has been a continuous debate on whether it is a reliable resource or not and no one has been able to come up with a conclusion. However‚ there are many people who think that they have come up with a compromise‚ which includes Wikipedia being a good source for basic information but not for the sole information of any given topic. Especially for college students‚ Wikipedia can get tricky in the sense where it is easy to just read through and agree with; however‚ it may be misleading and have incorrect
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Evaluation of Sources Critical thinking is learning to think for yourself and to develop your own independent opinions‚ backed by sound reasoning and support. It is learning to drop the role of passive student and to assume the role of a self reliant thinker and researcher. Critical thinking enters into important decisions in your daily life and affects your growth process in school and work. The term critical thinking describes the deliberate thinking that helps you to decide on what to believe and
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Comprehensive School 68538 HY3 Assessment ‘Personal sources pack’ Assignment title ‘The Holocaust was the result of Hitler’s long-held grand design to pursue a programme of annihilation against the Jews.’ Pack Created by: Ryan Buckle Attributions in normal text and sources are in boxes with italic writing. History HY3 sources Intentionalist Document 9 Speech delivered by Hitler in Salzburg‚ 7 or 8 August 1920. (NSDAP meeting) Source: D Irving‚ The War Path: Hitler ’s Germany 1933-1939
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Using a variety of sources‚ this essay will explain how the combining war efforts of the United States‚ South and North Vietnam influence the escalation of women maltreatment‚ despite their contributions to the Vietnam War. Though the war ended in 1975‚ this investigation is focused on the effect of the war until 1980 to allow for an analysis of the impact on women in its post-war period. Arms and the Enlisted Woman is a secondary source that was published by the Temple University Press in 1989 and
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Air Source Heat Pump Description and Operation: A heat pump is classified according to the source from which it extracts heat‚ i.e. the low temperature heat source. One that collects and utilises thermal energy from the outside air to heat the home and provide domestic hot water is called an air source heat pump. In an air source heat pump‚ outdoor air is drawn into the heat exchanger‚ which contains coils filled with a pressurised refrigerant gas. The refrigerant gas referred to here is
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Acknowledging‚ Paraphrasing‚ and Quoting Sources When you write at the college level‚ you often need to integrate material from published sources into your own writing. This means you need to be careful not to plagiarize: “to use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one’s own” (American Heritage Dictionary) or‚ in the words of the University of Wisconsin’s Academic Misconduct guide‚ to present “the words or ideas of others without giving credit” (“Plagiarism‚” ¶ 1). The University
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The topic of Source One is how explorers and colonists of the New World took part in horrific‚ illegal events to colonize the foreign lands‚ but yet they were not the ones who suffered from these events. This phenomenon is portrayed in the source through the image of a wanted poster for Christopher Columbus‚ where Columbus is wanted for several offences including: genocide‚ racism‚ initiating the destruction of a culture and rape. The poster also goes on to state that the reward for Columbus is “500
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The format of Source B is very different to that of Source A and it also agrees with the statement. Source B is a table showing the losses of the British on the first day of the battle. The figures presented on the table show that more soldiers were killed/wounded/missing/taken as prisoners on the first day than officers. This is because firstly there were fewer officers to start with but also because officers usually gave directions and stayed behind the frontline instead of going out to fight.
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Hammurabi’s regime. For a source to be primary‚ it must be a direct link to the historical time period in question; otherwise‚ if the source is a summary or an analysis of historical events then it must be secondary. In this situation‚ the first two paragraphs of the reading are secondary sources due to their analytical and indirect aspects. For one‚ the writer was not present during Hammurabi’s rule‚ so he is explaining what he learned‚ and he analyzes the clear connects between the other laws‚ such
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Our community’s source of water is Lake Ontario. However before the water arrives to our taps it undergoes a long cleansing process. This process includes pumping‚ storing and distributing the water. There are many ways to store water works systems. Some systems‚ because of local needs‚ store their source water in large natural or man-made reservoirs‚ essentially small lakes. These are often created by the damming of mountain streams‚ and in many cases‚ normal recreational activities are permitted
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