understand me

i want everyone to understand my suffering. here's my take home final, in three parts.

Essay I:
Darwin, Marx, and Freud are often seen as three 19^th century stakes in the heart of the 18^th century Enlightenment with its belief that rational people with free access to information could intelligently govern themselves. Even if the strict original systems of Marx (dialectical materialism) and Freud (id, ego, superego, etc.) are rarely held today, they along with evolutionary theory have still left a basic modern belief that there are underlying economic, psychological, and biological forces that are much more powerful than the superficial rationality of human individuals. Such currents, of course, have impacted the modern writing of history. in this light, please write a three-part essay on:
A. How Freudian psychology impacts the writing of biography (feel free to use S. Freud's biography of Leonardo DaVinci as prototype).
B. How Marxists - of all people the most interested in history of revolution - have interpreted history.
C. How the biological setting of cultural development has affected that development of history, especially in terms of European expansion into the non-European world.

*whew!* there's one. now the next one

Essay II:
Bancroft, Parkman, Turner, Robinson - discuss the early greats among American historians. Pay particular attention to the relationship of each to German historical scholarship and institutions.

i'm sure your thoughts by now run along the same lines as mine... what?

Essay III:
Look back at Herodotus to Romanticism material, from 400s B.C. to the mid-19th century. Although the urge to discover the past is expressed differently in each age, can you find an underlying common denominator among all the ages? Please give examples to prove your argument.

ok, so that last sentence means that there is a common theme. after all, how can you give examples if there is no common theme? *nightmare* come, join the party! i have until 12:30 tomorrow.