History Projects

Ricky10

Does anyone know if I can do the Munich Air Disaster for my rsr? I don't know how to explain if its Historically significant. Is there any other historical sporting events I could do and could you tell me how it's historically significant!

SureYWouldntYa

yes that was done in my class last year. another person done something about Maradona's hand of god incident. another done kerry's near 5 in a row in the 80's. you can do pretty much anything

Ricky10

Any idea on how it's Historically significant?

Canard

You can waffle the significance a bit tbh, I didnt know you had to do that til after my essay and it was grand. :pac: Just say something like "which is historically significant being a great tragedy in which ___ people died and ___ more were injured, and I was intrigued to know more about it".

Ricky10

Thanks!

Ricky10

Anyone know the historical significance of the Munich Air Disaster?
Or can anyone give me another historical sporting event and explain why it's historically significant.

mockingjay

I think firstly one of the most promising teams in sporting history was almost eradicated, changing the way teams travel until this day. However the area you need to focus on is the Journalistic and Political implications. By this I mean the media intrusion into the disaster caused some politicians to call for privacy from the press, as such The Public Bodies Act (1960) was introduced, as such enabling hospitals by law to exclude the public from their meetings, this they hoped would hinder hospital staff giving press information.

I suppose it was the first type of media sensationalism appearing or the celebrity culture that we know today - and as such where a lot of the tabloid press sprang from, for example, in today's terms the Independent Media Groups phone hacking scandal was a new low, and many in 1958 believed that publishing pictures of injured players was distasteful etc - so it helped shape the British Press Office etc at the time.

You could also look at the Hillsborough Disaster in the modern era or our own Bloody Sunday in Croke Park. Best of luck.

Ricky10

Thanks a million!You've helped me big time!

thesimpsons

Ricky10 wrote: »

Anyone know the historical significance of the Munich Air Disaster?
Or can anyone give me another historical sporting event and explain why it's historically significant.

know someone who did project on Munster beating the All Blacks at rugby. same person got A1 in history. You can do virtually anything for the project but my recommendation is always keep it local. can you imagine the correctors getting Munich Air year after year after year versus a well researched obscure bit of local history.

rgmmg

I did mine on the Graf Spee – a German pocket battleship that marauded around the Atlantic masquerading as a cargo ship or something. Interesting but a lot of detail.

clairexx19

i am doing my history project at the moment and i know the maximum number of words for the extended essay is 1,500 but my word count is 1,826. If i could fit it into the booklet would it be okay?

clairexx19

clairexx19 wrote: »

i am doing my history project at the moment and i know the maximum number of words for the extended essay is 1,500 but my word count is 1,826. If i could fit it into the booklet would it be okay?

No. You lose marks for not understanding the instructions. Shorten it to

bidgetkellybk

I have a RSR to do , and im pretty sure they're due in the next month or two , i haven't even started . I havent a clue what to even do it on. Would appreciate some ideas and some guidelines on how to write it Thanks

DonallFitz

http://http://leavingcerthistory.net/research-projects/sample-projects/

Well this might help.

Anyone have a extended essay completed and would care to let me compare mine against it?

yabog

I'm currently in 5th year and wondering what to my history project on.I was gonna do it on the siege of Jadotville but my teacher said that was too broad.Any suggestions

Sucette!

As far as I know you can do anything as long as its not directly on the course and that its before 1993!

rugrats

yabog wrote: »

I'm currently in 5th year and wondering what to my history project on.I was gonna do it on the siege of Jadotville but my teacher said that was too broad.Any suggestions

Yeah... It probably is a little broad. To tell the whole story of the siege and then go on about its impact is going to take well over the 1500 words you're allowed in the essay. Your marks will only suffer if you do a broad topic in 1500 words because the essay will just be brushing over the interesting stuff in a rush to get to the end. You'd be better off doing a more directed project, like the Irish role in Jadotville, or the UN's role in ending the siege, or whatever. Make sure you have your sources ready for it and have all the points you want to include for them highlighted out.

It seems a little late to just choose to do a different research study a month before the deadline. Have you got the sources read?

Oops, I didn't see that you were in 5th year.... You'll be grand for time anyways!

13spanner

Last year I did mine on Child Labor and Housing Conditions during the Industrial Revolution in Britain, so it's got to be pretty narrow alright

Good luck with it, get it done and dusted early.

Elceeney

Hey guys. Anyone here who has any experience with either grading LC History Projects or has done their own project, your input would be appreciated!

Initially I was thinking of using The Years of Lead/Kidnapping of Aldo Moro as my project but I ran into obstacles as books about it were hard to come by and usually in Italian... I also struggled to keep up with the political aspect of the event. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_(Italy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Aldo_Moro

So, then I decided I could do the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (which has tons of books available about it) but I'm a little worried that tons of people will have done a project on this and it will be very unoriginal? What do you guys think?

spurious

It's scary when events you remember are history - I clearly remember the Aldo Moro case and the photo the Independent published on the front page of his body in the boot of a car.

