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#1 Apr 03 2006 at 4:27 PM Rating: Excellent
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Ok, not really but I'm open to suggestions. I need a "narrow" topic pertaining to European history between the Industrial Revolution and WWII. I'd prefer to stay away from anything directly WWII related just because I feel it's been done to death.

"European imperialism" = Not narrow
"Primary causes of the Boer conflicts" = Narrow

Gimme, gimme...
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#2 Apr 03 2006 at 4:36 PM Rating: Decent
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Nobby's pretty narrow. Wasn't he born between those times?
#3 Apr 03 2006 at 4:37 PM Rating: Good
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Try the Huguenot Immigrations of the late 19th century?

Or perchance "Jack the Ripper" and the very real risk of a an 1880s Catholic Revolution?

Better yet. . . The "Pals Regiments" whereby entire villages were persuaded to give up all their young men to sign up for WW1 with an assurance that they'd be allowed to fight together. Result: In a single day, entire communities were widowed and orphaned in one day. A fascinating (while tragic) phenomenon that ran most weeks from 1916 to 1918.

Or the impact of Steam Power and emerging Rail Transport on economy

Or the same on man-made Canals.

Or Queen Victoria and the fact that her family (mainly sons-in-law) were at war with Great Britain (The Russian Czar in the 1917 revolution or the Kaiser in WW1 both fell into that category)

Or "how Abolitionism and the Emancipation movement undermined the newly founded British Cotton Industry"

Or "The role of german Jewish soldiers in WW1"

There's more if you want it. . .
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#4 Apr 03 2006 at 4:41 PM Rating: Good
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The European Enlightenment

-Scientific discoveries
-Woman oppurtunities
-absolutism of monarchy





#5 Apr 03 2006 at 4:43 PM Rating: Good
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#6 Apr 03 2006 at 5:02 PM Rating: Good


You wanna switch papers with me?

I have to write about the Scottsboro, Mississippi Burning, Scopes, Emmitt Till, and Moscow Show Trials and discuss how they were all shams and were decided based on majoritarian views instead of protecting the innocent the way trials should.

10 pages, due day after tomorrow. Chop chop!

#7 Apr 03 2006 at 5:22 PM Rating: Good
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they were all shams and were decided based on majoritarian views


"Majoritarian"? If you learned that word in school, quit now - their grasp of English is tenuous and gives me cause to fear for other aspects of their education.


re: "protecting the innocent"

The function of a trial is not to protect the innocent - does a trial not also exist to confirm the guilt of the accused? A trial occurs to provide a forum for the execution of a law, often resulting in some debate as to whether or not it should be employed. Trial setups can also be used to debate a laws merits, often by way of an example case.

The Scopes trial in particular was a test case designed to challenge the validity of an act passed in 1925 by the Tennessee legislature that banned the teaching of evolution, to whit:

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(I)t shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the Universities, Normals and all other public schools of the State which are supported in whole or in part by the public school funds of the State, to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.



John Scopes was a science teacher. After the Act had passed, the ACLU circulated an announcement that it was willing to go to bat for anyone who was willing to challenge the law. Scopes was one of a group of people who helped set up the test case. He was prosecuted by two lawyers who he was friends with for having taught biology out of the state-approved textbook (which had evolution info contained in it).

Scopes was found guilty of having violated the Act, largely at the request of his leading defense attorney, Clarence Darrow. Darrow wanted him found guilty so that the case could be appealed up to the Tennessee Supreme Court, where the law might be struck down. (As it happens, the decision in the case was reversed (and dismissed) on a technicality rather than on constitutional grounds.)


How on earth that trial supports a "majoritarian" viewpoint, given that the voter-elected Tennessee legislature had enacted the law thus challenged, is beyond me.
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The European Enlightenment

-Scientific discoveries
-Woman oppurtunities
-absolutism of monarchy
Post Industrial revolution... Smiley: wink2
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#10 Apr 03 2006 at 5:43 PM Rating: Good


Well, I think the idea is that the majority of those in TN believed in the validity of the law, whether right or wrong. The common theme of most of these cases is that a so-called majority idea was on trial more than the person actually being tried. The trials themselves were very political, which trials are not designed to be.

The Mississippi Burning trial sort of throws me a bit, because Cecil Ray Price was convicted of murdering the civil rights workers. There are still people in Neshoba County who don't think he should have been, heh. Maybe by that point the majority view of the rest of the US was taking over what was going on in Mississippi.

I used the word "majoritarian" because that is how it is phrased in the assignment. Hey, it -is- a real word, and I am not sure what your issue with it is?


#11 Apr 03 2006 at 5:54 PM Rating: Excellent
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Damn, at least what I was going to ask for was easier ;)

I have to write a manual, no more than 10 pages... I just figured a newb guide for wow would work.

And my homework sounds much more fun!
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#12 Apr 03 2006 at 6:42 PM Rating: Good
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How about a contrast between the economic development of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.

..or, discuss the "Age of Appeasment"

OR, the worthlessness of the League of Nations.

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#13 Apr 03 2006 at 6:55 PM Rating: Excellent
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The Role of Bismarck in the Unification of Germany
[...] It's 3 years old, but still. Don't mention it.
Far too short and lacks works cited and bibilography Smiley: grin
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#15 Apr 03 2006 at 8:25 PM Rating: Excellent
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How about European shipbuilding? All sorts of topics under there, and lots and lots of source material with cool pictures of ships! Maybe the historical reallignment of shipbuilding and shipping companies after 1912? Or the changing patterns of submarine warfare and the targetting of civilian ships during WWI and WWII, a compare and contrast?
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#16 Apr 03 2006 at 8:28 PM Rating: Good
Do it on that thread about the dead dog being restored that's sure to get you an A Smiley: sly
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