Introduction to Eugenics

http://www.emmerich1.com/EUGENICS.htm

Overview:

In this source the writer, John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe, writes about major subtopics that dealt with eugenics. He begins by giving the history of eugenics and what Francis Galton the creator of eugenics had really created eugenics for. Galton’s idea of eugenics was to improve the human race by selection of breeding. It also covers how Galton’s idea was for eugenics to be part of religion. Other major points that O’Keefe covers is how Hitler used eugenics to get rid of many people and how as soon as Hitler died many believed that eugenics had died with him, yet it continued even after World War II. He also goes into detail of Hitler and how he used eugenics causing the death of about one third of the Jews in the world. John covers many important parts where eugenics took place in.

Argument:

            I don’t believe that John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe presents an argument in his source but more of an information source. The writer does sort of take a side, since he only talks about the bad eugenics and how it was only used to destroy people but overall does seem to be more detail history of eugenics. The author of this source does give very strong evidence when he uses statistics to give a better idea or to set a stronger type of evidence. The author does cover very different parts that make up most of the history of eugenics around the world in the early twentieth century.

Source:

            The author of this source John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe is a Harvard graduate. In this document John doesn’t seem to be biased but seems to give just the history of eugenics not trying to argue or take a side on the topic. This source does seem very reliable to the amount of sources that are written in the bibliography that were used in writing O’Keefe’s document. The fact that he has so many sources makes it more reliable due to the fact that it’s not something he is just making up but he went about with other sources to create his own. This author does give a lot of great information on eugenics that can be considered reliable.