1.
Who
dictates fashion?
2.
What
are the characteristics of the traditional dress and jewelry in India?
3.
Costume
in Kabuki theater.
4.
Early
perfumes and their uses.
5.
How
to be a successful fashion designer?
6.
The
Chanel suit.
7.
How
the mass production of textiles changed women's clothing design.
8.
Furs
as fashion: Should they be banned?
9.
Advances
in man-made fabrics.
10.
The
influence of Women's Wear Daily on American fashion and design.
11.
Costume
in early religious dramas. Discuss the symbolism of color, dress, insignia, etc.
12.
Designing
clothes for the theater: some characteristics.
13.
Plants
and minerals used in early cosmetics.
14.
How
movies have been influencing fashion design?
15.
Women's
undergarments, 1700-1900.
16.
Fashion
merchandising as a career.
17.
Compare
and contrast American and Italian designers.
18.
The
evolution of Denim jeans.
19.
The
netsuke in traditional Japanese attire.
20.
The
contributions of Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer (1890-1973).
21.
Byzantine
influences in western dress.
22.
The
properties of linen, polyester, wool, silk and cotton textile as garments.
23.
The
design of early footwear
24.
African
Americans as depicted in American films.
25.
The
economic dynamics of the modern movie studio.
26.
The
Keystone Cops comedies.
27.
The
magic films of George Melies (1900's).
28.
The
casting of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
29.
Star
Wars as a space western.
30.
The
optimistic world of Frank Capri.
31.
Compare
the novel The French Lieutenant's Woman with the move made from it.
32.
Andy
Warhol's underground films.
33.
The
impact of Louis Lumber and his cinematography on early movie technology.
34.
The
most expensive film ever produced and why?
35.
Luke
as a Christ figure in Cool Hand Luke.
36.
Elements
of the Saturday serials, 1930-1940.
37.
Special
effects in Jurassic Park.
38.
Compare
the novel The Godfather (Mario Puzo) with the movie made from it.
39.
The
influence of The Birth of a Nation on filmmaking.
40.
Compare
Hollywood's treatment of World War II and the Vietnam War.
41.
The
increase of the violence in the movies.
42.
The
development of the popular film in the United States in the 1930's.
43.
The
movies in 1940's.
44.
The
appeal of Marilyn Monroe: a retrospective analysis.
45.
Discuss
censorship in the movies.
46.
The
movies of Francis Ford Coppola.
47.
The
unique appeal of Greta Garbo.
48.
The
visionary films of Werner Herzog.
49.
Special
effects and the disaster movies.
50.
Hollywood
and the Native Americans.
51.
How
Alfred Hitchcock achieved suspense?
52.
Advances
in animation techniques.
53.
The
effects on foreign cultures of exported American movies.
54.
Hollywood
as depicted in Nathanael West's novel, The Day of the Locust.
55.
Select
a trend in the film industry and evaluate its offerings.
56.
The
life of T.E. Lawrence and the movie Lawrence of Arabia.
57.
The
first motion picture studio.
58.
Stereotypes
in the western movie.
59.
Why
colorization of old movies should be discontinued?
60.
The
French film industry today.
61.
The
prophetic elements of Stanley Rubric's A Clockwork Orange.
62.
The
influence of Danish modern design on contemporary interiors.
63.
Kitchen
workspace design.
64.
Furnishing
the one-room apartment. What are the particular considerations for this
specialized environment?
65.
Furniture
from the Bauhaus school.
66.
How
to make a small room seem large?
67.
Essential
factors in the design of functional rooms for young children. Select an age
range.
68.
How
to choose a color scheme?
69.
Designing
and decorating the office environment, some basic considerations.
70.
The
effects of color in work environments.
71.
The
home interior of the future.
72.
Carpeting:
Wool, acrylics, nylon (all generations), polyester, olefins or other
alternatives.
73.
Design
concepts and innovations in the houses of Le Corbsier.
74.
Egyptian
contributions to, and influence on, world furniture design.
75.
Art
Nouveau furniture design.
76.
How
color creates atmosphere in home decoration?
77.
Shakespeare's
use of comic relief in his tragedies.
78.
Choose
a major character in a well-known play and trace his or her development in four
ways: appearance, speech, external
actions, what others say about the character.
79.
Why
was Euripides adversely criticized by his contemporaries? In light of current knowledge, was this
criticism justified?
80.
Moliere's
Tartuffe (or, don't criticize religion).
81.
Varying
interpretations of theme and meaning in the plays of Samuel Beckett.
82.
Brecht's
Mother Courage and Her Children as a statement against the capitalistic aspects
if war.
83.
Existentialism
in the dramas of Jean-Paul Sartre.
84.
Characteristics
of the Theater of the Absurd. Use as
examples Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros
among others.
85.
Jean
Cocteau's use of the Oedipus legend in The Infernal Machine, as compared to its
use by Sophocles.
86.
How
Everyman, the best known of the fifteenth-century mortality plays,
universalizes man's life. Discuss this
concept in terms of its contemporary relevancy, as well as its historical
context.
87.
King
Lear as a tragic hero.
88.
Chance
as portrayed in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
89.
Father
and son relationships in the drama of Arthur Miller.
90.
Shakespeare's
use of more than one plot in a single drama.
91.
Explore
the autobiographical elements of a drama by Eugene O'Neill.
92.
Was
Hamlet insane?
93.
Jean
Genet's use of the theme that nothing has meaning without its opposite; law and
crime, religion and sin, love and hate.
94.
The
isolation of the individual as a theme in contemporary drama.
95.
The
motives and character of Shakespeare's Hamlet have been analyzed by many
critics. Present a selection of these
views. Try to account for the varying
opinions.
96.
Word
play in Shakespearean drama.
97.
Contrast
and compare two characters motivations in a play. Choose one of the following motivations: hope for reward, love, fear of failure,
religious aspirations, revenge, greed, jealousy, hate.
98.
Elements
of humor in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra.
99.
Select
several works by the same playwright and discuss the uses of parody, irony,
didacticism, imagery, and other literary and dramatic techniques.
100. Social Satire in Edward Albees
plays The Sandbox or the The American Dream.
101. The origins of naturalism in
European.
102. The broad comedy of
Aristophanes.
103. Homosexual themes in the
dramatic works of Tennessee Williams.
104. Compare Eugene O'Neill's
Mouring Becomes Electra and Electra with the Greek tragedies of Euripides,
focusing on Electra.
105. Describe the structure of a
selected play in relation to traditional plot development: exposition, rising action, climax,
denouement, conclusion.
106. Discuss the use and function
of symbolism in a play of your choice.
107. Investigate the wide variety
of sources used by Shakespeare, such as history, mythology, and legend, and
other literary works.
108. Restoration comedy as typified
by William Congreve's The Way of the World.
109. Shakespeare's strong women.
110. Compare and contrast the use
of asides and soliloquies in Shakespeare's plays.
111. Henrik Ibsen's conception of
social responsibility as evidenced in An Enemy of the People.
112. What has been the influence of
Latin American music on modern Jazz?
113. The goal and achievements of
the Federal Music Project during the Depression.
114. Primitive musical instruments.
115. What is musical talent? What
have been some of the theories and experimental efforts used to explain this phenomenon?
116. American musical theater: from
minstrel shows to My Fair Lady.
117. Modern jazz: the bop
revolution and beyond.
118. Innovations in modern music:
Charles Ives.
119. New Orleans jazz Funerals.
120. Disc jockeys and their
relationship to the record industry.
121. The President's Marine Corps
Band.
122. Ragtime's influence on popular music.
123. Are rock stars born or made?
124. Compare and contrast bluegrass
and country and western music.
125. Impact on the music industry
of recording piracy.
126. Opera as musical theater.
127. Compare and contrast the
compositional practices of Mozart and Beethoven.
128. Compare soft rock, rock, punk
rock, and disco. What are the origins of each? Are they ethnic? Geographic?
129. The talking drum in African
tribal life.
130. Barbershop quartets in
America.
131. The worldwide influence of
American popular music.
132. Beverly Sills and the New York
City Opera.
133. The return of big band jazz:
Nostalgia or a revival of high quality popular music.
134. How to get into the song
writing business?
135. The influence of religious
music on jazz.
136. Women instrumentalist in jazz.
137. How to encourage a child's
interest in and enjoyment of music?
138. The concerto grosso as a
performance style. Where were its origins.
139. The Merry Widow: the
world's most poplar operetta.
140. The rock opera.
141. Unusual, unique and bizarre
musical instruments.
142. The instruments of the
orchestra: how the components have change and evolved.
143. Musical notation of electronic
music.
