HIS 100 Module Four Activity Narratives
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HIS 100 Module Four Activity Template: Historical Narratives
Locate an additional secondary source relevant to your historical event. Use all four of your sources (two primary and two secondary) to answer the questions below. Replace the bracketed text with your responses.
Identify the topic you chose to explore:
Chernobyl
Attempt to write the APA style citations for your four sources. Include links to each source. You will not be penalized for incorrect citation format.
#1 - Interviews that Matter. (2013). Chernobyl: Interviews From Inside a Nuclear Disaster Area. Commonlit.com. Chernobyl: Interviews From Inside a Nuclear Disaster Area (commonlit.org)
# 2 - Chernobyl disaster worker Russian newspaper interview translation part 2. Paperlessarchives.com. https://www.paperlessarchives.com/chernobyl_disaster_worker_russ.html
# 3 - Adam Higginbotham. (April 22, 2019). Life in Pripyat Before, And the Morning After, the Chernobyl Disaster. Atlas Obscura. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chernobyl-pripyat-
before-disaster
# 4 - Arash Sharifi, Roshan Dinparastisaleh, Naresh Kumar, Mehdi Mirsaeidi. (Aug. 22, 2022). Health effects of radioactive contaminated dust in the aftermath of potential nuclear accident in
Ukraine. Front Public Health. https://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.ezproxy.snhu.edu/pmc/articles/PMC9441805/
Compare the narratives presented in your primary and secondary sources relevant to your historical event.
#1 – is an interview with a journalist/ photographer, he is the one that gets asked questions, and
he answers them according to his experiences. He has been visiting Chernobyl many years after the accident to see what the site looks like now and how people are adjusting after this long period of time. So, nobody is really telling the story – it’s a question answer game.
# 2 – it is a newspaper story told by the writer – he describes the situation shortly after the accident, how everything has gotten quiet and changed. It is a momentum description of the situation according to reality. No sugar coating, just reality.
# 3 – the story talks about life after the accident (about two weeks after the accident). It is told by the author and told through his eyes. It sounds like he is watching from the outside and describes what he sees. To me, he describes the story more positively than I would have thought
the situation would have looked like. But not just that, he also described the life how it was before the accident – how the town was flourishing and growing. He also describes the day of the accident and how it affected people that worked at the nuclear plant.
# 4 – is a report of how much radioactivity is still in the air. The four authors have done some research on how much radioactivity is still in the air after 36 years. The report strictly contains numbers, research and facts. No story told. Only results of hard work.
Describe one narrative that has significantly influenced the contemporary understanding of your historical event.
# 3 – has given me the best understanding of the event, because it describes the situation before the event, how the town was growing, the plant was seen as a great work opportunity, how people lived their life and how pretty everything was.
Then the day of the accident gets described and it gives a real feeling of how it affected people –
at first, they did not know what to do, then they did not have transportation and then they were
in shock. Just real lifetime feelings happening.
He also integrated the government and things I would have imagined would have happened. With that, this story just seems the most real one to me, even though it is a little more positive than I would have imagined happened! Explain how the chosen narrative helps you better understand your historical research question. Please provide your revised research question and then explain how the chosen narrative helps you better understand your historical event.
At first, I wanted to concentrate on the health effects of the accident on people. I chose to revise my research question to see how it affected different sectors. Because I was able to see out of this story, it did not just affect health, no it affected peoples life’s in general – one accident turned their whole life around.
What was the cost of the nuclear accident health wise, economic, social and what led to the accident?
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