Primary source

components that the television series emphasized the most was the prowess of a knight, and a knight’s connection with religion. Lastly, the hardships of crusaders were presented in both situations, and both presentations were interpretations of primary source documents that revealed similar aspects. The use of this television series as a popular history is a way to introduce a topic and various important components, but it is not enough to claim complete knowledge of a…

Introduction In today’s world, many people don’t have a problem with using technology. Most college students use social media which includes: twitter, snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. Today we are going to learn how to use technology to help us in school rather than waste our time. First thing college students can use technology for is online classes. This can be a challenge for some students because they are only used to their day to day uses like Twitter. You can use a variety of strategies…

Radway scrutinizes and manipulates magazine articles from primary sources in the nineteen thirties era. Although, she analyzes feminist readings that are predominately written by males; who also express a general concern for the rapid changes that were happening within the time period. Radway specifically uses primary text written within the time period to scrutinize the authors themselves. In addition, Radway establishes that the primary texts were written by experts, mainly those who…

things such as the kinds of sources used to reinforce the author’s thesis, the author’s treatment of the topic and how the book was constructed. In the beginning of the book William I. Hitchcock opens up the book by starting the reader off in a Luxembourg cemetery where he reads off a memorial tablet that…

When broken down into primary and secondary sources, there are 24 primary sources and 3 secondary sources. The primary sources are individual authors, or a collection of individual people, who wrote the material. Within the article a majority of the sources are primary. For example, on the reference page in the article, the first reference mentioned is a person and therefore is a primary resource. For secondary sources, there were not many. An example of the secondary source is the second…

Constitution round robin. This lesson was targeted to eighth grade students so they could become experts on different Articles within the Constitution in order to teach them to fellow classmates. The objectives associated with the lesson are examining primary sources, explaining how our government works and knowing the different parts of our government system. The goal is for our students to be able to perform the objectives listed above. The lesson lasted for two days and was followed by a game…

Scholars sometimes struggle to assimilate history through only archeological and geological evidence. With the evolution of human history and the invention of writing, historians find a more facility in studying the civilizations that kept written records in terms of reassembling past events and having a more scrupulous understanding of early civilizations, no more based on assumptions. Written work, however, generated a new problem to historians: reliability. To know what is accurate in old…

the battle between the Patriots and British. Teenagers were the main source of the growing army and were the ones who were drafted into the armies along with the men who were able to volunteer. The book, I was a Teenager in the American Revolution: 21 Young Patriots and Two Tories Tell Their Stories, tells of the teenagers who have lived through the difficult times and situations. Through the analysis of one of the primary source documents presented in the book, students can infer on the…

There are two main types of sources used in scientific literature. These are primary and secondary sources. A primary source can be defined as original content. It is information that has been obtained via original research, experimentation, thoughts and observations. Usually a primary piece of literature is written in first person. In contrast, a secondary piece of literature is one that examines a primary source (1). A review article would be an example of a secondary piece of literature…

There are two sources of law in the United States, primary and secondary. Primary sources consist of both Federal and State Constitutions, Federal and State statutes, administrative rules, case laws. Primary sources of law are defined as “the sources that provide the actual law” (pg. 588). Another source of the law are secondary sources. Secondary sources consist of legal dictionaries, legal encyclopedias, legal forms books, periodicals, digests, treatises, and citators. Secondary sources are…