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To Mockingbird: I do not know who you are but thanks anyway for your kind words!
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YES, today's tutorial was not bad as well. Dr Farrell said my preparation was "thoughtful" and i got back my first history assignment in 7 years, its really BETTER than I expected! Its one about the philosophy of history (historiography). I came up with this question, "Is History True?" and have to answer it with support from three readings. My summarised conclusion - Facts alone DON'T make history. Historians use facts to interpret history, so history is SUBJECTIVE but as long as the historian is careful about supporting his interpretation with logical use of facts, investigates and thoroughly searches for and cross-references a wide variety of sources from a wide variety of viewpoints and apply critical thinking to question sources for reliability and usefulness, he can still produce a work that has MUCH (not total) TRUTH in it. (To my ex-students - basically I am talking about the necessity of using advanced source-based question techniques here, in case you are confused!) Of course, NO one historian alone can claim to have written the final version of history of a topic because what he has written must be subjected to changes with new facts or sources uncovered and/or better interpretations by others. (Sounds like I am "smoking" my way through! Hahaha!)
Hope this good result will be the trend for all assignments. Really thank God for it! Thanks to Kit Geok, Sumedha, Ms Ang Shushan, Yaochong and my anonymous ex-student for your encouragements!
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Great job done! As we all told u, u can do it! Oh, by the way, tat is a very interesting topic, which I am sort of exploring in my another hy mod too.
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