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    Primary/Secondary Sources Summarization Project Jeremiah Shivers The book “Night” is the first book of a trilogy (three-part series) written by Elie Wiesel. This book is about his first hand experience in Nazi German concentration camps with his father. It takes place between the beginning of the Holocaust and the end of World War II. Primary and Secondary Sources‚ like books or documents. They help us find out what happened in the past. Depending on how it is being used makes an object

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    Yang Yue 301230807 November 6‚ 2015 Primary Source Analysis Contact and Conflict European explorers have great impact on Canadian history. Their Journals are important historical documents for historians to study the Canadian history. Because these journals appeared in many kinds of forms and provided very detailed information about early Canada before confederation. These documents portray very vividly the life in Canada and shows that the process to confederation is full of contacts and conflicts

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    Primary Source Analysis Thomas Paine Common Sense Context: In result of The Seven Years’ War Britain controlled American trade and territory. In order to pay for the expenses of the war several taxation acts and military presence were implemented such as the Sugar Act‚ Stamp Act‚ Currency Act‚ Quartering Act and the presence of British troops at the colonies. Consequently‚ Americans who thought these actions violated their political and constitutional liberties opposed these policies with petitions

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    10/24/2017 Gino Cendejas Dr. White‚ HIST 1113l Primary Source Review: The Story of The Flood A bustling young region renown for being the cradle of civilizations‚ Mesopotamia‚ is the setting of this epic poem‚ The Story of The Flood. The Story of The Flood is embodied into the 11th tablet of 12‚ that together‚ compose the many heroic stories of The Epic of Gilgamesh. This narrative is the oldest piece of Epic Western Literature‚ that is of Sumerian/Babylonian origins. It is believed to have been

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    Original materials are indispensable for my dissertation. I am going to use a large amount of primary sources in not only the National Archives‚ but also various presidential‚ military‚ and institutional libraries. In these archives‚ the majority of the documents created prior to the 1990s are not digitalized. Furthermore‚ my research field has not been frequently studied by other researchers. Thus‚ the related documents are usually not among the few documents digitalized by these archives. Although

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    History 1111 Professor Ingram February 1‚ 2013 Since the 1970s‚ Stefan R. Landsberger had collected Chinese propaganda posters and developed his collection into one of the largest private collections in the world. They have become a rich primary source dealing with many important subjects in contemporary Chinese history. Mao Zedong‚ for instance was one of these prominent subjects‚ being the inspiration for much of the propaganda in China since 1949. One of the numerous posters depicting this

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    Potter 1 Rebecca Potter Gray Section 4975 12 May 2015 Primary Source Analysis on The Feminine Mystique The Feminine Mystique is the title of a book written by Betty Friedan who has also founded The National Organization for Women (NOW) to help US women gain equal rights. She describes the "Feminine Mystique" as the heightened awareness of the expectations of women and how each woman has to fit a certain role as a little girl‚ an uneducated and unemployed teenager‚ and finally as a wife and mother

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    Primary Source Analysis: George Alsop‚ a Resident of Maryland‚ Argues That Servants in Maryland Profit from life in the Colonies‚ 1666 George Alsop’s memoir of his service as an indentured servant in the colony of Maryland provides an insightful look into the lives of indentured servants in Maryland during the middle of the 17th Century. Throughout this period of colonial America the British were notorious in their use of propaganda to attract young British men into indentured servitude as the use

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    According to Georgia State University Library‚ a primary source are the documents or artifacts closest to the topic of investigation. Primary sources also include first-hand accounts that were later documented. These documents or artifacts are generally made during the time being investigated. However‚ they can be made later by eyewitnesses or people who were involved. Primary sources are typically found in their original state though. Examples of a primary sources include diaries‚ autobiographies

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    Primary Sources: Kant‚ Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Edited by Vasilis Politis. London: Dent‚ 1993. Nagarjuna. Madhyamakakarika. Edited by Kenneth K. Inada. Tokyo: Hokuseido Press‚ 1970. Secondary Sources: Allison‚ Henry. "Kant Transcendental Idealism." In A Companion to Kant‚ edited by Graham Bird‚ 111-124. Oxford: Blackwell‚ 2006. Ameriks‚ Karl. "Critique of Metaphysics‚ Structure and Fate of Kant’s Dialectic". In The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy

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