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Learn About Archives With Me!


     Hi everyone! In today’s entry, I will be discussing archives. When I first started searching for an archive it’s important to find one that is interesting to you. At first, I had no idea what an archive was and I have never done anything like it before. Once I started to get a glimpse of archives, I started by typing in “National Archives” into Google to find a broad variety of different ones. You may ask yourself what is an archive? An archive online can be a visual representation of a collection of historical documents or records including information about a place, institution, or group of people. Although a conventional archive may not be, in this case, I will be discussing online archives. 

There are many ways to create different archives and as you may know,  if you read my about me post "meet the face behind the post" I am a Criminal Justice major. I enjoy learning about things related to that. So I ended up find a Nation Archive of Criminal Justice data that has different categories to choose from relating to Special Data Topic archives. This archive was much easier to understand since I enjoy reading about different aspects of Criminal Justice, and you didn't need any background knowledge of Criminal Justice at all to read these archives. 

Archives are an important detail that can help you the reader to better understand past events. The way you interpret the photo can be different from the way I interpret the photo. For example, this photo archive down below is my little dog named Porter who is sitting on the window sill looking outside at the snow.  It was really cold that day and I could explain to you this photo but showing you a visual representation of my dog looking out the window is better.  I made my other photographs available on my blog page at the top named “my photo archives!” and these are different photographs I have chosen to show you a glimpse of my daily life through this tough time. This is important because in a few years when others and myself look back at these archives I can see what I went through during that time and how different it is now. This is a  historical time frame that will be looked at and you can create your own so you can contribute to your own archive of the Covid-19 pandemic. 




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