[LATE] Reading Times

I straight up read for three hours. Conference of the Birds, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. Also had the flu so please don't count this as late!

Research Draft Paper

While I thought my paper was pretty good, I'm really concerned about the fact that it's only three pages. I even added unnecessary quotes just to lengthen it. I really hate having a minimum number of pages on papers, because it makes me struggle to jam things in even when I've made my point. Still, I think it's pretty good OH MY GOD I JUST NOW REALIZED I DIDN'T PUT MY CITATIONS.

Free Post

So I got this cool map of the world from 1914 and I hung it on my wall. It's a reprint of course, but it's still really neat to look at. I'm getting back into reading a bit more after I bought Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Conference of the Birds. I'm reading Conference now and it makes me feel bad for not wanting to straight up go wander in the desert for God or something. The translation is also really pretty, if that's how you describe it.

Reading February 3rd

Read a lot, worked a lot. All together I'd say about 4 1/2-5 hours worth.

Reading January 24 [LATE]

Read for like 3 hours, been getting back into it. I did the annotated bib for the nhd project, and read some of the class book.

2 for 1 NHD explanation thing [LATE]

1:

Oh heyo friend, have you heard of the rad new project in English? It's called the national history day research paper, and it's, like, totally wizard! I'm doing my topic on healthcare reforms in the US, wazouuu! I'm not really interested in the topic at all but I kind of misunderstood the directions and thought it had to be current events, basoooooooooooooon! I'm pretty far in research and have realized that Scandinavia (excluding Finland and Sweden) and Switzerland are the greatest places on earth, cawkaaaaaaaaa!


2:

My National History Day project is focused on Health Care reforms in the US. This topic interests me because of recent events and legislature. My thesis is: Health Care reforms can bring both positive and negative effects to the US.

NHD Topic

My NHD topic was going to be about health care reforms in the US, but since I realized that this wasn't like Ms. DaQuanno's current event project and that we could do actual history stuff, I really want to change it to "the rights given to citizens of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, or the First Republic of Poland." That would incorporate the rights and responsibilities theme, and I could still give a general report on the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth was pretty unique, since it had a parliament, senate, and king-elect in like the 16th century. They had some early system of Prussian Constitutionalism/constitutional monarchy before that was even really a thing, which is pretty sweet. The nation later made a very liberal constitution, which intimidated its neighbors so much that it was gobbled up in just four years afterwards by a combination of Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Prussia. Poland wouldn't even become a nation again until 1918, but it's people still held on to their culture and heritage regardless. Lithuania was released as well. My family is full Anglo Saxon mode, but I've always felt a strong connection towards Poland, so I'm some kind of spirit Pole. Gaude mater Polonia, gaude!