NationStates Jolt Archive


Arrrrrg the Bard

New-Lexington
29-03-2006, 02:12
I have to write a research paper on the most boooooooooringtopic in history, William Shakespeare's Later Life and its killing me. Im going to need to go to an institutuion after this (some of you people would love to never hear from me again so you would love that) so anyway its the most boring thing a person can do. Any of yall ever have to do Shakespeare papers or anything else so !@#$%^ boring?
Anarchic Conceptions
29-03-2006, 02:14
I have to write a research paper on the most boooooooooringtopic in history, William Shakespeare's Later Life and its killing me. Im going to need to go to an institutuion after this (some of you people would love to never hear from me again so you would love that) so anyway its the most boring thing a person can do. Any of yall ever have to do Shakespeare papers or anything else so !@#$%^ boring?

If you want you could always do my essay on the socialist feminist interpretation of the British Welfare state.

Do you want to swap?
Dobbsworld
29-03-2006, 02:14
Any of yall ever have to do Shakespeare papers or anything else so !@#$%^ boring?
Yep. But that was twenty years ago for me. :)
Novoga
29-03-2006, 02:14
He is nothing but a fraud, it was all Sir Francis Bacon.
Ladamesansmerci
29-03-2006, 02:18
He is nothing but a fraud, it was all Sir Francis Bacon.
I've heard some interesting theories saying different people wrote all those plays, and Shakespeare was just a name derived from a symbol to hide the identities of these people...donno.
New-Lexington
29-03-2006, 02:23
He is nothing but a fraud, it was all Sir Francis Bacon.
mmmmmmm bacon..........:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Colodia
29-03-2006, 02:33
Adolf von Baeyer and the culture behind his timeperiod and nation. Beat that for utter boredom, his timeperiod was too late for Napoleon and too early for WW1. Argh.
Sarkhaan
29-03-2006, 02:34
I'm in a shakespeare class.

Love it, so its all good.
New-Lexington
29-03-2006, 02:41
If you want you could always do my essay on the socialist feminist interpretation of the British Welfare state.

Do you want to swap?
*thats ok*:eek:
Gaithersburg
29-03-2006, 02:45
If you want you could always do my essay on the socialist feminist interpretation of the British Welfare state.

Do you want to swap?

Or you can help me plan a presentation on pre-war eastern Europe. This includes, Hungary, Albania, Yugoslavia, Austria, Bulgaria and Romania.
BLARGistania
29-03-2006, 02:47
Persuasive essay on taxing churches that take political actions?

Studying for a test on the idea of democracy with selected works from 10 different individuals?


German 102 test?
Bodies Without Organs
29-03-2006, 02:57
Actual essay titles produced by my good self:

Abraham, Bartleby and the Impossibility of Avoiding Responsibility.
The Will to Nothingness And Suicide
Thomas Mann: The Aesthetic and the Psyche in Death In Venice
Chrisitanity, Nihilism and the Will to Equality in Nietzsche

Laugh a minute stuff, eh? This is the kind of thing that prevented me from getting invited to parties.

After all these the next one felt like comic relief:

Eroticism and the Plethoric Fluids

I no longer even know what the word 'plethoric' means without consulting a work of reference.
Anarchic Conceptions
29-03-2006, 02:59
Actual essay titles produced by my good self:

Abraham, Bartleby and the Impossibility of Avoiding Responsibility.
The Will to Nothingness And Suicide
Thomas Mann: The Aesthetic and the Psyche in Death In Venice
Chrisitanity, Nihilism and the Will to Equality in Nietasche

after all these the next one felt like comic relief:

Eroticism and the Plethoric Fluids


Makes my essay How does complexity reconceptualise traditional linear developement? seem like a barrel of laughs.
Bodies Without Organs
29-03-2006, 03:05
Makes my essay How does complexity reconceptualise traditional linear developement? seem like a barrel of laughs.

I can't put my hand on my Deleuze & Guattari essay at the moment, but it had the catchy title of something like:

Smooth and Striated Space: Machinic Assemblages, the Neo-Nomadic War Machine and the Concept of the Fleet-In-Being

I seem to vaguely recall that it had something to do with nuclear submarines, Lewis Caroll's map of the ocean from The Hunting Of The Snark and the fact that American victory in the first Gulf War had a great deal to do with the fact that the deserts of the Tigris-Euphrate's river basin were not choked with trees, unlike the Mekong Delta, where vegetation was actually the deciding factor in the conflict.

EDIT: coherent thought on a single topic without dragging in seemingly spurious analogies was never my strong point.

I can't even remember what my essay on Lacan was titled - something to do with the male gaze and the fact that it contained within it the constant acknowledgement of a fear of castration.