144. The Live Aid concert: how was
it organized, who participated and benefited?
145. Music therapy in mental
hospitals.
146. The Del Canto style in opera.
147. Homemade musical instruments.
148. The role of Masonic ideology
in the music of Mozart.
149. Compare and contrast folk and
country music.
150. Opera: Original language or
language of the audience.
151. Japanese musical instruments.
152. What are some of the
contemporary uses of electronic music?
153. Rock music and the recording
industry. where do we go from here?
154. The shofar in Hebrew culture.
155. How to write popular songs?
156. Ten thousand trumpets from a
mountain top: the orchestration of Hector Berlioz.
157. Orchestral tone color in the
music of Debussy.
158. A reevaluation of the music of
Scott Joplin : popular music, classical music of what?
159. Social commentary in the
lyrics of rock music of the 1960's.
160. Musical child prodigies.
161. The marketing of rock music.
162. Bach in the twentieth century:
adoptions and adaptions.
163. Recent conductors of the New
York Philharmonic.
164. Rock recording are big
business.
165. Origins of the Viennese waltz.
166. Frederick Chopin and his
stormy love affair with George Sand.
167. Richard Wagner's exploitation
of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
168. Beethoven's reactions to his
loss of hearing. How was his music affected?
169. Technology of Cremona violin
makers.
170. Scott Joplin and the
development of ragtime.
171. Styles of film scores: from
the 1950's to the 1990's.
172. The story of the Grand Ole
Opry.
173. Romantic love and the medieval
troubadour-trouvere tradition.
174. In the beginning: What are the
oldest musical instrument?
175. Johann Sebastian Bach as
viewed by his contemporaries.
176. Evolution of the symphony
orchestra from Beethoven to Berlioz.
177. The invention of opera.
178. The piano etudes of the
nineteenth century: Chopin and Liszt.
179. African origins of black
American folk music.
180. Martin Luther and German
chorales.
181. Richard and Cosima Wagner and
the mystique of Bayreuth.
182. Guido d'Arezzo and the
development of musical notation.
183. Pope Gregory and the Great and
Gregorian chant.
184. Technology and craftsmanship
of pipe organs through the centuries.
185. Musical instruments of the
war.
186. Origins of the American
minstrel show.
187. Max Reinhardt and the Genesis
of the Mozart Festival (Salzburg, Austria).
188. Medieval musical instruments.
189. Compare and contrast John
Gay's Beggar's Opera and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.
190. Compare the play Amadeus with
the facts in Mozart's life.
191. The origin of Italian tempo
indications for music.
192. Castrati in seventeenth eighteenth-century
opera.
193. The story of Richard Wagner
and the quest for the Holy Grail.
194. Words and music evolution of
the English madrigal.
195. The incredible career of Jean
Baptiste Lully, court musician for Luis XIV.
196. Bach's contribution to modern
music.
197. The American reception of the
Beatles (1964).
198. Gothic music in the Cathedral School of Paris.
199. Virtuosos of the Romantic
Age: Franz Liszt and Niccolo Paganini.
200. Childe Harold, Louis Hector
Berlioz, and Lord Byron.
201. Paris premiere of Stravinsky's
The Rite of Spring (1913).
202. The eighty-eight: How many
strings have pianos had?
203. Defense mechanisms of the
termite.
204. How coral atolls are formed?
205. Techniques of pollen
transference.
206. Adaptions to night vision
among mammals.
207. Instances of parallel
evolution.
208. Insect polymorphism.
209. The invasion of the fire ants
in the United States. What are their
origins and current range? What are
future projections?
210. History of the domestic cat.
211. Artificial methods of
parthenogenesis.
212. The wonderful pituitary gland.
213. How oil spills damage wildlife?
214. Our biological clock and its
relationship to sleep.
215. The use of echoes by animals.
216. Why the Galapagos Islands are
unique.
217. How do biologists account for
the variety of life spans among the animals?
What factors have influenced species variation?
218. Mutation from natural
radiation.
219. Trace the evolution of learned
behavior in primates.
220. Biological pest control by
natural enemies.
221. The function of the antennae
in insects.
222. The laws of natural selection.
223. The tiger: habitat, habits,
and prospects.
224. Biological basis for the
mermaid legend (manatees, dugong, etc.).
225. Fossils of Dinosaur National
Monument. What have we learned from
these excavations?
226. Cloning: the popular myths and
scientific facts.
227. How to tell a bird by its
nest.
228. Mechanisms of fish
productivity.
229. Use of tools by the lower
animals.
230. Compare/contrast human and
chimpanzee infant development.
231. The ice fish.
232. Fossil history of insects.
233. The long road to upright
posture.
234. Was Ramapithecus an early
hominid?
235. Darwin's debt to Sir Charles
Lyell.
236. The Piltdown man hoax.
237. How do species become extinct?
238. The significance of teeth and
jaws in fossil remains.
239. The precepts of
macroevolution.
240. Compare and contrast Java and
Peking man.
241. Why was the evolvement of a
specialized transport tissue necessary for higher plants to fully utilize the
land environment?
242. Controversies of human origin
brought on by Lucia.
243. Why the Galapagos were
uniquely suited to evolutionary discoveries?
244. The revisionist theory of
evolution.
245. What determines the rate of
evolution?
246. Brain evolution: from flatworm to human.
247. How the lessening of natural
selection has changed man's genetic pool?
248. Future evolution of primates.
249. How did bacteria evolve?
250. Illustrate the process of
adaptive radiation.
251. Lucy and her physical
characteristics.
252. What happened to the dinosaurs?
253. The nature of human mutations.
254. Defend the verdict of the
Scopes monkey trial.
255. The development of
evolutionary theories before Charles Darwin.
256. What happened to the remains
of the Peking Man?
257. What are the evolutionary
relationships between the major classes of vertebrates?
258. The fossilized remains of the
La Brea tar pits.
259. The evolution of social
insects and flowering plants.
260. Early discoveries of human
fossils.
261. Evidences of loss of wings of
island birds.
262. How genetic drift relates to
evolutionary theory?
263. Whale evolution.
264. Brain size in early man.
265. What are the basic assumptions
of Darwin's theory?
266. How does natural selection
affect social behavior?
267. Compare and contrast
individual and group natural selection.
268. Eugene Dubois and the Java ape
man.
269. Why pithecanthropus erectus
was previously thought to be the missing link.
270. Compare and contrast the
modern crocodile and the dinosaurs.
271. Controversy of Raymond Tart's
Taung Baby.
272. Punctuated Equilibrium.
273. The role of accident in
evolutionary theory.
274. Recent finds in the Olduvai Gorge.
275. Findings of Louis Leakey.
276. The significance of the
opposable thumb to human development.
277. How the theories of
Anaximander anticipated later theories of evolution?
278. Darwin's discoveries on the
voyage on the Beagle.
279. How birds became airborne and
why some didn't?
280. What are the problems faced by
animals in terrestrial life?
281. Covergent evolution.
282. Do we all have a
fat-regulating gene?
283. The mutagenetic effects of
ionizing radiation.
284. How are human mutation rates
calculated?
285. The development of gene
splicing.
286. How is hemophilia transmitted?
287. The advantages of genetic
counseling.
288. Compare the current roles of
the government, the universities and the private sector in the development of
biotechnology.
289. Compare the current roles of
the government, the universities and the private sector in the development of
biotechnology.
290. Detail the controversy
surrounding Dr. Martin Cline (UCLA) and his use of human subjects for
recombinant DNA disease experimentation.
291. Cloning: the scientific advances.
292. Cloning: the scientific advances.
293. Our first genetically
engineered whole food: the Flavr Savr tomato.
Chart its progress to the marketplace.
294. The genetic basis of aging.
295. Select a genetic disease and
discuss its origin, incidence, control, and effects. Some examples are sickle
cell anemia, PKU, Huntington's chorea, and Down's syndrome.
296. Frontiers of genetic research
with animals. What is the current state
of the art?
297. The peas of Gregor Mendel and
what they proved.
298. Designer genes and how we will
use them.
299. The evolution of genes.
300. Human genetic
engineering: An evolutionary tightrope?
301. Recombinant DNA and the
treatment of genetic diseases. What
progress has been made in this area.
302. Genetic vulnerability and
world food production.
303. The impact of big money on
recombinant research.
304. Is fetal diagnosis and
selective abortion a form of genetic engineering?
305. The relationship between
natural selection and modern genetics.
306. Compare the nature of parallel
and convergent evolution. Use
significant examples to illustrate these processes.
307. Interferon: Cancer cure or
industry hype?
308. Does modern genetic research
offer a new chance for a green revolution.
