If you could write a dissertation on anything political/historical, what would it be?

[cheisgreat]

I was just thinking this time next year I will have handed mine in.

Have you already done one, what was it on? Would you change it if you had to do it again, with the benefit of hindsight?

I have loads of ideas in my head atm, I'll have to think about it much more this summer.

Did you not go to Uni, but have some ideas, political events, etc you would have liked to have wrote about in a dissertation?

[Raúl Duke]

For some reason, I always thought that one good idea for a thesis for a masters or a doctorate, in my case, was to write about the Puerto Rican independence movement in an unbiased way. I feel that most people either wrote about them with too much praise (i.e. I don't understand why they all like Pedro Albizu Campos, I suspect he and his party could have ben fascist/falangist {of the italian or spanish type} sympathizers and I read somewhere they got the support of the old land-owning elite which was losing their position to foreign U.S. suger companies) or with to much disdain (by those who support PR become a state or some such who would usually try to slanderise the movement).

Although outside of academic considerations, I would like to study many things. Currently, I would like to learn more about modern Middle-Eastern history.

[Killfacer]

The History of coolness in Killfacer's life.

[An archist]

I'm writing one about prisons at the moment. Bloody interesting.

[Rusty Shackleford]

I would like to do research on pop culture/mass media, and its affects on society. how it may tie into corporatism and politics.

or


i would like to write a paper on the varying ideologies within the left. i think it would be a good way to learn the views, and atleast get one person to read about them

[Black Dagger]

I would like to do research on pop culture/mass media, and its affects on society. how it may tie into corporatism and politics.


Have you read Manufacturing Consent? It's basically the same thesis and is worth reading.

[Le Libérer]

My upcoming thesis for my Masters be in Social Work, will either The effects of institutional living on the elderly (inspired by RS2Ks plight since being placed in a nursing home following his stroke) or The AIDS epidemic, 20 years later, which is historical in nature, but also relates to my personal work for the last 15 years.

I would like to write a thesis or even an article elaborating on Pacifism and the state. I recently read a small book, " How nonviolence protects the State", by Peter Gelderloosand. In this book he challenges the trend since the 1960s civil rights movement on nonviolence as it relates to social change in the US. By employing the tactic of pacifism, is to do nothing more than serve the needs of the state which should be challenged, and not be worked within the confines of it.

There were several very good points made in the book, but one in particular I would want to expound on is hows pacifism reinforces the same power dynamic as patriarchy.

Oh and JohnnyDarko, if you didnt get a copy yet, I can send you mine. I just need to locate what I did with it. :)

[An archist]

My upcoming thesis for my Masters be in Social Work, will either The effects of institutional living on the elderly (inspired by RS2Ks plight since being placed in a nursing home following his stroke) or The AIDS epidemic, 20 years later, which is historical in nature, but also relates to my personal work for the last 15 years.

I would like to write a thesis or even an article elaborating on Pacifism and the state. I recently read a small book, " How nonviolence protects the State", by Peter Gelderloosand. In this book he challenges the trend since the 1960s civil rights movement on nonviolence as it relates to social change in the US. By employing the tactic of pacifism, is to do nothing more than serve the needs of the state which should be challenged, and not be worked within the confines of it.

There were several very good points made in the book, but one in particular I would want to expound on is hows pacifism reinforces the same power dynamic as patriarchy.

Oh and JohnnyDarko, if you didnt get a copy yet, I can send you mine. I just need to locate what I did with it. :)



Hehe, that's becoming quite a popular book.

[Holden Caulfield]

I wrote 2 A level papers: One of the 1683 Siege of Vienna and its effects on 'Europe' and one on Irish Republican leaders.

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

The 1926 British General Strike

[Raúl Duke]

My upcoming thesis for my Masters be in Social Work, will either The effects of institutional living on the elderly (inspired by RS2Ks plight since being placed in a nursing home following his stroke) or The AIDS epidemic, 20 years later, which is historical in nature, but also relates to my personal work for the last 15 years.

I would like to write a thesis or even an article elaborating on Pacifism and the state. I recently read a small book, " How nonviolence protects the State", by Peter Gelderloosand. In this book he challenges the trend since the 1960s civil rights movement on nonviolence as it relates to social change in the US. By employing the tactic of pacifism, is to do nothing more than serve the needs of the state which should be challenged, and not be worked within the confines of it.

There were several very good points made in the book, but one in particular I would want to expound on is hows pacifism reinforces the same power dynamic as patriarchy.

Oh and JohnnyDarko, if you didnt get a copy yet, I can send you mine. I just need to locate what I did with it. :)



Sounds interesting and something that is important for me to read at this point of time.

Although currently I'm not in Florida so I'll just have to ask for it when I return or something.

[Black_Flag]

I was just thinking this time next year I will have handed mine in.

Have you already done one, what was it on? Would you change it if you had to do it again, with the benefit of hindsight?

I have loads of ideas in my head atm, I'll have to think about it much more this summer.

Did you not go to Uni, but have some ideas, political events, etc you would have liked to have wrote about in a dissertation?


I've to do the same thing in two years. Was thinking of doing something about the Spanish Civil War?

[bcbm]

Your mom.

[black magick hustla]

a marxist analysis of the scientific community

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

A scientific analysis of the Marxist community.

[black magick hustla]

thats a tautology

[black magick hustla]

actually its not but that makes no sense cuz' there are different subdisciplines of science, you cannot use chemistry to analyze marxism

[black magick hustla]

ptolemys epicicles are getting over your technocratic brain my comrade

[black magick hustla]

chemistry is for tossers and people who like rote memorization and dumb premeds anyway

[Black Dagger]

^-- you should write a book composed entirely of your own short observations about shit. I'd buy it.

[black magick hustla]

someone actually appreciates my sleep deprived one-liners. i feel so fulfilled

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

actually its not but that makes no sense cuz' there are different subdisciplines of science, you cannot use chemistry to analyze marxism

Who said I wanted to use chemistry?


ptolemys epicicles are getting over your technocratic brain my comrade

That's funny you should mention epicycles, since I was studying their spiritual successors, orbits, yesterday. Of course it would be a lot easier for me to study if there wasn't this fucking stupid 4 image limit in the blogs, if something doesn't get done about it soon I may have to take my intended posts somewhere else, but I'd much rather be able to post to my blog here.

Hmmm. It might be worth doing an additional blog entry on the Ptolemaic model, for the lulz if nothing else. What would be the implications of such a universe?


chemistry is for tossers and people who like rote memorization and dumb premeds anyway

Isn't chemistry simply a subdiscipline of physics nowadays?

[Angry Young Man]

I won't :) No tiresome essay writing to judge my degree by! I get to do a performance composition!

There probably will, knowing me, be a political bent, but the point remains...

I DON'T HAVE TO DO A DISSERTATION!!!!!!!!! FUCK YOU NON-DRAMA STUDENTS!!!!! .|..:lol:..|.