Yeahtoast: Toast Needs History Help!

Yeahtoast 04.14.10	That sounds very interesting! Although, I'm from Ireland, I could just substitute Ireland for America but that would still be extremely difficult to source unfortunately. And find two historians who have published books on it =/ it's a very good topic though and thanks for the imput, perhaps you should write a blog on the topic, I'd read it! :)
intothepit83 04.14.10	The effect of Intothepit83 on the Sputnik society.... I have two books out on it
Yeahtoast 04.14.10	It also has to have taken place before 1991! I'm thinking maybe a genocide, genocide's always interesting and there's a good few that not many people know about, the Armenian is quite well known, or the Germans in Africa...man those Germans love genocide!
Yeahtoast 04.14.10	Send them this way!! Your detailed interview via Sputnik will count as my internet source ;)
intothepit83 04.14.10	Well, mine started in 1983. THe day i was born was the day Sputnik creators put their tips together and exclaimed, "Our Savior was born today. Now we shall honor him on this thing we shall call the internet with something that goes by the name of a website! We shall rejoice!"
Yeahtoast 04.14.10	That's an interesting one Kurtz, I'll definitely look into it. Thanks man!
Kiran 04.14.10	tbh itd be much easier to write on an interesting aspect of a larger historical event as finding books written by credible historians on more obscure events is going to be pretty tough, they might be out there but from experience i can tell you theyre not easy to find when i was in high school doing a curriculum called IB, for my history coursework i wrote about (dont remember the exact essay question) the failures (and ultimate collapse) of totalitarian states in light of the ideologies they were founded on. it was incredibly easy to get books about mao's china, stalin's russia, mussolini's italy, hitler's germany, etc.
Yeahtoast 04.14.10	That's a good point Kirgasm and one I've considered already. The thing is this isn't like a class project, there'll be thousands of people doing this across the country, the more people doing the same topic will be marked quite hard due to interest levels, repetition, basically the examiner will be bored of seeing the same things over and over. It really just shows a pure laziness if you pick something you've already studied. You're going to be doing an exam on that shit why would you want to do a project as well? Sure you know everything but again, laziness. I have a few fall backs that I'll definitely be able to source just in case. I'm really searching hard though
iarescientists 04.14.10	andrew jackson
Kiran 04.14.10	if you dont mind me asking, what level of education is this for? and yeah, i totally get what you're saying, i was just offering what limited help i could give
MrCalum 04.14.10	Good luck with this, Kir's got some good ideas i could only think of vietnam for some reason...
Mevz 04.14.10	Going down the theme of the other comments, maybe the Cuban Missile Crisis? Or the space race?
intothepit83 04.14.10	The history of Ozzy's cocaine addiction. Or how Janis Joplin got her groove back
Yeahtoast 04.14.10	All good ideas guys (and I mean all them xP) thanks a bunch! And I'm in college dude, the education system is different here so that's all I'll say lol, thanks for the advice though!
Kiran 04.14.10	ah right, well i don't do anything even remotely related to history at uni so i'll leave you to it then! good luck!
OllieS 04.14.10	Some for the USSR: Repression of arts in Soviet/Stalinist society Early Soviet attempts to spread the Communist Revolution Role of Nestor Makhno's forces in the Russian Civil War/role of Admiral Kolchak in the Whites' defeat in the Civil War Or throw something modern out and go with: Mongol Empire/Genghis Khan
intothepit83 04.14.10	Yeah, because Genghis Khan is so modern
OllieS 04.14.10	'throw something modern out'
Yeahtoast 04.14.10	OllieS are you a Soviet? :P lol I joke, thanks for the suggestions my friend!
Yeahtoast 04.14.10	Guys come on, no arguments, I'm sick of this shit :P
BigHans 04.14.10	Write about how Che Guevara was an over-glorified, commie douchebag.
DoubtGin 04.14.10	you have to deal with intothepits daily spam, sry... I did one about the Red Army Faction last month or so but I live in Germany and its a bigger deal here.
Yeahtoast 04.14.10	Hans I don't think he was over glorified really I just think he was old :P The RAF sounds interesting but I'm trying to steer away from stuff like that, what exactly did you write about?
Phrike 04.14.10	How Metallica fucked up the metal scene with the Black Album
Yeahtoast 04.14.10	Oooooooooooh did you burn all your Metallica albums once you heard the black album?
Athom 04.14.10	You should go with the impact the Crime of 73 had on the Western States and the rise of the subsequent Free Silver movement.
kirktastic 04.14.10	does this have to be European History, or can it be world history?
JWT155 04.14.10	Jim Jones would be an interesting and different one that someone mentioned earlier. Pablo Escobar died in 93' but his life is pretty fascinating.
Yeahtoast 04.14.10	It can be world history! And Jim Jones is one of my fall backs Josh, thanks! It's an interesting topic
kirktastic 04.14.10	i just read a book called "Founding Brothers" by some historian out of some university and it talks about the Hamilton/Burr duel and the secret political dealings that went on during the first years of the States, you could pick one of those to do your paper on
JWT155 04.14.10	If you're interested in genocide, theirs the killing fields, the mass genocide that took place in Cambodia after Vietnam.
Yeahtoast 04.14.10	Thanks jesus ;)
JWT155 04.14.10	Another good one is the Chernobyl incident in the Ukraine, that's always fascinated me.
Yeahtoast 04.14.10	Two more exellent ideas! I'm gonna have a tough decision to make :P lol thanks duuuuuuuuuuuuuudes!
Poet 04.14.10	Just do something I love then you'll be good. I.e the Battle of Kadesh between Egypt and the Hittites and how Ramses and the Hittites kicked the living shit out of in chariots in 1274 BC.
Yeahtoast 04.15.10	Think I'm gonna go with Jonestown guys, I've always been interested in it!