The histrionics of making history – WRITING : RESEARCH : FORMATS.

For any aspiring historian, casual observer or student, I invite you to do with as you please with the following essays. Each is available for download, all sources available either in the UCN databases or in the campus libraries. I repeat, do with as you please, download and submit as whomever, ethically dubious but most certainly practical.

YEAR FIVE PLUS

NOT FRENCH – I am following in your footsteps to become a teacher, just like you. Mr. Matczuk next gen. FRENCH – Ce fois c’est M.M. Monsieur M. Le deuxième enseignant secondaire, et troisième enseignant propre, dans ma famille. NOT FRENCH – No BED grad, you know why UCN. FRENCH – Je n’avais pas besoin d’un « bravo » de la part de la faculté d’éducation pour savoir que je serai un meilleur enseignant que celui qu’on m’a formé à être. Je connais qui sont mes alliances et mes camarades. Vous savez qui vous êtes. NOT FRENCH – For the most part, higher education was an incredible experience. FRENCH – jusqu’à ce que ça s’effondre. 

Mon but, je serais l’enseignant à l’Ecole Communautaire La Voie du Nord. J’arrive mes élèves dans ma future, l’agence temporale m’assure que ma future est réalisée… Mon but est un fait accompli!

YEAR ONE

Dr. McInnis (RESPECT) discovered my untapped ability to weaponize words. First year post-secondary, learning how to write, read, cite, source, discover. To do focused research and assemble knowledge, reflect your intellect in the adversarial environment of the University.

Year One – 2018-2019 – Teaching history runs dangerously close to teaching propaganda. The distinction between what should be taught, knowing what is not taught and understanding why is the responsibility of any historian. This paper explores indoctrination into ‘imagined realities’, for there is no corporation, no gods, no laws and no empire that exists outside the human imagination. This is an in depth look at information control in America, from the inception of the CPI, to the booming Homeland Security sector post 9/11. The machine is in the garden of the mind.

The irony of this study is the most fertile land for the propaganda machine is found in higher education, those who think they are smarter than the propagandist are the most vulnerable to their influence.

Year One – 2019 – 2020 – If you aren’t careful about what you say, or they will think you’re crazy. Or intolerant, and there is zero tolerance for intolerance. Catering to other people’s ‘feelings’ is not only an absolute necessity, it is a survival mechanism. The following paper explores the idea of meta-intolerance and hurting the feelings of others, and how these affect our behavior at work, at school, in the world – Chicago Style.

First year – 2019 – 2020 – Delving deeper into the smoky halls of censorship, this study looks at three artists who pushed the limits of what is ‘profane’, as judged by their respective authorities. The Plastic Peoples of the Universe, unintentionally the spark that would ignite the Velvet Revolution and Charter 77 in the Czek Republic, guerilla punk-rock all-girl Russian punk bank, Pussy Riot, and Jello Biafra’s Dead Kennedys. These are case studies of what happens when art is stripped of it’s power, and artists are then stripped of their freedom for daring to do what they do; piss people off by doing it loud. – Chicago Style.

Year One – 2019 – 2020 – My first history research paper. Dr. Stott used the term hybrid warfare in the classroom and got me wondering about the greatest indigenous military threat to the newcomers to Turtle Island, the Iroquois Confederacy. A massive indigenous force in the middle of Turtle Island. The war of 1812 between British North America and the USA was a decisive, divisive and decided conflict with an endgame: Undoing the Five (6) Nation army. I read somewhere that the leaders of the 13 colonies and the leaders of the British forces had the endgame of cutting the confederacy in half, divide and conquer. I can`t find where I read this disturbing fun fact. – Chicago Style.

First year – 2019 – 2020 – Studying censorship made me curious about not only information control and the use of propaganda, I became curious about social order. I wrote a paper trying to follow the money throughout global conflicts in the 20th century. This paper looks at the new and highly addictive (to stakeholders) form of economics, disaster capitalism. I explore neoliberalism, and the new gods of finance. Scrutinizing Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman’s influence in South America, The Chicago Boys, as his sphere of influence crossed southern borders, despotism spills into and on to North America. The greater the disaster, the greater the profit. This paper explores high finance and globalization, a new military order with a corporate agenda – Chicago Style.

YEAR TWO

This is the first year of the global pandemic. Remote learning was quickly adapted to fit the education model provided by UCN. It felt a lot like learning in a vacuum. The first piece I will present is a book review that I won a school contest, along with a certificate of excellence and a $$$$ prize. The contest is run by the library at UCN, once every two or three years. The book review is about “The Unredeemed Captive” by John Demos, a must read for anyone, history lover or just for the love of reading – Chicago Style.