EDIT: linear development of what, pray tell?
Franberry
29-03-2006, 03:06
Or you can help me plan a presentation on pre-war eastern Europe. This includes, Hungary, Albania, Yugoslavia, Austria, Bulgaria and Romania.
Pre-world war 2??
I would actually do that, for like, fun
M3rcenaries
29-03-2006, 03:18
I have to write a research paper on the most boooooooooringtopic in history, William Shakespeare's Later Life and its killing me. Im going to need to go to an institutuion after this (some of you people would love to never hear from me again so you would love that) so anyway its the most boring thing a person can do. Any of yall ever have to do Shakespeare papers or anything else so !@#$%^ boring?
I am doing shakespeare too. *Shakes fist at Romeo and Juliet* They ruined the 96 average I achieved by reading Great Expectations.
Anarchic Conceptions
29-03-2006, 03:22
I can't put my hand on my Deleuze & Guattari essay at the moment, but it had the catchy title of something like:

Smooth and Striated Space: Machinic Assemblages, the Neo-Nomadic War Machine and the Concept of the Fleet-In-Being

I seem to vaguely recall that it had something to do with nuclear submarines, Lewis Caroll's map of the ocean from The Hunting Of The Snark and the fact that American victory in the first Gulf War had a great deal to do with the fact that the deserts of the Tigris-Euphrate's river basin were not choked with trees, unlike the Mekong Delta, where vegetation was actually the deciding factor in the conflict.

EDIT: coherent thought on a single topic without dragging in seemingly spurious analogies was never my strong point.

I can't even remember what my essay on Lacan was titled - something to do with the male gaze and the fact that it contained within it the constant acknowledgement of a fear of castration.

For some reason I'm feeling vindicated in my decision not to take philosophy (for a change)

EDIT: linear development of what, pray tell?

Economic and political systems within countries IIRC

Arts co-opting scientific language and concepts to an extent that would make Alan Sokal proud as I recall. I cannot quite remember how, but somehow fluid dynamics and biological evolution got in their somehow.
New Stalinberg
29-03-2006, 03:29
Shakespeare was an annoying dumbass who became famous because he wrote a bunch of crappy stories (While taking the main ideas from other people) and made a bunch of words we use today.

Trahnite Shakespeare
Bodies Without Organs
29-03-2006, 03:30
For some reason I'm feeling vindicated in my decision not to take philosophy (for a change)

It was actually a damn good essay, even if I do say so myself - the whole point of nuclear armed submarines is that they become lost, and thus inhabit the same space as that of non-city dwelling nomadic warbands.

My one regret is that I never managed to convince my tutors to accept a potential essay which I had prospectively entitled The Knowing of Impossibility and the Impossibility of Knowing.



Arts co-opting scientific language and concepts to an extent that would make Alan Sokal proud as I recall. I cannot quite remember how, but somehow fluid dynamics and biological evolution got in their somehow.

Kewl. A classmate wrote his contemporary issues in post-modernism essay on the works of Joy Division employing the language of the aforementioned Deleuze & Guattari and explained at great length how they had accelerated their creative velocity by gravitational slingshots around black holes, only to inevitably collide with white walls. It is one of my few consolations in life that I never sunk that low.
Anarchic Conceptions
29-03-2006, 03:45
It was actually a damn good essay, even if I do say so myself - the whole point of nuclear armed submarines is that they become lost, and thus inhabit the same space as that of non-city dwelling nomadic warbands.

I'm sure it was, it just sounded like I was right in thinking philosophy wasn't for me.


Kewl. A classmate wrote his contemporary issues in post-modernism essay on the works of Joy Division employing the language of the aforementioned Deleuze & Guattari and explained at great length how they had accelerated their creative velocity by gravitational slingshots around black holes, only to inevitably collide with white walls. It is one of my few consolations in life that I never sunk that low.

But what mark did he get?
Eutrusca
29-03-2006, 03:46
I have to write a research paper on the most boooooooooringtopic in history, William Shakespeare's Later Life and its killing me. Im going to need to go to an institutuion after this (some of you people would love to never hear from me again so you would love that) so anyway its the most boring thing a person can do. Any of yall ever have to do Shakespeare papers or anything else so !@#$%^ boring?
Many, many times. More than I care to remember. :eek:
Rangerville
29-03-2006, 03:48
I love Shakespeare, i got 91% in the quarter of English that dealt with only him. I was always good at English though. He's my favorite writer, and speaking of Great Expectations, i've never liked Dickens.
Gaithersburg
29-03-2006, 04:00
Pre-world war 2??
I would actually do that, for like, fun
It's not fun when other groups get topics like the rise of hitler, the rise of facism in Italy, culture between wars or the Spanish Civil war. It's just not fair.
Maineiacs
29-03-2006, 04:03
I did a long paper last semester in which I compared several Shakespearean plays to Lord of the Rings. Got an A on the paper and the class.
Bodies Without Organs
29-03-2006, 04:05
But what mark did he get?

I never had the courage to ask.
Novoga
29-03-2006, 05:09
I did a long paper last semester in which I compared several Shakespearean plays to Lord of the Rings. Got an A on the paper and the class.

Comparing the view of humanity in Shakespeare to the view in Lord of the Rings? That would be a very interesting essay to write.
Maineiacs
29-03-2006, 05:40
Got me an A in my best semester ever, academically.
Norleans
29-03-2006, 05:47
I feel for ya' I once (20+ years ago) had to write a paper that compared the view of women and women's issues espoused in Shakespeare's works with the view set forth in the novels of the Bronte sisters. I concluded that Shakespeare would have been better if it had been called "Romeo & Jane Eyre" or "The Taming of the Heathcliff."