<p>Then Twilight, obviously. </p>
<p>Pick a one of those juvenile fiction novels that are vaguely philosophic, like The Giver. Or something like Number the Stars. Or Shel Silverstein. Then analyze it to death.</p>
<p>Hmm, that’s a good idea. It’s specific enough for me to use it, and anything related to politics is good. </p>
<p>I must do research.</p>
<p>Any other suggestions? My IB coordinator gave us all binders with EEs by past students that got perfect scores. There was one about history, and it analyzed the ethical implications of using medical data gathered in Nazi concentration camps, while all the others were literature ones. They were about a very specific aspect of a specific book, like one was about Simone de Beauvoir’s style of argument in The Second Sex.</p>
<p>Obamania. </p>
<p>I am terrible at this. I think if anyone at my school knew what IB was they would freak the eff out.</p>
<p>If it’s that specific, I would suggest Brazil for the country. The political turnaround caused in large part by the debt crisis was pretty incredible.</p>
<p>If I think of something else I’ll let you know.</p>
<p>Edit: Vague overview, [Diretas</a> Já - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diretas_Já]Diretas”>Diretas Já - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>You essentially are.</p>
<p>The IB’s requirements are ■■■■■■■■. “The topic choosen by the Diploma Candidate can neither be too broad nor too narrow.” Thanks.</p>
<p><a href="http://www..co.uk/showthread.php?t=10948%5B/url%5D">http://www..co.uk/showthread.php?t=10948</a></p>
<p>That is remotely helpful. Stupid CC. It’s meant to say the student room with no spaces.</p>
<p>And thanks, Mike. I’ll research that, but I’m worried that it’ll be too closely related to economics. One of the requirements for it is that it fit into a clearly defined category, because it gets sent to graders based on the subject area it was placed in.</p>
<p>Hahahahaha. What kind of IB student would write about Harry Potter? Really.</p>
<p>I gave into you all and watched The Office from Sunday. Genius! I’ve seen a few other episodes, but they weren’t as good as that one.</p>
<p>For literature, can you write about a short story? I don’t feel like reading the silly requirements. Anyway, “Orientation” by Daniel Orezco is awesome. I think I posted the link a week and a half ago. There’s a PDF of it online somewhere.</p>
<p>I wrote some pretty awesome speeches for speech class this year. One was about hyperinflation, but you said no economics. But still. Hyperinflation is a good topic. I also wrote one about improving mass transit networks, and about foreign language education. Those last two were persuasive, but you could adapt them for informative use.</p>
<p>Four thousand words is way longer than anything I’ve had to write. My senior paper was well over the minimum requirement, and it was only three thousand words.</p>
<p>Paranoid censors.</p>
<p>I have a dbq tomorrow. Dang.</p>
<p>I have a music festival rehearsal tomorrow. It’s basically where the best music students from my entire county get together to be this big elitist pseudo-good group. So that means I don’t have to go to school. Thus, I’m not making any progress on my homework.</p>
<p>If you’re looking in to it, definitely check out the whole Diretas Ja movement. (Link above^^^). There’s plenty of material just from that movement, it’s a fairly unique political situation. People pressuring a military regime to give popular elections without force doesn’t happen very often.</p>
<p>How about Michael Henchard’s self-destructive tendencies in The Mayor of Casterbridge? I always thought he was an interesting character.</p>
<p>I’ve just realized I know way too much about the Latin American debt crisis.</p>
<p>Yeah, short stories are allowed (everything is allowed) but I don’t know if I’d be able to analyze something in that many words. The ones I saw that did well were around 30 pages long, including a title page, bibliography, abstract, and a variety of appendices.</p>
<p>And I’m so torn about what teacher to choose as my supervisor. I know that if I wrote a French lit EE and got my French teacher to supervise it, my essay would be criticised to the point where I wouldn’t know what to do anymore and I’d lose all confidence in my writing, but I’d almost surely get a good grade on it. I don’t know.</p>
<p>If you wrote about the Bible, would you have to write it in Hebrew?</p>
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<p>That’s really interesting. This is seeming more and more appealing.</p>
<p>I’ve never read The Mayor of Casterbridge or anything else by Thomas Hardy so I don’t think that would work. I wish I could do something on Kafka but one of my French World Literature assignments is on him and the IB is against “double-dipping,” and on top of that, he wrote in German.</p>
