Secondary Sources Essays

  • Secondary Sources

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    Truth of Secondary Sources In the news, people do not completely know that what they are reading is correct. This is the sad truth for any secondary source of information, such as magazines, articles, newspapers, etc. No secondary source of information holds the complete truth as does original primary source. The sources can still possess similarities to each other, but the point is how truthful is the secondary source to the primary source of information. To show how secondary sources of information

  • Primary Secondary Sources

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    Primary source documents serve as an original source of information about the topic. They provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation. Primary sources include published results of research studies, scientific experiments, clinical trials, and proceedings of conferences and meetings. Secondary sources are works of synthesis and interpretation based upon primary sources and the works of their authors. They usually are not evidence, but rather commentary or

  • Primary And Secondary Sources Essay

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    There are ways you can tell the difference between a primary and secondary source. A primary source is an eyewitness account during the time in which it was written. Some examples of primary sources are Night by Elie Wiesel and The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. Primary sources can also include speeches, footage and interviews. A secondary source is a document or record of an event that interprets and analyzes the event after it has past in history. An example is the Decameron written

  • The Difference Between Primary and Secondary Sources of Data

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    The Difference Between Primary and Secondary Sources of Data Primary data is data, which is collected by the researcher themselves. This kind of data is new, original research information. Primary sources enable the researcher to get as close as possible to what actually happened and is hands on. A primary source reflects the individual viewpoint of a participant or observer. Primary sources are first-hand information from a person who witnessed or participated in an event. Examples of

  • Secondary Sources Of Law Essay

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    court with only the research they found. There are also different sources of law that require different approaches to research. There are primary and secondary sources of law. Primary sources are actual law that must be followed. Secondary sources help an attorney discover the primary sources and explain their meaning. Some examples of primary sources are constitutions, statutes, regulations, common law and case law. Secondary sources of law are treaties, restatements of law, model codes, and legal

  • Parental Pressure Within High School Students

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    finding secondary sources. First, I went to the school library. Since the school library has this computer program called BELS, there was no need to go to the other libraries. BELS is a program that lists all the books in Franklin Lakes, Wyckoff, and Oakland. It is a network that unites the two public libraries and the one in Indian Hills. I then went to an article search. I had no luck here either. When I went home, I went on America Online to try to find some articles or any secondary sources. I went

  • The Welcome Ceremony: A Role

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    positions, the cultural greetings with High Rank Samoan Chiefs and Pastors(Faifeau) of different denomination and then manners taken place during the ceremony. We carried out our research by gathering sources from primary and secondary sources. We planned and gathered our sources with patience. Source of research were of interviews, internet access and brief readings. The category chosen to carry out our topic is, a Group Performance. Why a group performance? We want people to know and see in their

  • Jacopo Peri: Secondary Source Analysis

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    Secondary Sources "A Brief History of Opera." Buzzle. Buzzle.com, 5 Dec. 2008. Web. 21 Nov. 2015. The website above explained the early works of Opera such as Dafne, written by Jacopo Peri. The website also stated facts that include when Opera began to be played to the public, and the problems it started to face when it was released. Even so, Opera was able to eliminate those problems with the technique of Bel Canto, which gave the music more human emotion and drama. Opera today is a famous form

  • Americanization and Canadian Culture

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    As a concerned Quebecois, He wrote an article which discusses the Americanization of Canada, in particular Quebec. Tremblay seems to have a strong stand point about the future of Quebec. Using statistical and literary evidence, primary and secondary sources, he attempts to support his argument that Quebec is a victim of American cultural colonization. Tremblay fears that Canadian culture is going to disappear as a result of the Canadian-American Free Trade Agreement. Tremblay started his article

  • Reflective Essay on College Writing

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    literary theories or how to apply them. Indeed, we learned about romanticism, realism, transcendentalism, etc. but never really related them to our writing. Most of the writing we did was simply based upon our own opinions. We hardly ever used secondary sources. I believe that deconstructionist theory was the most helpful theory I learned this year for analyzing literature. Breaking a poem up line by line or image by image or even a story into small sections made it a lot easier to grasp the main concepts

  • The Resistance of a Wire

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    energy loss as heat. It involves collisions between the free electrons and the fixed particles of the metal, other free electrons and impurities. These collisions convert some of the energy that the free electrons are carrying into heat. Secondary Sources: · The Internet · Text books · Information from class Prediction: I predict that the longer the wire, the higher the resistance. This is because the longer the wire is, the more times the free electrons will collide with other free

  • Diet Pills: The Miraculous Weight Loss Formula?

