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Lucky_Scrunchy
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Need some resources for this event, son doing an essay on it. Thanks in advance!
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Elizium23
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La Cristiada was just released, I understand it is a good resource. And of course, do not forget For Greater Glory and its companion book, these are must-see-must-reads for any Catholic, particularly any Latino or American Catholic.
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Destiny93
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As the post above me says, the movie “For Greater Glory” which was recently released is a very good movie that gives a good overview of the 3 year war in Mexico.
A search on Wikipedia gives a very good overview as well and from there if more information is needed, you can search for specific terms/events in Google. And yes, I am aware most teachers hate Wikipedia saying it’s not reliable. Quite honestly, I don’t know why they continue to say that. I have often compared information in Wikipedia to other sources, and the information between wikipedia and the “more reliable” sources tends to be the same, and wikipedia often has better explanations. But take that with a grain of salt I suppose, but from my experience, Wikipedia has never given me any false information.
Or just in general a Google search will come up with many good results. It’s relatively easy to hunt around in google.
A search on Wikipedia gives a very good overview as well and from there if more information is needed, you can search for specific terms/events in Google. And yes, I am aware most teachers hate Wikipedia saying it’s not reliable. Quite honestly, I don’t know why they continue to say that. I have often compared information in Wikipedia to other sources, and the information between wikipedia and the “more reliable” sources tends to be the same, and wikipedia often has better explanations. But take that with a grain of salt I suppose, but from my experience, Wikipedia has never given me any false information.
Or just in general a Google search will come up with many good results. It’s relatively easy to hunt around in google.
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Elizium23
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The reason Wikipedia is not reliable is that it is basically a battleground. Especially in controversial or high-profile articles, there is usually a roughly equal number of people working hard to compromise their integrity and push a certain POV vs. the people trying to enforce Wikipedia policies, and even when the latter are winning, Wikipedia policies don’t help too much in the face of widespread consensus among a mostly-liberal mostly-atheist editor population. I have seen a lot of good editors come and go because they don’t know how to navigate the massive bureaucracy behind the scenes or they just felt marginalized and persecuted by the others.
Wikipedia is founded upon verifiability, which means that any given fact or assertion can be looked up in a secondary source and corroborated, but so many editors contribute information that it is hard for the small minority who comb through and watch for obvious errors or dubious material that needs to be flagged or removed. So the end result is that a well-watched, uncontroversial article, particularly one that has risen to GA or FA status, these can be a goldmine of reliable information, but once you reach into small corners of the site looking for stuff on a particular project, you can be hit with some terrible stuff. My editing career there is almost like a part-time job and even when I take a deliberate break from it, I still find lots of errors to correct as a gnome as I casually browse articles that interest me.
I wouldn’t totally discourage Wikipedia use for school projects, but I suggest always going for the cited facts and always following up by clicking those citation links and reading what they really have to say. I often do this as the References and External links sections of Wikipedia articles are highly concentrated good information. Good luck.
Wikipedia is founded upon verifiability, which means that any given fact or assertion can be looked up in a secondary source and corroborated, but so many editors contribute information that it is hard for the small minority who comb through and watch for obvious errors or dubious material that needs to be flagged or removed. So the end result is that a well-watched, uncontroversial article, particularly one that has risen to GA or FA status, these can be a goldmine of reliable information, but once you reach into small corners of the site looking for stuff on a particular project, you can be hit with some terrible stuff. My editing career there is almost like a part-time job and even when I take a deliberate break from it, I still find lots of errors to correct as a gnome as I casually browse articles that interest me.
I wouldn’t totally discourage Wikipedia use for school projects, but I suggest always going for the cited facts and always following up by clicking those citation links and reading what they really have to say. I often do this as the References and External links sections of Wikipedia articles are highly concentrated good information. Good luck.
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