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The Major Work! Tips from a 2016 survivor :)
olr1999:
--- Quote from: sudodds on July 20, 2017, 07:56:53 pm ---For future reference, this was my synopsis :)
SpoilerThis essay asks the reader to reflect upon the current state of the Historical Discipline through the lens of Hegelian Maoism, particularly in regards to the dialectical theory of the Interpenetration of Opposites. Within On Contradiction, Mao Tse-Tung explores the law of contradiction as the fundamental basis of dialectical materialist thought, and establishes the basic principle – as influenced by the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin – that all processes will inevitably transform into their opposites, due to the internal contradictions that interplay.
Throughout the essay, it will be argued that the Historical Discipline, from the age of Historical Empiricism to present day, has been experiencing this inevitable transition into its “opposite” – transforming from a discipline where the primary goal was the search for an objective truth (whether that was possible, even then was up for debate by pioneers of historical objectivity) to one that often places historical truth secondary to other aims, or even, according to postmodernists, as an impossibility. This will be argued through analysing the role of the linguistic turn and the introduction of the “bottom-up” approach within the discipline, and how despite expanding History in regards to introducing new ideas, subject areas and audience, they are contributing to History’s inevitable transition through distorting the role and purpose of history, and validating imagination as a legitimate tool of historical enquiry. This essay will examine the consequences of this transition through analysing how these distortions have been exploited by popular historian Bill O’Reilly, whereby despite his “vast carelessness pollut[ing] history and debas[ing] the historian’s craft,” he must still be considered a legitimate historian as the basis of a legitimate historian has been perverted so much that it is now impossible to discern.
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Thank you, that helps a lot.
It sounds like your major work would have helped you so so much with the What Is History unit!
sudodds:
--- Quote from: olr1999 on July 20, 2017, 08:07:58 pm ---Thank you, that helps a lot.
It sounds like your major work would have helped you so so much with the What Is History unit!
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No worries! Yes it definitely did! My final What is History essay in the exam featured a lot of the same historians and arguments. If you can find a link, I highly recommend incorporating your major work throughout your What is History essays, as you'll be experts on that aspect of the course, and is where you can really demonstrate your voice, rather than the preprepared structure that most people use where they just write a chronology of the different approaches to history (eg. the ancient historians did it like this. then the enlightenment historians did it like this. and then the postmodernists did it like this etc. etc.). Speaking of major works - I'll get back to looking at yours now ;)
jadzia26:
I wrote a draft and I've been trying to add to it all week but I'm stuck and i don't know how to get it moving again!
sooo frustrating i told myself i would have this finished so i could be editing and getting teacher feedback but at this rate don't think that'll be happening.
Also frustrating because really there isn't THAT much to add i just cannot figure out how it's totally escaped my mind and not working :'( :-[ :-\
sudodds:
--- Quote from: jadzia26 on July 22, 2017, 06:59:56 pm ---I wrote a draft and I've been trying to add to it all week but I'm stuck and i don't know how to get it moving again!
sooo frustrating i told myself i would have this finished so i could be editing and getting teacher feedback but at this rate don't think that'll be happening.
Also frustrating because really there isn't THAT much to add i just cannot figure out how it's totally escaped my mind and not working :'( :-[ :-\
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Hey! If there is anything we can help you with, please let us know :) Post your problems, and we'll all be able to band our heads together, and try and come up with a solution :) Also, just because it isn't finished, doesn't mean you can't still send a copy to your teacher and ask for some feedback :) Last year I'd sometimes just send a paragraph or two to mine, and that worked really well because rather than focusing on the whole essay, we were able to both go really in depth of one particular aspect of my idea, making sure that it was as strong as it could be! They'll always be something to add - history extension is a never ending process, there's always some other rabbit hole we can fall down don't fret ;)
bella1001:
Awesome! this had so many tips, thanks so much! im looking at the way women are represented in the male dominated field of historiography! It's very interesting :)
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