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I've had my mind set on vietnam now for a few weeks just decided i'd better start posting for some advice (especially considering this needs to be handed in in two days). So I want to do a study into Photography during the Vietnam war as a cause of America losing. But the first time I casually stroll onto the IA thread I see 'Vietnam' under Kassi's name. grrr.
Is it still possible to do, I don't know how similar it will be because I don't know what on Vietnam she is doing.
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Daniel Moreton Vietnam/Photography
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Posted 14 September 2006 - 10:57 AM
Daniel M, on Sep 13 2006, 01:56 PM, said:
Is it still possible to do, I don't know how similar it will be because I don't know what on Vietnam she is doing.
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Posted 14 September 2006 - 05:32 PM
ok, does that mean a different approach to the one i've suggested, or a different approach to erik?
Also could I please have until monday to hand this into you because it's really not going to be very good by tomorrow to post on the forum at least then I would have the weekend to make it semi-decent. I would be ashamed if my fellow classmates could see the shoddy rushed work that i'd posted.
Also could I please have until monday to hand this into you because it's really not going to be very good by tomorrow to post on the forum at least then I would have the weekend to make it semi-decent. I would be ashamed if my fellow classmates could see the shoddy rushed work that i'd posted.
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Posted 18 September 2006 - 07:41 PM
Helllooooooooooo MR JONES! really can't continue with this. I've no idea whether im going in the right direction or what. There's no way i'm wasting time writing an internal assessment that i'll hand in and the whole idea of it is completely wrong. As you didn't reply to anything on the forum since thursday (and I hoped to get this finished over the weekend) there was no way I could get it finished.
I think I need to talk to you about this in school and get some things sorted becuase at the moment, despite everything, i'm still lost.
But incase for some reason this happens to get looked at before the lesson tomorrow I can show you what i've started to write and hope to continue, when I get the go-ahead.
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Having studied various aspects of the Vietnam War, causes, effects consequences etc. there is one thing about the whole deal that strikes me. Why on earth did the Americans allow the press at the front line and to express the next morning, the horrors of Vietnam? It was, in my opinion, a time-bomb waiting to explode in the faces of the US government and would eventually lead to the their own people turning against them. As public opinion gradually shifted, it became increasingly difficult for the government to justify the war not only in terms of world opinion on an international level but also on an internal level, justifying it to their own people. What I want to discover through this case study is what exactly was it that the increasingly large number of Americans turn their heads against the war, and particularly what was it about still images that had such an impact. This text is divided into a summary section, outlining the research and sources used. This is followed by a close evaluation of the two sources I’m examining involving their significance and reliability and to finish on a conclusion about what in particular I believe made the photos so effective.
I think I need to talk to you about this in school and get some things sorted becuase at the moment, despite everything, i'm still lost.
But incase for some reason this happens to get looked at before the lesson tomorrow I can show you what i've started to write and hope to continue, when I get the go-ahead.
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Having studied various aspects of the Vietnam War, causes, effects consequences etc. there is one thing about the whole deal that strikes me. Why on earth did the Americans allow the press at the front line and to express the next morning, the horrors of Vietnam? It was, in my opinion, a time-bomb waiting to explode in the faces of the US government and would eventually lead to the their own people turning against them. As public opinion gradually shifted, it became increasingly difficult for the government to justify the war not only in terms of world opinion on an international level but also on an internal level, justifying it to their own people. What I want to discover through this case study is what exactly was it that the increasingly large number of Americans turn their heads against the war, and particularly what was it about still images that had such an impact. This text is divided into a summary section, outlining the research and sources used. This is followed by a close evaluation of the two sources I’m examining involving their significance and reliability and to finish on a conclusion about what in particular I believe made the photos so effective.
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Posted 11 November 2006 - 03:19 PM
Plan - OK. But you haven't outlined the methods you will use. You need to some reading into photography and Vietnam, background to the burnings etc. Explain this in the plan.
Summary - excellent on the immediate context of the image. You need to explain the wider context and long-term causes. This will allow you to demonstate wider reading on Vietnam, the monks, the individual, the photographer etc. etc.
Page 4 - is this part of the summary or the evaluation.
Evaluation - Good observations on the photo (Browne) but a bit long. Power of empathy, picture worth a thousand words etc. You need to do some reading on the value of photography to historians. Limitations shuld focus on the lack of context (why, where? who? etc.) that you willl have provided in the previous section. Again good on the Halberstam extract. But separate stregth weakness and use the vocab of IB Paper 1 ie origin and purpose.
Analysis - the weakest (and most important) section. It has to be an (short) essay, a meditation on the strengths and weakesses of photography to the historian with examples drawn from the monk photos.
Conclusion - will briefly state the conclusion of the analysis. Difficult to write until you have completed the analysis.
General. This will be a good IA I think. It lacks serious research into Vietnam and photography. This could make it very good. Referencing (footnotes?) should be comprehensive.
http://photography.a...warphotography/
http://www.pbs.org/w...porters/browne/
http://www.nmpft.org...ion.asp?exid=47
etc. Do some Googling...
Summary - excellent on the immediate context of the image. You need to explain the wider context and long-term causes. This will allow you to demonstate wider reading on Vietnam, the monks, the individual, the photographer etc. etc.
Page 4 - is this part of the summary or the evaluation.
Evaluation - Good observations on the photo (Browne) but a bit long. Power of empathy, picture worth a thousand words etc. You need to do some reading on the value of photography to historians. Limitations shuld focus on the lack of context (why, where? who? etc.) that you willl have provided in the previous section. Again good on the Halberstam extract. But separate stregth weakness and use the vocab of IB Paper 1 ie origin and purpose.
Analysis - the weakest (and most important) section. It has to be an (short) essay, a meditation on the strengths and weakesses of photography to the historian with examples drawn from the monk photos.
Conclusion - will briefly state the conclusion of the analysis. Difficult to write until you have completed the analysis.
General. This will be a good IA I think. It lacks serious research into Vietnam and photography. This could make it very good. Referencing (footnotes?) should be comprehensive.
http://photography.a...warphotography/
http://www.pbs.org/w...porters/browne/
http://www.nmpft.org...ion.asp?exid=47
etc. Do some Googling...
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