Coursework.Info - Inspiration in an Instant

On the left is an image preview of every page of this document, and below are the first 150 words with formatting removed:

So why History of Ideas? "Pure shite". Numerous people have told me that to grab the reader's attention, an essay should always begin with a quote, preferably of the original sort. That particular one is my friend's summary of her 1st year subject choice of Philosophy in UCD Arts. "A load of pretentious eejits (her actual words have been edited for obscenities) waffling on about post-modernism and for some reason rabbit's fur. Weirdoes the lot of them." In fact, at this stage, I wasn't even sure that the class was related to philosophy at all; that was just the rumour circulating throughout the Communications class. I was almost at the stage of playing paper-rock-scissors to decide between History of Ideas and Semiotics. So I asked the 'valuable' opinion of my friend who had (barely) passed the subject. Considering her opinions on the bus home, I came to the conclusion that...

Get instant access

• Instant, unlimited access to our documents in full
• Swap your work for free access, or pay £4.99
• To see the full version of this document and 150,044 others