The account of the San Francisco earthquake and fire explores the individual account of a man living in San Francisco during 1906. This is accented by a few more foundational documents highlighting logistical work like electricity permits and repair documents. These would help support the perspective by supplying concrete evidence of what occurred, helping create a more realistic understanding of the significance of the events.<\/p>\n
From Edward Laveaga, we would see the devastation of San Francisco, alongside the aftermath, atmosphere, and public response, from one individual man. This would paint a picture of not only objectivity, but also incorporate the \u201chuman\u201d element of the devastation. I think this distinction is important, especially in a class introducing digital humanities, because it helps draw the line between what we know objectively, and how the public would have responded to it with less-tangible reactions.<\/p>\n
This narrative is presented by an individual person, which means it presents an individual perspective. It\u2019s important to remain aware of how Laveaga\u2019s proximity to the earthquake, and his knowledge and experience within San Francisco might impact how he recounts the tragedy of the 1906 earthquake. Ideally, multiple first-person perspectives, as well as objectively collected structural and geographic data, would be combined to create a more complete account of the event.\u00a0 <\/span>While aggregating all the data would be borderline impossible, each additional source uncovers a greater clarification of how the events transpired.<\/p>\n To address these gaps, we could turn to city-wide and national organizations that track natural disaster devastation. We could also turn to look at economic impacts by studying the demographic data of residents and workers within San Francisco prior to, and after, the earthquake. The data from over 100 years ago may not be as complete, organized, or comprehensive as you would find today, but still important for painting a clearer picture of the events of the past.<\/p>\n It would be interesting to have a greater understanding of who Edward was individually, and what factors in his life might have lead him to operate in the manner he does currently. This would give more information on where his life might influence his knowledge and perspective when recounting the events of the San Francisco earthquake. While most personal accounts must be taken with a grain of salt, circumstances such as an earthquake might not fall a victim to person bias as much as activities regarding subjective results \u2014 like politics or personal interactions. This, at the very least, helps me personally defend the merit of a single-man\u2019s account more than it would for the aforementioned activities. Of course, what Edward chooses to write about and how that would impact our understanding of the situation will always be fairly ambiguous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The account of the San Francisco earthquake and fire explores the individual account of a man living in San Francisco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}