Project 2 Topics

Notice:  Your topic on project 2 should be chosen from the list below.  Send an email to your TA( Charles or Yu) after choosing your topic. The due day of project 2 topic is 6 pm, March 4th.
  • Recreation
The History of Skateboards
About Bicycles
An aspect of Magic or a specific magician
Circuses
History of the Olympic Games
Diet Wars
Curling
World Chess Champions (an overview or a specific one)
Model Avication
Skydiving
Ballooning
Jet Skis: Pro and Con
  • Music
The Blues
Jazz Guita
North Indian (Asia) Classic Musuc
The Folk Music of Japan
Indian (Asia) Classical Music
The Troubadours
History of the Cello  
The Modern Piano  
Twelve-tone Music and its advocates  
Electronic Music 
The History and practice of Salsa
Jazz in the Twenties
The Havana Music Scene 
Brazil and its artists
The History and practice of Salsa

The Beatles in today's music culture 

Chinese Classic Music
Chinese Music Instruments
  • Art
Mexican Muralists
Painters of the Early Renaissance
The Mexican Muralists
Mask
Intro to the Work of an Individual Artist
Tramp Art
Conceptualism
Photorealism
Urban Architecture in America
Chinese Brush Painting
Zen Gardens
Photography in the 19th Century
Medieval Painting
Sculpture (choose an aspect)
Buddhist Art
Garden Design
Pottery
Woodcraft
  • History, Philosophy
The Celtic "Head Cult"
The Framers of the Constitution
History of The Plague
Europe in the Dark Ages
The Coptic Church
The Supreme Court
Rome: The Caesars
The History of Trains
The History and Practice of Islam
The History and Practice of Buddhism
The History and Practice of Shinto
Folk Dancing
Chinese Zodiac
Voodoo  in Haiti
  •   Food
Mushroooms and Their Glory
Chiles
Wild Edibles in the South
Odd fish
Thai Cookery
Reginal Cuisines of Mexico
Reginal Cuisines of China
Chinese Food( Cantonese style, Beijing style, Sichuan style, Shanghai style...)
Edible Insects
  • Misc Arts, Literature

Isadora Duncan
Twyla Tharp
Kabuki Theater
David Mamet
August Wilson
Kabuki
Approaches to Acting and their Advocates
Shakespeare Updated
Trace the work of a particular film director
Poetry and Visuals
 Musical Theater in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century
(pick an aspect- fiction, poetry, theater) in…
       Modern China, Tang Poetry,Japan, Latin America, France
       Africa, India, America-  Twentieth Century 
  • Radio
The impact of Talk Radio
The rise of radio in the US
Public Radio in the US
Radio in the 1940s
Online Radio
  • Science, Medicine
Life on Mars
Reaching into the Universe
The Wonderful Human Ear
All about Feet
Politics and Global Warming
National Forests and Their Uses
The Controversy over Mercury in Fish
Energy and Where it Comes from
Pascal
Babbage
Euclid
The Struggle over water in Florida
Hacking, A History
Cloning
Strange Inventions
The Red Cross
The Red Crescent
Alan Turing
Albert Einstein
Bertrand Russell
Genetic Modification of Food