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Extended Essay: Example Research Questions

Below you will find example questions that our students have researched in the past.

2016 & 2017 Research Questions

Art

Critical events in Frida Kahlo’s life shaped her artwork.

Biology

Extent of Males Desire to Work in Groups within the Human Species

How do environmentally friendly cleaners and non environmentally friendly cleaners compare in the elimination of food poisoning bacteria?

Are mainstream mouthwashes like Listerine and Crest as effective as they are claimed to be, or are more natural solutions such as salt water, hydrogen peroxide, or sesame oil equally or more effective in inhibiting the growth of bacteria extracts of Streptococcus mutans, the main cause of dental decay?

Business

To what extent does the leadership style of the CEO at Disney impact the company?

To what extent does the social media marketing strategies of Adidas have on the company's e-commerce sales and how has their social media presence contributed to the branding of their company?

Economics

When Hosting the Olympic games, how do the long term and short term financial outcomes affect the host country's economy? Are the Olympic games worth the economic output?

English

To what extent does the book expose a conflict between love and lust among both the nature of Lolita and Humbert’s relationship? How does Humbert manipulate the reader to divert the moral concern between their relationship and create a contradiction between his perception of love and society’s?

How do these books - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Outsiders, and Uglies -  demonstrate how, in any given time period, people want to break away from societal norms?

History

To what extent did the music of Motown Record Company influence the success of the civil rights movement during the 1960s?

The Legitimacy of United States Intervention in Nicaragua, 1977-1990

To what extent was Susan B. Anthony more influential than Alice Paul in the struggle for women’s equality?

To what extent did Anne Boleyn play a role in changing the political and religious makeup of England?

How did the assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán lead to a more violent Columbia?

“Chanjiao, Chinese Footbinding, Evolved: the American Style of Bodily and Psychological Mutilation”

Ideologies of the French and American Revolutions

Did the battle of Gallipoli play a major role in causing the armenian genocide?

What were the influences of early 20th Century European Composers’ Music?

To what extent did Livia have special privileges and how did this allow her to impact Augustus and Tiberius’ rule?

Politics

How have politics in the United States affected the presence of women in the military?

 

2018 & 2019 Research Questions

Biology

Does Escherichia coli have equal resistance against natural antibiotics such as Syzygium aromaticum, and a chemical component of Cinnamomum verum, and synthetic antibiotics such as amoxicillin, and ciprofloxacin?

Business

To what extent has Google altered aspects of their human resources departments and working environments to close a gap in creativity among business professionals and develop a more innovative workforce?

To what extent does the leadership styles and corporate culture impact the success at the Walt Disney Company in selected countries?

English

How does Anthony Burgess’s use of nadsat in A Clockwork Orange change the book’s impression on the reader?

To what extent was the Party’s manipulation and alteration of language presented as the primary tool of oppression in George Orwell’s 1984?

What was the driving force behind Lin Manuel-Miranda’s decision to create a POC-lead musical retelling the founding of America through the eyes of founding father Alexander Hamilton?

Film

How do the scores of Moonlight and Punch-Drunk Love develop characters who deviate from traditional masculinity in cinema?

History

To what extent was the rise of the Ghost Dance movement influenced by outside factors?

To what extent was Porfirio Díaz’s rule beneficial for Mexico?

To what extent did Malta’s strategic position and resistance efforts prevent Rommel’s expansion across Northern Africa during World War Ⅱ ?

Math

Minimizing Delivery Routes with The Traveling Salesman Problem

A Theoretical Machine Based Analysis of Slot Machine Probability

Physics

To what extent does temperature affect radioactivity measurement on liquid substances?

World Studies

To what extent does the North Korean government use propaganda, fear, and education to make their citizens ‘ideal’?

To what extent have the Colombian Guerrilla groups influenced the nation's politics and violated the human rights of the people?

Effectiveness of Preventative and Awareness Methods in the United States Used to Combat Human Trafficking in the 21st Century

To what extent did the 2015 Paris attacks affect the french population?

To what extent does socioeconomic status affect the progression of the stages of cognitive development in the United States and Zimbabwe?