Need help deciding on a world history paper topic

[forgop]

Originally Posted by CigarNut

Do yourself a favor -- whatever topic you choose -- do real research and write a real paper. My guess is that most instructors in most cases will not like "YouTube" as a source for information in your paper.

There are lots of resources on the Internet, but your local library or school library might be better.

You only get as much out of something as you put into it...

Just my ...

I'm not using youtube as a source-just wanted a brief description since it's been several years since I'd read anything about it. I'll write a good paper, but for the moment just taking a few minutes to direct me down a path as I'm submitting my topic tonight.

At the end of the day, it's a 3 credit elective while I'm in school full-time, work 24 hours/week, while also being a dad/husband. It's just 5-6 pages long, so it certainly won't come anything to my graduate research project I completed for my masters degree.

[CigarNut]

Originally Posted by forgop

I'm not using youtube as a source-just wanted a brief description since it's been several years since I'd read anything about it. I'll write a good paper, but for the moment just taking a few minutes to direct me down a path as I'm submitting my topic tonight.

At the end of the day, it's a 3 credit elective while I'm in school full-time, work 24 hours/week, while also being a dad/husband. It's just 5-6 pages long, so it certainly won't come anything to my graduate research project I completed for my masters degree.

I was not accusing you of citing YouTube in your paper -- your paper is not written, so there are no references. I was trying to give an example of a bad thing do to.

No need for you to justify your actions to me -- I was making a simple statement which you can choose to accept or ignore.

You are either going to put in the effort and do a good job or you are not. Your choice. You are the only one that has to live with the results.

The thing that galls me is people who do a poor job and then rant that they were treated unfairly, or it is not their fault (again, not an accusation).

[markem]

Here is a quick wiki article about a system that I helped to invent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMNET

The parts of the system that are really fascinating for your paper is that the system is able to create very accurate (to the 3' resolution level) training simulators in real time from Landsat stereo images (e.g., you train where you will fight). Without that system, the first gulf war would have turned in to a protracted shooting war. I was on the Delta Graphics team.