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3rd History (Formerly 2nd History...)

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    #812
    Mr.Nice Guy
    Registered Users Posts: 45,594 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    It's done. It's done. I'm tired and emotional right now so all I'll say is never again...

    Now for my three hour sleep.


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    #813
    passive
    Registered Users Posts: 2,403 ✭✭✭passive


    Urgh, 50 minutes to stretch another 250 words out of it, proof-read and format it... Then I've to get into college and collate my English group project translations.. Argh... Death!

    I think I'm actually doing quite well though... this is good essay!... ish...


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    #814
    passive
    Registered Users Posts: 2,403 ✭✭✭passive


    can my last 50 words be "I am a fish, I am a fish,I am a fish, I am a fish,I am a fish, I am a fish,I am a fish, I am a fish,I am a fish, I am a fish,?"


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    #815
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Yes. In fact, if I'm not mistaken that's one of the requirements for this essay :pac:


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    #816
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    BB won't let me submit my essay :confused: It keeps saying "enter a valid file", even though I have, and it's .doc...

    FFS!!!!!!!!!!


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    #817
    passive
    Registered Users Posts: 2,403 ✭✭✭passive


    My word count just magically reduced... It was 1500... now it says like 1341.... Where did my words go? :(


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    #818
    passive
    Registered Users Posts: 2,403 ✭✭✭passive


    Dave! wrote: »
    BB won't let me submit my essay :confused: It keeps saying "enter a valid file", even though I have, and it's .doc...

    FFS!!!!!!!!!!

    Yeaah...that is a load of gay... I finished it thought!


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    #819
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Say it to the person in the office when you're giving it in. I did and she told me to write a note on the top, which I did and she stamped :)

    Still getting the error... Not my fault though is it!


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    #820
    simonrooneyzaga
    Registered Users Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭simonrooneyzaga


    im not ashamed to admit i just couldnt get past the 1250 words mark. I was too demoralised. Massive weekend now! whipeee


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    #821
    Brimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Brimmy


    Take it there's no point in me replying to that pm then passive?

    Right so was in the library at half 8.. in Daedalus now... time to finish the last 500 words of this bad boy.


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    #822
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    FYI if you're having trouble with BB, email the essay to Senor James and let him know you're getting the problem. Apparantly a few (though not all) people are having the problem.


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    #823
    emy-87
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭emy-87


    Aaaargh....Im getting the same Error Message in Blackboard :mad:
    Are people just handing in two copies to the Office then? I dont know what to do!! :confused:


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    #824
    emy-87
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭emy-87


    Dave! wrote: »
    FYI if you're having trouble with BB, email the essay to Senor James and let him know you're getting the problem. Apparantly a few (though not all) people are having the problem.

    Great, thanks! Ive emailed it to Prof James and my tutor, so both of them cant miss it. :) And Im going in to drop in the Hard-Copy. Thank god Ive finished it!:D


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    #825
    convert
    Registered Users Posts: 9,338 ✭✭✭convert


    Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »
    Footnotes are the text at the bottom of each page, whereas using endnotes means instead of appearing at the bottom of each page they just appear at the end of your essay.

    It meant instead of worrying if you got all your references on each page you could simply tot them all up at the end. I think they're handier.

    Just to cause panic to all of those who have submitted a review with endnotes.... Footnotes is the form of referencing that's used by history... They don't like endnotes....


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    #826
    Mr.Nice Guy
    Registered Users Posts: 45,594 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    Piss-poor organisation today from the history office. A load of us were there at 1 o'clock to hand in our essays and they were all gone to lunch with a message on the door saying leave it in the tutor's box. Well there were around 15-20 people when I was there so we all had to basically stuff them into the thing.

    Could there not have been even one person there on such an important day? I just hope there's not going to be grief over scrunched up essays because there was nothing else to be done.


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    #827
    delta_bravo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭delta_bravo


    convert wrote: »
    Just to cause panic to all of those who have submitted a review with endnotes.... Footnotes is the form of referencing that's used by history... They don't like endnotes....

