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I'm suddenly so confused for my WSEE.. please help me out
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Hey guys so I have a hypothetical question: Since we can use different cultural artifacts like films in the Eng B EE do you think that perhaps investigating the portrayal of Norse Mythology in Thor movies would be an okay idea for it?
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At first, I was thinking of writing about how use of language changes in adverts in the 80s, 80s and 2000s but I can't seem to find any advertisements. I'm still thinking of doing something about change in language and slangs, but I can't figure out what to write about and I'm freaking out because 1. I can't talk to my supervisor about it for a couple of reasons lol and 2. The first draft was due ages ago. Can anyone please help me to think about something? I'm absolutely desperate.
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Hey, I need help with possible RQs for Joseon Dynasty era in Korea. I want to look at the early-mid stages of the Dynasty but don’t really know what specific RQs to come up with (to what extent, how did...,) type of stuff. I am super interested in Confucianism/Neo-Confucianism or the creation of hangul but idk if they are too hard. I have access to a uni library so I am not worrying too much about sources. It doesn’t have to be limited to the two topics i mentioned above. I just want to write about something in that era.
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Hi everyone, I'm in year12 and seeking some advice on my EE choices. I do both german and econ at HL: I currently have a B2 in german, aiming for C1 next summer. Econ EEs seem so hard(my teacher said the ones who don't care about their grades do it) and simply just doesn't interest me, compared to german culture & language, which I would love to research&write about. p.s. i wanna study business management at uni Is a language b ee just too difficult? Do you have any suggestions, experiences or advice? Thank you!
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HELLO I want to write my extended essay on physics, and do it on special relativity. I have two possible topics (not well defined yet): 1.- Special relativity's time dilation proven by muon decay 2.- Special relativity effect on magnetism (i.e. why non permanent magnets work when electricity is conducted through them, from a special relativity approach) Now, these two topics are something I'm really interested in. I really wanted to do an EE on astrophysics but I think is better if I stop at relativity. The question here is, are any of my topics appropriate? How can I achieve an 'original' approach with them? Any suggestion on narrowing the area of s…
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Hello! So I just got my first Extended Essay draft feedback, and the main thing she said was that I have to include more analysis of historiography. What is the best way to go about doing this? Thank you so much in advance!
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I am very interested in the topic of cancer and am wanting to write my EE over it. I was thinking maybe a biochemistry essay of sorts, but I am having problems coming up with a good RQ. I've read on other sites that cancer is too broad of a topic for an EE, but I have access to a cancer researcher and a research center and am very passionate about this topic so I do want to write it over this if possible. Any ideas or feedback?
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Hey IB lads, I just started IB1 and my teachers and peers are already working/deciding on EE subjects and their topics. I'm really lost right now because I don't even know what subject I want to do the EE in. Some of my peers are already reserving teachers as their EE moderators and I'm scared I will be one of the last ones to get one which results in less time with my moderator. My subjects are Math HL, Physics HL, Psychology SL, English A L&L SL, Finnish B HL, and Chemistry SL. 1. Do you guys have any tips on choosing an EE subject and then a topic? 2. Are there any trends like "English A EEs do worse" or "Experimental EEs are impossible to get an A in…
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I am writing a Language & Literature Category 3 Extended Essay in which I analyze political victory speeches. My question will be "to what extent does X impact Y?", but I fear that the answer will be "not at all" or "barely." Will not finding anything hurt my essay? TLDR: LangLit Cat3 EE discovers nothing
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Hey! So, my RQ is "To what extent would the merge between David Jones and Myers be an effective economic growth strategy?". This is due real soon and I need help with what I need to write in my body paragraphs. My teacher has suggested that I talk about economies of scale. I also want to do a finance type of processed data, such as a profit and loss account. Could anyone suggest what type of finance table would be suitable for the RQ, as well as other things I could write about in my body paragraphs. Thank You.
