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    Adrian Suskauer HIST 451 Pierce 3/16/15 Primary Source Bibliography John and Hazel Robinson. Collection of Papers and Photographs. Ca. 1973-2000. Privately held by John and Hazel Robinson‚ Asheville‚ North Carolina. This collection will comprise the bulk if not the entirety of the primary sources to be used in my thesis. The collection is varied and includes material from roughly thirty years of activity‚ and as such must be reduced to particular categories of pertinent documents. The inception

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    The Boston Massacre- March‚ 5‚ 1770 Part One: Document | Author | Date | Purpose | Biases | The Legal Papers of John Adams‚ No. 64‚ Rex v Wemms | John Adams | 1755-1784 | To record what he heard and saw during the trial and how he defended for the British soldiers. | Despite the fact that most eyewitnesses’ testimonies denounced Captain Thomas Pretson ordering his men to fire upon the citizens‚ he believed these people were biased and words aren’t 100% reliable. | Anonymous account of the Boston

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    Summaries of sources and their relevance to my investigation SOURCE A: The author of this article is Chris Trueman. Although this source is secondary‚ it gives an accurate summation of the events which caused the Vietnam War‚ and therefore it is a valuable source. The article discusses some of the reasoning for both of the superpowers’ intervention in the Vietnam War‚ such as America’s need to contain the spread of communism and to prevent the ‘Domino Effect’ from occurring in Asia. Similarly‚

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    Anne Frank- Primary Source Paper The Diary of Anne Frank is a remarkably moving book about the short life of a young girl and her family. The Holocaust was a horrible time for Jewish people and Anne and her Jewish family’s lives were completely turned upside down as a result. The war resulted in the deaths of countless people‚ mostly innocent people. Before the invasion on D-day and the end of the war not too long after‚ the rest of the world didn’t know the real disaster going on over seas. Anne

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    Primary Source Analysis: Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points The source is a speech delivered by Woodrow Wilson on January 8th 1918; the speech was delivered among Woodrow’s fellow congressmen in the American congress. However‚ the speech was not written purely by Wilson‚ During World War I‚ Walter Lippmann became an adviser to President Woodrow Wilson and assisted in the drafting of the speech. The several points covered in Wilson’s speech aimed to resolve territorial issues in Europe‚ as well as

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    Thesis: As the Internet becomes our primary source of information‚ it is affecting our ability to read books and other long narratives. This process of rewiring our brains carries the danger of flattening human experience even as it offers the benefits of knowledge efficiency and immediacy.   1) The author begins the article with a description of the closing scene in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey when Dave dismantles the memory circuits of Hal‚ the artificial brain that controls the

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    the historical impact and people should not believe everything they hear. One should analyze a document and take past knowledge on the issue into consideration before making any decisions. “The French Colonial Expansion” is a modernized text of the “Speech Before the French Chamber of Deputies” by the former French prime minister‚ Jules Francois Camille Ferry‚ on March 28‚ 1884. Jules Ferry made this speech to show his support for imperialism and that it was the only way‚ at the time‚

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    Ever wonder what it would be like to invent something that would be used for hundreds of years to come? That’s what Galileo Galilei did. Galileo Galilei belongs in the house 8-1 Genius Hall of Fame. Born in 1564 in Florence‚ Italy‚ Galileo was the oldest of six children. In 1583‚ he attended the University of Pisa to study medicine but became fascinated with many other subjects‚ particularly mathematics and physics. He performed studies and tests on falling objects and then wrote a manuscript about

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    Mississippi) and any source a historian should look at factors such as: The painter and their motives for painting‚ is the source fact‚ opinion‚ or propaganda‚ and the general purpose of this source. The painter’s name is William Henry Powell and his motives may have been to let others know how Powell saw this event and what happened in Powell’s perspective. The source itself is a secondary source but it is a based on many primary sources‚ that is why it is fact. The general purpose of this source would have

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    Primary Sources - Hinduism‚ Jainism‚ and Buddhism For more background information on religions see: http://home.comcast.net/~mruland/WHAP/Notes/foundations/wreligion.htm The Aryan invasion of the subcontinent around 1‚500 B.C.E. brought with it a new religion that featured a pantheon of gods that the Aryans worshiped through ritualism and with burnt sacrifices. Over the next thousand years‚ the religion matured‚ probably incorporating some elements of Harappan theology and certainly establishing

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