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    Aztec Primary Sources

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    In my lesson plan, I intend to use both primary and secondary sources. For my primary sources, I plan on using Spanish and Aztec diary letters and codices. I plan on using Hernan Cortes’ “Second Letter to Emperor Charles V,” which describes his exploits and capture of Montezuma II and the Aztec capital. This source also contains the first published detailed map of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan drawn by the Spanish. My students will be able to analyze the reasons why the Spanish captured the Aztec

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    interview, primary sources, secondary sources and questionnaires. To analyze and interpret their relationship with the designer, and providing the relationship of how important between these five objects and communication design. Thereby enabling the designer to know they are facing the real needs of customers, and how they connect and related to each other.Introduction This research will explain five researches terminology that includes the case study, interview, primary sources, secondary sources and

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    important to make sure you have a reliable source. Sometimes primary sources are scarce, so secondary sources will be needed. Sometimes the sources can clash with each other, making it hard to tell what is true and not. Different perspectives of historic events can dampen understanding of the true message given when personal bias and dim perspectives are applied. Our history is being influenced by secondary sources rather than the real message of the primary source. The speech I chose was FDR’s State

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    in Ancient Egypt was published in 1999 by Oxford University Press, A well-known source of educational publications. McDowell uses a small variety, but by no means lacking in quantity, of primary and secondary sources, the majority of which consisted of translations from either unearthed ostraca, or the less common papyrus. This Review will discuss the structure of the book, McDowell’s use of primary and secondary sources, and how she gets her argument across. This text contains an abundance of information

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    unreliability of primary sources from immediately before and after the arrival of the European Settlers. There are several factors which contribute to the low value of primary sources. First, prior to first contact, the Indigenous People of America did not typically document their cultural heritage. Second, existing primary sources are written through translators which can lead to the value of the primary source to be only as reliable as the person performing the translating. Lastly, primary sources of indigenous

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    This essay aims to analyse two historical primary sources in relation to Queen Elizabeth I, also known as the ‘Virgin Queen’; the essay will attempt to use the source in order to understand what it is able to reveal about the past and her influence during her reign. The first source to be analysed consists of a portrait of the Queen in her late sixties produced, apparently, by the French born artist Isaac Oliver in the sixteen hundreds. In his portrait of the queen the artists, despite her age, presents

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    Primary sources are used by people who have experienced specific events in their lives. They allow a reader to connect to them on a more relatable basis. Primary sources are also very reliable because the author of a book or newspaper article, for example, was actually there. So they have all the evidence they need for what is being documented. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, is a primary source because Jurgis actually went through the hard labor conditions that occurred in the Progressive Era (1900-1916)

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    the reliability of source to a historian studying the experiences of Australians at World War I during the Gallipoli campaign Source A is highly reliable for a historian studying the experiences of Australians at Gallipoli as it is a first person account of many aspects of the experience and highly corroborates with our own knowledge of the first days at Gallipoli. Source A is a diary entry by Ellis Silas, dated 11th of May 1915, therefore it is highly reliable as it is a primary and first person

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    Primary Source Analysis

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    The primary source I located in the Journal of Social Forces was titled, “The Kindergarten and Other School Social Work”. This primary source provides information on the social side of kindergarten. The information provided allows the reader to gain a better understanding of how the foundations of social skills are formed in kindergarten. Gutek (2013) discusses kindergarten and how it has evolved over the years in chapter 7. He writes about Friedrich Froebel who “developed an enlightened concept

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    For thousands of years primary sources have provided valuable understanding and knowledge to the events of various historical periods. Prior to the existence of writing as a method of communication, history had only been communicated orally through personal accounts and experiences. The early forms of writing remained exclusive to those that were wealthy and of higher class. The accounts written by ancient historians such as Herodotus, Al-Tabari, and Anna Komnena communicate their personal account

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