 141-U.S. History to 1877 Date Introduction Throughout history‚ slavery has been a shameful blot in the morality of humanity. This heinous act has been outlawed everywhere on the earth but as Ronald Reagan once said: “freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” (Reagan 12). It is of utmost importance to research how dreadful slavery was‚ giving each American the knowledge to prevent it from ever being put
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Primary Sources come in all types of forms‚ from newspaper‚ poem articles letter and artwork. Primary sources have a vast amount of uses for being used for evidence. Notwithstanding one form is that of artwork. When looking at a primary source like this artwork you have critical questions in your mind when trying to figure out the artwork of artifacts you are looking at. When a person thinks critical you allow deeper though to appear in your head. A person mind is a powerful thing to have and artworks
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No. 64‚ Rex v Wemms | John Adams | 1755-1784 | To record what he heard and saw during the trial and how he defended for the British soldiers. | Despite the fact that most eyewitnesses’ testimonies denounced Captain Thomas Pretson ordering his men to fire upon the citizens‚ he believed these people were biased and words aren’t 100% reliable. | Anonymous account of the Boston Massacre March 5 1770 | Unknown | Unknown | To briefly explain what caused the people to rise up against the soldiers and how
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The primary source is a poem advocating for imperialism. Poems use writing techniques to emphasize their message‚ such as figurative language. The way the author uses these techniques can portray the values and problems within a society‚ by emphasizing what the author thinks his audience will want. The poem describes the relationship between white men and their captives. According to the poem‚ this relationship is the “white man’s burden”. The white men have to capture the people to protect them
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Summaries of sources and their relevance to my investigation SOURCE A: The author of this article is Chris Trueman. Although this source is secondary‚ it gives an accurate summation of the events which caused the Vietnam War‚ and therefore it is a valuable source. The article discusses some of the reasoning for both of the superpowers’ intervention in the Vietnam War‚ such as America’s need to contain the spread of communism and to prevent the ‘Domino Effect’ from occurring in Asia. Similarly‚
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Adrian Suskauer HIST 451 Pierce 3/16/15 Primary Source Bibliography John and Hazel Robinson. Collection of Papers and Photographs. Ca. 1973-2000. Privately held by John and Hazel Robinson‚ Asheville‚ North Carolina. This collection will comprise the bulk if not the entirety of the primary sources to be used in my thesis. The collection is varied and includes material from roughly thirty years of activity‚ and as such must be reduced to particular categories of pertinent documents. The inception
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Three Nutrition Sources There are so so many places that we believe are the correct ways to find out or buy items of nutrition. Some of them can be correct but some of them aren’t‚ but you cant always blame yourself because it can be tricky when it comes to choosing these types of things. But to me‚ there are three places that I am confident that will not bring me down on nutrition. First‚ is the gym. I believe that most people will agree with me because its such an obvious place that
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SOURCES AND USES OF FUNDS OF FOREIGN BANKS Sources and Uses of funds is a fund flow statement which explains the various sources from which funds have been raised and the uses these funds were put to. This statement is similar to a balance sheet since liabilities and assets are themselves sources and uses of funds respectively. The major difference however‚ between a Sources and Uses of funds statement and balance sheet is the former captures the movements in funds‚ while the latter merely presents
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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 is a second-hand
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