ESSAY ASSIGNMENT
Choose an article that was published between February 18, 2019 and March 29, 2019 for this assignment.
The area of the world for this assignment's article choice is Eastern Europe--the region as a whole or any country within Eastern Europe. The countries in Eastern Europe, as defined by the United Nations are: Belarus. Bulgaria. Czech Republic. Hungary. Moldova. Poland. Romania. Russia. NOT U.S. policy towards Eastern Europe or refugees from these countries to the U.S.
Written assignments, at least 500 words,
Pay attention to the required length of these assignments. These assignments consist of reading a newspaper article about a designated region of the world--specific for each assignment--and writing an essay about it.
Primary sources are documents or other materials such as photographs, art work, coins, tapestries, etc. produced at the time period under consideration. Gives information on what a primary source is and how historians [or anyone writing about history] use them. Look at the attached file for questions to ask of any source that you would consider a primary source.
For these newspaper article and extra credit assignments you are to find a substantive newspaper article [most newspapers are available online--it must be from a newspaper, not a website only or cablenews organization--NOT yahoonews, not cnn.com, not foxnews, not msnbc--only a published newspaper.] about the region designated for that assignment. If the article you choose is too short you will have trouble doing the assignment. Also, note that if an article is about birds, or insects or any non-human source that is not connected to humanity, it is not appropriate for this assignment. Any good newspaper article is based on sources, which historians would designate as primary sources. So an important part of these assignments is to identify the primary sources used by the author of the article you choose. Primary sources are the building blocks of history. You can think of them like eyewitness accounts or physical evidence produced at the time of an incident or crime being considered in a courtroom proceeding or trial. Without evidence a jury couldn't make a fair decision in a case. In the same way, without primary sources, history cannot be written--and good newspaper articles cannot be written. So part of this assignment is asking you to decide if the reporter writing the article you select has actually used good primary sources. Does he or she have real evidence and enough of it to write the article? Does the reporter have a particular viewpoint or bias? Could you imagine the article being used as a primary source by a historian in the future for writing history about this time period? How useful would the document be and does it have any weaknesses or drawbacks as a piece of evidence? What else might a historian need, besides the article you are analyzing, to give a more complete or balanced discussion of the topic?
Questions to ask when analyzing a primary source [evidence created at a time period under study that is relevant to the topic being studied]
1. Who created the document? A person's perspective on events is usually determined by their experiences and position in life. Try to determine the author's gender, class, region and social status. This will help determine the author's point of view.
2. Why was the document created? Was the author a participant or just an observer of the events being described? Did the author have a personal interest in what they were describing that would bias their account? Were they trying to persuade someone? Was the document produced for a particular cause or organization?
3. What was the document's intended audience? Was it a private document, like a diary or a letter or a speech, a published article or book intended for a broad audience or a small group? Most writings are produced with a particular audience in mind.
4. What type of document is it? Is it written in ordinary prose or a particular genre, such as poetry or musical lyrics?
5. When was the document created? Was it produced at the time of the event being discussed or described? Or was it produced as a memoir, something remembered from long ago? The time of production might have relevance in considering its usefulness and reliability for historical study.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
Attachment:- Primary-Source-Assignment.rar