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If I post some history coursework I have done in here, will someone just read it and tell me it all makes sense from the perspective of someone who doesnt know my town.

This would help me SO much.

I lost marks in GCSE History for detailing why the Americans lost the Vietnam war in terms of technology and politics rather than the human side of it all. They don't seem to actually as much about facts and knowledge as they do about how well you can "understand" what people at the time were feeling.

I have trouble working out whether or not I'm in a good mood. How in the sweet name of Jebus am I supposed to understand what a poor black man from Alabama was thinking while being shot at in the middle of the Vietnamese jungle?

Heh, I finished the main part of my coursework, it took me 5 hours and I wrote ten pages in size 12. I still have a conclusion to do and include maps! Im gooood

I don't do history anymore because I really hated writing all of those essays during half terms.
The last ever essay I had to write during the Summer hols was to do with a historical figure, I chose Martin Luther King because my sister still had her copy of the essay she wrote on him.

I just spruced it up a bit and cut bits out that I didn't need, but the lucky thing was was that my sister had the same History teacher as my one then (but it was 3 years ago). I took a chance that he wouldn't remember it seeing as though I changed all of the pictures she used it worked. I didn't get found out and I got 5 merits (crappy system for making us feel good) which only students under year 10 used.

Microchips wrote:
> Skarra wrote:
> You poor person. My coursework was on Hitler and Stalin.
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> Same here. We have four pieces to do, and so we have done:
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> 1) Evacuation
> 2) Battle of Britain & Dunkirk
> 3) Operation Barbarossa
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> and now I have this to do over Christmas:
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> 4) Stalingrad.
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> I'm relatively lucky then, I guess.
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> :D

We didn't do the war, we did the rise of Hitler and Stalin. I'd like to have done the war though.

Paranoid Idiot wrote:
> Nice way to boost your word count. I like it.


yeah thats right mate. I thought to myself, "hmm I fancy boosting my word count, shall I make a really long post that could win me a GAD or shall I spend 4 hours writing a history project?"

Shut up.

Nice way to boost your word count. I like it.

I have already done two pieces, both on Northern Ireland conflicts.

I have one more to do after this piece, which is about Nazi Germany.

I am doing A level history after this though and will be doing about the Russian front and stuff. Fun.

Skarra wrote:
> You poor person. My coursework was on Hitler and Stalin.



Same here. We have four pieces to do, and so we have done:

1) Evacuation
2) Battle of Britain & Dunkirk
3) Operation Barbarossa

and now I have this to do over Christmas:

4) Stalingrad.


I'm relatively lucky then, I guess.

:D

You poor person. My coursework was on Hitler and Stalin. No offence, but local history doesn't sound all that exciting. Mind, learning how Hitler and Stalin killed millions of their own people isn't all that great a read either.

gerrid wrote:
> AH well.
> It makes sense.

Did you really read it or are you lying to appease me?