HIS 100 Module Four Activity Bias Template
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HIS 100 Module Four Activity Template: Bias in Primary Sources
Locate an additional primary source relevant to your historical event. Use it and the primary
source you identified in a previous module to answer the questions below. Replace the bracketed
text with your responses.
Source One
Conduct source analysis on a primary source relevant to your historical event.
Attempt to write the APA style citation for your first primary source and include a link to it. You
will not be penalized for incorrect format.
United Nations. (1945).
Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International
Court of Justice.
New York: United Nations, Office of Public Information.
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter
Respond to the following questions:
Who authored or created the primary source?
o
US Information Agency, Producer
What was the author’s position in society at the time the primary source was created?
o
The author worked in the US Information Agency as a producer at the time of the
creation of the Charter of the United Nations.
When was the primary source created?
o
26
th
day of June, 1945.
Where was the primary source created, released, or publicized?
o
San Francisco
Who was the intended audience for the primary source?
o
For everyone around the world, and more specifically the governments of the
nations involved.
Why was the primary source created?
o
To inform the audience of the purpose of the Charter of the United Nations, that
being to maintain international peace and security.
Whose perspective(s) is presented in the source?
o
The perspective of the producer that was involved during that time, who is
providing an accurate account of what happened.
Source Two
Conduct a source analysis on a primary source relevant to your historical event.
1
Attempt to write the APA style citation for your second primary source and include a link to it.
You will not be penalized for incorrect format.
UN. General Assembly. (1965).
Creation of the post of United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights.
New York: United Nations, Office of Public
Information.
https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/203550?ln=en#record-files-collapse-header
Respond to the following questions:
Who authored or created the primary source?
o
UN. General Assembly.
What was the author’s or creator’s position in society at the time the primary source was
created?
o
The General Assembly is the main policymaking, deliberative, and representative
organ of the United Nations.
When was the primary source created?
o
1965
Where was the primary source created, released, or publicized?
o
Created in New York, and released and publicized on the United Nation digital
library.
Who was the intended audience for the primary source?
o
Everyone around the world, and more specifically the governments of the nations
involved.
Why was the primary source created?
o
High Commissioner has a responsibility to promote and defend human rights,
ranging from civil and political to economic, social, and cultural.
Whose perspective(s) is presented in the source?
o
Every member of the United Nations is represented in the General Assembly, with
the addition of the Holy See and Palestine as observer states. This portrays the
unified stance regarding the issues that concern all the nations involved.
Both Sources
Analyze the primary sources relevant to your historical event for the presence of bias.
The UN’s founding documents were created with the intentions of benefiting all people.
There is no presence of biases because it is establishing the fundamental rights and
freedoms inherent to each individual.
Compare how your historical event is represented in your primary sources.
2
The primary sources help in understanding the history of the United Nations and its
founding documents. It is very informational for anyone that may not have known much
about the UN.
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