The diverse sources of history include books, newspapers, printed documents, personal papers, and other archival records, artifacts, and oral accounts. Historians use this material to form coherent narratives and uncover linked sequences and patterns in past events. ... The great commentaries of Julius Caesar were more like inspired reporting than pure history writing, and the personal element in them was strong. ...
In the "Handbook of Children, Media, and Development", authors Dina Borezekowski and Victor Strasburger note that "numerous ecological and personal factors impact an adolescent's decision to experiment with and use these different substances, including the media. ... In an article in the New York Times, author Alessandra Stanley states, "Parents matter on Gossip Girl, and their negligence veins the narrative as if to explain their children's excesses" (2). ... They rely on it to expose them to new ideas and help them interpret the world around them. ... A soc...
Baumohl declares in his book Homelessness in America "The lives of all people, disabled or not, are embedded in circumstances shaped as much by structural factors as personal and biographical ones" ( 26). ... On the one hand, the large numbers of troubled and troublesome people among the homeless poor suggested to some observers that homelessness was best explained by the personal limitations of those who became homeless. ...