309. Gene therapy for hereditary
disorders: the state of the art.
310. How much of our behavior is
caused by our genes? Cite the major
scientific theories and supporting evidence.
311. What are the possible
consequences of using genetically engineered micro-organisms.
312. While gene splicing promises
many remarkable breakthroughs, it also has many detractors. Why?
313. Aging and genetics. Survey the newest research.
314. Aging and genetics. Survey the newest research.
315. DDT and genetic change.
316. Major areas of impact from
applied genetics.
317. What are endorphins?
318. What is the ozone layer?
319. What are pheronomes?
320. What are the chemical uses of
the laser?
321. What are chemical additives?
322. How do antibiotics work in the
body?
323. Who discovered penicillin?
324. What are chemical carcinogens?
325. Who is responsible for toxic
dumping?
326. What is the moon's chemical
composition?
327. How are oil spills
neutralized?
328. How was the periodic table
developed?
329. How safe are chemical plants?
330. What is heroin?
331. What are the processes of
water purification?
332. What is marijuana?
333. What is dioxin?
334. What is the history of rubber
development?
335. What is primordial soup?
336. What is the chemical
composition of ocean water?
337. How were elements discovered?
338. What is ozone?
339. What is acid rain?
340. What is lightning?
341. Land reclamation measures for
strip-mined areas. Discuss the most successful projects.
342. The Tennessee Valley
Authority's Tellico Dam and the controversy surrounding its construction.
343. The damage to bird populations
from oil spills.
344. Study the game laws in your
state. Discuss essential reforms and changes.
345. Survey congressional action on
environmental issues over the last five years. Evaluate your findings.
346. Widespread environmental degradation
occurred in Vietnam as an effect of American strategy and weaponry. What were
some of the major consequences? Are they still factors in this area?
347. Wildlife refuges: How
effective are they?
348. The effects of tanker oil
spills on coastal areas.
349. Is the safe disposal of
hazardous waste an impossibility?
350. Is the Environmental
Protection Agency effectively protecting the environment? Is there agreement on
this question?
351. Greenpeace Foundation and
whale conservation.
352. What do wetlands contribute to
the environment?
353. How forest fires are
controlled.
354. World water shortages.
355. Lead in the environment.
356. Deforestation in the
Himalayas.
357. Clean air in the 100s:
standards, progress, and prospects.
358. Current levels of radioactive
waste in the United States.
359. Practical soil erosion
controls for farmlands.
360. Identify an areal of
environmental conflict within your locality. What precipitated this conflict?
What are the contrasting values held by the opponents? Is a resolution
possible?
361. Groundwater and what happens
to the land when it is all used up.
362. Paraquat spraying of
marijuana. What have been the environmental consequences?
363. Wind erosion: Discuss the Dust
Bowl of the 1930's and modern instances of this condition as well.
364. Important activities and
achievements of the Sierra Club in the last five years.
365. Bottle laws: pros and cons.
366. Examine in detail selected
examples of the variety of ways mankind has functioned as a modifier of the
environment.
367. What are the basic factors
underlying land use conflicts in the United States?
368. Disadvantages of salt water
conversion processes. Does technology exist that would make this feasible for
large volumes of water?
369. Why Theodore Roosevelt's
greatest contribution as president was in the field of conservation?
370. Evaluate the predictions of
environmentalist Paul Ehrlich.
371. Will zoos be the last wildlife
preserves?
372. Present the case for
wilderness areas.
373. Can Alaska's wilderness be
preserved? What are the critical issues?
374. The poisoning of love canal.
375. What are the major causes of
forest fires in the United States? What is the annual toll, both economically
and environmentally?
376. Radioactive fallout. How is it
measured? How much has there been? What have been the principal effects?
377. What are the five most
critical environmental problems in the United States today? Detail their scope
and the ultimate consequences of their unchecked expansion.
378. Open pit and strip mining: An
environmental disaster?
379. How the passenger pigeon
became extinct?
380. Wilderness areas, government
policies, and mineral leasing. Focus on this relationship and recent instances
of conflict and change.
381. The impact of environmental
regulation on __? Select an industry.
382. The environmental consequences
of the misuse of slash-and-burn agriculture.
383. When overgrazing is allowed,
what happens to both the land surfaces and to the naturally occurring grasses?
384. Levels of pesticide residues
in animal populations.
385. Psychosomatic illness.
386. Personal methods for combating
depression. What do doctors advise?
387. The psychological basis of
music therapy.
388. The effects of institutionalization
on mentally handicapped children.
389. Current uses of antipsychotic
drugs on mental patients.
390. What changes in the American
economic system have contributed to the growth of personal insecurity?
391. Treating drug addiction as a
mental illness.
392. Chronic brain syndromes.
393. Genetic factors in mental
illness.
394. Symptoms of paranoia.
395. Effects of emotional
deprivation on the normal adult.
396. Living with the chronically
mentally ill: some guidelines.
397. The correlations and
implications of suicide rates by occupation.
398. How to help the chronically
ill child maintain a good mental outlook?
399. Differing perspectives on the
causes of childhood autism.
400. Electroshock therapy for the
mentally ill. What is its status today?
401. The controversy and facts
surrounding the administration of drugs to hyperkinetic children.
402. Physical and mental
characteristics of drug dependence.
403. How to recognize when a family
member needs professional help?
404. When should mental illness be
hospitalized or institutionalized?
405. Public education and mental
illness. What have been the components
of the most successful programs?
406. Senile psychosis.
407. Philippe Pinel's reforms in
the treatment of the mentally ill.
408. Psychological elements of
alcoholism (or drug addiction).
409. Mental dysfunctions of Vietnam
veterans.
410. What to do about phobia?
411. Mental difficulties often
encountered in adopted children.
412. Is homosexuality a mental
illness?
413. Common personality disorders.
414. Twentieth-century changes in
the public's attitude toward the treatment of mental illness.
415. Drug therapy for depression.
416. Physical causes of psychosis.
417. Mentally retarded
children: home care versus
institutionalization.
418. The treatment of manic
depressives with lithium.
419. What effect will possible
global warming have on the oceans?
420. The permanent result of oil spills.
421. Submarine volcanoes. Consult
current research for the newest findings.
422. Life forms of the Great
Barrier Reef (Australia).
423. The international Ocean
Drilling Program (ODP) has recently started operations. What are the goals of
this project? Where will they
operate? Who is involved?
424. Life on and in an ocean vent.
425. The first Aqua-lungs and how
they were used.
426. The food chain of the coral
reef.
427. Salmon hatcheries of the
Northwest.
428. Recent proposals to prevent
ocean pollution and contamination.
429. What will happen when the
ocean is polluted: a scenario for the future.
430. Tidal waves: how they develop
and what some have done.
431. Animals at underwater
hydrothermal vents are unique. Describe
them. What is their range in the
oceans?
432. International law and ocean
resources.
433. Framing the ocean: the
potential for tomorrow's food supply.
434. The biological basis of red
tides and bioluminescence.
435. The ocean's manganese nodules,
their formation, mining potential and ownership.
436. Freedom of the seas:
international policies.
437. What lives in the oceans'
depths? Include a review of recent
literature. Select either plants or
animal life.
438. The commercial aspects of hot
brines.
439. Prospects for the commercial
fishing of krill.
440. Current levels of ocean
pollution.
441. Desalination of ocean water
and its practical applications. What
have been past obstacles to utilization?
How have innovations advanced the technology?
442. How are marine organisms part
of the food webs that sustain higher life forms on earth.
443. Recent satellite measurements
have detected a rapid rise in global sea levels. What will be the result if
this trend continues?
444. The long-range effects of the
Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound.
445. The search for a shark
repellent. What advances have been made
in the last twenty years?
446. The formation of ocean atolls
from coral reefs.
447. What have been some of the
most recent proposals for the ocean shipping reform?
448. The strange Sargasso Sea.
449. The physiology of waves.
450. Seabed mining: prospects and
problems.
451. Protecting the world's oceans'
ecosystems.
452. How to protect coastlines.
453. Hiroshima: ethical
considerations.
454. The ethical issues of the
Vietnam War. How did concerns differ
from other armed conflicts?
455. When is propaganda justified?
Philosophy.
456. Heliocentric theories, from
the Greeks to the Renaissance.
457. Compare and contrast the
political philosophies of Karl Marx and V.I.
Lenin.
458. Machiavelli: political
philosopher or psychologist?
459. Pragmatism: an American
philosophy.
460. Fabians and their theories.
461. The essential differences
between atheistic and theistic existentialists.
462. The transcendentalism of Henry
David Thoreau.
