Baptism of Fire : Regarding five men within the Canadian army and their experiences on the western front of the First World War
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The main purpose of this study was to bring history to life in order to contribute to a greater understanding of historical characters. Being able to relate to historical individuals will greatly increase student's interests in relation to the subject, and thereby their knowledge. This is one of the main struggles amongst history teachers, which would make a study like this significant in regards to history as a school subject. This was done by analyzing personal documents belonging to five individuals of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War One. These documents consisted of seventeen letters which were sent from the western front to the families of these five men. The process of gathering these letters also made sure to involve letters sent from the beginning and end of the particular soldier's war. The analysis was comprised of three main questions which were answered and eventually contributed to the fulfillment of the main purpose. The three questions were as follows. What did these servicemen choose to involve in the letters to their families? Why did they choose to involve this particular content? How was the initial content changed in comparison to the latter? The letters were examined using a qualitative content analysis which made it possible to identify three main themes of content, and thereby answering the first question. The why and how question however, required the use of a theoretical starting point and some previous research. Sigmund Freud's theory about the so called death drive proved to be an intriguing jumping-off point to these questions. Not only did it provide the study with the conclusion that soldiers are driven by a will to live, and being reunited with their families. It also implied that the procedure of reaching this goal might result in the desire of inflicting harm upon others, although in a non-personal way. The analysis came to the conclusion that letters are a good way to bring history to life, which were strengthened by the small details in each letter. This study can also function as a template for future studies, meaning that the backbone of this study can be applied to any theatre of war which contains a correspondence between family and soldier.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.055 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".