Year 2 – 2020 – 2021 – Just me and Henk, teacher and student. The following is a comparative analysis of the two textbooks used in class. The research explores exotic terms like ‘border skirmish’ and ‘attrition’. The 20th Century witnessed war on an industrial scale over and over and over. Leaving us now with the greatest battle mankind has yet to face, climate change. Without a new generation of innovation and evolution, we cannot win. Emergent students… study Environmental Science! Apply your talents and minds to save the world. – Chicago Style.

Year 2 – 2020 – 2021 – The student of history is always faced with the challenge of leaving the present out of the past, acting the temporal agent. Time travel is history. For the uninitiated, “The Return of Martin Guerre” is a true story of stolen identity in the early 16^th century. Recorded with the accuracy and the vision of the historian virtuosa Natalie Zemon Davis, she recreates the “comitragedy” of Martin Guerre. A story “so beautiful, so delectable and so monstrously strange”, Davis assembles an orchestra of primary sources. Literary genius is a story’s resolution that leaves you with more questions than answers. This is my best book review ever written, and one of the best books I have ever read. – Chicago Style.

Year 2 – 2020 – 2021 – This paper is an attempt to decolonize the story of Pocahontas. There are no surviving records spoken in her own voice, making this research paper actual real research, all sources outside. SIDERBAR – Did you know that in your bibliography, the references are presented (alphabetically) last name first, but in your footnotes, first name first? I did not. Now I do. Now you do. Thank you Dr. Stott (RESPECT) Dr.Kong (RESPECT) and Dr.Tomlin (RESPECT) for your patience and help – Chicago Style – PUBLISHED in Muses of The North, 8th Ed. Redundant and pretentious, this paper is informative but not very well written. Thank you all the same Muses, it is cool to see your own work published.

Earning a History Major and Other stuff…

YEAR THREE

Year 3 – 2021 – 2022 – Research and writing, by this point became much more focused, and my abilities improved dramatically. The following paper is, in my opinion, the best English critical review paper of my academic career. UCN offered a post-modern literature course. Post-Modern English ENG 3013 Dr.Zulfqar Awan (Zulfie (RESPECT), who also taught my 6 credit Shakespeare course. We spent a lot of time together.). This is a critical review of Thomas Pynchon’s “A Crying of Lot 49“. Pynchon’s writing is textured, and leaves you without any clear resolution, fading in and out. Leaving you with DEATH (Don’t Ever Antagonize The Horn) and WASTE (We Await Silent Tristero’s Empire). I recommend this book to all readers, steeped in irony and completely bizarre, a testament to the absurdity of American Life. – MLA.

On Zulfie & Shakespeare & the tragic hero: According to Aristotle, the hero is caught in a series of sorrowful or terrible events caused by a heroic individual. The heroes must “grapple with the most excruciatingly difficult, intractable elements of human experience; a seemingly accidental succession of circumstances that leads to a catastrophic end” (Greenblatt 957). – MLA

#justiceforannamae

Year 3 – 2021 – 2022 – Anna Mae Aquash was a Mi’kmaq woman who became the most influential and powerful woman of the American Indian Movement, AIM. Her body was found and ID’ed as a Jane Doe outside of the Pine Ridge Reservation, near the site of the original Wounded Knee Massacre. The site of the final decisive victory of the Sioux vs. the US gov’t. The victory over General Custer and the infamous 12th Cavalry. This victory came with a terrible cost to Native Americans. The fight for Red Power is an important but entirely different history textbook.

Anna Mae Pictou Aquash spent years as an activist, an indigenous woman, a teacher, a game-changer, merits her the highest praise, to rank this woman as a true and pure Canadian warrior. Anyone who looks at the life of Anna Mae will be inspired: Pick a side, stand your ground, fight for what you believe. Be proud and strong and fearless.

Her murder remains unsolved, though according to her daughter Denise Malone Aquash, her mother knew. She knew where the bodies were buried. She knew who among AIM leadership were junkies, who had mistresses, and who was using AIM to sell guns She knew too much. So Either Richard Wilson (the catalyst for Occupy Wounded Knee circa 1973) and his goon squad killed her, or her death was sanctioned and carried out by the FBI – She was labelled a dissident, a homeland terrorist, and/or any of the 300 000 subsections the FBI compiled on American Native Activism.

