[otrivine]

Tomorrows Schedule
Morning 7am study BIO unit 4
then the rest to revise for C3 C4

[Pensivedore]

So I've been slacking these past few days. Study leave is making me lazy, even though I have an exam on Friday.
Today:

English
Section B-
-Context
-Themes
-Quotes: effect and meaning
-Timed passage analysis

History
Rome
-Frontier and defensive policies
-Romanisation
Greece
-Finish First Peloponnesian war notes: sort into themes, sources etc etc
-The Archadamian War notes

Law
-Finish typing up theft notes
-At some points type up blackmail notes

[s_axo]

*Psychology posters to check spec
*Past papers
*Audio

[whattheheck]

Aggggggghhhhhhhh. First exam on Wednesday!

[Pensivedore]

(Original post by Pensivedore)
So I've been slacking these past few days. Study leave is making me lazy, even though I have an exam on Friday.
Today:

English
Section B-
-Context
-Themes
-Quotes: effect and meaning
-Timed passage analysis

History
Rome
-Frontier and defensive policies
-Romanisation
Greece
-Finish First Peloponnesian war notes: sort into themes, sources etc etc
-The Archadamian War notes

Law
-Finish typing up theft notes
-At some points type up blackmail notes

I somehow found a way to do everything else apart from History. :/

[cz100]

Why is Twitter so much more interesting than C4

[Quirynn]

Haven't been on here in ages! Final exam tomorrow... Geography.
Notes are made, familiar with a bit of the stuff but really need to sit down and focus the rest of tonight on learning case study facts and figures. Still worried though!
Such a lack of motivation today, I'm in Summer mode already - the last exam I had was a week and a half ago.

[rofflewaffle]

-Finish c3 notes.
This must be done .

[sebastienlewis]

Learn Single-Variable Calculus.
Learn Mufti-Variable Calculus

[whattheheck]

An all nighter tonight!

[theseeker]

(Original post by cz100)
Why is Twitter so much more interesting than C4

LOL, been spending my time on it nearly all day :-(

[Pensivedore]

First A2 exam tomorrow!

[Jellybeany]

Good luck!


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[Katieh007]

Only 2 exams left!!!!!!!!!!

Do NOT have any motivation to revise tho

[oHellno]

(Original post by Niki_girl)
Thanks for this, it's really helped! I've seen this question before and then put it to the back of my mind because I freaked out and had no idea how to answer it, and no one else at school had been able to help me either

I just have 2 questions, because my knowledge is a bit rusty and I was just confused about a couple of things

1. I thought that land reform affected the Protestant Ascendancy and landed gentry (causing their decline), but not necessarily Ulstermen in the North, or were majority of the Protestant Ascendancy in the North/ Ulster?

2. I know that Ulster was against Home Rule, but did they particularly support/ use the Black-and-Tans, because I thought that the Black-and-Tans were simply deployed in the South of Ireland, outside of Ulster, by the British government, and weren't particularly anything to do with the North of Ireland?

Either way, I definitely have some more ideas about what to write now! Sorry if my questions are really weird and if I've completely (accidentally) misunderstood something! I appreciate your help

Hey I know that it's been ages since you posted this but I was reading through mark schemes and I realised that my teacher was quite wrong when he was sort of refering to protestant ascendancy as though they were the same hing as ulstermen, I think he was wrong anyway. So now, I am totally lost as to how I would actually write this essay

If you've figured it out then please let me know Cannot wait until this is over, I've had enough lol

[Niki_girl]

(Original post by Elizabethsmith)
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(Original post by oHellno)
Hey I know that it's been ages since you posted this but I was reading through mark schemes and I realised that my teacher was quite wrong when he was sort of refering to protestant ascendancy as though they were the same hing as ulstermen, I think he was wrong anyway. So now, I am totally lost as to how I would actually write this essay

If you've figured it out then please let me know Cannot wait until this is over, I've had enough lol

I'm going to write out a plan, based on your original plan and some of my ideas from my own knowledge...might not be correct, but I'm going to try and think logically about Ulstermen and different events which constitute "political change".

Hopefully, since the markschemes for it aren't online, then it must have come from a "legacy" paper, that it no longer used, and hopefully we cannot be asked this question or one similiar to it!

I can't help thinking that Ulstermen (mainly Presbyterian) are not the same as the Protestant Ascendancy (landed gentry in Southern Ireland), although there is some cross-over, some Unionists were in the South, some Ascendancy were in the North etc....

Spoiler:

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To what extent did Protestant Ulstermen oppose political change

1. Act of Union = opposed change originally, thought they'd lose dominance, BUT Catholic emancipation not granted, retained religious, economic and political monopoly, so became more committed to the Union as Catholics began more anti-Unionist. They also gained economically, and the extent to which they gained is shown in the rise of Unionism, particularly when Protestant businessmen invested in the area, and so their industry (linen, cotton) developed where as Catholic peasantry in south relied on agriculture = undeveloped. The proof of Ulster's economic gain from the Union is shown by the strength of Unionist feeling in the 1880s onwards!

2. Catholic Emancipation/ rise of O'Connell, 1820s. They would have disliked the idea of Catholics gaining power, were afraid of O'Connell's influence, HOWEVER, they would have been happy that with Emancipation, Peel reduced the electorate so most Catholics lost the vote, so in this case they were not entirely opposed to political change, but they become more uneasy as Catholics slowly gain land ownership (after Famine) and political power (1872 Secret Ballot Act, 1898 Local Government Act).

