2005 History Extension Major Project Topics (1 Viewer)

[kirabolton]

for a price i am willing to sell my project! im class of 04 so im done with school. it was about stalingrad, i cant be bothered explaining it further, but anybody interested? LOL

i don't want to buy it, that's just silly, but i am curious to what you actually did regarding stalingrad?

 

[ash_earth]

Hi

Hi,
For my project I am doing Homoerotism and the way historians have interpreted homosexuality through the ages. Focusing on the 50-60’s interpretation and the 00’s interpretation.
How about you?

 

[veridis]

i'm doing the portrayal and exaggeration of the role of the longbow at Agincourt 1415.

a few of my other topics that i as thinking of were the conituation war(finland v USSR WWII but almost a seperate conflict), the language of learning - a chronology and study of the learned languages through the ages(ie latin then french then english), the new left - progressive or destructive - a study of the new left movement of america in the 60's

 

[something_funny]

veridis you sound very intelligent , i shall think i will befriend you over the coming year

 

[Odourless]

I'm leaning towards doing Richard III at the time of the end of the War of the Roses and who he was plus the way he has been portrayed such as in Shakespear's Richard III.

If you are having trouble I suggest you just start to pinpoint areas that you enjoy and keep getting narrower and narrower. i.e Start with Medieval History, Then say an area like England and then perhaps a time like 1300 etc. etc.

Make sure you do something you like otherwise you wont end up finishing it!

 

[veridis]

ah good old shakespeare. so much fun tearing strips off the guy. i dont have anything against the bloke but the flaws in how he's taught are just too fun not to criticise him.

@something - seems my verbosity has fooled you too =) if only i had motivation enough to be productive. so what topic you doing?

 

[super_moron]

yes i was only joking i would never sell my essay, its my baby, my pride and joy!

what i did regarding stalingrad? well firstly its on the modern history syllabus so i had to be careful that i didnt write about anything that the syllabus covered. as i didnt do modern, i relied on my teacher to approve the proposal thingy...turns out that what i wrote about was kinda in the modern syllabus but my teacher overlooked that part or something...but its all good, its internally marked well my whole caseline went "The significance of the battle of stalingrad in the eventual defeat of nazi germany"

 

[*zara*]

thanx 4 sharing your topics seems interesting
ive done wat you said and ive found a topic that really interests me then i broadened it to include other events
i began with bloody sunday (in ireland 1972) like wat really happened instead of how the media portrayed it
so i decided to broaden it ........ the effect of culture, religion,country etc on the way the media conveys some of the top stories so im using an event from the past "bloody sunday" something more rescent "war in iraq" and maybe another event
ill be looking at diferent news channels eg/ aljazera, cnn, alarabia and other newspapers from different countries at different times then i can look more deeply and compare blah blah blah ................... sooo what do youz think????? give me some feedback and your opinions id love to read them !!!!
thanx

 

[usnac]

not sure about my question but i was thinking of doing something about Ataturk, what do you guys think?

 

[thugstylz_69]

thinkin of doin sumthin on german unification and bismarck

 

[Odourless]

I'm going to do Richard III and the way he got to power plus stuff on his rise to power and how he has been portrayed after his death and how this has changed (i.e. Shakespear's Richard III)

 

[freaked!]

considering the effects of brain washing and conditioning on the hitler youth during the second world war, it may however run into modern course so i may have to modify

 

[waterfowl]

considering the effects of brain washing and conditioning on the hitler youth during the second world war, it may however run into modern course so i may have to modify

Oh I saw a doco on the Hitler-Jugend a while ago on SBS. I had never really heard of it before and I found it very interesting! Especially how they set it up so sneakily to look like a "boy scouts" group, but how they were really just training them to become soldiers!!
The scariest part of the doco was shots of a stadium full of thousands and thousands of (brainwashed) children saluting Hitler.
Very interesting topic.

 

[veridis]

i think maybe concentrating on bloody sunday would be better. i had to research a bit of it for seamus heany(was meant to do the 1920 one but stuffed up) in ext 1 and it was realy interesting. the perspectives of the official army line, the IRA response, the civil rights movement and the two diferent enquiries would be realy interesting to contrast

its just a personal thing but i think avoiding real recent issues is good as you have less personal bias. the whole time brings objectivity thing

 

[Manan]

Hey Guys,

Just to make my life extra difficult I'm thinking of studying some along the lines of "Vladimir Lenin's reception and implementation of Marx's socialist idealogy into Revolutionary Russia-1917."

My only concern is that it may be too broad, and I dont know how to cut it down a bit.....

Oh, the idea that Zara had about media's portrayal and role in major events is really interesting I reckon...It could take you a long way....

Oh, what's everybody doing for their study in class???

 

[glycerine]

I'm doing something on Bloody Sunday (Ireland, 1975), I think on journalistic representations of it?

 

[veridis]

oohh 2 on bloody sunday
but there was one in 75 as well?
so not getting on your feminist high horse with theodora for your MW then =)

 

[glycerine]

AH! FUCK!
you can tell i'm braindead tonight, I keep mixing up my dates, emperors, everything. I just started a practise q on extradition for legal studies and wrote "exaggeration" instead like 4 times in two paragraphs. I think I'm channelling the spirit of jessica simpson or something.

1972 is the correct date, I'm doing it because I'm half Irish and I love Irish history.

I would love to get on my feminist high horse with Theodora for this, unfortunately we did Major Research Projects for both the histories in the prelim course and my one for ancient was basically arguing that she was one of history's first feminists. So unfortunately I can't really do her again for this. :\

 

[veridis]

i find modern irish gistory rather tedious. interesting on individual event scale but overall nothing much is changing or getting resolved
the older stuff like celts and the gaelic style castles on the other hand i find fascinating. not half irish but have irish heritage(like way back before they came out here 2nd fleet style heritage but heritage nonetheless). did my ancient MRP on the newgrange tomb. neolithic sites are so easy to discuss interpretations of

 

[glycerine]

i've never done much on irish history from before the 1800s, i think the earliest i've really done besides some brief stuff on the celts in elective history in yr 9 was my project on the potato famine.

i get kind of rrrr about the current conflict, because on one hand i very strongly believe that the english should stand down and make it an entire republic. but then you have the issue that the actual republic of ireland is dominated pretty much entirely by catholic values, ie abortion is all but illegal and many people in northern ireland don't want to give up the fight purely because they're scared of losing some of the liberties and rights they get from living in a secular society.