Help with my Research Paper for my Humanities Course?

Question:I think I need another topic because the one I chose was "Music and it's Orgin", but now I realize that's a bunch of crap because music was everywhere. Can you give me some suggestions? Remember I have to be able to research it so I need something that has a lot of information to go with it. Also, if you can help me by giving me an outline, that would be great too!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I think I need another topic because the one I chose was "Music and it's Orgin", but now I realize that's a bunch of crap because music was everywhere. Can you give me some suggestions? Remember I have to be able to research it so I need something that has a lot of information to go with it. Also, if you can help me by giving me an outline, that would be great too!

You can try this or structure another project along similar approach.

Comparative Genocide Studies( CGS )
There are lots of things to be said about genocide of the Jews. You can compare to Rwandan one of 1994. Look for the documentary 'The ghosts of Rwanda'

The following outline was by a Japanese institute:
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The aim of this research is to establish and reposition “genocide research”, currently grouped in an unexplored area of the humanities and social sciences in Japan , and to make even a slight contribution to “the construction of peace”. Genocide is still now taking place in various regions all over the world. This research project represents an attempt to establish a theoretical framework for comparative genocide research, based on concrete empirical evidence, and to work towards theories of prevention.

The object of study for this project will be broad: the many different instances of genocide which have taken place all over the world throughout the twentieth century. Firstly, we will reposition the massacres which took place during World War Two, generally accepted and understood as the “Holocaust”, as “European genocide”, and approach it from a variety of points of view: racism and eugenics; ethnic self-determinism and forced migration; acts of war and acts of extermination; and critical approaches to the modern nationalist state. Alongside this, we will examine the Armenian massacres in Turkey during World War One; genocide which occurred in developing countries such as Cambodia, Rwanda and Guatemala; and genocide in the former Yugoslavia; analyzing the background to and contributing causes of each, as well as their processes and consequences, all the while highlighting the universality and present-day relevance of the issue of genocide.

Further, we will examine genocide occurring under colonial rule or under conduct of war (including sexual violence and “cultural genocide”), and genocide under socialist dictatorships as occurred in the former Soviet Republic and China, to empirically demonstrate the various forms and mechanisms of genocide. Focus will also be placed upon the ability of genocide to fundamentally alter the structure of regional societies, and upon issues such as the reconstruction of and reconciliation within post-genocide afflicted societies, as well as memories and trauma of the victims and their representation. In this way, while this project will use modern German and European history as its starting point, its scope far exceeds this sector, and represents an endeavour to identify the intrinsic qualities of modern-day genocide.

For each individual topic of research, the methods employed will largely be those of the academic disciplines of history and area studies, but on the theoretical front we intend to develop a greater elaboration of the notions of “structured violence”, “cultural violence” and “human security” which have been key concepts in sociology in recent years. This project will extend across several academic disciplines and remove barriers between specialties. In concrete terms, the project will chiefly be undertaken by young researchers and those of middle standing who have striven to overcome boundaries between disciplines and who have held an interest in the significance of genocide to such diverse academic fields as history, area studies, medical history, cultural anthropology, international law, international politics, peace studies and philosophy.
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good luck

beer or wine??? which came first???

why was it [seemingly] important for Noah to plant a vineyard almost immediately after the world had dried out from the flood?
Who cares if the Biblical myth is true or not...what does the seeming STRONG need for wine imply?

what were some of the earliest social/cultural needs for beer? implications???
[one of the hieroglyphs recorded that a strike threatened to stop work on the pyramids because of a beer allotment shortage]

did beer lead to agriculture?
one theory would have the need for beer on a regular basis [as an offering to the Babylonian gods] might have lead to the development of agricultural...instead of the other way around
see James Burke's book(s)

did the alcohol in the wine in the upper class Roman drinking cups leech out the lead and lead to insanity, depravity, debauchery?
see "theories for the fall of the Roman Empire"

why and how did the "little ice age" give rise to beer making in northern Europe and wine making in the southern parts?
check the Discovery channel for a nice explanation of the climatological implications

what does the manufacturing of either beer or wine imply about the state of the culture???
you need agriculture- you need excess grains and water; glassmaking and/or pottery for storage; bread-for the yeasts...or was it the other way around..only flat bread until beer yeasts?; distilleries...etc etc etc

enough????

good luck

I like your topic it is an interesting thought that Pythagoras ancient philosopher who said math was the most sacred concept and was only taught at the most inner group assigned a chackra for each type of instrument the drum being the base chackra his math theory is still taught today to children

why dont you try foods and where they are from??

petta pocket- france
fedichiny alfreado- france
tamoles-mexico
enchaladas- mexico
orange chicken-japan or china
cashew chicken- japan or china