463. Trotsky's theories of
revolution.
464. Compare and contrast the
perspectives of Harvey Cox' Secular City and St. Augustine's City of God.
465. The relationship between John
Locke's philosophy and the development of American constitutional democracy.
466. Is the Protestant ethic
obsolete?
467. Arguments against capital
punishment.
468. Compare and contrast fascist
and communist dictatorships.
469. The humanism of Erasmus of
Rotterdam.
470. Compare the dualism of Plato
and Descartes.
471. John Stuart Mill and the
equality of women.
472. The ethical and religious
aspects of hunting and killing.
473. Karl Marx as a humanitarian.
474. The God is dead thesis of
Frederich Nietzche: what movements did it inspire?
475. Considerations and motivations
of conscientious objectors.
476. The effect of Ghandi's
nonviolent resistance on political movements.
477. Hitler and the master race
theory.
478. Philosophical proofs of the
existence of god.
479. The philosophy of comic
strips.
480. Origins of existentialism.
481. Who should punish the criminal,
society or the aggrieved?
482. Varying concepts of Utopia.
483. What are the rights of the
unborn child?
484. Pacificism and its
applications.
485. The ethics and legalities of
wiretaps.
486. Compare and contrast Stoicism
and Epicureanism.
487. Discuss the dichotomy of those who believe morality is an absolute
with those who find it subjective.
488. Philosophical approaches to
the evil in man's nature.
489. Who is responsible for wartime
atrocities?
490. Describe Lenin's theoretical
reaction to the breakup of the Soviet Union.
491. Jean-Paul Sartre's views on
Marxism.
492. The leap of faith in the
philosophy of Kierkegaard.
493. B.F. Skinner's concept of the
perfectibility of people as expressed in Walden II.
494. Greek views of liberty and
justice.
495. Compare atheists and
agnostics.
496. Compare and contrast the
Socratic method with the process of deductive reasoning.
497. Nietzche's artist as a
superman.
498. Compare and contrast the
political philosophies of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson.
499. Philosophical origins of yoga.
500. War, ethics, and the Geneva
Convention.
501. The nature of Thomas Paine's
philosophy as expressed in The Age of Reason.
502. Justifications of civil
disobedience.
503. Euthanasia: contemporary
philosophical perspectives.
504. The historical roots of
pacificism in America.
505. What is mysticism? Explore Bertrand Russell, William James, and
the Eastern philosophers.
506. Compare and contrast refractor
and reflector telescopes.
507. New uses for fiber optics.
508. Careers for women in
engineering. What are some of the
challenges women have to face?
509. The politics and processes of
desalination.
510. Development and uses of the
Geiger counter.
511. Bugging devices.
512. Each year hundreds of new
chemical compounds enter the market.
Examine different chemicals and the testing involved.
513. The boomerang and other
primitive throwing sticks.
514. Stone buildings and monuments
all over the world are suffering severe weather and pollution damage. What is being done to control this
situation?
515. Appropriate technology for
underdeveloped countries. Select a
particular area such as agriculture, textiles, mining, etc.
516. Military and civilian uses of
the Hovercraft.
517. Digital recording technology.
518. The future role of systems
engineering.
519. Shore protection
measures. Why are they necessary? What are the alternatives?
520. It has been estimated that 25
percent of our national energy consumption is wasted through inefficient
processes in industry and domestic buildings.
In what ways do the most significant losses occur? What technological aids could remedy them?
521. Varieties of contemporary
bridge construction.
522. Compare and contrast the video
tape and the video disc.
523. The use of lasers in video
reproduction.
524. Modern aqueducts.
525. Solar energy: practical applications for the home.
526. Synthetic fuels.
527. Wheelchair innovation and
design.
528. In what industries has
automation proved to be most successful?
Why?
529. How to build a tunnel.
530. How has technology expanded
the agricultural resource base?
531. The craftsmanship of the
Steinway piano.
532. Scientific uses for hot air
balloons.
533. The dynamics of the orb
weaver's (spider) web.
534. The holograph and its uses.
535. How new innovations are
contributing to airplane safety.
536. Typical attitudes of
adolescents toward drug use and abuse.
537. Adolescent health problems.
538. How parents can improve
communication with their teenagers?
539. The stages and ages of
adolescence in modern America.
540. The problems of adolescent
marriages.
541. What are the television
viewing habits of the average teenager?
542. Adolescent suicide: its
prevalence and possible causes.
543. Many educators charge that
students in American high schools are undisciplined. How wide-spread is the
problem? In what ways has it affected learning?
544. Emotional aspects of teenage
pregnancy for both of the potential parents.
545. Dietary deficiencies of
American teenagers. Detail these nutritional lacks. How do they affect health,
both short and long term?
546. Adolescence in china.
547. The relationship between
juvenile delinquency and family instability.
548. Teen Power as a marketing and
advertising concept. What is the purchasing power of teenagers in terms of
dollars? In market segments?
549. The increasing prevalence of
teenage pregnancies. What are the socioeconomic factors involved?
550. What are some of the
successful programs being utilized to improve parent-adolescent communication?
551. How to talk about sex with
your adolescent?
552. The youth movement in Nazi
Germany before World War II.
553. Should the high school
curriculum be expanded? How?
554. How to talk to adolescents
about love and marriage?
555. How teenagers can best
communicate with their parents?
556. Teenage alcoholism is
increasing. To what do experts attribute this change?
557. Adolescence in America as
described in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) and in The Catcher in
the Rye (J.D. Salinger).
558. Teenagers in China today. How
have their lives changed since 1930? 1950? Tienanmen Square?
559. Adolescent peer pressure and
how it is used by advertisers?
560. Refute or defend this
analysis: The American teenager has been portrayed as self-indulgent,
self-centered, and immature as compared to his/her European counterpart.
561. Is college necessary? Should
young people be allowed to make this choice?
562. A profile of the female
juvenile offender.
563. Teenagers and marijuana:
short-term and long-range effects. Select some of the most recent and
significant studies. Compare their conclusions.
564. Psychological stresses of the
overweight teenager.
565. The proper punishment of
juvenile offenders is a contested issue. Discuss standard contemporary
procedures and the suggested reforms.
566. Sexual behavior and the
American teenager: Changing mores?
567. Measures to rehabilitate the
teenage dropout. Do the experts agree?
568. How to get into the college
you want?
569. Major causes of juvenile crime
in urban centers.
570. The teenager and peer group
pressures. Characterize typical response patterns.
571. What's wrong with America's
high schools: a survey of current opinion?
572. Summer employment
possibilities for teenagers. Investigate this on a local level or as a broad
national overview.
573. Common psychological problems
of adolescents.
574. A social and psychological
profile of a typical teenage runaway.
575. What can be done to help
prevent runaways? Examine some of the more successful programs.
576. Defend or refute: Pregnant
women who use drugs should be criminally prosecuted for child abuse.
577. Describe the cocaine trail
from the cocoa leaf to the end user.
578. If your community has drug
prevention and rehabilitation program, visit these facilities and describe
their organization, procedures and results.
579. Illicit drug use by young
people has been increasing every year. Examine this trend. Is a reversal in
sight?
580. Detail the reasons for the
following statement: Crime is most
evident among persons who use drugs on a regular basis
581. Cite examples of successful
neighborhood drug eradication and control programs.
582. What happens when drug gangs
move into middle-income areas?
583. Examine the problems
encountered in taking care and nurturing of crack babies.
584. Are psychoactive drugs
permanently harmful?
585. Support that view that illegal
drugs should be decriminalized.
586. The scope of second generation
drug dependency.
587. Was Prohibition a failure?
588. Has drugs use in your
community increased? Have the kinds of
drugs used changed?
589. The plight of the inner-city
poor and why the drug culture flourish among them.
590. Why there is controversy over
methadone maintenance programs?
591. Drugs in the workforce.
592. Ethnic minorities and the drug
trade.
593. Explore the escalating welfare
costs to the taxpayers due to illegal drugs use.
594. Do persons with addictions
have particular personality characteristics? Is their addiction predictable?
595. How cocaine becomes an
addiction?
596. Why our narcotic laws have
failed?
597. Do parents who use harmful
drugs encourage recreational drug use by their children?
598. Who should be subject to
random drug testing? Who should make this decision?
599. Drug dealers as role models.
600. The pro's and con's of
mandatory drug testing.
601. Profile the characteristics of
the average crack user.
602. The pro's and con's of drug
legalization.
603. Why free syringes are not made
widely available to drug users for AIDS prevention?
604. Excessive drinking has
recently.
605. The role of INTERPOL in the
drug war.
