Help on History Essay, er... kinda, anyway, as such.

[Viking Bastard]

Well I don't really need help on the essay itself. Not yet, anyway. The problem lies with
thinking of anything to write about. The assignment is to write about a small-to-medium
scale conflict. A short war, a battle, a terrorist attack, border skirmish, civil war, thingy.

Y'know.

The problem lies with me and my attention span. I don't enjoy writing about these kinda
things. And I prefer to write about things I enjoy. So help me enjoy it. I like to write
essays about funny, even surreal things. Things I can make fun of. Stupid people doing
stupid, silly things and such. This has always worked for me and these essays tend to
be my highest graded. But I can't for the life of me find something potentionally humourus
enough that fits the critera.

So help me find teh funney in murder and mayhem. Find me a ludicrous civil war where
two tribes fight over the town shrimp. Think black-white vs. white-black in Star Trek.
Wars started over a simple misunderstanding etc.

Please!

It is greatly appreciated.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Can the topic be a diplomatic dispute?

 

[Angcuru]

Write about the Battle of Thermopylae.

 

[MaxKaladin]

How about the world's shortest war. It lasted all of 45 minutes.

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=46235

 

[Viking Bastard]

Can the topic be a diplomatic dispute?

Eh. I'm actually not really sure, but I'm thinkin' no.

And I forgot to mention that it has to be in the 20th century.

 

[Eremite]

I seem to recall a story from WWII (not WWI) about a group of Polish lancers (yes, on horseback) that charged the Germans even though the Germans had tanks. It might be interesting to tackle the story from the perspective of sheer courage in the face of literally impossible odds.

 

[Henry]

Another interesting conflict to focus on is the Six-Day War of 1967 between Israel, Egypt, Syria AND Jordan, whose ramifications are still felt. If the teacher is looking for a "current events" tie-in angle, this would be perfect.

 

[Angcuru]

I seem to recall a story from WWII (not WWI) about a group of Polish lancers (yes, on horseback) that charged the Germans even though the Germans had tanks. It might be interesting to tackle the story from the perspective of sheer courage in the face of literally impossible odds.

Elves get Low-Light Vision, Dwarves get Stonecutting, we Poles get The Power of Stubborn.

 

[NiTessine]

Ask, and ye shall receive. The most ludicrous and idiotic war ever... I present thee... The Football War!

And you thought the English were bad about their soccer...

 

[Viking Bastard]

I seem to recall a story from WWII (not WWI) about a group of Polish lancers (yes, on horseback) that charged the Germans even though the Germans had tanks. It might be interesting to tackle the story from the perspective of sheer courage in the face of literally impossible odds.

Did they win? If not, well...

Another interesting conflict to focus on is the Six-Day War of 1967 between Israel, Egypt, Syria AND Jordan, whose ramifications are still felt. If the teacher is looking for a "current events" tie-in angle, this would be perfect.

Yes. But it's not funny! I need teh funney.

Ask, and ye shall receive. The most ludicrous and idiotic war ever... I present thee... The Football War!

And you thought the English were bad about their soccer...

Oooh. Now we're talkin'!