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QUESTIONS FOR RESEARCH |
1. Who were the Anabaptists, and why were they despised?
2. What is the history of the Coronation Stone of Scotland?
3. Who were the Covenanters?
4. Why is Iona important in the history of Christianity?
5. What is the history of West End theater in London?
6. Who were the Medici?
7. Who was Mary Queen of Scots?
8. What is the history of our interstate highway system?
9. Have suicide statistics changed over the past several decades? What are the implications?
10. Who is Ed Welburn?
11. Who is Reed Mathis?
12. Who was Robert Shaw?
13. What will we do for energy when we run out of oil?
14. Who was Joseph Campbell?
15. Are the clans of Scotland related to the KKK?
16. What happened at the premier of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in 1904?
17. Who was Dr. David Kelly?
18. Is the Atkins Diet good or bad?
19. How do people with no a/c survive in intense heat?
20. What is the electoral college?
21. What is the truth about marijuana?
22. What is a petroglyph?
23. What is the Trail of Tears?
24. How will the demographics of the USA change in the next twenty years?
25. What charitable organizations in Polk County deserve to continue to be funded?
26. What is the perceived advantage of vegetarianism?
27. What is the history of small pox in North America?
28. Is it possible for the Bubonic Plague to reoccur?
29. What is the worst epidemic the world has ever suffered?
30. Has the World Health Organization (WHO) tried to clean up the Chinese sources of flu and Sars?
31. What is the story of HIV?
32. What is Nouveau Beaujolais?
33. What is Dadaism?
34. What is Knights Templar?
35. What did Marco Polo accomplish?
36. What did Lewis and Clark accomplish?
37. What are the theories about where the first human beings lived?
38. Who are the Maori?
39. What is the story of Indonesia?
40. What is the story of Singapore?
41. What is worst natural disaster that ever occurred?
42. What is remarkable about cockroaches?
43. Why is opera considered the highest art form?
44. Is marriage defined the same way in all cultures of the world?
45. Who were the Gnostics?
46. What is The Order of the Thistle? How is it different from The Order of the Garter?
47. What is Demolay?
48. What is controversial about John Ashcroft's vision of national security?
49. Who is Walter Taubman?
50. Who was Frank Lloyd Wright?
51. Who is I. M. Pei?
52. What is the Parsons School of Design?
53. Who was Horatio Alger?
54. Who were the Hidatsa?
55. What is the ASID?
56. Who was Louis Sullivan?
57. Who is Ferran Adria?
58. Why is diabetes on the rise in the USA?
59. Are life expectancy rates changing?
60. Who was Tyrone Guthrie?
61. Who was Rachel Carson?
62. Who was Winston Churchill?
63. Who is John Shelby Spong?
64. Why is second hand smoke considered more dangerous than first hand smoke?
65. What is the Saturnalia?
66. What is the origin of Halloween?
67. What is beneficial (or controversial) about cloning?
68. What is the origin of the word homosexual?
69. What is the Acropolis?
70. What is the Colosseum?
71. What is revolutionary about DVD's?
72. What is the Stonewall Movement?
73. What future problems does Palm Springs, CA, face?
74. Why has North Carolina become a major center in our country for folk arts?
75. Who were the Illuminati?
76. Who was William Wallace?
77. Who was Robert the Bruce?
78. What is the most poisonous plant in North America?
79. Who was John Wesley?
80. Who was John Singer Sargent?
81. Who was Frederick Law Olmstead?
82. What is the DAR?
83. Who was Marian Anderson?
84. Who was George Washington Carver?
85. Who is Maya Angelou?
86. Who was Malcolm X?
87. Who was Lotte Lenya?
88. Who was Johann Sebastian Bach?
89. Who was Dietrich Buxtehude?
90. What colleges/universities offer programs you may consider entering after you leave PCC?
91. What is a Pell Grant?
92. If you need financial assistance for your education, what sources (in addition to Pell Grants) are available?
93. What is the difference between phonics and phonetics?
94. Who was Samuel Johnson?
95. What is minimalism?
96. How does the rococo style differ from the baroque style?
97. How do the eastern native tribes of North America differ from the western?
98. Who was Bonnie Prince Charlie?
99. Who will be respected more by future generations of cinema lovers - Stephen
Spielberg or George Lucas?
100. Who was George Eastman?
REMINDER:
Each student must select a different research question and must register the selection with the professor.
A student who wishes to explore a question which does not appear on this list must get prior approval from the professor.