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Research ideas for bored students

The evolution of national identity in the country of your interest (ancient or modern)

The influence of paganism on christianity in Ireland and Scotland.

The impact that fairy beleif had on the Scottish witch hunts.

How fashion was influenced by the second world war.

The differences between and evolution of first, second and third wave feminism.

The impact the post-modern globalism has had on human rights.

Depictions of homosexuality in the ancient world (are there similarities/differences between nations?)

The evolution of tavern and drinking cultue in England, Scotland and the Netherlands.

The portrayal of women in early-modern English ballads.

The use of certain tunes or melodies in E.M. English ballads.

Portrayals of the devil in E.M. English ballads.

The difference between collective memory and historical facts (war is a time when our memories are often romanticised).

Fashion in the Elizabethan era and how it changed after.

The evolution of pens and writing materials

Historical methods of making paint/paint thinners.

Men in the early-modern witch hunts.

Differences between old world and new world witch hunts.

The use of torture in witch trials and the laws regarding torture (differences between countries)?

The use of salt as currency.

Depictions of intoxiication in ancient art.

How ancient societies viewed drinking and how they drank.

The lives of great poets.

The decline of the latin language.

The English civil war during the 17 century.

The relationship between ancient Celts and the Romans.

Religious symbolism in early modern art.

The history and evolution of marriage.

“In Praise of Folly,” by Desiderius Erasmus

The Protestant Reformation and/or the resulting split of protestantism (calvinism, lutheranism, anabaptists, etc.)

The history of Christmas in the new world.

Add your own in the comments!

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An Overview of Note-Taking Styles

Note-taking is one of the most essential skills a student should master. It allows you to record and review information to be used in the future. But what’s the best way to do so? Here’s an overview of note-taking styles that can help you maximize your learning!

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Kiki’s Delivery Service : J i j i + C l o c k

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guillermo del toro, the devil’s backbone // richard siken, “landscape with fruit rot and millipede”

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Whatever we did-or, more crucially, did not do- it seemed that so long as we did it together, our individual sins might be abated. -If We Were Villians

Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not. -The Secret History

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“Morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable” — the secret history, by donna tartt.

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EMILY BRONTË, Wuthering Heights

MARY SHELLEY, Frankenstein

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My mother found me last night at 3 am passed out on the kitchen floor. A norton anthology of Romantic literature lay under my head as a pillow and a timer counted down in my hand while croissants became a sweet honey brown in the oven. As the timer went off she saw me slowly wake up remove the croissants and go about my night. She found it the most bizarre thing, I find it the most accurate depiction of me.

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My exams are starting next tuesday. First up: osteology, myology, arteriology and neurology of domestic animals. This is one of the hardest courses I’ve ever taken so I just want to pass. Trying to soak up all the positive energy my plants give me. And a big shoutout to coffee, I love you.

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28 / 100 days of productivity 

all caught up on assignments and am ahead of the game with my film project!

lots of drama happening at my university right now! three students could possibly have covid-10, our president resigned, we could potentially go online instead of being on campus and such… interesting things going on here

also, i started up on reading again! i’m rereading a mango shaped space

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“ no mourners. no funerals. among them, it passed for ’good luck.’ ”

― leigh bardugo

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Claude Paradin, Devises heroïques, 1557.

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All the cute nicknames Victor Frankenstein called his son throughout the book:

catastrophe 

miserable monster

demoniacal corpse to which I have so miserably given life

an ugly mummy

a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived,

the filthy daemon to whom I have given life

no human

the wretch whom I had created

sight tremendous and abhorred

unearthly ugly being

too horrible for human eyes

miserable head

vile insect

abhorred monster

wretched devil

you, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world

too horrible for human eyes to behold

the filthy mass that moved and talked

wretch whom I dreaded

villain

monster of my creation

fiend

figure most hideous and abhorred

+ bonus - all the cute ways captain Robert Walton described Victor’s son on 1 page:

a form which I cannot find words to describe

never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness

tremendous being

scary and unearthly in his ugliness

Tag yourself I’m “the filthy mass that moved and talked” 

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for more than a thousand years sad Ophelia

has passed, a white phantom, down the long black river