During your initial research for a thesis paper, you read through various articles on president harry truman’s firing of general douglas macarthur. one of the articles presents numerous criticisms of truman’s logic. you read about the author and see that he once was an officer under macarthur’s command. although this article presents information that supports your thesis, what should you take into consideration?

Although this article presents information that supports your thesis, what you should take into consideration is whether the article is biased.

Explanation:

As the author of the article was once an officer under MacArthur, he may be criticizing the logic used by Truman to dismiss MacArthur, based on his admiration for MacArthur and not on real and accurate facts. In that case, you should look for more articles that deal with this subject, to realize what the author in what points the author was biased and at what points he was unbiased with the information.

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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