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    How useful is Source A to a historian studying how battles were fought during World War One. In your response refer to the reliability of the source Source A, written by Private James Mitchell of 7 Church Lane, East Grinstead is a primary source written on the 17th of October, 1914. The source is from a soldier that is in war writing to his dad. The source is moderality useful to an historian studying: how battles were fought during World War One because it tells people what the soldiers were…

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    Essay On Second Evacuation

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    The evacuation of children to the countryside was a major occurrence during World War II. Children were sent to live with a stranger in Wales, Cornwall, or Devon. For some, moving to a new place was a way to start fresh and abandon their old life for a period of time. There were many reasons for the evacuation of children, but the major reason was to protect them from the air raids that began in September 1939. “The first wave of mass evacuations that occurred between September 1st- 3rd, 1939…

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    an unreliable source. On the other hand, Darren Crovitz and W. Scott Smoot contend that Wikipedia can be as reliable as any traditional reference when used properly. My own view is alongside Crovitz and Smoot, Wikipedia should be considered credible if the information given is accurate. If you don’t want to rely solely on Wikipedia it could at least be a good starting point for research. Wikipedia is considered to possibly contain too much malicious content because of its open-source theme…

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    stronger emotional appeal, and more reliable sources.…

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    Researching for general topics for the literature review over a few days and discussing the sources discovered helped me narrow down my topic to a specific subject; negative effects encountered by Native American communities living in the proximity to radioactive storage, mining, and testing sites. Learning how to use search engines such as ProQuest…

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    Scholarly Sources

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    opular sources vs. scholarly sources In preparation for this assignment, I was able to use Pinterest as a way of research and learned that depending on research topic, that Pinterest and popular sources may be an acceptable way to support an argument. These sources are what I used in my comparison to the popular sources that can be found on Pinterest. My Exploratory draft three explores how popular sources can be useful in supporting an argument: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_rmoHln…

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    1970’s. This source can be considered reliable as it was a quote that Townsend actually said himself, therefore making it a reliable and an accurate primary source. This source can be corroborated with the living peace. Org where it states The period 1967-69 saw several draft resisters gaoled, including Simon Townsend were to be gaoled for refusal of call up notices. Showing that Simon Townsend did not agree with the Australian foreign policy during the 1960’s and 1970’s. These sources can also…

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    and revise it. Research essays use secondary sources. The types and functions of secondary sources is also talked about in this book. Secondary sources are literary criticism, biography, and history. The type of essay that you use will determine which type of source that you will need. Unless you are told otherwise, secondary sources are supposed to be used as an addition to your argument. It’s also important to be able to decide if your secondary source is factual or opinion. Chapter 30 also…

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    description, and experet opinoin from reliable sources…

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    The film teaches that the conditions in the trenches were not all bad and that the conditions were bearable however the source collection of poems says otherwise. Sources 35 and 36 explain how the conditions in the trenches were horrible and therefore are described a lot differently from how the film portrays them. Firstly, source 35; ‘knock- kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed our way through the sludge.’ Unlike the film, this indicates for the first time that actually,…

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