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Hey so I have a question. If lets say I do my IA in biology and follow an experiment that has been done before but I change a few things to make it my own? e.g the effect of temperature on seed germination but instead of copying the exact temperature conditions, I come up with my own. Is it plagiarism? Do you have to come up with your own experiment?I'm freaking out
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Hi all, I have decided to write my EE in History and I'd love to know your opinion on whether the analysis of the accuracy of a historical movie is a valid History EE topic. To be more precise, I'd like to analyse the historical accuracy of "Schindler's List". Any tips highly appreciated:)
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hi! i am writing an EE under the visual arts guidelines, with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and it's author, hirohiko araki, as my main focus. i need help coming up with good research questions. i love araki and his work and i would really love to write about it, particularly his most well known series, jojo's bizarre adventure, but i am having a bit of an issue on where to start. i am currently a junior, so i have a lot of time, but i would like to start considering these things right now. i would much prefer if you helped me while having at least a general knowledge of what jjba is or who araki is, but its fine if you don't! …
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Hi, I'm trying to decide on an Economics EE topic and namely around analyzing the most fitting market structure for an industry, for which I've been using this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0j4_Jo3fMQ My main question is if I want to analyze the market structure of my local real estate market, is that too broad? Because obviously there's the buying and selling of homes, the developers who buy land, lenders, banks, etc. So with the EE in mind, is my best bet to broadly discuss all of these elements of the RE market or to focus on the financing, housing markets, etc more specifically? Thanks!
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Hi guys, I'm planning to do a history ee about the Dred Scott case. Is the RQ "To what extent was Roger Taney justified in his ruling for the Dred Scott case?" a viable question? Thank you so much
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I was doing math EE about finding the least amount of moves in a Tower of Hanoi game with N amount of disks and P amount pegs. Then, I found out that mathematical formulas are not enough and coding is needed to find the answer. Right now, my work contains a little bit more coding than math but I was able to get an answer to the question so I am thinking about adapting it to comp sci by doing something such as writing a program to tell which disk to move, step by step to complete the game etc. However, I've looked up examples of comp sci EE and my topic is very different from them as my topic would be more related to math while having a some more coding than calculation. …
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So the EE which I decided to do a couple months ago was a conventional history one about the muslim conquest of spain, but I'm considering switching my topic entirely while still trying to keep my EE in history. The two main ideas I have are reconstructing proto-coast salish(or another small group of indigenous languages), and writing about how the salish languages were impacted by colonialism(both territorially and linguistically). I've seen that others have been able to do quasi-linguistics essays but seeing that there's obviously no IB subject for it, what's possible seems rather vague. I should mention that my advisor does not have a degree in linguistics and I'm not …
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So, I'm doing my EE on a topic within the visual arts and I'm close to finishing. I noticed many of IB's example EEs have abstracts in addition to introductions but my supervisor hasn't said anything to me about adding an abstract. Is an abstract necessary and is it included in my word count? (I don't have much room left and I don't want to exceed 4000)
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Hey so I have an idea for my Extended Essay that I really, really like but I am afraid is too common. More detail below but the part that I am scared about is that it is to do with the corona virus. Will examiners be expecting everyone to do that and be bored of it? If combining the rest of my idea with the corona virus is not a good idea, any advice or suggestions would be great! So I play for a womens football club several days a week and football is basically my life. I want to incorporate it in my academics, particularly the Extended Essay. The manager of my football club (who I can contact easily) has many contacts with other football clubs across Europe (Leeds …
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I chose to do my ee in Spanish. Great. Well, I’ve been talking to my advisor but still lost. We’ve neared my ee being about magical realism in “Like Water for Chocolate/Como Agua Para Chocolate” but idk how to actually MAKE a research question if that makes sense. Like okay i got the magical realism and the story but like how do i put these 4000 words onto paper?
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I'm in year 12 and I have started my EE halfway.. but until now I still dont know what should I do for my EE. Can anyone please help?
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Hi there! My EE is about Robin Hood ("To what extent was Robin Hood real?"), and while I didn't have trouble finding sources, they were all too expensive and I only bought 3. My library had NO books about him, so I had to order mine online. They're great, very detailed, with insight, facts, timelines and whatnot. One of them even has a poem from the 1400s, the first written account of Robin. Besides the 3 books, I have about 5 reliable websites I'm drawing information from. My question is, how many book sources and internet sources do we usually need? I emailed my supervisor, but he didn't answer my question, only said I was "on the right track". Thank you!
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Hi, I'm really late in thinking of an EE topic for bio and I have to do something completely research based. I was thinking of doing something in phylogeny and I thought of either selecting a gene that is commonly found in several species and seeing whether they have a common origin, or I could also select a trait and find whether it has been evolved as a result of some event of divergent evolution. Can I get some specific ideas?
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Hey guys, I’m new to IB survival so I’m not sure that i post this in the right place!! So I’m IB and i decided to do my EE on english b category 3. I am considering doing it on a book which has symbolism in it. I searched a lot of books and found out that animal farm by George Orwell is a good one. However i am not sure if it is over done or not! Can you guys help me? The deadline is on next week!!
