The Impact of the Relocation of Hebron: Personal Response Essay
M2 Personal Response Worksheet
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Student Name |
Wenge Lai |
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How well did you apply Jessica’s lessons? |
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Before you begin, check the Module 2 CORE course pack and additional materials and think about how you want to respond to your prompt.
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Also, before you write your thesis, check the thesis structure and examples.
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Outlining Stage |
Jessica’s Feedback (What to improve?) |
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Thesis Statement:
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- A: General Topic - B: Supporting details (Roadmap) - C: Overall reaction - Prompt with quotation marks |
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Background (Using the additional source provided by your professor)
Inuit of Hebron, Moravian Missions, Canadian Government,
-By the early 1800s, Moravian missionaries needed to open their fourth mission in Labrador in order to attract the non-Christian Inuit from the northern fjords - Nowhere on earth was the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic (see Influenza) more deadly than in Northern Labrador. Hebron lost close to two-thirds of its population (about 150 people died in a population of about 220). - In July 1943, as the Second World War was raging, the US Army obtained the Newfoundland government’s approval to install a secret weather station at Hebron. - On Easter Monday 1959, the people of Hebron were assembled in the Moravian church where representatives of the Newfoundland government, the Moravian Church, and International Grenfell Association announced their decision to close the mission.
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- Relevant information to the prompt? - Missing citation or quotation marks or page numbers? - Sufficient historical facts? |
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Body 1 (Assertion key words: reason for Harbon relocation and homesick of Habron )
“My grandma would always tell stories of back home” “It was to dispossess Inuit of land and language and culture anything that ties them to the land really to ensure that while people could use It for their own purposes.”
“I remember my grandmother just wanting to go home”
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- Match the order of the roadmap in the thesis? - Suitable assertion key words? - Evidence directly from the primary source? - Suitable evidence to support your thesis? - Proper citation? |
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Body 2 (Assertion key words: The pain of relocation, the past day in harborn, the life when they go to the new pleace )
“But when they got relocated here to Hopedale, they didn’t know the hunting ground, they were hunger there for some time’’
“Only the people that was supposed to. there was the man, there was not suppsoed to be any women” They cannot go anywhere and say anything, even though they had community hall in Hebron “It was painful for me when we were moving.” “They had some tears in their eyes, and it was hard for them” “everyone had to stay in the tant”
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- Match the order of the roadmap in the thesis? - Suitable assertion key words? - Evidence directly from the primary source? - Suitable evidence to support your thesis? - Proper citation? |
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Body 3 (Assertion key words: deeply affect )
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- Match the order of the roadmap in the thesis? - Suitable assertion key words? - Evidence directly from the primary source? - Suitable evidence to support your thesis? - Proper citation?
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References (Primary Source + ONE additional source in APA)
Procter, A. (2021). Hebron Mission National Historic Site of Canada. The Canadian Encyclopedia .https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/hebron-mission-national-historic-site-of-canada
National Film Board of Canada. (1981). Hebron relocation https://www.nfb.ca/film/hebron-relocation/
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- Primary source list? - One additional source list? - Correct APA? |
The Impact of the Relocation of Hebron: Personal Response Essay
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Course and Section
Professor’s Name
July 18, 2025
Assertion
The settlement of the Inuit at Hebron led to bitter emotional, physical, and cultural distress that resounds to this day. Losing a physical space, when forced to leave their dwellings, is only a part of what people lose in this case: it also includes a loss of a part of who they are, what traditions they relate to, and where they belong. To the Inuit, Hebron was not merely a locality, but rather a home and their personal land where they lived and sought their manner of life. This meaning was not appreciated by the government and the religious organizations, who instead viewed the community as a problem that could only be solved, but as a people who needed to be respected. Their deeds disregarded the history of the Inuit in Hebron since they laid very deep roots there, and the aftermath of their decision was catastrophic on a human scale.
General Evidence (Primary Source)
Vividly as captured in the video, such a massive hardship was faced; as observed in the video, upon relocating to Hopedale, they did not know the hunting field, they were hungry there, at least some time (National Film Board of Canada, 1981, 4:51). This is a strong orature not only describing embarrassing or rather disorienting nature of being in a foreign place but also of the life threatening factor not being able to reach known food supply. The Inuit who had lived precariously off the Hebron landscape, its hunting terrain, its weather, and its ecological pulse were now thrown at their mercy in a land they were unfamiliar with. Many had to starve and fight to survive in a hostile new world in which they had not even been prepared sufficiently to see or feel. The psychological and physiological impact of the event cannot be overestimated. Citizens became lost, unable to receive appropriate nutrition, and exposed with no cover, and the fundamental hardships soon turned into post-traumatic stress disorder.
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