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know how much you lot love chatting bullshit, so why don't you help my get my degree in the art of bulshitting aka undergrad politics

2 essays 3000 words each in for monday

1) DO NATIONS HAVE A RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION?

2) WHAT IS TERROR? CRITICALLY ANALYSE THE CONCEPT



the second one is im more confident on, done about half of it mostly focusing on terror as inflicting fear (therefore something thats done by governments as well as right wingers etc. used a really good adam curtis documentary "power of nightmares" a lot; wicked stuff, all on youtube. likens neo-con movement to islamist movement, and how they both needed each other) need some other understandings though as well

the first one is more tricky.... ultimatly i think im going to argue in favour of nations (not to be confused with states) to have self determination as long as it doesnt contravene liberal values? bit of a hypocritical argument maybe though?


always love your input on this stuff guys. please dont be afraid to contribute whatever your level of knowledge is.... best thing for these is to get as many perspectives as possible! funky case examples would go down a treat to



Cheers!

HRKRT wrote:haven't been here properly in ages!


know how much you lot love chatting bullshit

You're on your own.

cant imagine anything has seriously changed in the last 6 months to the point that people dont wanna discuss politics anymore... posted like this before and got some feedback, which i found useful. always worth a try

dont take offense from the chatting bullshit thing btw, i was just making reference to how a lot of politics discussion is debating semantics. a lot of my course certainly strikes me as bullshit

4,500 words to do in less than a week? fuuuuuck I hope I never get myself in that situation.

sorry, i'm being unhelpful. you could talk about the terror in france (1789 revolution, robespierre)

terror is scary innit

(i got A's at a level, if this aint terror i dont know what is)

this is the earliest i've ever started essays usually i'd do the lot in the weekend beforehand

yeah Robespierre is worth mentioning, some of the stuff i've been looking at mentions him; how the guillotine wasn't just used to get rid of political enemies but to create fear... it was shocking how quickly they kill perhaps a 100 people, and that fear itself was a form of the terror inflicted.

I guess you could liken it to the cold war, and how the threat of the nuclear bomb itself was probably more instrumental in shaping politics than the actual destruction caused by it.

Kochari wrote:terror is scary innit

(i got A's at a level, if this aint terror i dont know what is)

i quite feel answering the what is terror question with something really simple like that.

like "terror is realising you have 12 hours to do a 3000 word essay."

^^^
Please do it
Pleaaaase

i've got 6000 words due on thursday
haven't written one
well done bela
well done

bela wrote:i've got 6000 words due on thursday
haven't written one
well done bela
well done

i'm praying for you.

you can do it bela!

what are they on? or are you trying not to dwell on that...

1) Yes
2) No

Essentially, but obviously pad it out a bit.

HRKRT wrote:haven't been here properly in ages!


know how much you lot love chatting bullshit, so why don't you help my get my degree in the art of bulshitting aka undergrad politics

2 essays 3000 words each in for monday


1) DO NATIONS HAVE A RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION?


Cheers!

did a very similar essay to this in my second year, but never call the degree i did bullshitting, i was one of the few people in the whole year who was actually interested in the subject rather than doing an easy 'bullshitty' degree. My lecturer was Annika Bergman Rosamond, who, as she was from the LSE side of things, was very up on her international theory. fascinating subject, she just wasn't very good at getting that across to a lot of the class.I ended up getting a 2.1 in that module, completely down to the essay. Really nice question though, so much stuff to talk about, examples and theory to bring in. Shame you only got 3000 words though. Good luck with your bullshitting

HRKRT wrote:you can do it bela!

what are they on? or are you trying not to dwell on that...

haha. thanks. you too, neptune

i've got three 2000 word essays related to media & comms ... only one of them will be horrible

sirjonnyp wrote:

HRKRT wrote:haven't been here properly in ages!


know how much you lot love chatting bullshit, so why don't you help my get my degree in the art of bulshitting aka undergrad politics

2 essays 3000 words each in for monday


1) DO NATIONS HAVE A RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION?


Cheers!

did a very similar essay to this in my second year, but never call the degree i did bullshitting, i was one of the few people in the whole year who was actually interested in the subject rather than doing an easy 'bullshitty' degree. My lecturer was Annika Bergman Rosamond, who, as she was from the LSE side of things, was very up on her international theory. fascinating subject, she just wasn't very good at getting that across to a lot of the class.I ended up getting a 2.1 in that module, completely down to the essay. Really nice question though, so much stuff to talk about, examples and theory to bring in. Shame you only got 3000 words though. Good luck with your bullshitting

it was more of a comment on peoples perceptions of what a politics degree is, usually because of a disillusionment with politics and it relating to them. a lot of people tend to pull a face when i tell them. obviously i do care about my degree and take it seriously (well try to). but some of the modules were bullshit so i do stand by that to some extent. there was a marx module which basically involved a guy at the front ranting for a lecture every week, then 2 hour seminars sat in a room with 20 wannabe che Guevaras. i just found it fustrating. absolute bullshit and i dont use the term lightly... dropped out of the module. conflict, development and human rights theory is where its at: majority of the political philosophy modules here are shocking.

anyway it was an offhand comment, youre making me feel guilty for hating my degree now

Your teachers work on cosmopolitanism looks interesting and relevant, but theres a book shes done about post 9/11 security that might be great for my dissertation. thanks for the heads up.

Did an essay on the right to secession which is heavily linked to the right of nations to self-determination. Got just under a first for it. PM me your email and I will send it to you if you want, as long as you dont just copy it lol

icanicant wrote:Did an essay on the right to secession which is heavily linked to the right of nations to self-determination. Got just under a first for it. PM me your email and I will send it to you if you want, as long as you dont just copy it lol

That's banging mate cheers! dont worry i wont copy, prob just look at whatever sources you looked at. email is in my sig, harkirit@breakzdjs.com . if you like ill send you my one when im finished as well.

Thanks!

HRKRT wrote:

icanicant wrote:Did an essay on the right to secession which is heavily linked to the right of nations to self-determination. Got just under a first for it. PM me your email and I will send it to you if you want, as long as you dont just copy it lol

That's banging mate cheers! dont worry i wont copy, prob just look at whatever sources you looked at. email is in my sig, harkirit@breakzdjs.com . if you like ill send you my one when im finished as well.

Thanks!

No worries mate. Just sent it over to you. Gotta say I did not enjoy doing that essay. Whats the module you are doing it for called?

I invite you to discuss it with this guy http://www.facebook.com/parsondub he has extremely interesting theories and all in all is a fascinating man.

More seriously I would help you out but I'm stuck with thousands of pages of roman rights, UK/US/French/Belgian history and obscure psychology. Maybe next time though !!

For the Terror one hand in a blank piece of paper and say to your tutor "look at my face, this is terror"

sorry im not being helpful but i've got a 15 minute presentation on the 12th that i've meant to have been working on for the last semester and I havent started it