Advantages: Primary sources directly address your topic and often provide information that is unavailable elsewhere. For example, the questions you compose for an interview or a survey will likely target your unique interest in the topic. Similarly, to test a particular hypothesis, you can design your own experiment.
Disadvantages: Some primary sources, such as eyewitness accounts, may be too close to the subject, lacking a critical distance. Others, such as interviews, surveys, and experiments, are time consuming to prepare, administer, and analyze. Finally, unless you have been trained in accepted methodologies, your own primary research in certain fields of study may not be recognized as valid.

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Think back to media coverage of the Vietnam War. Which best describes why the Tet Offensive is often pinpointed as an event that

kherson [118]

A, because at this time, Walter Cronkite delivered his famous "unwinnable war" speech B. because the coverage of the war became a great deal more objective C. because, after a long time coming, media coverage became extremely graphic D. because, after a long policy of not commenting on the war, Lyndon B. Johnson spoke out against the media E. because the controversial image of a U.S.-ally general shooting a communist was broadcast, beginning a trend away from upbeat coverage of the war

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True or false? As a result of the depression, Western governments started taking a more active role in directing the economy and

Temka [501]

This is true. Due to the depression the western government started taking measures that would help the citizens.

<h3>The great depression</h3>

This was a period in the 1920s that had the United States in a state of economic down turn. Lots of people lost their jobs at this time and people were unemployed.

To take care of the citizens the governments had to start several social programs that would alleviate the hardship.