I think Aldo Moro could be a very good project, the difficulty in finding English sources making it one that is not done so much. I understand the difficulty with the political ins and outs - Italian politics is confusing.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is certainly a topic that has been done before, but not as much as the old reliables. If you focussed a little on the role of one or two individuals or organisations that would be good. Nice choice for the year that is in it too.

If you were a student of mine, out of those two topics, I would recommend the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

matTNT

I chose an abstract topic, Operation Fortitude(WW2 deception operation) so it had only 1 book dedicated to it. I took background information (about D Day) from other sources to bulk it up and I got 100.


My advice is to go with something a little different. I know someone did the founding of apple which was pretty original. 4 in our class of 12 did JFK so I'd advise to avoid stuff that is embedded too much into popular culture. D-day, Cuban Missile crisis etc.

Elceeney

matTNT wrote: »

I chose an abstract topic, Operation Fortitude(WW2 deception operation) so it had only 1 book dedicated to it. I took background information (about D Day) from other sources to bulk it up and I got 100.


My advice is to go with something a little different. I know someone did the founding of apple which was pretty original. 4 in our class of 12 did JFK so I'd advise to avoid stuff that is embedded too much into popular culture. D-day, Cuban Missile crisis etc.

Yeah I don't want to do something very popular which was why I was really leaning towards Kidnapping of Aldo Moro.. I don't know though, it's a really complicated topic. Appreciate anybodies ideas on what topic I should do!

matTNT

Don't do a topic someone else likes.

What do you like? Really think about it, are you sporty, are you someone into 80s mafia films, are you a computer tech kid or are you someone infatuated my the wonders of machinary?


Answer me that question and I'll give you my opinion.

Elceeney

matTNT wrote: »

Don't do a topic someone else likes.

What do you like? Really think about it, are you sporty, are you someone into 80s mafia films, are you a computer tech kid or are you someone infatuated my the wonders of machinery?


Answer me that question and I'll give you my opinion.

Tough question! I've been pondering it for at least 25 minutes and nothing really comes to mind.

Definitely not sport, computers or music. I'm more interested in individual peoples stories rather than an event in its entirety.. so I'd be more compelled, for example, to learn about say; Anne Frank's life, rather than Jewish people in the holocaust as a whole. This is going to sound REALLY weird but I'm obsessed with narcotics, whether it be their origins, smuggling, their prohibition or how they destroy peoples lives. I watch shows like Intervention and National Geographic's Drugs Inc. all the time. Whether or not that could be a history topic or not, I don't know!

matTNT

Well why not do your project on somebody involved in the drug trade some gang leader and their operations, it is very do able really.

You could do it on Al Capone or Pablo Eschobar, or some other drug lord?

You could do it on something like the DEA in America?

http://www.deamuseum.org/museum_ida.html

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/20-richest-drug-dealers-time/

***Remember you can use documentary's as a source

**** All information has to be from before 1990, even if a person died after that you need to end it at 1990.

*****Also if your not sure don't worry, I was really unsure about my topic until about half way through and it was enjoyable to do after that

Elceeney

matTNT wrote: »

Well why not do your project on somebody involved in the drug trade some gang leader and their operations, it is very do able really.

You could do it on Al Capone or Pablo Eschobar, or some other drug lord?

You could do it on something like the DEA in America?

http://www.deamuseum.org/museum_ida.html

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/20-richest-drug-dealers-time/

***Remember you can use documentary's as a source

**** All information has to be from before 1990, even if a person died after that you need to end it at 1990.

*****Also if your not sure don't worry, I was really unsure about my topic until about half way through and it was enjoyable to do after that

Thank you, you have been very helpful!

matTNT

Message me if you need more help

user.name

Do something you're interested in, like some of the topics you stated above. I've an unhealthy obsession with ww2 so my project centred an event within that period

Twoandahalfmen

I'm in 5th year Nd want to start my RSR soon I want to do if Michael Collins but have no idea on what aspect about him. To do it on.
Any suggestions would be appreciative.

shootie

Twoandahalfmen wrote: »

I'm in 5th year Nd want to start my RSR soon I want to do if Michael Collins but have no idea on what aspect about him. To do it on.
Any suggestions would be appreciative.

Maybe do a write up about the tactics he created to fight the British in the War of Independence such as the Squad and the Flying columns? Then about how it impacted upon the war and lead to the truce and forcing the British to negotiate? I'm doing something similar but from an entirely different time frame, the battle tactics of Alexander the Great at Gaugamela.