3. Tithe War (1829-1838). Ends with Tithe Commutation Act, makes tithes a fixed additional rent charge, payable to landlords. Ulstermen were mainly Presbyterian, so didn't like tithes or Church of Ireland, and they weren't as affected as Catholic tenant farmers, who resented their landlords (landlordism, I have gathered, was not the same problem in Ulster as it was elsewhere - the "Ulster custom" had always protected Ulstermen unlike their southern counterparts). With the Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland (1869) Protestant Ulstermen would also not oppose political change, BUT they would oppose the rise of Catholicism as a consequence of political reform - they know they're a minority in Ireland!

4. Ulster was not as badly affected by the Great Famine (1845-1849) as the rest of Ireland, unlike their southern counterparts they did not resent Westminster for the LACK of politcal change, e.g, those in the south did not agree with the Laissez-faire policy, they actually wanted political change during the famine to prevent them starving. Ulster instead had gained massively from the free trade granted with the Union, and although they had been affected by the economic downturn (1815- end of Napoleonic wars) they thought the North had prospered due to the Union, and due to their industry over taking agriculture, they did not desire political change as tenant farmers did (e.g, growth of tenant's rights in 1850s-1870s, especially under the activities of the Land league after the onset of agricultural depression, 1879).

5. Home Rule, beginning from 1st HR bill in 1886. Riots in Belfast. Ulstermen see Home Rule as "Rome Rule" and it's one of the main reasons that they (and the Conservative party for that matter) are reluctant, or downright opposed to Home Rule. They thought that their civil liberties would be affected by a Dublin parliament which they imagined would be dominated by nationalists and Fenians, there was never any dialogue between the 2 sides. 1886 Anti-Repeal Union formed, alliance with the Conservatives, Lord Randolph decides to "play the Orange card" by declaring "Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right!"

1904, Ulster Unionists are furious at the idea of Devolution in the scheme proposed by the Conservatives. Wyndham has to resign over it, and I think Carson denounces it as "Home Rule by installments!" They form their own Council in 1905, Unionist council is made up of all strands of Unionism, Orange order, clubs, Protestant churches etc. in this way they take steps to prevent poltical change being imposed on them, and instigate their own political change!

The biggest opposition to political change is in response to the 3rd Home Rule Bill (1912). This takes the form of mass demonstrations (Carson and Craig, Bonar-Law) e.g, "Covenant day" sept. 1912, should probably mention that Ulstermen and Bonar-Law are opposed to political change even in 1910, when they realise that the alliance between Asquith and Redmond will eventually result in a Home Rule Bill, Bonar-Law calls this a "corrupt bargain!" Anyway, Ulstermen begin to use armed resistance to oppose political change in the form of the UVF, formed Jan. 1913. Whilst this happens in Ireland, Carson, Craig and Bonar-Law also politically challenge the House of Commons, shouting down Asquith etc.

Larne gun-running, 1914, shows that they would have been prepared to fight the Nationalists/ British army in armed combat, if Home Rule was enforced. Home Rule is only suspended due to the outbreak of WW1, but the shelving of the Irish question only narrowly avoids Civil War, the Buckingham palace conference of 1914 ends in failure as the Unionists won't except temporary exclusion, Carson says it's a "stay of execution" for Ulster. Even after the "policy of Exclusion" is discussed, there is a debate over what to do with the 2 border-line counties of Ulster, which are 50/50 Catholic and Protestant. Each side wants to keep them! They agree to partition in principle, but nothing happens as HR is placed on the statue book, for after WW1.

After Easter Rising there are attempts at more talks for an Irish settlement, however once again Ulstermen oppose political change, as they remain "immovable" at the Irish Convention of 1917, despite Lloyd George's efforts.

HOWEVER, the outbreak of the Anglo-Irish war in 1919, and the rise of Republicanism/ Sinn Fein (1918) means that when the 1920 Government of Ireland Act proposes a separate parliament for Northern Ireland, they are happy to comply, as they wish to avoid the violence of the IRA's campaign in the South. In this way, paradoxically, Protestant Ulstermen end up accepting political change in the form of Home Rule, as they see it as the lesser of two evils - at least they get to keep their connection with Britain! Carson and Craig want to defend Unionism at all costs, but when it came to it they know that it can be defended best in Ulster, and so in a weird way (the Gov. of Ireland Act) can be seen as a desperate attempt to maintain some sort of Union with Britain, rather than demand independence like the South.

Hope this helps, tell me what you think!

[oHellno]

(Original post by Niki_girl)
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Omg, thank you so much, that was so helpful! Can you believe I didn't even know Ulstermen were Presbyterian, my teacher literally misled everyone, I've been finding all this out through Wikipedia

Thank you thank you thank you! I probably wouldn't mind too much if this sort of question came up. If you're stuck on any questions or want to discuss any feel free to message me

[Obsidian]

Haven't been on here for a while (I have been revising though - I promise!)

So today: (first exam on Tuesday)
1. Music Film essay - The Hours + context
2. English Literature timed essay
3. History - Detente, Sino-Soviet relations, Origins and End of Cold War

[Jellybeany]

Revising f214 ATM. Booo


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[aysha.19]

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