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Hello, I wanted to ask if someone could clarify me what counts as words in a math ee. My ee has plenty of sequences of numbers, mostly in the form of triplets, as well as numerical and algebraic expressions. Do numerical expressions count as words? When listing the word count, should I clarify that the word count refers only to the actual English words and not mathematical symbols? If someone could exhaustively list to me what mathematical notation counts and doesn't count into the word count., I'd appreciate it. Thanks
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I intent to write my Extended Essay on the effect of the two-party system on voting patterns in the United States, and how/why a multiparty system would change voting patterns. However, my school does not offer IB Global Politics. The GP EE guide lists the following as potential topics: "An evaluation of the ability of Mexican migrants to achieve a political voice in county X in Arizona." "To what extent should we be worried about the use of 'big data' in election campaigns? The case of the Obama 2012 campaign." How do these two topics connect to the Global Politics curriculum? Does that knowledge apply to my topic? Would my topic better conn…
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I'm a IB junior and its time at my school to start thinking of topics. I really like Ayn Rand and read all of Atlas Shrugged last year and really liked it, and would have fun doing my EE on it. I can't think of any topics that I specifically like though. Anyone familiar with her work have any ideas?
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Hi guys, recently I'm deciding my biology EE topic. My research question is about the caffeine effect on metabolism rate and i really want to do the plant experiment, but I'm not sure for how difficult this experiment will be😂. Had anyone done the similar experiments before? or any suggestions? Thanks!!
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Hi! So for my English Extended Essay I intend to do a feminist analytical comparison of two books, or how they portray against typical conceptions of women at the time. But I'm having trouble choosing which exact books to choose :(( Do y'all have any feminist fiction book recommendations? Any help would be really appreciated!! :))
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Hey guys, I’m new to IB survival so I’m not sure that i post this in the right place!! So I’m IB and i decided to do my EE on english b category 3. I am considering doing it on a book which has symbolism in it. I searched a lot of books and found out that animal farm by George Orwell is a good one. However i am not sure if it is over done or not! Can you guys help me? The deadline is on next week!!
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Hello,I have decided to write my EE in physics. I am going to investigate electric guitar pickups and I need help adding more 'depth' to the essay.Currently, I plan to create my own model pickup by winding a coil of enamel coated copper wire around it, and seeing how it picks up sound from a vibrating string. I will be changing the amount of turns on the coil, as well as the cross sectional area of the coil to see how it affects the induced current. I also plan to experiment with how the position of the pickup along a string (on a sonometer, that is) affects the output.The topic question i have so far, is: How does pickup winding and pickup position along a string affect …
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Hey everyone! I have decided chemistry as my extended essay subject. It is the subject of my personal interest. But I am facing difficulties in choosing the topic for the essay. Interested areas include thermochemistry, chemical kinetics, and equilibrium. What is the chemical difference to our bodies in choosing organic foods over foods treated with pesticides? suggestions on the above mentioned topic are also appreciated and also want some new ideas.
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Hello guys! I am a student who did IB in germany, but unfortunately continuing by IB in south korea. So I am writing my EE, and I need to collect some data. So if you don't mind please do this short survey. Thank you very much!! https://forms.gle/QgAsBy4BMbtTrzPT9
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I'm planning on writing my History Extended Essay on the rise of the Ottoman Empire or the fall of Al-Andalus and I was hoping to get some feedback on my research questions. They are, to what extent was the fall of Constantinople a cause in the global rise of the Ottoman Empire or to what extent was the Battle of Grenada a cause in the fall of Al-Andalus. Thanks
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I am doing my ee on chemistry and I have time as a variable in one of my experiments. Is this a good variable to consider or not because of uncertainties?
