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How my partner and I chose Apartheid in South Africa as our topic is when our National History Day teacher, Mr. Peterson had us look into what Nelson Mandela did that affected the people of South Africa. Originally we had Nelson Mandela as our topic. Later into this paper you will see how exactly we got our topic. My partner and I debated over two topics and we chose Nelson Mandela. We ended up writing a semi biography instead of a topic for out theme. Our National History teacher, Mr. Peterson had us go deeper to find a topic that would have been reliable. That's how we ended up finding apartheid in South Africa.
After we chose our topic we started to transition into our research. Since at the time our topic was about Nelson Mandela we did our research on him. We did find out a lot about him, which would help us a bit in the long run. When we showed Mr. Peterson our thesis statement we couldn't really prove anything. We tried finding how Nelson Mandela affected the people of South Africa and what did the people do. This is the time when we found our topic, Apartheid in South Africa. The first thing we did was find out what was apartheid. We ended up finding on Google definitions that apartheid is a policy or system of …show more content…

Originally we were going to do an exhibit. Then, my partner found out that an exhibit is the most competitive category. After we found out that we ended up wanting to do a documentary, but we didn't know really how to do anything. Lastly, we started to do a website and that was a lot easier. How we started to create our project was that we signed up to an account on Weebly and started to experiment with the controls on Weebly. Once we got the hang of things we started to form our website. The first thing we did was get a background picture. We found a picture of people of South Africa boycotting apartheid. For the rest of our website we would type our

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