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    Primary sources refer to accounts of events that are written by an eye witness who witness that particular event. These documents are more often letters, memoirs, diaries, speeches, interviews, journals and other unpublished works of people who witness events. Primary sources may also include pieces such as magazine articles; newspapers and other published pieces as long as they were written as soon as the event took place. The secondary sources on the other hand play the role of interpreting the

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    Primary sources are typically original documents that offer an inside view of that particular event. This primary source is a picture of a statute which allows us to assume that it’s to represent a hero of some sort, so he was an important figure in his time. We can also assume the time period based on his clothing; the clothes he has on can be associated with a time way before any of us were born. Upon other research, I have concluded that this statue is of Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, who was

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    Larson's Primary Sources

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    these primary, secondary and fictional sources affect the credibility, perspective and information resulting in varying strengths and weaknesses of these sources. These sources include propaganda, photographs, newspapers, journals, books, magazine articles and letters. These compilations allow individuals to better understand the facts, feeling and context of the home front and battlefield of World War 2. Primary data is data, which is collected by the researchers themselves. Primary sources enable

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    Primary Source Analysis

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    Primary sources are original source created or compiled during an observation or event. These documents are raw materials which provide first-hand accounts or direct evidence about a topic under the examination. Primary sources, according to William Kelleher Storey in Writing History: A Guide for Students, “originate in the time period that historian are studying and vary a great deal.” Primary source documents can help reconstruct a particular event that happened in the past. For example, if someone

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    Primary Sources Essay

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    When studying for history, or trying to learn more facts, we may wonder what sources we should use. However, the main one that we should use are primary sources. These primary sources can be diaries, journals, pictures, newspapers, and other articles along that line. However, in school we are being taught with books that are not exactly primary sources. Meaning, the textbooks that we are supposed to use in the classrooms can be biased. Such as the online textbooks Digital History and The Outline

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    whether negative or positive. The purpose of this expository paper is to use factual primary sources to identify how real life bullying experiences can affect a persons life, this is based on real life experiences. I will clarify how these sources are relevant to bullying and what I learned from it. In addition I will explain what valuable information I learned from my primary sources that I didn 't from my secondary sources. There many people who have given there account on bullying experiences. Some

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    Primary and secondary sources are the essentials you need to write a well-written research or ethnography paper. A research paper is an expanded essay that presents your own evaluation or opinion about a certain argument or subject. An ethnography paper is originated in the filed of anthropology and is to give a detailed paper of lives and practice of a specific cultural group. Primary and secondary sources are the two main sources that help a research paper sound more sophisticated and reliable

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    exist between primary source and secondary source authors are its reliability and credibility. Secondary source authors hold certain disadvantages in that the authors did not directly experience the actual event, meaning that they do not have a first-hand account of the experience that occurred. Because these secondary source authors were not affected, their information could contain inaccurate data, or their opinions askew due to their lack of a direct experience. Although secondary sources may have

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    Task 1: Evidence collect two example of a primary source and two example of a secondary source of evidence about medieval Europe. For each of these sources, explain why you think they are primary or secondary sources and what the meaning behind the source is. Each explanation for individuals sources should be between 250-350 words. In figure 1. it displays a primary source of medieval Europe. It shows three coins with writing on the Figure 1. rim and a diagram in the middle. In the picture it shows

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    My primary source reading was the “Book of Exodus: Moses Leads the Hebrews from Egypt” found in the primary source reader in Launchpad. This primary source is known as a historian’s raw material. This source is written from the time of the event being studied which happens to be from 950-450 B.C.E. timeline. In summary, the Book of Exodus (2nd book of the Hebrew Torah and the Christian Old Testament) “recounts the escape of the Hebrew people from captivity in Egypt and their forty year journey through

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