606. It has been suggested that
parents should be punished for children's drug use. Is this a called proposal?
607. Has political correctness gone
too far?
608. Puberty rites in primitive
societies.
609. Are friendships between men
different from those between women?
610. How are gender roles assigned
to children?
611. Are single people happier than
married people?
612. Have most sexual harassment
lawsuits been exaggerated and baseless?
613. Describe ideal guidelines for
sexual harassment on the job.
614. What is the stance of the
Catholic Church on female clergy?
615. Causes of spousal abuse.
616. Gender, affirmative action,
and the workplace.
617. Is there really such as
phenomenon as male menopause?
618. Anita Hill & Clarence
Thomas Court Case.
619. How does the glass ceiling
operate for women?
620. Do women still need an Equal
Rights Amendment?
621. How is magazine advertising
gender related?
622. How DNA played a role in the
trial of O.J. Simpson?
623. Prisons in Turkey.
624. Structure and scope of
operations of Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization).
625. Structure and scope of
operations of Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization).
626. Modern causes of international
terrorism.
627. America has recently had
several serious spy cases. Could they
have been prevented? How?
628. Welfare fraud.
629. How polygraph tests are used
in law enforcement. Why can't they be
used as evidence? How accurate are
they?
630. Investigate the major problems
in the correction systems in your state.
631. Criminologists look at the
effects of pornography.
632. Problems of plastic detection
and airport security.
633. Forensic medicine.
634. Would legalized gambling
reduce crime?
635. Library security measures and
systems.
636. Accepted and approved
alternatives to prison.
637. The case for (against)
abolishing parole.
638. Why computer crime has
increased.
639. Pros and cons of double
celling.
640. Does punishment prevent crime?
641. The St. Valentine's Day
Massacre in Chicago.
642. The use of helicopters in
police work.
643. Juvenile crime in Russia.
644. Contemporary definitions of
the hardened criminal.
645. DNA analysis has been the
focus of many controversies. Are they
valid?
646. Insurance fraud.
647. What are the advantages of
for-profit prisons?
648. Drug smuggling in the United
States: an overview.
649. Credit card abuse.
650. The Plain View doctrine in
criminal investigations.
651. Credit card fraud.
652. Discuss the nature and scope
of the abortion clinic bombings in the United States. Has there been a consistent pattern?
653. Should white collar criminals
go to prison? Alternatives?
654. The stolen property
market. What should be done to curtail
its growth and operations?
655. Black dialect as a factor
affecting learning abilities in young children.
656. The legacy of the Watts Riot
(1965).
657. African American identity
versus white ideals and standards.
658. Organizing African American
voters in the South; its impact, past and present.
659. The treatment and punishment
of fugitive slaves.
660. Social Organization in the
urban African American ghetto.
661. Black colleges in the United
States: their status today.
662. James Meredith and the
desegregation of the University of Mississippi.
663. The establishment of Harlem as
an African American ghetto.
664. The prevalence of sickle-cell
anemia among African American youth and issues of race in the search for a
cure.
665. Civil Rights Advances,
1980-present.
666. The recent successes of
African Americans in Southern politics.
667. Racial balance through
busing. Does busing successfully
encourage racial balance? What are the
challenges faced by students, parents, and teachers? How well is it received?
668. Martin Luther King's March on
Washington, 1963.
669. Measures to alleviate
unemployment in the ghetto.
670. Treatment of African Americans
in prison.
671. The image of the alienated
African American man in American literature, 1950-1990.
672. African American participation
in the Civil War.
673. African American women as
single parent: Looking beyond the
welfare mother/queen stereotype.
674. Evaluate the relative
successes and failures of the nonviolent boycotts and sit-ins in the South
during the 1950s.
675. The origins of the Black Power
Movement.
676. The role of African Americans
in professional sports. In what ways
has this role changed? Construct an
overview.
677. Organized labor and the
African American worker.
678. Racism in the O.J. Simpson
trial. Examine both sides of this
controversy.
679. The racial undertones in The
Tales of BrerRabbit.
680. African American militancy.
681. The Civil Rights Act and its
immediate effects.
682. Political power and the
African American coalition.
683. The verdict in the Rodney King
case has been widely debated. Examine
this debate and draw a conclusion.
684. African Americans in today's
labor market.
685. Interracial marriages. What are the major difficulties for husband,
wife, and children (assuming a traditionally heterosexual marriage)? How has society traditionally viewed the
union? Has this view changed?
686. Issues of self-esteem in urban
African American children.
687. Literary stereotypes of
slavery.
688. Discuss the experiences and
conclusions of John H. Griffin, the white writer who passed as a black and
wrote Black Like Me.
689. Ralph Ellison's The Invisible
Man: Speaking for African Americans.
690. Has the African American
ghetto changed since 1950: Consider
social, economic, and educational elements.
691. African Americans and the
military in modern America.
692. Contemporary African American
art and its place in the art world.
693. African Americans in American
society as characterized in the fiction of Toni Morrison.
694. The achievements and failures
of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
695. Implications of the Dred Scott
case.
696. The Scottsboro case: a historical reevaluation.
697. Black music: on heritage.
698. Compare and contrast Martin
Luther King and Malcolm X.
699. Television's images of African
Americans.
700. Compare and contrast the
social connotations of the terms negro, colored, black, nigger, African
American, and others that are relevant.
701. Affirmative action evaluated.
702. Problems of women in
traditional male professions.
703. Managerial ethics.
704. How automation has affected
the American worker?
705. What are the behavioral
characteristics typical of leaders?
706. Career switching: a success
story for many.
707. Maintaining creativity on the
job.
708. Brainstorming: What are the
uses of this technique in the working world? What are it's strengths and
weaknesses?
709. MBA's (Master of Business
Administration) and the job market.
710. Underemployment among college
graduates. What is the range of this problem? Are some career areas more
overpopulated than others? Which are not?
711. How to evaluating fringe
benefits?
712. Drug testing in the workplace
and why it is increasingly necessary?
713. How to effectively use the
grievance procedure for the settlement of disputes?
714. How to evaluate pension plans?
715. Telecommuting, when employees
work at home and communicate with their office via computers and other media,
has had an increasing impact on the workplace. Discuss the advantages and
disadvantages of this arrangement.
716. How to close a sale?
717. Many modern offices contain
chemical irritants. Discuss the extent of this problem and some of the
potential solutions.
718. Psychological factors of
unemployment.
719. How to prepare for your first
job?
720. What are the principle
advantages of mid-life career changes?
721. The extent and significance of
the underground economy in the United States. This includes illegal work,
moonlighting, cheating on taxes, secret wages.
722. A positive program for job
performance appraisal.
723. Problems of women reentering
the work force.
724. Detail the conditions of work
which best promote job satisfaction.
725. Work factors related to heart
disease.
726. Career patterns of
professional women.
727. On-the-job stress and how to
control and eliminate it?
728. Prospects for a career in
oceanography.
729. New bonuses for American
workers. Consider profit sharing, day care centers, health clubs, home work
schedules, etc.
730. Work schedules. What are some
of the newer options? How to determine which type of scheduling will work best
for each particular situation.
731. How large companies recruit
and select employees?
732. Ergonomics and the total
office.
733. How the trade deficit has
affected the American job market?
734. Businesses you can run from
home.
735. How to find a job you
want. What job-hunting techniques have
been consistently useful and successful?
736. population dislocation and
relocation problems in urban renewal.
737. The blight of the crack house.
738. Humanizing the city.
739. The funding crisis of urban
transit system. Is there a solution?
740. Inner city decay: a typical
profile.
741. Lead poisoning in our city
soils. Consider both paint and leaded
gasoline as sources.
742. Prison overcrowding is severe
in most large cities. What are some
possible solutions?
743. How New York City is solving
its financial problems.
744. Why our cities are dying?
745. Pragmatic engineering: city
planning Roman Empire.
746. A realistic evaluation of
Paolo Soleri's urban concepts.
747. How are the problems of
metropolitan areas aggravated by the multiplicity of governmental units?
748. How to live in a city?
749. Life in the African-American
ghetto: myths and realities.
750. The urban policies of the current
president and administration.
751. Levels of urban
unemployment. What are the
socioeconomic issues?
752. Compare and contrast mass
transit system in Paris, London, Moscow and New York.
753. What factors contributed to
the beginnings and spread of urban sprawl?
754. Successfully recycling old
buildings.
755. Homicide in America's large
cities. Cover the causes, types, rates,
geographic shifts, etc.
756. Successful uses of pedestrian
malls in downtown redevelopment efforts.
757. Why rent control is unfair (or
fair)?
758. Historical preservation in
urban communities.
