Wednesday, April 06, 2005

the tango maureen

Just listening to that song right now...

"pookie"

so i been trying to finish this paper for my indigenous peoples of the world paper since like spring break. i wrote 2 pages of bullet point notes and since then i have probably like doubled the amount. Its supposed to be 9-12 pages and i dont think that will be a problem but one of the reasons its taking so long is because im making two arguments and at times both make sense and at other time one or neither does. My basic claim is that because syria is controlling Lebanon right now and the lebanese people are protesting for their right to self govern that makes them as a whole indigenous. (as in peoples from a land who have the right to self rule and are being denied it, along with every other connotation)
the second argument is that the maronite christians of lebanon are the indigenous peoples of the area and deserve special treatment. how does this work?
i have lots of evidence for both, but if my teacher doesnt buy it then maybe i lose all credit or have to start over and having skimmed three books and reading probably 50 websites on the topic starting over seems rough. whats funny is there is so much info that says exactly what i want but all of it is from non credible sources so i cant use them. like wikipedia states blatantly that the maronites are indigenous yet its a fake encyclopedia... with real info.

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