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Four Activity Template: Bias in Primary Sources (Assignment 4-1) Locate an additional primary source relevant to your historical event. Use it and the primary source you identified in a previous module to answer the questions below. Replace the bracketed text with your responses. General Topic - Climate Change and Environmental issues Specific Historical Topic –Chernobyl Historical Research Question – What long lasting effects has the Chernobyl disaster had on the environment and people over 20 years later Current Event – war with Ukraine and Russia and the invasion of Chernobyl by Russia Feb 2022 Source One Conduct source analysis on a primary source relevant to your historical event. Attempt to write the APA style citation for your first primary source and include a link to it. You will not be penalized for incorrect format. (Should be a primary source from an earlier assignment) Go here to the SNHU Citation Guide to learn how to format sources in APA Style. WBEZ Chicago. (2011, April 28). Chicago Ukrainian family shares first-hand account of Chernobyl . https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-ukrainian-family-shares-first-hand-account-of-chernobyl/ a939f44c-6d78-4821-8dad-43c2dd47e4d5 Respond to the following questions: Who authored or created the primary source? Wbez staff
What was the author’s position in society at the time the primary source was created? Wbez is a radio and NPR news station in Chicago, IL. They were established in 1943 and are prominent in Chicago and around the world according to their website. When was the primary source created? April 28, 2011 Where was the primary source created, released, or publicized? It was released on WBEZ website and you could also listen on their radio Who was the intended audience for the primary source? The intended audience is anyone affected by the nuclear disaster or anyone who cares to learn about the nuclear disaster. This family also lives in the area of the radio show. Why was the primary source created? It was created to give a first hand account of of a family who lived through the nuclear disaster and also lives in the city of the radio show. Whose perspective(s) is presented in the source? The perspective is the staff of the radio as well as the first hand account of the people the story is about. Source Two Conduct a source analysis on a primary source relevant to your historical event. (This will be probably a new primary source which can also be found in the primary source databases located here. Just scroll down the page to find them.)
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