WW1 Project

[Scottler]

I've always said I'm a cynic...Felix proves me right.  lol  I had that same thought, which is why I didn't lend anything too specific, rather I just guided him down the path.

[Craig.]

what felix said, remember to do the actual work for yourself:) we will happily help but the actual work needs to be yours, the research aswell:)
also the aircraft carrier was introduced. and some planes would be fired off of modified Gun platforms on battleships

[OTTOL]

Personally, I think you'd be better off focusing your thesis on one specific area of World War I aviation.  So much was going on at that point.

While your topic is interesting, I worry about the line "If you could submit any notes/essays" which could lead a cynical mind to think that you're just going to take the responses here and write them up, with little, if any, verification of facts, issues and original comments.

My intent, just for the record, was to inspire him with a quick story, not supply directly transferable info. I think lines like "Then some guy got the bright idea to mount a more powerful gun than a pistol on an airplane", should illustrate that. I sure hope he doesn't paraphrase that!
In my mind, I see this as a younger member coming to a group of us standing around, and saying " I'm doing this paper.........."   The first two responses were" go to the Library and look under "W" for world war 1, or "A" for airplane!" I think if he has any wherewithal, then he already knows how to use search engines and access the local library. I think maybe, he was looking for some of the guys to tell him some stories.
I used to the same technique with my students, you grasp their interest with a story that relates to the subject THEN you get out the technical manual.

But I'm a history freak, so I'm a bit odd to begin with.  lol Posted by: Flight-Captain Posted on: Sep 2nd

Somehow, I think you're in like company around here.

[Scottler]

You're probably right, Ottol.

You're a teacher?  What do you teach?  (And how do you put up with so many little craps at once?!?  lol)

[OTTOL]

Only ONE little crap at once! I WAS a CFI(part of the career aviation initiation ritual!) Basic learning theory is taught to ALL CFI's. It's a real "canned" program(typical FAA), but there are some good aspects you can use, if you know how to trim the fat. I would start off every lesson with a story, it helps get the student motivated. As opposed to reading verbatim, from the textbook(my point!)

Pat

[Flight-Captain]

Whoah you guys!

I only asked here for guidance...if this is the kind of response people get for helping then there is something wrong with you lot...and finally, no I haven't copied directly from the posts! :-/

[Smoke2much]

People can get a little strange around here at times mate.  Don't worry about it.

The major problem with large project such as WW1 is that the subject area is vast and the available information is spread over an equally huge area.

My advice with any essay is to reference it and add a bibliography at the back.  I assume that if you are still at school they don't require you to reference your work just yet but if you stay on in higher education they will.
If you add your references they cannot get you for plagarism.

Will

[OTTOL]

We don't mean you, or each other any ill-will. You know that analogy about us standing around in a circle, and you approaching and asking a question? Well, a more accurate analogy might be to say we're all sitting around in the Sim-viation Pub!  ;D  If you went down to your local pub and asked a bunch of old blokes "what was it like back in WWII", they'd  pobably be stepping over each other to tell you war stories,and snapping at each other like old biddies."Invasion stripes was the I Idea of the British!, NO it wasn't, the French thought it up, cause they thought  it would make the airplanes look faster, no you idiot, your American, what do you know...blah, blah, blah!!!"   On that note, you might want to ask Fozzer what it was like in WWI.......................eeeewwww, just kidding, couldn't resist!  ;)   .............and yes fltcapn', there is definitely something wrong with this lot!!

[Scottler]

Word on the street is that Fozzer also has some great drawings in his sketchbook from his battles against the colonists during the American Revolution.

[Smoke2much]

Word on the street is that Fozzer also has some great drawings in his sketchbook from his battles against the colonists during the American Revolution.

NOTE: Hyp's post 'colonists' edited to Bold.

Ha haa!!!  I've converted one of you to my way of thinking!!! Only several million more and the continent will be ours again LOL.

Will

[Scottler]

I didn't say he won.  lol

[Smoke2much]

Oh...  Oops....  Anyway you still referred to the American revolutionaries as colonists, thus I win a moral victory and immediately declare the discussion irrevocably closed.

Ner Ner Nee Ner Ner.

Will

[Scottler]

Someone needs to read their history books once more.  Even Americans call the original 13 states "colonies" so therefore, by definition, the residents are "colonists".

See, that's the problem with the English.  They think they can just close a discussion.  That's how this war began in the first place!  lol

[Smoke2much]

I was being ironic, which is like chronic but more difficult to acheive with the written word.

For the record, and I'm saying this because it's what I think, not because I'm talking to an American, If I had been alive at the time and living out there, I would have fought with you guys.  And this is from my analysis of the facts gleaned from reading history written from an English point of view.

Will

[Scottler]

Oh go eat a crumpet.  lol

Hey, what are crumpets anyway?

(And for the record, I didn't even know you were English until about a week ago.  I thought you were Canadian.  lol)