759. Characterize the nature and
role of the city in the Islamic world.
Discuss its social and economic functions within the culture as well as
its traditional form.
760. Compare and contrast the
modern metropolis or megalopolis and the traditional city.
761. Why freeways are (or are not)
the solution to city congestion?
762. Successful solutions to
traffic congestion.
763. Brasilia: the plan, the
execution, and the results.
764. The crisis in waste
disposal. What are the environmental
hazards? Costs? Technology?
765. Design problems of urban
airports.
766. Critical issues involved in
funding and maintaining the inner city schools.
767. Successes and failures in
urban riverfront redevelopment projects.
768. Grass roots arts for urban
communities.
769. Successful volunteer projects
for neighborhood groups.
770. The plights of homeless
families with children.
771. Problems in the New York
subway systems.
772. Maintenance costs in America's
older cities. Why are some cities
unable to meet these needs while others are more fiscally prepared? How much is required by cities to keep up
repairs?
773. The development and economic
character of cities along the Mississippi, from 1850 to 1900.
774. Urban agriculture.
775. How is the federal government
alleviating urban blight? Describe some
of the most successful programs over a ten year period.
776. The case for privatization of
previously public utilities and services.
777. Elements necessary for
successful urban renewal.
778. The possibilities and
specifications for self-contained cities.
779. The future of urban areas in
developing countries-a projection.
780. The planned community in
America. Compare and contrast several
significant examples.
781. Life in the urban
turn-of-the-century slum.
782. The growing problems of
abandoned buildings in city centers.
783. Land values and urban renewal.
784. Measures to control urban
growth.
785. Supercities: their growth,
problems and future.
786. Juvenile gangs in urban areas.
787. Mass transit system that work.
788. Many experts feel that slum
clearance in the inner city does not solve the problem but merely relocates
it. Evaluate this process.
789. Urban law enforcement issues.
790. Levels and effects of the loss
of agriculturally productive areas to urban development in the United States.
791. Health problems in slums and
ghettos.
792. Fair housing practices.
793. How cities go bankrupt and
what happens then?
794. The economics of stamp
collecting.
795. Coin collecting as an
investment.
796. How to breed and raise goats?
797. Factors to consider when
choosing a hobby.
798. Hobbies of famous people.
799. Care and feeding of a pet.
800. Stocking and maintaining a
sea-water aquarium.
801. How to build a model railroad?
802. Some hobbies are free.
Describe a selection of them.
803. How to buy antiques?
804. The value of hobbies.
805. The role of the clergy in
abortions.
806. Zen Buddhism and the tea
ceremony.
807. Why celibacy for the Catholic
clergy? The origins of this practice
and the possibilities for future changes.
808. Compare and contrast beliefs
and practices of the Baptists and the Presbyterians.
809. Religious issues in
contemporary public schools.
810. The Black Muslim religion
today. Contrast it to its goals and
practice in its earlier history.
811. Hinduism and nonviolence.
812. The Brahman caste system.
813. Symbols of the Christian
religion.
814. Interpretations of the Islamic
jihad (holy war).
815. Proofs of Jesus as a
historical reality.
816. What are the similarities
between Hebrew, Egyptian and Christian religious beliefs?
817. Catholic orders in the United
States.
818. How have the recent scandals
(Swaggert, Bakker, etc.) in television evangelism affected the ministry as a
whole?
819. The social function of voodoo.
820. Christianity in Islamic
countries. Discuss this subject
historically or on a contemporary basis.
821. Christian ethics in theory and
in practice.
822. Why there have not been women
priests in the Catholic Church?
823. Politics in the pulpit: an
objective review.
824. Rastafarian religion-a new
force in the Caribbean?
825. Twentieth-century versions of
the Bible: an overview.
826. Theories of reincarnation.
827. Historically, has organized
religion harmed or helped society?
828. Mayan religion.
829. Profile of a Zen monk.
830. Discuss the bases of this
statement: The last Christian died on the cross (Nietzche).
831. Varieties of Baptist beliefs.
832. Burial rites of the Hindu
religion.
833. How popes are selected.
834. What is China's current policy
towards religion?
835. The basic concept of Taoism.
836. Precepts, goals, and practices
of the Salvation Army.
837. The unique religion of Bali,
Indonesia.
838. Hindu gurus.
839. Jewish basis and justification
for the settlement of the West Bank.
840. Original sin and the Christian
religion.
841. Compare and contrast doctrines
and attitudes of the major religions towards divorce.
842. The traditional Catholic
stance on birth control and common Catholic practice.
843. Choose a cult: Moon, Hari
Krishna, or others. Describe and
explain.
844. How do the Jesuits and the
Dominicans differ? In what ways are
they similar?
845. Mother Teresa's work with
India's poor and dying.
846. The concepts of transmigration
and reincarnation in the Hindu religion.
847. The symbolism of Hopi Indian
kachina dolls.
848. Describe the difference
between Islam's sects, the Shiites and the Sunni.
849. What are the personal
functions of religion? What are its
functions to society? Support your answers with informed opinions.
850. Lutheran Church in the United
States today.
851. The role of Mecca in the
Muslin world.
852. Compare and contrast the Douay
and the King James Version of the Bible.
853. What is the status of
Christianity in Russia today?
854. Careers in religion.
855. Attitudes towards fertility
among the world's large religions.
856. Pantheism.
857. Precepts of contemporary
Jewish religion.
858. Judaic dietary laws.
859. Economic plight of Catholic
religious orders.
860. Why is American society
becoming increasingly secular?
861. Why the religious right is
opposed to the gay movement?
862. Describe the religious and
social significance of the bar mitzvah.
863. The moral and religious
aspects of abortion according to Christian theological tenets.
864. The Catholic Church in Mexico
(or another South American country).
865. The uses of ritual in
religious worship.
866. Baptist foreign missions, past
and present.
867. The United States has
experienced an increasing interest in the occult. To what factors do social scientists attribute this growth?
868. The cult phenomenon:
recruitment, retention and lifestyle.
Account for its success.
869. Conscientious objectors,
loyalty, and religious faith
870. Grigori Rasputin, politically
powerful Russian monk (1872-1916).
871. Amelia Earhart, American
aviatrix (1898-1937).
872. Nicola Sacco (b. 1891) and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti (b. 1888), Italian anarchists (both died 1927).
873. Girolamo Savonarola,
Florentine priest and dictator (1452-1498).
874. Anwar Sada, Egyptian statesman
(1918-1981).
875. Archduke Francis Ferdinand,
heir apparent to the Hapsburg monarchy.
876. Anastasio Somoza, Nicaraguan
leader (1896-1956).
877. Alexander Hamilton, American
Statesman.
878. Dian Fossey, primatologist
(1932-1985).
879. Louis XVI, King of France
(1754-1793).
880. Indira Gandhi, Indian leader
(1917-1984).
881. Huey P. Long, Louisiana
politician and governor (1893-1935).
882. Pablo Escobar, Medellin drug
lord, 1993.
883. Joan d'Arc, French saint and
national heroine (1412-1431).
884. Jesus Christ, religious leader
(c. 4 B.C.-29 A.D.)
885. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi,
Indian pacifist leader (1869-1948).
886. Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of
Nazi Germany (1889-1945).
887. Ernesto Che Guevara, Cuban
revolutionary leader (1928-1967).
888. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
composer (1756-1791).
889. Christopher Marlowe, English
poet dramatist (1564-1587).
890. Benito Mussolini, Italian
dictator (1883-1945).
891. General Charles George Gordon,
British general (1833-1885).
892. Harry Houdini, magician
(1874-1926).
893. Bessie Smith, American Singer
(1894-1937).
894. Elvis Presley, rock singer
(1935-1977).
895. General George Custer,
American general at Little Bighorn.
896. Nicholas II and family, last
czar of Russia (1868-1918).
897. Marie Antoinette, Queen of
France and wife of Louis XVI (1755-1793).
898. Malcolm X (Malcolm Little),
civil rights activist (1925-1965).
899. Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian
patriot (1886-1948).
900. Patrice Emergy Lumumba,
Congolese premier (1925-1961).
901. Thomas Stonewall Jackson,
Confederate general (1824-1863).
902. Socrates, Greek philosopher
(469-399 B.C.).
903. John Dillinger, bank robber
(1902-1934).
904. Robert Falcon Scott, Antarctic
explorer (1868-1912).
905. Bombing of Dresden, 1945.
906. Crash of Pan Am flight 103,
Lockerbie, Scotland.
907. Grand Canyon airline
collision, Arizona, 1956.
908. Windsor Castle fire, England,
1992.
