the responses to those events were. And studying history is more than just textbooks. Classically, history relied on primary sources with secondary sources to describe them. In the past 100 years, the study of history has expanded, and historians began to specialize in using other forms of media as well, such as broadcasts and movies. These newer forms of media…
Presentism is the the ideal of judging past events based on modern-day morals and values. Author Douglas L. Wilson discusses presentism as a concept that is best used on historical figures due to the drastic changes in social structures and societal expectations. Wilson defends Jefferson, saying that because of certain societal and social notions, Jefferson could not have been expected to free his slaves, and would have actually been doing more harm than good if he had freed them. Wilson…
critically analyzed for its real life application, and will be followed by some references of the current research evidence. Real life application will explore a possible relationship of the concepts with personal, social or professional life. CONCEPT 1 SOURCES OF DATA: This concept is taken from Research in Nursing, Block I Module 7 entitled as “Data Collection Methods’. Data is…
In the primary source, “Plan for the Erection of Government, c. 1768,” Don Jose de Galvez writes about why he believes the Spanish government should take notice and action upon Alta California. Galvez, mentions in his letter to the Marques de Croix that other foreign nations were taking interest in Alta California and they only way to protect the Spanish from “the dangers that threaten” them. This primary document made me understand more as to why the Spanish finally took action into colonizing…
AT&T Corporation, an American multinational telecommunications establishment, possessed a patent that protected speech recognition software in the United States. Similarly, Microsoft, an American multinational technology company, created code to make a computer program that also recognized speech, but instead decided to sell it in foreign countries. Essentially, Microsoft found a complex loophole in Section 271(f) of the United States’ Patent Act and was eventually able to legally sell their…
Digital Nation did a wonderful job presenting information about how the world is changing and becoming more digitalized. Though it may be a good video, we need to know if its content is valid. Using media literacy, we will understand where the information is coming from and whether or not it should be trusted. In order to do this, we need to ask questions about the different things we are viewing. After doing this, we can see that this video is literate in some cases because it has good…
My two primary sources is about 9/11. My first primary source explains, "What happened that day?," "Who attacked us?," "How did America respond to 9/11?," and "How did America change after 9/11?" (PS1). My second primary source goes more in-depth about what happened on 9/11. It also include photo's that signified that important day. A historian would use 9/11 as a primary source because "September 11 is the never-to-be-forgotten anniversary of major terrorist attacks on the United Sates" (PS2).…
But to make the recipient sad or regretful was one thing, driving them to suicide was another. Even if she wanted to accept, to do what she did, Amarante needed to first harvest the emotion from a source. The kind of despair that would be required to tempt someone to kill themselves would mean the source would also have to be deeply suicidal. ‘Mrs. Snider, I’m familiar with the medicines you’ve supplied in the past, and I’m not asking for much more than that. If it is the death that…
When analyzing an inpatient coder, you should look at the purpose of the job, the job function, and the qualifications needed for the job. An inpatient coder is “a medical coder that work to assign codes to medical diagnoses and treatments for inpatient facilities.” The purpose of an inpatient coder is to execute audits in agreeing with “ABC’s Health System’s annual compliance work plan” and arrange a draft or verbal conveyance to the “Coding Compliance Manager and/or Corporate Compliance…
Interpreting Africans Contributions through Primary Sources The transatlantic slave trade was a period in history in which many Africans slaves contributed to the economical boost and social changes of the Americas. James Sweet and Judith Carney both showed the impacts that Africans had in the Americas with the help of primary sources such as books, researches, visuals, and documentaries in order to produce an interpretation of the contributions that Africans brought by innovating the…