The Application of Socrates to 21st Century Western Democracy

Research Paper Guidelines Humanities 1101 Each student will type a 5-7-page research paper, using MLA format, about a topic as it relates to Humanities. The topic suggestions are listed below. If you choose to do another topic, it must be approved. The first step is to choose a topic and write a prospectus/proposal and submit a bibliography. A prospectus/proposal is one paragraph which identifies your topic, the thesis statement, and why you chose this particular topic. The bibliography is a list of 10 sources you plan to use once you begin to write y our paper. You can only have one website. All other sources must be books, journals, newspapers, movies, magazines, etc. The bibliography must be done by MLA format. Information regarding MLA format will be included in this folder. Please adhere to the rules regarding the format as it relates to MLA format. These are general topics. Your job is to choose a topic and narrow the topic to a thesis statement which should include two to three supporting details which becomes your research. 1. Perspective Pathways to Greater Human Flourishing 2. Artists in Times of War 3. Contemporary Music and Political Commentary 4. The Application of Socrates to 21st Century Western Democracy 5. Appalachian Language and Regional Identity 6. The Harlem Renaissance in the African American Experience 7. The Humanities and Definitions of Freedom 8. The Age of Enlightenment 9. The Reformation in Art 10. American Distress and Contemporary Art 11. Theology and Medicine 12. Social Darwinism 13. Historical Tension Between Science and Religion 14. Human Subcultures 15. Gender and the Education Experience 16. Color and the Education Experience 17. The Industrial Revolution and Human Identity 18. Photography in Shaping Public Opinion 19. Social Media and Modern Human Interactions 20. The Printing Press and Dissemination of Ideas 21. Racism and the Human Family Unit 22. Human Beings and Violence 23. Human and Animal Sacrifice in Religion 24. The Odyssey and Gender Expectations 25. Non-governmental organizations (NGO) in international law 26. Regulatory process and public input 27. Religious Freedom Restoration Act 28. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act 29. Roberts Court 30. Sales tax on internet purchases 31. Second Amendment 32. Social media and freedom of speech 33. Sovereign citizen movement 34. Supreme Court, power of 35. Language revitalization 36. Oral history 37. Regional languages 38. Slang 39. Southern dialect 40. Whistled languages 41. Afrofuturism 42. Arthurian legend 43. Beat poets 44. Broadside Press 45. Concrete poetry 46. Economic context of a novel 47. Ecocriticism 48. Ecopoetry 49. merican civil religion 50. Buddhism in contemporary India 51. Christians in contemporary Middle East 52. Conscientious objection in wartime 53. Evangelicals and Catholics Together project 54. Great Awakenings in American history 55. Hasidic movements 56. Hinduism in the West 57. House churches in China 58. Nation of Islam 59. New Atheism 60. New religious movements 61. Pentecostalism in Latin America