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I am currently in the process of my EE year, and have decided to go the route of language and literature or category 3 in group 1 of the EE guide. My original research question was, "how does the Kendrick's use of rhetorical devices create his message, and how is this received by the audience in relation to external factors in 2015." Now i realise this is very broad, but I also don't know how to narrow it down. To Pimp A Butterfly (TPAB) is a expansive album, and when I told my mentor I wanted to analyze the album's social effect in 2015, she told me to compare it to twitter feeds and any necessary online threads and determine what portions of the albums stirred …
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Whats up y'all. I'm trying to refine what exactly I want to look into for my Econ EE. Here's the ideas I came up with: Examining Market Structure for General Contractor Companies in the DFW Area in the last 20 years. I'ld be able to explain the reasons behind the saturation of these firms and how they compete, market their business, analyze their customer base, and provide some outlooks for the next 20 years of the industry. - Examining the Airline Industry and the competition in it. I think to understand this one there would be many variables to look at so I would start off by choosing 3 specific destinations from DFW that are unique but are …
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I would like to make a research question but I don't know how to reword it and I'm stuck... can someone please help me with reworking my research question? Here's what I'm doing: My current research question is in below [Research question] How do power dynamics impacts the character's genders through companionship, inequality, and Discrimination throughout the novel Of Mice and Men? [Overview of the explanation] Steinbeck used the characters in the book “The mice and men” to show the living standard of the farmers during this time period. Which the book highlights the importance of (forgot to include that) companionship, discrimination, and ge…
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I am just starting to do my EE, and I decided to do it on History. Currently mr RQ is: To what extent did German Reparations affect the economy of the Weimar Republic? I feel that this RQ is too broad, so any suggestions to make it more specific would be welcome. I mainly want to tackle the misconception that German reparations damaged the economy severely, and that economic failures were caused by some other factors.
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I am just starting to do my EE, and I decided to do it on History. Currently mr RQ is: To what extent did German Reparations affect the economy of the Weimar Republic? I feel that this RQ is too broad, so any suggestions to make it more specific would be welcome. I mainly want to tackle the misconception that German reparations damaged the economy severely, and that economic failures were caused by some other factors.
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hello everyone who might be seeing this I'm struggling rn, I've just started my EE, and I don't even know where to start (I'm doing a business EE btw), is there any suggestion on what to do and not make any mistake at the same time? like, should a structure my EE first? chat with my supervisor? my head is going all over the place.
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Hello fellow procrastinators, I am just beginning my EE (history) and I have been encountering problems because of my research question. Currently my question is: “How has the Filipino immigration experience evolved over the course of the 1950s-2000s within the US?” My supervisor told me that it was to broad and doesn't suggest an analytical response. Right now I've bee trying to brainstorm for alternatives and created new questions: To what extent does immigration influence identity? To what extent does immigration influence culture? Though it seems more analytical, I still think the question is too broad, and doesn't even seem like a historical analy…
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Hi, I am doing my extended essay in biology(obvisly from the title). My topic is related to plant and the effects of different concentrations of vitamins on the rate of growth of Solanum lycopersicum (tomatos). I said this to my techer and emailed her my RQ "How does vitamin C, B and multivitamin affect the rate of growth of Solanum lycopersicum?" She told me the topic is good, however the RQ is not developed enough. Can anyone please tell me what I need to add to fix my RQ???? Thanks in advance!!!!!
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Hello. I was wondering if my research question is too broad? “To what extent has social media corresponded to an increase of anorexia nervosa between young females?” My problem is I’m scared if I specify too much, there wont be anything to write about? I would be grateful for feedback and recommendations!
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Hi! I've come with an idea EE research question "Can Platonic Cross-Sex Friendships exist without any sexual attraction?". The problem is that I have no idea what a well-structured research question should look like. I'm in a pre-DP class and they're supposed to approve the topic by tomorrow. Could somebody tell me if the question is well asked and correct the mistakes? Please help me!
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Hey! Does anyone have any advice on how to format a solid ESS EE? My topic is on how ocean acidification affects coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean. I have no idea how to write my structure or arguments.
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Hi, so I am writing EE in history on the topic "To what extent can Peter Tkachev be called the forerunner of the Bolshevik revolution?". My teacher accepted the topic at first and said that I should create an outline so that she will be sure that it is good. After the outline she said that she accepts it and I can start writing but now after I submitted the first half to her, se suddenly sayd that she is not sure wheter the topic would qualify as history EE and if its good. Now, I have a question, did any of you guys write a history EE doing ideology analysis (I am anaylising the extent in which Tkachev's views were simmilar to the actual Bolshevik revolution)? Does it qu…
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plz could someone help me come-up with biology IA that i could that are simple and do not require a lab
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URGENT HELP REQUIRED PLEASE I want to do a world studies essay with Computer Science (which I don't study, but will at uni), but I'm stuck. I had planned on crossing it over with economics (one of my standard level subjects) and doing it on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but my idea doesn't have enough econ in it. I would love it if there are any ideas crossing it over with any of my subjects: Maths HL, Physics HL, Spanish HL, English SL, French SL, Econ SL. I have to get back to my advisor by the end of the week!
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