HIS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Five Ws, Eugenics
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The honest check for us checking sources is: someone making a fool of us: rarely do differences of opinions come down to arguments, it"s the way people argue. Source criticism tracking down all the information about the source: some sources may ne obvious, whereas others may not be. If carleton has book/source and u ottawa does not, we can: ebooks, public library, racer: loans for sources, will sent to morisset library. Source criticism (5 w"s: who who created it, who did they create it for, what what kind of source is it (interoffice memo, diary, autobiography, posters, etc. ) a. Image is a source that causes us to read everything right away; it is not a predetermined thought about the source. The main thing the author is telling me x and y. They will reflect knowledge through values, ideas of human nature, understandings of climate science, religion, etc: want to look for authors biases and prejudices.