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    green, the explanation in purple, and the concluding statement in orange. Note: While Jeanne offers one extended example and explanation in this paragraph, I would encourage you to have at least two examples for each stated reason. • how secondary sources are integrated into Jeanne's own prose, how they are "tagged" for the reader and to increase Jeanne's credibility with her audience, and how they are cited. Diet Pills: The Miraculous Weight Loss Formula? If you have ever considered losing

  • Teaching Strategy and Policy

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    data were available in the company files regarding customers, customer satisfaction, product line, market niche, costs ect. The second steps also had parts A and B which were to determine which data was not available yet desired and determine secondary sources to obtain such data, and to establish as database and make it available for all group members. The third step dealt with the data on customer satisfaction and how responses, complaints, suggestions ect are managed. The fourth step was to track

  • An Examination of Rubyfruit Jungle and Her Critics

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    non-mainstream voices to fill the void. While these lesser-known sources are not always credible, and certainly not always accurate they have created a word-of-mouth reputation of the novel and have facilitated its continuous success. The problem in researching such a novel is that there is very little criticism. One cannot rely on book reviews from unknown magazines and personal websites in order to properly examine secondary sources. Knowing that there is virtually no critical analysis on Rubyfruit

  • The Epic Education of Achilles in Homer's The Iliad

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    The Epic Education of Achilles in Homer's The Iliad Dr. Fly’s comments: This paper was well-organized and developed; the thesis was argued in a logical fashion; material from primary and secondary sources was well-documented and integrated smoothly into the text; the author’s style was clear, with varied and sophisticated sentence structures and concrete vocabulary; and the paper demonstrated excellent command of grammar and mechanics. Within the annals of epic literature, the celebrated

  • The Book of Thessalonians

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    Paul the apostle helped establish in the city of Thessalonica. First Thessalonians is agreed by biblical scholars to be written by Paul. The author of II Thessalonians, however, is still being debated about. In II Thessalonians itself, and in secondary sources, there is evidence to support the theories that Paul wrote II Thessalonians as well as the first letter but also that someone wrote II Thessalonians in his name. First Thessalonians was written from Corinth in about 51 AD. If Paul actually wrote

  • The Role of the Doctor in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

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    The Role of the Doctor in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening According to Benjamin, or at least according to my Benjamin, as translated then taken from secondary sources that probably used him to their own ends, the novel is constructed along a trajectory he calls “homogenous, empty time” referring to the contiguous relation of characters and their activities to each other as a way of connecting their place in the narrative. There are quite a few examples of this in Kate Chopin’s Awakening, but the

  • Extermination Camps

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    establishment of extermination camps therefore became the “Final Solution” to the “Jewish Question”, as well as a way to alleviate the mental trauma that grappled the minds of Nazi soldiers. The following essay will examine various primary and secondary sources to better illuminate the creation, evolution, practices and perpetrators of the extermination camps wherein the horrors of the Holocaust were conducted. Pridham Noakes maintains that the creation of extermination camps began for two important

  • Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction

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    In this analysis, we will be looking at just how Flannery O'Connor accomplished this seemingly impossible task, non-didactic Christian fiction, by examining elements of faith, elements of style, and thematic elements in her writing. While secondary sources are included for perspective, I have focused primarily upon Miss O'Connor's own essays and speeches in my examination of the writer's motivations, attitudes, and technique, most of which are contained in the posthumous collection Mystery and

  • The Use of Secondary Sources in Bram Stoker's "Dracula"

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    Bram Stoker uses secondary sources all throughout his novel in order to enhance the novel. He inserts a number of journal entries, newspaper articles, etc. instead of using a narrative point of view. By doing this, he has helped the reader understand more about what is going on, almost as if they are getting a behind-the-scenes view on the story, emotionally and physically. If Stoker had only used a narrative point of view, the reader wouldn’t know the character’s thoughts, emotions, or anything