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    Primary sources are sources that develop during an event during a specific time and place; for example, of written documents: letters, diaries, newspapers and magazines articles, speeches, and etc; non-written documents: art, films, recording, tools, house objects, and etc. Examining the primary sources gives insight into the thoughts, behaviors, and experience of the people of the past. Secondary sources are texts that were synthesize, interpreted and analyzed…

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    Historians often use primary sources to gain knowledge on their subject of choice. With Primary source you have firsthand accounts of the time. Such as The speech “At the Front” by Newton Baker. Is him speaking about his…

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    not many people are interested in history. Before taking this class I thought history was a boring subject that I would not need later in life. Through this class I have learned that it is important to know what you are talking about, to look at sources carefully, and that history can be important to me in my future career. Through this class I have learned that it is important to gain as much information as possible to a subject that you are arguing about. This was an important lesson to learn…

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    Document 9 is a neither a primary or a secondary source. It is a newspaper article, it's not even an article it is an editorial. This is merely the opinion of a journalist Document 3 is a pretty reliable source. It is all the options that were discussed in the Excom of the Cuban missile crisis. It is a transcript of what was discussed The Soviet Union wanted to both protect Cuba from the US (as Cuba was communist and the USSR wanted to keep it that way,) the US had a policy of containment…

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    1. In one to two paragraphs, summarize the secondary source for which you completed the Secondary Source Analysis Worksheet in learning block 2-4. Focus on the secondary source’s thesis, arguments, use of primary sources, potential biases, reliability, and usefulness to a beginning researcher. In the article, the Search for Middle Ground written by J. Samuel Walker, the author J. Samuel Walker addresses a chronically and fueled debate between many well-known scholars about Truman’s decision to…

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    After reading the article I now understand that a primary source is a document or piece of writing that was written by an individual who was alive during the time period of interest. However a primary source is not limited to paper, but can be classified by things that were around during the time period such as weaponry and materials. Primary sources prove to be important when studying history, because we need them to help our understanding of what truly happened. Looking back into our history…

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    Hultén, Peter, and Vladimir Vanyushyn. "Promotion and Shoppers ' Impulse Purchases: The Example of Clothes." The Journal of Consumer Marketing 31.2 (2014): 94-102. ProQuest. Web. 18 Mar. 2015. The author of this source is Peter Hultén and Vladimir Vanyushyn. Peter Hultén is a Senior Lecturer at USBE, Umeå School of Business and Economics. Vladimir Vanyushyn is a Lecturer in Marketing at USBE, Umeå School of Business and Economics. Peter has published papers on shoppers ' impulse purchase…

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    lives in a new place. An immigrant is someone who moves to another country permanently. Some issues they struggle with most are the cultural differences, the language barrier and trying to make a living. Those points and more are explored through the sources used to write this essay. The purpose of this essay is to explore all the difficulties and challenges that immigrants face and to see if there are ways to help them be overcome. Suarez-Orozco, C., Suarez-Orozco, M. M., & Todorova, I.…

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    As it had many sources to pick from, the topic chosen by me was difficult to write about. The topic “do police use deadly force too often?” is what was being written about. The issue for this essay was finding reliable sources to fight for the claim. Thought essay three was difficult to write, it makes me feel that it was near perfect essay written about the topic. With…

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    and technology, yet they stand by it. Rather protecting the morals and values as a “person”, they rather protect the source that’s sucking away their morals and values. There are simply no good reasons on why anyone couldn’t rip apart from something that is mentally taking over, but then again for everything running off energy in the world, there is a main source or a line of sources. But the thing to remember here is that, as humans instead of materials, the ripping away from materials won’t…

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