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If you were asked to give a speech on five random objects in your room, which organizational pattern would you choose?

Pick the objects and indicate which pattern you think would be the most effective and why.

What transitions would you use to move from your discussion of each object to another?

Can you think of other areas in which divergent thinking (thinking that occurs when we contemplate something from a variety of different perspectives) has helped us make advances in the medical, business, and scientific fields? What about in the social sciences? What about regarding environmental issues? What circumstances allowed for this type of divergent thinking to take hold?

The Internet can be a gold mine for a researcher, but the challenge can be knowing the fool’s gold from the real thing. Pick a subject at random and search the Internet for information on it. Find five reliable and five unreliable online sources on your subject, explaining your rationale for your evaluation of each source.

Visit the website http://www.freehugscampaign.org/ and read about the campaign to promote more conscious touch. Why do you think this campaign has received such a strong reaction? Do you think our society is more or less open to touch than a generation ago? Would this campaign have been possible 50 years ago? 100 years ago?

What misunderstandings occur based on language? What consequences do these misunderstandings have? Do you see any examples of where these misunderstandings could have been avoided through the use of specific instead of generic language? What about through the use of techniques such as dating, index generalizations, and using language appropriate to the occasion?

In the past two decades, what are the biggest changes you have seen in the world around you? These can be changes of any type--technological, environmental, economic, cultural, etc.

How successful do you feel the Ford and Carter administrations were at healing the widespread public distrust in government that followed the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal? Which of their initiatives do you feel boosted public confidence, and which ones disappointed the public further?

Although Florida is not heavily industrialized, over-population, over-development, and destruction of natural resources have made environmental issues crucial to the state's future. How have environmental issues changed in Florida since the 1970s? In the past forty years, have environmentalists been at all successful in their efforts to preserve the state's unique natural setting? How and why or why not?

What was Richard Nixon's strategy for ending the Vietnam War in "peace with honor?" Was it successful? Why did Nixon's Vietnam policy ignite a new storm of anti-war protests at the same time that the American military presence in Southeast Asia was being drastically reduced?

Do you feel that radicalism in the civil rights and anti-war movements helped or hurt their causes? Did the demands for direct and immediate action and the widespread publicity generated by such groups as the Black Panthers and the hippies outweigh the widespread alienation and distaste that these groups inspired or vice versa?

During the 1960s, the Space Program, and particularly the 1969 Apollo moon landing were viewed as historical milestones of immense proportions. Subsequent historical accounts often downplay these events, relating their significance chiefly to political events such as the Cold War or the Kennedy administration. Which approach do you think is more accurate? Will space exploration ever regain the public attention and interest it held during and immediately following the "Era of Hope?" Why or why not?

Compare and contrast the Cold War policies of the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. List three specific differences. Which administration do you feel was actually "tougher on Communism?" Why?

Do you feel President Truman was justified in removing General MacArthur from command in Korea? Was it a wise decision? How did Truman's action affect the outcome of the Korean War--and the future of U.S. military policy?

Identify three specific similarities and three specific differences between the post-World War I era (1920s) and the post-World War II era. These can relate to the economy, technology, politics and world affairs, or American life and culture.

Identify four "causes" for the Cold War which began immediately following World War II and lasted for over forty years. Do you feel these causes were justified from an American perspective? Why or why not?

Do you feel President Truman was justified in removing General MacArthur from command in Korea? Was it a wise decision? How did Truman's action affect the outcome of the Korean War--and the future of U.S. military policy?