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nations are able to reach out to the global community to inform them of local events despite all other sources of communication being blacked out. The disenfranchised are able to make themselves known, people are able to openly criticize specific aspects of a culture, and all are able to reach a wide audience. Springboarding from increased communications between people across the world, open source projects are able to use crowd-sourced labor to produce software, including entire operating…

Even though, yes, it can be difficult at first when it is being introduced to students, but there is a reason why primary source material is so important. Primary sources present a firsthand account of life in a specific time period. Primary history is not like reading a text book with countless of information that a student is expected to recall. Primary source material can be interesting and engaging to students if the material is chosen wisely. It also offers opportunities that other texts…

Bailyn, Bernard. The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Thesis: In his preface, Bailyn describes his texts as a "preliminary effort to open up the questions and identify major themes of a very large area of history which we still only vaguely understand (xii). In chapter one he goes onto define the actual idea behind the title: " It brings together the major aspects of life in the American colonies- social structure and settlement patterns,…

Authoritative vs. Popular Sources: Insight into choosing the most accurate sources for the Nursing Discipline Writing in the Nursing Discipline is strict on making sure information is accurate and up to date. Medicine grows throughout our history as new advances in technology and techniques are discovered. When researching in the nursing discipline it is essential to use an authoritative source. An authoritative source is a credible source in which is proven to be accurate. They contain only…

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…

students, has more of a significant impact on the students because they feel as they are expected to be self-dependent, not by adults who have already been through what they are going through, but by students who may be in the same position as they are. Source C explains that the success of honor code, “depends on the expectations that students have of their peers’ behavior”, emphasizing the influence that students have on each other, hence why if an honor code is established, it can help the…

Outcome 2 I choose to use SA2 for this outcome. This assignment is about analyzing the rhetorical choices and evidences choices made by others. I need to have a good understanding about the correct use of rhetorical choices in order to make just judgement about whether others make effective rhetorical choices or not. In addition, the evidences play an important role in a persuasive paper, so I also need to determine whether the authors choose effective evidences to support their main claims.…

off as troublemakers compared to others who saw the acts of segregation an act of cruelty. The trick to get pass bias is to interpreting the document to discover what is fact and what is fiction. It would deem best for one to gather multiple primary source documents such as first hand accounts. The civil rights movement known as the Freedom Riders was portrayed in both poor and elaborate ways in the news making it a prime case to be interpreted and to find the truth. Bias are the opinion or…

In “Yoga Offers Range of Health Benefits,” initially published in 2015 in the Harvard Men’s Health Watch, argues, when examined through research, yoga offers a wide range of health benefits to people who practice this particular form of exercise. The general purpose of this article appears to be both informative and persuasive. To go more in depth, I gather that the purpose is to inform readers about yoga and how it can affect their lives in order to persuade them to attempt it. In doing so, the…

I chose to do a source criticism of two different sources that I also compared to each other. The first source is kidshealth.com and the other one is teendriving.statefarm.com. Kidshealth.com did not at a first sight seem credible. The site seemed like a blog, that a private person had done, however, the site is run by the Nemours Foundation, that is Children’s Health System and that way gains credibility, since the site is written by an institution that seem to be credible. Statefarm, on the…