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"Connection of primary and secondary sources in historical timeline publishment"

As the contemporary world slowly moves forward in the future timeline, we other humans think of the remarkable past historical achievements and progress made so far in the modern world. Because in history, learning from the beginning reattached the essence and importance of studies that are rich in details like other cultures and traditions of far places, important timeline events such as the discovery of new tools or inventions that shifted the course of human evolution and more notable histories that contributed a lot. However, the question arises before exploring past information in public libraries or internet sources. The reason is other available sources are not always accurate and falsely claimed by authors. To fully understand the true meaning definition of historically accurate, I would like to share my opinions about the primary and secondary sources. The primary sources' purpose is that it happened in the past timeline when it occurred at that time, while secondary sources backups the ideal information after the event. Examples of primary sources in the study of Kathleen, E. (n.d.) are the following: artifacts or human-made structures, ancient weapons, and old scripture scroll writings, while secondary sources are newspapers, books, and other studies after the initial event.

As for the insight I gained after reading from the guided book of Howell and Gottschalk, I discovered that it is hard work for historians to recreate the events in the past because of the limited sources they access and the lack of evidence in the places where they did occur in the past timeline. Therefore, sources are the true definition of a treasure of the past because they carry the details that could have been the evidence or additional information to a missing piece of history.

For the learning summary of the topic, I have learned about the importance and differences of primary and secondary sources in historical publishment. Because without an idea of historical accuracy, it could lead to misinformation and false history creation in the books or other reading source materials. Lastly, a question to further explore my interest in the topic "Does losing one proven credible source in a giant historical event affect the whole evidence?"

References of sources information:

Kathleen, E. (n.d.). All Guides: History: Primary vs Secondary. Sheridan College. https://sheridancollege.libguides.com/history/primary-secondary#:~:text=Primary%20sources%20include%20any%20original,examine%20and%20analyze%20primary%20sources.

Redmon, R. (2013). Primary vs Secondary Sources [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqXHO7bTPnw

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Time posted: 4:00 pm of August 29, 2023

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As a way of gathering the attention of the viewers to a certain product, big companies produce entertaining advertisements that have a creative way of introducing new or existing products to contest the popularity of the merchandise in the big market. However, some advertisements are not always true and entertaining to the audience. Like the main topic of this blog, it is about the controversial advertisement of JS Unitrade merchandise incorporated regarding their EQ diaper brand using real historical events depicting the arrival of the Spaniards to the Philippines.

This advertisement had mixed opinions about the way of introducing EQ diapers, whose quality is better than the product diaper of Magellan. Instead of showing the real story that happened in the past, EQ diaper added a manipulated scene explaining why Magellan was denied entry to the Philippines because of the low-quality diaper offered in the advertisement. It was creative but mockery about the historical event. According to the article by Matus C.L. (2013), Mayor Paz Radaza of Lapu-Lapu City demanded an apology from the producer of a brand of disposable diapers for pulling out their television advertisement that mocked the historic Battle of Mactan. In addition, "the victory of Datu Lapu-Lapu and his men serves as a fountain of pride for us Oponganons. As a people, we must always preserve and respect our culture and heritage. As a people, we must always be proud of our history," she said.

Which is why advertisements relating to historical events are heavily criticized by historians and other people because they give a distortion to the history and add bad influence to young children viewing the falsely advertised history on television in exchange for the popularity of their selling product or merchandise. At the end of the controversial advertisement, the JS Unitrade Merchandise incorporated holder of EQ diapers took down their advertisement due to many petitioners’ votes.

Reference link:

Matus, C. L. (2013, April 12). Diaper ad slammed for ‘distorting history’ | Inquirer News. INQUIRER.net. https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/389735/diaper-ad-slammed-for-distorting-history Commercial Link video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWTjD7QTE5A #COM01 #StopHistoryDistortion