Help me with my history project

[TheButteryGoodness]

So I'm doing my Leaving Cert this year (which is like the final year of high school for you Americans) and for history, I have to do a case study on something.

The case study can be done on pretty much anything, as long as it's befor 1993. It can be an event or a person or whatever, just has to have happened 18 or more years ago.

I've already got a few ideas on what to do it on, but I'd love to hear any suggestions. Also, if someone has done this or something similar befor, what/who did you do it on?

 

[NaturalCauses]

...Really?

You want us to pick some random historical event or person, before the year 1993?

You might as well just spin the World's Astronomically Large Wheel of History. Seriously, if you're having trouble, just pick.. something. ANYTHING.

Really, you need help with this?

Do a case study on Wilfrid Laurier. Whatever.

 

[neoman10]

Senator McCarthy and McCarthyism as a whole. Damned interesting subject

 

[Trivun]

Well, I guess the easiest case study would be on something really famous like World War 2 or something.

Actually, that's the best idea I can think of right now. Purely because you are Irish. Thing is, Ireland was supposed to be neutral in WW2, refusing to take part in the war on either side, and the Axis pretty much left you guys alone. However, I saw on 'Coast' the other week that Ireland actually secretly did a bunch of stuff that helped the Allies, particularly setting up hidden markers so that US and Canadian pilots would know that they were over Ireland and whereabouts they were, for navigation purposes, after crossing the Atlantic.

Stuff like that, focussing on how Ireland secretly helped the Allies in WW2? That would make a pretty good, fairly easy, and really interesting case study for you .

 

[Counter_Southpaw]

Stalin. Hitler. Any of the big contenders throughout the second world war. Seriously man, you have the EASIEST subject.

 

[TheButteryGoodness]

...Really?

You want us to pick some random historical event or person, before the year 1993?

You might as well just spin the World's Astronomically Large Wheel of History. Seriously, if you're having trouble, just pick.. something. ANYTHING.

Really, you need help with this?

Do a case study on Wilfrid Laurier. Whatever.

The problem isn't so much that I can't think of something to do, it's that I thought of too many things to do. Like I said, I've already thought of plenty of good ones that I'd be happy to do, but i just thought it would be interesting to see what other people would do, and maybe I'd see a suggestion that was better then anything I've thought of.

 

[strum4h]

Hindenburg.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Look into the Korean War, the Cuban missile crises or Vietnam. Generally people are interested in the cold war. Well, at least I am

 

[Player 2]

Genghis Khan. Conquered Asia and drowned in his own vomit.

 

[aznj03]

Micheal Milken and Ron Perelman and the like and the history of junk bonds

 

[Eren Murtaugh]

So I'm doing my Leaving Cert this year (which is like the final year of high school for you Americans) and for history, I have to do a case study on something.

The case study can be done on pretty much anything, as long as it's befor 1993. It can be an event or a person or whatever, just has to have happened 18 or more years ago.

I've already got a few ideas on what to do it on, but I'd love to hear any suggestions. Also, if someone has done this or something similar befor, what/who did you do it on?

If you can do a well enough case study on her psychological profile, I can guarantee an "A" my man.
http://bathory.org/shyla.html

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

Vlad the Impaler, he was a very interesting guy

 

[TheButteryGoodness]

Oh, and another point that the teacher gave me was that if i picked someone very influential on history like hitler or nelson mendela, I would have to pick a key part of their life. For instance if i did hitler, it would have to be on something like the nuremberg trials.

 

[Hristo Petrov]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasil_Levski Here this is the most interesting person in Bulgarian history (my personal opinion) it's not like writing for Hitler, Stalin, Jesus or Musolini but my guess is that not a lot of people in your class would do a study on Bulgarian revolutionaries

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Senator McCarthy and McCarthyism as a whole. Damned interesting subject

We did a tad of that in English, it didn't seem too good.

Go for the Irish Troubles or The American West. I'm about to start the Irish Troubles and Germany at AS level history and they're bloody brilliant so far.

 

[soren7550]

Damn, before '93? There goes the Battle of Mogadishu (October 3-4, 1993) and the death of Kurt Cobain (circa April 5, 1994). But both are extremely interesting to look into, so I suggest you look into both when you have the time.

How about Operation Overlord? There's so many different angles you can follow for that.

 

[MajorLandmark]

I did a piece on 'Was Field Marshal Haig the butcher of the Somme?'

Was quite interesting finding sources and deciding whether he was an uncaring, terrible tactician, or an old school military mind fighting a modern war with no precidents to guide him.

 

[team star pug]

sean Connery's james bond career.

 

[TheButteryGoodness]

Senator McCarthy and McCarthyism as a whole. Damned interesting subject

We did a tad of that in English, it didn't seem too good.

Go for the Irish Troubles or The American West. I'm about to start the Irish Troubles and Germany at AS level history and they're bloody brilliant so far.

I'm doing the troubels as part of the course so that rules it out as a case study topic

 

[shootthebandit]

the life and times of rick astley