Well that could have gone better…
Posted on February 26, 2007 - Filed Under College, Life-In-General, Philosophy, Politics, Religion | 3 Comments
I had two essays due for Friday, neither of which I handed in. However, I had heard it told, from no less than the Philosophy Department’s head, that if you simply turn up early in Monday morning and slide the damn thing under the correct lecturer’s door then no-one’s the wiser. So anyway, I wrote an excellent deconstruction of Plato’s Republic (or the ‘philosophocracy’ part of it at any rate) which I started on Thursday and finished on Sunday evening (nothing was done on Saturday; I still had a whole day to work with), and then last night at about 10:30 I started into my Philosophy of Religion essay. Suffice it to say, I’ve seldom put my name to anything worse.
Still though, I could console myself in the knowledge that my deviously cunning scheme was going to work like a charm and I would easily succeed in hoodwinking my two lectures, right? Wrong! When I arrived outside the department today at about 7:35 I saw the Philosophy of Religion guy leaving, no doubt having collected all the essays from under his office door. I then had to wait about 40 minutes for the department to open (he had locked it on leaving). At least I got the Models of Democracy one in. I scrawled some bullshit note on an A4 page explaining how I had been delayed getting to college on Friday evening, etc… and submitted it with the rest of my late Phil. Rel. essay. It’s rubbish anyway, so I guess I’ll get what I deserve.
I’m going to get a phone call any minute now telling me that there are no more spaces on the trip to China that my friends are going on, because that’s just how things seem to be going right now. Also, where the hell are the ‘EU and the International System’ essay titles? I’m really tired; I haven’t slept in about 21 hours.
Thanks for letting my blog brighten up your Monday morning.
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1. Do power-politics and anarchy adequately explain the behaviour of states in the international system?
2. Discuss the relationship between liberal democracy and war.
3. What causes war? [Consider theoretical and conceptual approaches as well as empirical evidence].
4. Was the invasion and occupation of Iraq legal?
5. Is international law essentially Western?
6. Evaluate the efficacy of International Law.
7. Discuss the view that international law is essentially an ‘historical artifact’
8. Which IR theory is the most compelling in its account of international law?
that does be the lot… ive got it done but its shit.. ah well
Ah, the late philosophy essay! At 7.30am yesterday, I saw a girl in my philosophy class frantically putting the finishing touches to (that is, the second half of) essay on the Cartesian Circle. I asked her for a stapler, and with great satisfaction, joined my 10 pages together in front of her, before crunching into them with her apparatus. Cruel, really.