Library Update

It seems as if I'm only in the mood to update while in the library. Life has been busy. Of course got nothing done over the weekend, but that is to be expected. Deadlines are coming up, so I better start hustling. I have some ideas for final research papers for Fascism, but a 3-5 page "outline" + bibliography is due, like, tomorrow, so I'm like argh. It doesn't help that we've only done Italy so far, and what if I want to do something on Germany? And it's not really a research paper, it's more like "read several historiography books and say something meaningful", so it's more like interpreting how other people interpret history, which is like, ugh. But that is the big deadline for tomorrow.

Other deadlines coming up: Goldstein's midterm is due Monday, and so is Class/Culture Midterm. Class/Culture, being the class I'm most up-to-date on (there are a total of 2 readings that I don't know anything about), is only a 5-pager, so I'll see what my most recent reading responses get grade-wise before I figure out what I want to write/what he wants to read. Haven't even *looked* at Goldstein's midterm yet, but I've been attentive at lecture, and that will have to deal until after tomorrow.

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Sitting in the library, pondering my proposal for the final paper, which, according to the syllabus, is a 15 page paper which "should addess a specific problem in the historiography of fascism, examining three to five significant works on the subject. A 3-5 page proposal is due at the start of week VI, accompanied by a bibliography."

Now, what I really want to write for a final paper would be the relationship between the leader and the bureaucracy in a fascist state. But since this has to be a research paper, what I really want to do would be to watch 3-5 movies on Mussolini (Amazon turned up 5, I'm sure I can find 3 of them at the film studies center) and compare, y'know, some specific aspect in regards to a specific incident or something. But this is about books, so I just checked out a bunch of books on the Anschluss. It's actually quite interesting really. All these theories made on "what is fascism". Is Nazism a fascism? Are the fascisms compatible? This fight between Mussolini and Hitler over Austria... How is it portrayed in the history books? What is Mussolini's role? What is Italy's role? How does Mussolini interact with Hitler, and does that have any bearing to their respective government and people? Focus, focus, focus.

I wish I could just watch some Mussolini movies. That'd be fun.