Posts Tagged ‘08Fern299’

I would like in this post to write about the subject matter of constructing the hero or villan figure in history and in popular culture.  Nicholas’ presentation of General George Armstrong Custer’s cult of personality as a hero was terrific.  He addressed the need of celebrity figures in popular culture as a reflection of cultural [...]

As I have addressed in my previous post, meeting with David from the UMW Speaking Center was a pleasant experience and helped to relieve a little of my outrageous amount of speech anxiety I have as I currently have beads of sweat dripping from my face just thinking about it.  As I think of it [...]

I am writing about the speech I am giving tomorrow for History 299.  I feel confident in the fact that I can give a good speech courtesy from your comments about my Literary Review Presentation.  The UMW Speaking Center has also been of a great assistance as well.  David who was my speaking consultant, gave [...]

With four days left until the rough draft of the HIST 299 thesis paper, I feel like I am in control of my destiny.  Thus far I have found a plethora of secondary sources and a few primary sources.  Because the paper will have to deal with primary sources, I feel that the only trouble [...]

I am glad to say that I am making progress with my research paper. I finally started digging into my T.E. Lawrence primary source (better late than never) and I am finding great information in it. I had already began to form my argument regarding their relationship and their work just by reading Bell’s primary [...]

As the title says the time has finally come to write the paper which i have been researching about for more than three months now. The biggest problem, for me at least, is how exactly am I actually going to do this and not completely suck at it. So…..I have had to do a lot [...]

I’ve finally sat down and started to pick through my primary sources. This process has actually helped me come up with a formal thesis, which I have been struggling with.  I believe that my paper will argue that the not only was the UN effort a failure, but that it actually made things worse in Bosnia. [...]

       Palms sweaty, heart racing, face heating up, and the room closing in, all symptoms of presentation freak out!!
I guess my best advice for a great, semi-stress free presentation would be to come prepared, know your subject well and be flexible on the content, in case your running over the time frame (something I learned from our [...]

I am starting to make some progress on my research paper, and I finally feel like it is manageable. I am beginning to find answers to the questions I am looking at. I’m beginning to understand the complex relationship between Gertrude Bell and T.E. Lawrence. I am also starting to build from their relationship and [...]

I read David Rohde’s book this weekend called Endgame. n his book Rohde tries to answer the question of who is responsible for the fall of Srebrenca. According to Rohde, everyone who was involved was at fault in someway for the tragedy that occured, even the citizens of Srebrenica!
Rohde’s believes that the morale of the Srebrenican citizens was so low that [...]

As you can see with my title, I am very optimistic on my Capone project and I have found five sources very useful.  I collected seven new sources for my quest towards finding the generous and compassionate nature of Al Capone and I have found one being very useful towards getting to know Al Capone [...]

so fall break gave me a little time to think about my paper and how I should approach my thesis.  the economic factor of how the Iranian Revolution effected the United States is no longer the central issue to my paper.  I am more interested in the events leading to the Iranian Revolution and how [...]

The literary review for any course is very challenging in many ways and this one is not an exception.  I currently have five secondary resources that are books for my project and the challenge of finding sources grows daunting.  I am going to look for sources that are indirectly involved with my topic to help [...]

For my research project, I am studying sources about both Gertrude Bell and T.E. Lawrence. Many of the Bell sources tend to hint at the fact that Bell was the “brains” behind Lawrence’s work. I was just looking through one of my Lawrence sources, trying to get ready to write my lit. review, and I [...]

alright so the title of this blog isn’t very interesting haha but i think one of the things i will mention about my paper is that its focusing less on the energy crisis in the United States and more-so their influence of the Iranian Revolution.  one piece of information i am investigating actually has to [...]

So after turning in the draft of my proposal and having Claire review my paper, I finally realized that my project was going absolutely nowhere. I’m pretty sure I learned a valuable lesson: Trying to research the causes of a suicide is not a project that can be finished in a short amount of time. [...]

one of the things that I have found on my primary source on the Joint Economic Committee is that it scopes too broad of a category of items that are being imported and exported to/from the United States.  Although there are very interesting pieces of information, i do not believe that this will carry the [...]

This rabbit hole void is devouring me, but I love it! I am digging through the New York Times archives for every published work in the 1860’s and 1870’s that mentions Custer. It is beyond fascinating! I’m only about twenty articles in, roughly the fall of 1864, but here are the highlights so far:
- Custer, [...]

So some of the good internet sources that I have found that anything off of the UMW library website of course is going to be helpful. But I am extremely worried about Wikipedia. Other than that I am lacking behind in doing the research so I need to get on the ball with that. Any [...]

So the proposal is due monday. I am honestly still trying to figure out where it is exactly I want to go with discussing women’s roles during the Great Depression. The collection of letters written to Mrs. Elanor Roosevelt. I have read the introduction. I am still not sure where to go to find seconday [...]

Hi Everyone,
I wanted to just remind everyone on my topic. The person is Lillian Wald, and she was an incrediable woman. Lillian was and still is very inspiring, and this is one reason why I wanted to research her. In a way she reminds me of me when it comes to our caring nature and [...]

    The first time, it was cute. Funny even. Having an idea, then being told that the paper topic I had developed wasn’t feasable. I dried my tears, girded my loins, and decided on another paper topic about the Marvel Comics S.H.I.E.L.D. title.
And then reality lifted its steel-toed boot of truth and kicked me in the teeth.
    Apparently, [...]

So, reading through Paris (see post below), I keep finding references to the French king sending envoys to the Mongol king and vice versa asking for an alliance against the Saracens [Muslims].  Which is interesting, considering the mongols, to the europeans, were uncivilized, bloodthirsty barbarians who knew neither language nor religion.  There’s even a transcription [...]

How many of y’all are working with really old sources? One of my secondary sources (the one I got via inter-library loan) is from 1891 by two of the most famous French historians (Jules and Edourd Goncourt), and every time I pick the book up I am terrified that I am going to break it. [...]

Okay, I think I finally narrowed my topic down some. I would really like to find out why Gertrude committed suicide. But, is it ever really possible to know exactly why someone committed suicide? Especially if they did not leave a suicide note. Gertrude had been acting strangely the night of her suicide. But, then [...]