She died on a lonely stretch of highway in the USA, praying for her children. Executed by a bullet through back of her head. Her murder remains unsolved. A true Canadian martyr. – Academic Poster & Presentation.

Year 3 – 2021 – 2022 -This project was done in collaboration with Jasyn Lucas, under the guidance of academic warrior Dr. Asfia Kamal. He did the research, I designed the poster. We have collaborated on several projects in the past, and am certain we will do so again in the future. The project is centred around the healing powers and endless possibilities of creativity. WEAVING CULTURE – Honing Local Arts With Youth and Elders. Thank you Jasyn Lucas (RESPECT) and Dr.Kamal (RESPECT). – Academic Poster.

Year 3 – 2021 – 2022 -Historiography, or the history of history. Understand that history is not an event, but someone’s interpretation of the event itself. History is a recording. The history that we study is a document, an interpretation of events. The driving concept of historiography is to make the students of history study historians themselves. Every historian writes with personal bias, his or her own angle. Being made aware of this broadens the historian’s understanding. When we study history we are studying ‘an interpretation of history’. Evidence is not self-explanatory, the responsible historian seeks to unravel the evidence, place the context, interpret the agency and relevance to the evidence. History is immensely complex,. As we study history, we study an interpretation of history. It is important to keep the present out of the past. This is historiography, the art and craft of the historian.

Dr. Antony Tomlin is a giant among scholars and historians. To all students; get into his courses! YOU HAVE TO! No hesitation, register today! Dr. Tomlin teaches third year history, historiography. The student of history must learn the history of history.

This paper is an interpretation of the evidence of the history of various historian’s perspectives about Italian poet, war hero and sensualist: Gabriel D’Annunzio, circa 1919. A cult of personality, an orator so skilled he could start a riot just to prove a point. “You want to see me start a riot? Watch this…” This man is the poster-boy for unintended consequences. After stealing the entire city of Fiume, now Rijevak, Croatia. Gabriel D’Annunzio and his crew of Officers and soldiers stole a city and refused to give it back. They wrote a constitution, they issued stamps, did away with laws, they were anarchists, pirates, artists. D’Annunzio kind of sort of accidentally kicked off Italian fascism and the Axis of Evil.

As a result, Italy denies his legacy and vision, Croatia could care less, and Yugoslavia still carries a grudge. His moves and technique were appropriated and used by some very bad and very famous men, and a lot (I mean a lot) of people died. – Chicago Style

These papers are just a few of the great many papers written to earn my History Major, and my English Minor. I am posting. these as reference to anyone who may need a template for APA, MLA, or Chicago Style papers. The References, Bibliographies, and Works Cited may help for those seeking research material. IF YOU ARE IN SCHOOL/UNIVERSITY, DOWNLOAD THESE PAPERS, PUT YOUR OWN NAME ON IT, SUBMIT IT TO YOUR PROFESSORS I DON’T CARE.

ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY

My science electives; Anatomy & Physiology. Referred to by Dr. Stredonsky as ‘the outlier’, with absolutely no background in biology. Studying among the nursing discipline (RESPECT). The discovery that the human body operates on two principles; pressure gradients and membrane potential. I now have a much more elaborate understanding of the human body and it’s myriad complexities. Above are (left and centre) anatomy illustrations done my myself, (right) a physiological sketch composed after a much deeper understanding of the functionality of the incredible human heart (the strawberry love-pump).

From cell to skull, synaptic clefts and action potentials, learning how the body perceives and survives in our environment. Learning about the absolute miracle of life and the science that proves it. Dr. Stredonsky (RESPECT) taught a history major the hard sciences of anatomy and physiology, DURING A PANDEMIC. I dissected and rat and a sheep heart in a bedroom over ZOOM in an apartment on the East Side.

YEAR FOUR 2022-2023 – the forever school…

I wrote two papers this semester, finishing my 90 credit hours to earn my Bachelor of Arts. The following paper is one of my personal favourites, Professor Henk Warner/Brown’s Speculative essay, his way of getting a bead on how his students think. For some reason, there are almost twenty of us studying his second year Metis History course. I just read a something, Metis history started exactly nine months after first contact. That’s funny. This paper is complete with a ‘MANIFESTOPHELES’, sort of a diktat statement of the old union, and it’s inevitable coalescence. Canadian history, I love it, but it is a dangerous snakepit of deceit and fables told to shape the future. The statements in this paper are what I believe. No disclaimer or apologies, this is what I believe.