A children\'s song and dance, Ring around the Rosie, is traceable back to at lea

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A children's song and dance, Ring around the Rosie, is traceable back to at least 1790 in the United States and 1796 in Germany. It was widely held that it was a reference to one of the last outbreaks of the bubonic plague (The Black Death that struck England in the 1660s). Some folklorists disputed the connection, though this belief in the song and dance's origin was widespread. Assume you were alive in 1790 in England and attempted to find the origins of that song and dance. Would you have chosen narrative inquiry, content analysis, or historic analysis as your methodology? Why?

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In my view, I would have utilised historical analysis in order to find the origins of the song. Narrative inquiry is fit for the analysis of the lives of a few individuals whereas content analysis relies on deriving information from various sources (such as texts, videos, images etc) which may not have been present in that day and age. Both of these analyses are therefore inappropriate. A historical analysis would allow me to examine evidence in coming to an understanding of the past.

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