<p>The people on that other forum wrote theirs about things like “the interaction between the current and repulsive force when lifting an aluminium ring using electromagnetically induced levitation.” Ridiculous.</p>
<p>It depends. If I was writing it about the Bible, but about something that was more related to the meaning of it and to religion and all of that, the language would be irrelevent. If I was writing about the actual book, my IB coordinator wouldn’t allow it because the essays have to be written in English, French, or Spanish. So novels written by authors who wrote in other languages are off limits. However, one of the people who got a perfect score at my school wrote about “proto-existentialist overtones” in one of Kierkegaard’s novels, and since his essay was more philosophical, there was no issue with the language in which the original novel was written.</p>
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<p>Lol. There are like ten high school juniors in North America who can meaningfully contribute to the body of knowledge in physics. Why even bother with this project?</p>
<p>Your school sounds super-intense, Yak. I wish you could meet some of the kids I go to school with, like 20% don’t speak English, and another 20% have never read a book cover to cover.</p>
<p>It’s really only the IB. I really think that IB is harder than AP because of all the silly requirements and stuff. It’s less popular simply because it takes a great deal of organization in order for it to be run in schools (it’s highly structured and people can’t just take whatever classes they want because there are set requirements). The people at my school who aren’t in the IB don’t work nearly as hard as those who are. It’s kind of ridiculous, because people in the IB start to develop a type of superiority complex, and I can’t say that I’m an exception to this. I hear people who aren’t in the IB complain about all the work they have to do, and I internally scoff because I have 40-60% more work than they do. It’s stupid and I don’t like how elitist it is. I do, however, think it’s ridiculous that a quality education has to be seen as “elitist.” </p>
<p>And I just went on a rant. But, one last thing, most kids from my school are part of the upper middle class, and they’re genuinely spoiled and they don’t take their work seriously. The teachers at my school are all good and highly qualified, but they have to deal with spoiled brats who don’t care about anything that doesn’t come from American Apparel. So. Yes.</p>
<p>My school’s a weird mix of upper-middle class white kids who overachieve, and lower-class Russian, Polish, and Hispanic immigrants.</p>
<p>I know what you mean about the spoiled upper-middle class kids though, it’s like, w t f? Your parents worked hard to give you all these privileges and you can’t just do your homework? </p>
<p>I’ll never take my education for granted, I still remember the tiny list my dad showed me of approved educations/careers that my grandfather gave him. It read, </p>
<p>PhD in Engineering (Not Civil or other soft options)
PhD in Hard Sciences (No social sciences)
PhD in Mathematics
MBA
JD
MD</p>
<p>He always jokes that if I slack off he’ll have no choice but to pass down the list to me.</p>
<p>My peers in my English class moaned and groaned at the beginning of the year when the teacher assigned a two-page literary criticism. And don’t even get me started on science.</p>
<p>The IB will really help you in the long term, Canadian. I’m just getting the basic college preparation from my school, and while I have learned a lot, I’m nowhere near as prepared as AP or IB students.</p>
<p>You should visit the ghetto.</p>
<p>It really isn’t that bad, just lower middle class. Too much American Eagle and/or Hollister, but I deal with it.</p>
<p>Yeah, it really ****es me off. They talk to each other about going into their dad’s wallets and stealing $50. And then they go on to prove that that is morally justifiable because their dad’s never notice. And drugs are a huuuuge problem at my school, and it’s just ridiculous.</p>
<p>My school is mostly lower middle class. Plenty of American Eagle and Hollister for everyone. But there are few drug problems, almost everyone speaks English, and people don’t steal money from their parents. It’s just very uniform. Other people in the area refer to my school as the Christian school, since it never has any disciplinary problems.</p>
<p>This one hallway at my school always smells like weed, but that’s about it. Let me break it down for ya:</p>
<p>34% ghetto. Black, white, hispanic, asian, whatever. Although the Kanye effect has taken hold.
34% vaguely regular. Lots of AE, but whatevs. I float in this circle.
19% incredibly annoying band/choir or jrotc people. You don’t even know.
13% whatever else I forgot. The asians, the stoner jagoffs, among others.</p>
<p>I made up the numbers but whatevs. You gets it. A smattering of each group has pregnant girls. Sigh.</p>