Now that's quality television viewing

[eclectify]

SBS 1 is showing documentary after documentary *glees* Just finished watching one on the "vampire disease" and vampire histeria in Austria in the 1700's which was fascinating. Centred around the so-called "vampire princess" Eleonore von Schwarzenberg. Now there's one on the walls of China which has some interesting Chinese and British interaction

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[sarlania]

Love SBS.

Now there's one on the walls of China which has some interesting Chinese and British interaction via trade. Lord McCarntey trying to open the trade between the Chinese markets and England.

This is the late 19th century? Opium wars era?

Sometimes I wonder why I'm not studying history XD Actually I wonder why I am not studying at all.
Because that means you'll have to write ESSAYS. ;D

[eclectify]

Me too *grins*

Actually, it keeps going back and forth. One minutes it's dicussing Chinese/British trade and then it's talking about the Mongols XD

Because that means you'll have to write ESSAYS. ;D
I actually like writing essays >.>

[sarlania]

LOL. From my research into the Black Death, the Mongols are partly responsible for bringing the plague into the West (if you believe that the Black Death was caused by the plague. *coughs* )

I actually like writing essays
I don't mind them either. But essays = timelines.

There's a certain... structure and way of looking at things... that ones gets in a history education as opposed to just reading it out of the book. I never realised until this semester.

[eclectify]

There's a certain... structure and way of looking at things... that ones gets in a history education as opposed to just reading it out of the book.

There is. I think study via organised eduction dissassembles the information, spreads it out almost like sequential puzzle pieces and tells us "Here's a stylised map. Go and make meaning and show us the path you took along the way." As opposed to self learning which is much more like window shopping with powerful intent XD

[sarlania]

I'm always asked by my biomed friends why on earth I'm doing a history subject, and what possible use I can get out of it apart from facts and names and dates... which is so totally what history's all about *rolls eyes*

History's taught me how to write, and how to critically analyse something, and how to construct an argument. You'll be surprised at how bad some of my biomed students are at writing.