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Visit WebMuseum at http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/ and click on one of the Special Exhibitions. Read the biographical information provided for the artist, examine his or her works, and using the search engines listed above, find supplemental information to help you draft an essay about the exhibit.
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Examine John Graunt's data on 1632 London at http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Graunt/1.html . (Scroll down to page 9 on the site.) Based on your analysis of the data, write a synopsis on seventeenth century mortality rate in London and compare it to a twenty-first century list. How do the two lists differ?
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Visit the Internet Tutorial Seminar at the Woodrow Wilson Leadership Program in Chemistry site at http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/chemistry/seminar/net.html . Browse the resources for chemistry. After gathering your research, prepare a five-minute lesson on any topic that would be discussed in a high school chemistry class.
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Study Marxism, socialism, and communism at the Academic Info: Political Science homepage http://www.academicinfo.net/poliscimarx.html . Based on your visit to this site and to Internet other resources, write an opinion piece about the future of socialism in the modern world.
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Browse Roger Ebert's movie reviews at http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ . Select one that you disagree with and write your rebuttal.
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Everybody loves Lucy. Go to PBS's site for its American Masterpieces documentary Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/index_basic.html .(You may have to download VDOLive in order to view video clips. Follow the directions for downloading that are provided on the site.) Link to the Timeline and the Feature Essay to gain preliminary knowledge about Lucille Ball, then, go to one of the search engines listed above to find more information about Lucy. Write a retrospective about her life on television.
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Visit the Canterbury Tales Project http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/projects/ctp/ at De Montfort University (England). Browse the site for at least ten resources you could use for a research project on Chaucer and his Canterbury Tales .
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Visit the University of Washington Library's resource site for Women in Music at http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/women.html . Search through some of the links to find a female musician or composer that you would like to study, and using the search engines listed above, learn more about the woman and her contribution to music.
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NASA provides links for Space Science Education and Public Outreach at http://spacescience.nasa.gov/education/edsites.htm . Click on an area of interest, study what's there, then write a 300- to 500-word research proposal to your instructor.
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Look through the search engines listed above for information related to the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election that nearly plunged the nation into a constitutional crisis. Find the arguments used by both the Republicans and Democrats for extending the process well past Election Day, and in the stance of a Supreme Court justice, write your own opinion for any one of the cases that went before the court.
