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=Evaluation of Sources (250-400 words) Tips]=

Source 1: My Grand Mothers Interview
After this interview with my grand mother i have understood that her childhood was miserable, how she saw her dad being beaten and even died due to the Guardia Civil, but her dad did not even know what a republican or a Franchist was, he never had the chance to listen to the news, so to them it was absolutely unfair, and they didn't understand what was going on. Her childhood was based under misery, hunger and violance. Her only piece of clothing was a dress that her mother had made her, and two pairs of shoes that her mother had made with old car weals to make the bottom of the shoe "my mum used to go around the streets and look for old car weals to be able to make my shoes", her toys wern't from big facturies, they were just a dishtowel that she considered as a doll. she also entertained herself by rubbin foods from fields, due to the starvation she had to go through everyday. There was also a system called "Casillas de Racionamiento", every Spanish grand mother or father will know about this. Every family was given a specific amount of bred a week, this was called "Casillas de Racionamiento". The onmy food that she would eat were "Migas de pan" in other words Bred Crums with potatoe skin this would be cooked in a pan, and that would be the only meal of the day. They never had dinner, because they didn't have enough food for that priviledge. The education in school was very different for rich people and for poor people. Unlukily her social situation was very poor. "the republicans were always the worst in the class" When she arrived to school she wasn't allowed to enter in the classroom before anyone else, or to even talk in class, otherwise she would be hitten by the teacher. She was labelled as a republican due to her situation, Republicans were not given good marks no matter how much effort was put into the work. I find this this source very accurate and reliable, because by reading this you can already feel how horrible the situation was, and you can picture the scenes exactly as they are explained, like in a movie. On the other had, this is an oral source, so this will be very objective, she maybe only remembers the very shocking and horrible moments of her childhood and not the positive ones because there weren't as many. But she didn't have much opinion on it as she was too young now, she is against fascism, and she doesn't understand how in 2009 people can still label facism and republicans. Her situation is now extremely good, because she has fought for her children and worked everyday for the education of her three children no matter what the laws were, she followed her instinct.

Source 2: Ruth Rubio Marin
In terms of purpose of this source by Ruth Rubio Marin we can she see that she is a reliable source as she has written about the constitutional rights of women in twelve centuries about Spain, as she is Spanish, she had studied in Oxford and her major interest is about women rights and how the were treated throughout wars and how certain factors weren’t fair towards them. In her source that I have quoted on the paragraph previously she says ‘Under Franco, women relegated to the private realm and oppressed ina patriarchal family structure which was conceived as the main well of civil society’, in this source she is emphasizing the fact that women had no rights to work or to have a social life. **(this is really all about the ORIGIN of the source, not its purpose, despite what you try to say)**

On the other hand, the origins of this source can be considered as a limitation as the source was written by a women who as we can see is against the reforms that Franco was imposing. Maybe she was very protective towards women, she may protect them a bit too much as she is a Spanish women as well herself, and she can not stand the fact that women were so under estimated as they worked hard for their families, she maybe did not understand how a generation could use women this way how they could treat them the way they did, why were they not allowed to word as men, or to continue a normal life like women in our generation would? **(too many "maybe"s here - this isn't good enough - again, you need to be commenting on THIS PARTICULAR source and THIS PARTICULAR author!!!)**