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  1. Jennibeans

    If you fail your 2 units of Modern History, can Ext still count?

    If you're worried about failing modern I gotta wonder why you're doing extension history in the first place
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    cold war crises

    I only knew one in depth. I did Afghanistan cuz no one else learned that one. I knew enough about Cuba from ext history and the others I knew enough to write a paragraph about them if I needed it for an essay on something broader.
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    Cold War Culture??

    um you could include science and technology and talk about development of bigger and better weaponry and the amount of government spending on defence. you could also include sport as a topic and mention the boycotting of respective olympic games
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    herodotus

    Great fire of Rome can't help you there sorry But his writing and style... Herodotus wrote for entertainment, his history was meant to be performed. He wrote abotu specific events (e.g. Peloponnesian war p.s don't quote me on the spelling of that) Thucydides later criticised Herodotus for...
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    Historiography

    It's not all about "what is history?" Remember there are five core questions to that part of the course. Use a variety of historians and Demandred is very correct - structure your response around the source - pull out what you can from it and work with it
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    Hitlers Seize To Power..speech...help!plz

    you can't seize to power it just isn't grammatical you can seize power or you can rise to power Perhaps instead of saying "The question arises: Why was Hitler’s seizing to power legal?" you could say 'the question arises: why was Hitler's accession to power legal?"
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    Hitlers Seize To Power..speech...help!plz

    a) It was never proven that Hitler had anything to do with the Reichstag fire b) it isn't illegal to take advantage of vunerable people its just bitchy c) The Enabling Act wasn't illegal - it was passed by the Reichstag before Hindenberg died. However, it did give him dictorial powers under...
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    cold war essay plan

    Dividing of post war Germany (capitalist WestGermany vs Communism East Germany, Berlin Blockade & subsequent Berlin airlift), Marshall Plan (economic aid to any country that was anti communist regardless of whether it was a democratic gov't thus US was supporting authoritarian states &...
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    Good Books?

    Jeffrey Deaver - 'The Bone Collector' (hint...the film is better) Anything by Kathy Reichs is excellent
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    Albert Speer - inspired by an ideal or self-interest?

    He believed that Germans were racially superior as demonstrated by the fact that he used Jews, people from occupied territories and other "subhumans" in his factories. His contributions to the war effort also suggest he believed that Germany could the capital of the world therefore taking up...
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    Tudor

    I could help you with the history and english parts I'm also out of the area you specified but I'm happy to come to you if you can't find anyone closer.
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    need a quick reply!

    How does it fit the genre? (Conventions etc) How does it subvert the genre? Does it link genres?
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    History Examination

    HSC exam has 2 questions Question 1) They give you an article and a question and you respond using the material from the article and the ideas of a variety of historians. Its about the historians' reponse to those 5 questions from the beginning of the unit what is history? how has it changed...
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    can't understand it

    I still have my notes from last year (I think). To a lot of people they seemed fully disorganised so I don't know if they'll do you any good but they got me a band 6 in modern so they can't be total crap. I could do a few photocopies for you if you like or is there something specific in the...
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    Argh!!!

    don't stress - it gets easier if you can get a hold of past questions & do some practice essays and get your teacher to mark them...this pulled up my marks quite a lot but is something you will probably do down the track closer to the trials. a) What historians are you focussing on for section...
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    Role and impact of women in Nazi Germany

    its called REPUBLIC TO REICH
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    Germany- Essay Help Needed

    the collapse of Weimar is a huge component of the syllabus. Yea Hindenburg contributed to its collapse but there was so mucn more to it. For example, - failure to remove pro-1914 elites from positions of power - Remember that as soon as they knew they were screwed Hindenburg n Ludendorff...
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    Education

    AS if we don't! What courses are you all doing?
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    Education

    Why isn't there a Faculty of Education and Social Work sub forum I can't be the only person in the faculty
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    Student Notes Online

    Can anyone explain the "Student Notes Online" thing to me. Do we need to buy these?
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