Project Ideas
By admin • Mar 23rd, 2006 • Category: Issue Five: Contemporary ExamplesWork with National Honor Society students to research the impact of Wal-Mart on the local economy. Have the students debate the validity of the statement, “Wal-Mart is good for the local economy.” If your community does not have a Wal-Mart, choose another conglomerate that is not locally based.
Organize a delegation and apply to represent a nation at the National Model United Nations Conference in New York City. Visit www.nmun.org for more information about regional and international opportunities.
Explore the leading candidates for President of the United States for the 2008 election. What are their backgrounds? What foreign and domestic issues are important to them? Construct and update an online Voter’s Guide for use by your college community.
Coordinate a series of Leadership Discussions on campus. Assemble teams of faculty members and students to study global leaders and their impact on the world. Each team should host a discussion of how the leader they studied has affected the global dynamics of power.
Examine a list of Fortune 500 companies and determine the percentage of top executives that are male and the percentage that are female. Are the percentages representative of the overall workforce? If not, explore possible reasons for the discrepancy. Be sure to consider whether one sex has a greater drive for power than the other.
Create a timeline of the operations of the Al Qaeda network from its formation in the late 1980s to the present. Why was the organization formed and what is its current mission? With your chapter, discuss whether or not Al Qaeda’s terrorist acts have been productive in achieving results.
