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True, some those bands started in the 70's, but the 80's is when they were most popular and released a majority of their material. Either way, I still think the shit bands I mentioned are shit and the other bands completely destroy the shit bands. I do like a couple songs though such as Burn In Hell by TS and Bang Your Head by QR.
 
I thought up a hair metal band last night in bed. I named them "Satan's Claw" and already came up with an album title - Sin to Win. I kinda like that.
 
Talking of 80's bands, etc. - I never got into Queensryche at all. I have heard a fair bit from them and I do like the odd track, but nothing has drawn me too them in such a way that I could ever consider myself a fan.

Same with Twisted sister - but the difference here is that I have not heard anything from them that I actually like.
 
Phew. Finally finished my term paper.

22 pages, 7123 words, 110 footnotes and 21 cited pieces of literature in four languages. Add to that 7 quotes: One in English, two in French and four in Persian, all of which I also translated to German. Took me three weeks of work. A new record in every aspect that significantly raises the bar for me. I can't see my Bachelor's thesis being much more work intensive than this, if it's only ten extra pages.
 
I guess the title would translate most accurately as "Thoughts on the writings of Ǧalāl Āl-e Aḥmad and their interpretation." (This guy)

Basically, what I did was a short biography intertwined with a short analysis of his most prominent works, quench out four persisting themes, compare his vision of Iran to The Stranger by Albert Camus (a bit of a stretch, but I'm kind of proud of that interpretation), and conclude by implying that he was a giant douchebag and include a very subtle Khomeini-Hitler comparison.
 
I did most of the celebration on Friday. I'm saving the big party for when I have my next three papers done.  -_-
 
Perun said:
and conclude by implying that he was a giant douchebag
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Hahaha :)

Way to go indeed Per. Sounds like a lot of work, but I guess this "rule" counts: the more you are interested in the subject, the easier it is to do all that work?
Just curious: Were you able to select the topic yourself, or do you have teachers at your faculty who (at times try to) impose topics on their students?
 
Forostar said:
Way to go indeed Per. Sounds like a lot of work, but I guess this "rule" counts, the "easier" it goes?
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If you mean it gets easier every time, that's what I'm hoping considering my Bachelor's Thesis is around the corner...  :S

Just curious: Were you able to select the topic yourselves, or do you have teachers at your faculty who (at times try to) impose topics on their students?
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Obviously, it had to be relevant to the seminar, which was Iranian literature of the 20th and 21st century, but within that margin, we were free to choose our topic. All my lecturer did was give us suggestions and say which topics she'd like to have covered. I chose it because I had already been reading up on him last semester, and thought that would make it easier... which it didn't, really.
 
Well, for her Bachelor paper, Marta (who did Dutch Studies in the Netherlands) had to choose a writer of Dutch literature, and her initial choices..

A: comparing the style of Marga Minco with Sylvia Plath because she saw a lot of comparisons, despite different subject matters, and

B: writing about the film adaptation of one of Marga Minco's most famous books, to compare it with the original book

..were responded with a simple "a lot of people wrote about this person already".

Later she ended up with a figure (the poet Judith Herzberg) she didn't even know yet -and the interest in the person didn't match her earlier choice-, so it felt kind of forced. Thus is was less easy to work on. She had to write about this person because "not many people wrote about her yet".

However, it wasn't that terrible because Marta herself could still choose which aspect of Herzberg's work to write about. She ended up writing about Herzberg's attitude towards language and communication and how she herself used words and language in her poems to emphasize her point.
 
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