    Im sure thats freaked a few people out :)

    I had no problems submitting on bb. It was unusual to see the history corridor not jammed full of people on essay submission day !


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    #828
    Pride Fighter
    Registered Users Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »
    Piss-poor organisation today from the history office. A load of us were there at 1 o'clock to hand in our essays and they were all gone to lunch with a message on the door saying leave it in the tutor's box. Well there were around 15-20 people when I was there so we all had to basically stuff them into the thing.

    Could there not have been even one person there on such an important day? I just hope there's not going to be grief over scrunched up essays because there was nothing else to be done.

    Its not their fault there is a recruitment freeze. Take it up with Hugh Brady.


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    #829
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    I think the point is that they could take their lunches seperately so that there's always someone there to accept the essays


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    #830
    delta_bravo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭delta_bravo


    Dave! wrote: »
    I think the point is that they could take their lunches seperately so that there's always someone there to accept the essays

    When i handed it in at 10am there was only one person working in the office so maybe the cutbacks have reduced staff numbers on certain days.


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    #831
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    True dat, same here. Dunno how many usually work in the office tbh


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    #832
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Is the 'Assignments' section of Vikings now empty for ye lot?


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    #833
    delta_bravo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭delta_bravo


    Dave! wrote: »
    Is the 'Assignments' section of Vikings now empty for ye lot?

    Yes! Wouldnt that mean that our data is gone? Hopefully they saved the copies before they tried to fix the bug in blackboard :rolleyes:


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    #834
    ianthefox
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭ianthefox


    For future reference, the problem appears to have been with Firefox/Internet Explorer 7.

    So make sure you use an earlier version of IE when submitting.


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    #835
    Brimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Brimmy


    Typical ucd nto having it work with recent browsers.. :rolleyes:

    I used firefox though and didn't have a problem.


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    #836
    ianthefox
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭ianthefox


    What version of Firefox did you use?


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    #837
    Brimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Brimmy


    Portable..

    Installed it so I don't have to keep opening windows and typing in my full passwords/web addresses/etcetc ;)

    Ugh... going to get started on Kitchen tomorrow, here we go again..


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    #838
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Anyone else not have a clue what to write for Kitchen? :confused: The Vikings book was fairly substantial, so there was alot to work with... but the Kitchen chapter is, what, 30 pages at most? I don't feel I have alot to work with! :D

    BTW what's the wordcount for it again? Was this one 2000 or is that just my imagination?


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    #839
    Mr.Nice Guy
    Registered Users Posts: 45,594 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    Dave! wrote: »
    Anyone else not have a clue what to write for Kitchen? :confused: The Vikings book was fairly substantial, so there was alot to work with... but the Kitchen chapter is, what, 30 pages at most? I don't feel I have alot to work with! :D

    BTW what's the wordcount for it again? Was this one 2000 or is that just my imagination?

    It's just 1500 words thank God. Like yourself I'm a bit stumped as to how I'll meet the wordcount for this one. I was told by my tutor that you are allowed compare with other books so I'm not going to rule that out. I think I'll make my plan tonight and try to pull an all-nighter tomorrow night and get it sorted. I hate this week. :(


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    #840
    randomchild
    Registered Users Posts: 886 ✭✭✭randomchild


    Sorry to ask this lads but Kerr has'nt responded to my question over this. The essay guildelines are really vague:
    Students are free to tackle their review essay as they see fit, but if some may find the titles below helpful in approaching this exercice.

    I know its a chapter review, but can we review any chapter we want (free to tackle their review essay as they see fit..)?


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    #841
    Flume
    Closed Accounts Posts: 105 ✭✭Flume


    Dave! wrote: »
    Anyone else not have a clue what to write for Kitchen? :confused: The Vikings book was fairly substantial, so there was alot to work with... but the Kitchen chapter is, what, 30 pages at most? I don't feel I have alot to work with! :D

    BTW what's the wordcount for it again? Was this one 2000 or is that just my imagination?


    This one is shaping up as an essay more then a review really. You haven't got the same amount of material that you had with vikings (i.e the whole book!) so i assume you can bring in detail from the chapter too.


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