909. Andrea Doria sinking, 1956.
910. Chicago, Iroquois Theater
fire, 1903.
911. Bombing of Hiroshima, 1945.
912. Thresher submarine sinking,
1963.
913. Plane Crash into Empire State
Building, 1945.
914. Exxon Valdez oil spill, 1989.
915. Chernobyl nuclear power plant
accident, 1986.
916. Lusitania sinking, 1915.
917. Los Angeles riots, 1992.
918. Yellowstone forest fire, 1988.
919. Oklahoma City federal building
bombing, 1995.
920. Challenger explosion, 1986.
921. Chicago fire, 1871.
922. World Trade Center bombing,
1993.
923. Sinking of the Titanic, 1912.
924. St. Francis Dam failure, Santa
Paula, California.
925. Bhopal, India chemical
accident, 1984.
926. Estonia ferry sinking, Baltic
Sea, 1994.
927. Eastland excursion boat
capsizes, 1915.
928. Teton Dam collapse, Idaho,
1976.
929. Cocoanut Grove Nightclub fire,
Boston, 1942.
930. Burning of Apollo 1
spacecraft, 1967.
931. London fire, 1666.
932. Triangle Shirtwaist fire New
York City, 1911.
933. Hindenburg zeppelin explosion,
Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1937.
934. Pan American/KLM aircraft
collision, Canary Islands, 1977.
935. Sultana steamboat explosion on
the Mississippi River, 1865.
936. Schoolhouse explosion, New
London, Texas, 1937.
937. Mount St. Helens eruptions,
Washington, 1980.
938. Mount Vesuvius eruption
burying Pompeii and Herculaneum.
939. Northridge earthquake,
Southern California, 1994.
940. Mt. Pinatubo volcanic
eruption, Philippines, 1991.
941. Armenian earthquake, 1988.
942. Black Death.
943. Great San Francisco
Earthquake, 1906.
944. Hurricane Iniki, Hawaii, 1992.
945. Krakatoa eruption, 1883.
946. Volcano eruption and mudslide,
Columbia, 1985.
947. Loma Prieta earthquake, 1989.
948. The Great Galveston Hurricane
and storm surge, 1900.
949. Hurricane Andrew, Florida,
1992.
950. Kobe earthquake, Japan, 1995.
951. Hurricane Agnes, 1972.
952. Mount Pelee eruption,
Martinique West Indies, 1902.
953. Lake Nyos, Cameroon, volcanic
toxic gas, 1986.
954. Johnstown flood, Pennsylvania,
1889.
955. Involvement in Vietnam: how it started?
956. The My Lai incident in the
Vietnam War.
957. How prohibition led to
organized crime?
958. Examine Pearl Harbor.
959. The strengths and limitations
of the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
960. Events leading to the
formation of labor unions.
961. Effects of 1963 Birmingham
civil rights movement.
962. Reevaluate the Alger Hiss
case.
963. The American bicentennial
celebration.
964. Japanese-American internment
during World War II.
965. What have been the lasting
results of the Cold War?
966. In what ways was the New Deal
a failure?
967. The American postwar
occupation of Japan.
968. Were the Los Angeles riots
(1992) a unique happening or a look at our future?
969. How did the Progressive
movement originate?
970. How the United States won the
Persian Gulf War?
971. Evaluate the hundred days of
the New Deal in terms of its effect on the economy.
972. Events leading to Watergate.
973. Tenets of President Franklin
D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
974. The Warren Court.
975. Evaluate Wilson's agenda for
peace after WWI.
976. President Gerald Ford's pardon
of Nixon.
977. Nonviolent resistance as
social protest in the 1960's civil rights movement.
978. President Carter's handling of
the Iranian hostage situation.
979. What were the accomplishments
of the civil rights movement?
980. Has the civil rights movement
been a success or a failure?
981. The Bay of Pigs: historical afterthoughts.
982. Were Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg guilty?
983. The development of the atomic
bomb.
984. Discuss the continuing
controversy surrounding the Cuban missile crisis.
985. United States mobilization
after Pearl Harbor.
986. What military skills
contributed to General Douglas MacArthur's success?
987. European Economic conditions
after World War I.
988. Sacco and Vanzetti: Cruel and unusual punishment?
989. Levels of United States
isolationism and neutrality before entry into World War II.
990. Feminist movement of the
1920's.
991. The decision to drop the
atomic bomb on Japan.
992. The Truman-MacArthur
Controversy.
993. Was Truman a successful
president?
994. Controversy of Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
995. Federal Aid programs during
the Great Depression.
996. Richard Nixon's last twenty
days in the White House.
997. What have been the principal
causes for the long-term poverty levels in Appalachia?
998. American involvement in
Vietnam: was it consistent with its
revolutionary heritage?
999. In what ways is Henry Ford a
symbol of his era?
1000.
The
second New Deal and the beginnings of the Welfare State.
1001.
Would
the United States have entered WWII without Pearl Harbor?
1002.
Native
American occupation of Alcatraz.
1003.
Conditions
in American coal mines before labor unions.
1004.
Kennedy
and Khrushchev.
1005.
McCarthyism
and American civil liberties.
1006.
Poverty
in America in the twentieth century.
1007.
The
United States' withdrawal from Saigon.
1008.
Leadership
of Truman and Eisenhower.
1009.
Lyndon
Johnson's Great Society.
1010.
Was
the United States' participation in World War I justified?
1011.
Korean
and Vietnam Wars.
1012.
Why
the Vietnam War lasted so long?
1013.
Evaluate
Theodore Roosevelt's administration.
1014.
The
rise of McCarthyism and the red scare mentality from 1949.
1015.
Amnesty
for Vietnam War evaders.
1016.
Political
and social activism by youth in the 1960's.
1017.
Wilson's
compromises for the establishment of the League of Nations.
1018.
The
Americanization of the Vietnam War.
1019.
The
first ten years of the Peace Corps.
1020.
How
the United States lost the war in Vietnam?
1021.
German
spies in America during the 1930's.
1022.
What
were the origins and contributing factors of American prosperity in the 1920's?
1023.
What
has been the impact of the Love Canal?
1024.
Who
was responsible for the Kent State killings?
1025.
The
Bonus Army march on Washington.
1026.
Brainwashing
of American prisoners of war during the Korean conflict.
1027.
Wall
Street collapse (1929).
1028.
What
the New Deal did for the agricultural community.
1029.
Teapot
Dome Scandal.
1030.
A
reassessment of the Pentagon papers case.
1031.
The
problem of illegal Cuban refugees.
1032.
The
medieval village: layout, size, organization, economy, etc.
1033.
The
religious reforms of Savonarola (1452-1498). Detail how his subsequent fate was
the result of his severe attacks on the social and religious community.
1034.
How
William I won the Battle of Hastings.
Why was this victory decisive to the course of the Norman conquests?
1035.
Why
did feudalism develop? What are its major advantages as a social system?
1036.
The
Bayeux tapestry and the Norman conquest.
1037.
The
Byzantine Empire of Justinian. What was its ranger, power base, and influence
on Europe.
1038.
How
the Crusades affected the cultural and socioeconomic level of Europe?
1039.
The
immediate effects of the Reformation on the Christian church.
1040.
The
Holy Grail: myth and reality.
1041.
The
events leading to the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572. What were the major issues and what was the
final result?
1042.
Charles
Martel and the Battle of Poitiers (Tours).
1043.
The
spread of the art of printing in the Middle Ages. In what way did this alter
the course of history?
1044.
The
role of drama and the theatre in the Middle Ages.
1045.
The
conquest of the Aztecs in 1521. Discuss Spanish objectives, both official and
unofficial, tactics, etc.
1046.
What
political, social, and geographical factors led to the Irish Golden Age,
600-800? What were the major characteristics of this period?
1047.
How
the Ottoman sultan, Muhammad II (1432-1481) conquered Constantinople?
1048.
The
economic effects of the Black Death on Europe.
1049.
The
Battle of tours: when the Moslems invaded France (732).
1050.
The
dissolution of the monasteries.
1051.
The First Crusade and the fall of Jerusalem.
1052.
Why
the Dark Ages were not so dark?
1053.
Early
unions: the medieval guilds.
1054.
Characteristics
of medieval centers of learning.
1055.
Compare
the computer and the human brain.
1056.
How
the XYZ Company uses its computer?
1057.
Who
should design, build and maintain the National Information Infrastructure?
1058.
Survey
any news law and regulations that will curtail or eliminate electronic crime.
1059.
How
organized crime could take advantage of the information superhighway?
1060.
Examine
the rise and fall of Atari.
1061.
Games
for the home computer - a survey.
