Day 4 post

Today i learned that over time its hard for some people to tell the difference between what is true and what is false. For example in the case of the "shot heard around the world" there were accounts that both the british and American accounts that the one another was the first o shoot. In class to day we looked at multiple documents all claiming that different things accured during this battle. Some of the British documents even said the British were the first ones to shoot. My main question is, what do i believe? I have so many different stories from poeple all claiming they saw or heard what happened. In reality you can't just believe anything you read, because here i am still confused on who was right in this situation. In order to figure out all of the possibilities that are false you have to look into why this person was writing this, for pleasure, for legal purposes, or for self gain. If it is for legal purposes or self gain you may not want to believe what it says. When someone writes something in a journal, no one is going to see what they are writing, and they are not going to get into trouble for writiing it, some people also write false things or put their opinion in their work to much, but sometimes journals are not always accurate as well. You just have to learn how to eliminate the ones that can not possibly be right and ones that could possibly be right. I think that this activity helped open my ideas that i really have to always watch what i use as my primary sources and how peoples opinions conflict in my different sources.