Ted Thornton
Humanities II
Humanities II Projects
Byrom and Thornton, Spring Semester, 2009



Oral reports of about six minutes are expected.  Click for tips on how to present your oral report.  Discussion of each presentation will begin with a question or comment from the previous presenter on the list (discussion following the first presentation will begin with a question or comment from the last person on the list). All oral presentations must be ready for delivery by A Block, Friday, May 15. 

Project Topics and Order of Oral Presentations

Perry Savas Democracy in Ancient Greece
Andrew Okamura John Calvin
Hanson Cheng The Medieval Mind: St. Augustine and St. Aquinas
Mackey Hemphill The First Crusade
Eva Botkin-Kowacki Jews in the Spanish Inquisition
Annie Chen Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years War
Emily Lefebvre The Salem Witch Trials

Tilly Brown

Religion and the Russian Revolution
Alexandra Kenney The Holocaust
Tori Lyons Hidden Children of the Holocaust
Levi Newbury The Nazi's "Final Solution"
Caitlin Duffy Post Apartheid South Africa: Politics, Society, Economic Life
Maire Bartkus Soweto: History, Politics, Society, Family Life
Natalie Hutton  Nelson Mandela
Catherine Blewer Truth and Reconciliation Process in South Africa
Gabby Chudnow Women, Aids, and Sexual Violence in South Africa
Jamie Williams Sectarian Conflict in Northern Ireland
Noon Ladd The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Leigh Winters Islamic Revivalism in Egypt: Sayyid Qutb
Deenie Schlass The Sufis
Cammie Chan American Foreign Aid in Cambodia
Kate Kim  America's Influence on South Korea
Eunice Lee The Falun Gong Movement

           

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Last Revised: May 21, 2009