1062.
How
successful is local area network?
1063.
What
are the regulations governing computers and privacy?
1064.
The
hacker in the world of computers.
1065.
The
technology of the IBM Harvard Mark I mechanical computer (1944).
1066.
Fiber
optic technology: how it was developed, what it is, and what' is gong to do for
us.
1067.
Discuss
the statement: There is no such a thing as a totally secure computer system.
1068.
How
to choose a computer?
1069.
Computers
in the supermarket.
1070.
Do
computers in the classroom improve learning?
1071.
How
close are computers to becoming true thinking machines?
1072.
Should
educational institutions have free access to the National Information
Infrastructure?
1073.
Are
flowcharts out as a design tool?
1074.
How
computer criminals operate?
1075.
Examine
the increase of fraud and scams on the Internet.
1076.
Compare
and contrast text editing programs.
1077.
Recent
advances in computer capabilities.
1078.
How
the computer has been used to uncover secrets of the past.
1079.
A
career as a computer programmer.
1080.
The
components of the computer.
1081.
Why
every student should be computer literate?
1082.
The
Apple success story.
1083.
Current
research in artificial intelligence.
1084.
New
uses for computers in home appliance.
1085.
Leaders
in computer design.
1086.
Do
we need standards for virtual reality simulations? What could be future
problems?
1087.
Computer
graphics.
1088.
How
computer viruses work and why they are dangerous?
1089.
Benefits
of using an in-house microcomputer instead of a service bureau.
1090.
New
legal aspects of computer crime.
1091.
Characteristics
of the newest computer generation.
1092.
The
computer whiz kids.
1093.
Management
information systems and the computer.
1094.
The
computer as a medium of cultural exchange.
1095.
Advances
in voice synthesizers and voice recognition by computers.
1096.
Should
computer logic be taught in elementary schools?
1097.
Discuss:
projections for future computer technology and the how it will affect American
life.
1098.
Data
bases and their applications.
1099.
Public
safeguards against unauthorized use of data bank material.
1100.
Video
games: violence or fantasy?
1101.
The
new interactive fiction: how does it work?
1102.
The
Personal computer: a solution in a search of a problem?
1103.
The
term information highway.
1104.
The
long-range impact of the computer revolution on society.
1105.
Memory
systems.
1106.
Compare
and contrast the newsiest microcomputers.
1107.
The
functions of a compiler.
1108.
What
are some of the computer education programs from the major companies?
1109.
Uses
for a home computer.
1110.
ENIAC,
the world's first all-electronic digital computer.
1111.
How
the chip is changing your life?
1112.
Women
racing drivers.
1113.
New
racing car designs.
1114.
Fuel
efficient automobiles.
1115.
How
to buy a used car?
1116.
How
General Motors designs and engineers new car models?
1117.
Past
and present design characteristics of the Volkswagen.
1118.
The
economic challenge of Japanese auto imports to the American auto industry.
1119.
Converting
gasoline-powered vehicles into natural gas.
1120.
Motorcycles
need not be dangerous.
1121.
What
makes a hot rod different?
1122.
Automotive
advertising and the American Dream.
1123.
How
motor vehicle fatalities could be decreased?
1124.
The
costs and benefits of auto emission controls.
1125.
Compare
and contrast diesel and gasoline automotive engines.
1126.
The
effects of the automobile on the structure and evolution of the American city.
1127.
The
origins and effects of automotive labor unions on the industry.
1128.
Automobile
odometer tampering.
1129.
The
first Fords and their effects on the American industry.
1130.
Big
cars are generally safer than small cars but use more fuel and pollute more.
1131.
Compare
and contrast Cadillacs, Mercedes-Benz and Rolls-Royce automobiles.
1132.
The
advantages of diesel engines.
1133.
Research
airbags, their utility, cost and technology.
1134.
What
has Ralph Nader's effect been on the auto industry?
1135.
Automotive
crash protection technology.
1136.
How
seatbelt laws, air bags and drunk-driving laws are altering accidents?
1137.
What
are the advantages of no-fault automobile insurance?
1138.
What
are the main causes of fatal auto accidents?
1139.
How
foreign competition has influenced the U.S. auto industry?
1140.
How
to recognize and avoid auto repair scams?
1141.
Should
television be allowed in the courtroom?
1142.
What
cable television deregulation will mean?
1143.
Television
and political conventions.
1144.
The
censorship of television news by sponsors (an others).
1145.
How
do the results of television polls affect programming?
1146.
How
the ratings affect programming?
1147.
Competition
in the television industry and how it affects programming?
1148.
The
future for interact television.
1149.
The
effects of extended television viewing on children. Survey the opinions of both
educators and psychologists.
1150.
Children's
seating preferences as motivated by televisions advertising.
1151.
Television
and the presidency.
1152.
Essentials
for backpackers.
1153.
Organizing
a canoe trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minnesota/Canada).
1154.
How
to keep children happy, healthy and interested when traveling?
1155.
Touring
Italy's significant architectural structures.
1156.
Travel
tours in China.
1157.
Hotels
and other travel amenities in China .
1158.
Touring
Civil War battlefields.
1159.
Careers
in the travel industry.
1160.
Protecting
your health and safety when traveling abroad.
1161.
Visiting
major Mayan sites.
1162.
Student
travel in Europe.
1163.
Caribbean
tourism and the local economy.
1164.
The
economics of tourism in the United States.
1165.
Surfing
vacations.
1166.
Changing
patterns in world tourism.
1167.
How
to plan a cruise?
1168.
Travel
on the Orient Express.
1169.
Canoes
of the South Pacific.
1170.
The
battle of Leyte Gulf.
1171.
The
role of the Navy in the Persian Gulf War.
1172.
Historic
instances of naval blockades.
1173.
Life
aboard Christopher Columbus' ships.
1174.
The
aerodynamics of iceboats.
1175.
The
naval battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack.
1176.
America's
Cup Sailing.
1177.
Submarines
of the future.
1178.
The
structure and design of the first ironclad ships.
1179.
The
seaworthiness, design, materials and unique features of Viking ships.
1180.
Nautical
rules of the road.
1181.
The
role of the river steamboat in American Commerce, 1840-1870.
1182.
Could
the Titanic disaster have been avoided?
1183.
Early
whaling fleets.
1184.
Windjammers
were the ultimate windships.
1185.
Issues
surrounding air traffic controllers' strike and subsequent actions.
1186.
The
aviation empire of Howard Hughes.
1187.
Design
features of the Kitty Hawk.
1188.
The
design of the Wright Brother's Flyers I, II and III.
1189.
Ways
airlines attempt to prevent and control skyjacking.
1190.
How
successful is the Concorde?
1191.
Airplane
kits for home builders.
1192.
The
world's most dangerous airlines.
1193.
What
goes on at air traffic control?
1194.
Are
FAA traffic regulations adequate?
1195.
Japanese
Kamikaze missions during World War II.
1196.
Military
air intelligence techniques.
1197.
What
are the dynamics of the helicopter?
1198.
The
transatlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh.
1199.
Safe
air traffic control.
1200.
The
early design and construction of rigid airships.
1201.
Training
airline pilots.
1202.
Tactics
used by Baron Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) in WWI.
1203.
Evaluating
the costs and benefits of frequent flyer programs.
1204.
The
Stealth bomber.
1205.
The
future of the dirigible and other lighter-than-air craft.
1206.
The
role of women in the history of aviation.
1207.
Modern
American military aircraft.
1208.
Storm
hazards in aviation and how to avoid them.
1209.
How
airlines are trying to prevent acts of terrorism?
1210.
Recent
experimental airships.
1211.
American
military airpower: the state of the art.
1212.
The
problems of fatigued aircraft used by commercial airlines.
1213.
Safeguards
and preventive measures for small plane safety.
1214.
Proposals
to remedy the heavy air traffic at major airports.
1215.
The
destruction of the Hindenburg dirigible.
1216.
What
are the major factors affecting the growth of airline transportation?
1217.
The
use of gliders in military operations.
1218.
Further
measures for airline safety.
1219.
What
are the problems of supersonic flight?
1220.
The
failure of the SST.
1221.
Are
aircraft carriers obsolete?
1222.
Careers
in aviation.
1223.
The
latest technological innovations in airport security.
1224.
Major
causes of commercial airliner crashes.
1225.
Is
our current air traffic control system adequate?
1226.
Pilot
error in recent airline accidents.
1227.
Noise
abatement options for airports.
1228.
The
planes of Luftwaffe in World War II.
1229.
The
romance of flying depicted by author Antoine de Saint Exupery.
1230.
What
happens when airlines are deregulated?