ClassIdeasTopicPeriod

Bob's Improv Class:

Class Topic -- Period

• American History

  • Revolutionary War (1600-1820)

  • Civil War (1830-1870)

    • Includes Gold Rush and Reconstruction
  • Victorian (1880-1900)
  • Great War (1910-1920)
  • Roaring 20s (1920-1929)
  • Depression and Prohibition (1930-1939)
  • World War II (1939-1945)
  • Red Scare (1946-1959)
  • Cold War (1960-1967)
  • Summer of Love (1968-1972)
  • Fall of Nixon, Energy Crisis, Carter, Disco (1973-1979)
  • Punk, Reagan, Preppies, Falwell, Yuppies, Rap, and Hair Metal (1980-1989)

• World History

  • Babylonia
  • King Tut
  • Life of Brian
  • Dark Ages
  • Arthur
  • The Inquisition
  • Renaissance
  • The Industrial Revolution (starring Coal!)
  • Smedley, the Great White Hunter

• Elements

  • slang
  • technology
  • social class

• Religious and Secret Organizations - Ritual, Rank, and Organization

  • Catholicism and the Papacy
  • Judaism for the Goyim
  • Buddhism in a Nutshell
  • Specific Protestant Sects
  • Pentacostals
  • Mormons/LDS
  • Christian Science
  • The Amish (aka "Why Amish Cyborg is Funny")
  • Jehovah's Witnesses
  • Freemasonry
  • Scientology
• Military Rank and Organization

• Foreign Governments

  • Communists
  • Parliaments

  • Royalty

    • To the manor born
• Special Emphasis on Charlamagne and the Holy Roman Empire

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