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“What are the hierarchies of information in my research. Other than chronologically, how can I organize your research and its claims in a logical way?”
For my research paper, I have multi-resources for my final paper. Majorly my resource is about t…

Using My Sources

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You might expect that primary sources take precedence over all other sources when writing an historical paper because they give you a direct window to the time and place that you are writing about. It is true that primary sources are very important for…

The Hierarchies of Information

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What are the hierarchies of information in my research? Other than chronologically, how can I organize my research and its claims in a logical way?
When i first tried to form a coherent framework for my research paper I struggled to identify a governin…

Organization and Research

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I organized my information centered on themes.  Since Cabet’s teachings stand in the middle of my argument, I take different aspects of his writings and arguments and build my points around his themes.  Most central (and the main focus of my pa…

Research Paper Organization

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Each piece of information that I have come across in my research is equally as important as the next, for different reasons, and I think the way I plan on organizing the evidence makes sense as a way to argue my claim logically. Since I am making the c…

Post 3

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What interests me about the Oneida community and utopian communities as a whole, is that the failures of each demonstrate the limits of putting restrictions on individuals. As in my topic, the limit on marriage had a significant impact on the longevity…

Why should anyone care about what I have learned from this research? What makes my findings at all interesting or relevant to this class or to my life as a UR student?

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My research is now centered around how Noyes was able to interpret Christianity and how subsequently this understanding was then prefaced into practises at Oneida. This to me is an interesting topic because it shows how religion affects our world view….

Why should you care about Brook Farm?

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Why should you be interested in Brook Farm, and why should you really care about learning about the community and its weekly newspaper? My specific research focused on Brook Farm’s publication, The Harbinger. After studying it for a little whil…