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Unit 2 Library Assignment

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Library Assignment Paper
Initially, one of my questions before going to the library was a broad questing dealing with the subject of refugees in the wake of the refugee crisis due to the Syrian war and the other ongoing predicaments in the middle east. This set the mentality for which I went about my research and journey to my first source. As I looked at the different primary sources I noticed that one of the documents was a report about the refugee crisis, which the United States faced during World War II due to influx of Jewish individuals seeking asylum from the year of Hitlerism. I though the specific primary source was very interesting because it dealing with the same broad issue, but with a different ethnic group and in a different time period. …show more content…

My initial questions were dealing with the settlement of Syrian refugees, but as I looked into my primary source I noticed that it was dealing with a different ethnic group and different time era, so that shifted my focus from Syrian refugees to the differences between the two groups and differences between the type of treatment each received. Secondly when I looked at the article I was able to identify a difference in the perception of each group of refugees. In the article I was able to see that there was a focus on homeland security and a precaution for a possible terrorist threat. However, in the primary source there was not a focus on homeland security, but rather security and settlement of the Jewish refugee. Lastly, with the third source my focus becomes broader, since the last source focused on various perspectives of refugees in

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