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    be presented in a completely different way by another. This arose between Franz Boas and Benjamin Lee Whorf from Boas’ primary source. To clarify, a primary source is a piece of original material which involves original thinking and the sharing of new ideas. Whatever is wrote in this primary material is reliable and accurate at that time of publication. Boas wrote the source in 1911 which discussed that the English language had a variety of different roots relating to the word ‘water’ such as a…

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    Part 1:Write a short commentary on either primary source extract A or Primary Source extract B. Extract Chosen= A This is a letter detailing the correspondence between the British foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey to the British Ambassador to Austria, Sir M. de Bunsen following a conversation he had on the morning of 23rd July 1914 (Great Britain Foreign Office, 1915). The letter was written when the July Crisis was at its peak and was written five days before the declaration of war from…

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    existence of persuasive source material acting to support the argument put forth. For this purpose, critical evaluation of sources should be meticulously undertaken so as to ensure a strong and competent argument has been assembled. The sources themselves can take on many different forms depending on the discipline being examined and written in, however all sources can be classified into two distinctive categories; either Primary or Secondary sources. To understand the use of such source…

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    Primary and secondary sources are both very important pieces of information that have been used to help support history throughout the years. Without our primary and secondary sources we would not have information to base off of. Primary sources are actual artifacts or documents created during a specific time. Some great examples of primary sources are things like journals, diaries, newspapers, speeches and even things like art and music. All these things were created first hand by someone at a…

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    What is Open Source? Much of the software created in today’s world is created by a company who then has total control over modifying, distributing, monetizing, and granting rights for it. This means that users who purchase the software cannot modify it, share it, and may not actually own it. On the other hand, Open Source software has its code available on the internet for anyone to inspect, copy, modify, and distribute. This makes it cheaper than closed source software, more secure, free to…

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    at secondary sources one must take a different view than when analyzing a primary source. There are several credentials that must be met for a truly reliable secondary source. First, who is the author, are there any authors, or was a university or nonprofit responsible for the source? Second, who published the source, is it a website, a journal or a book? Third, who is this source geared toward and what does it want its audience to know or understand? Fourth, what makes this source so credible…

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    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).…

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    Primary sources are any original documents or artifacts from a period in time. These sources are often used to help figure out things about the people and time period that it is from. The Fatality Reports of those who died during the disaster of the Titanic are primary sources that give very useful insight into what life was like during the early 1900s. In order to determine these things, we must first analyze the source. This includes finding out who wrote the source, when the source was…

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    practice. In regards to research there are primary sources as well as secondary sources. Both primary and secondary resources are vital to a good literature review. There are different types of primary and secondary sources that a nurse might use when preparing for a research project. Primary and Secondary Resources A primary source is “original information presented by the person or people responsible for creating it” (Schmidt &Brown, 2012). Primary sources always offer full references to…

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    Open Source Software Projects: A Balance of Trust and Control According to Jones et al. (2005), trust is the single most important driver for the success of virtual teams. However, as a result of Michael Gallivan’s (2001) case study on open source software projects, he now believes that there is another variable to this movement that can be found in control. He presents the McDonaldization theory by identifying four aspects of modern organizations: efficiency, calculability, predictability and…

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