Essays I would have liked to have written in high school

 I was cleaning up the laundry generated by 3 sick children and started thinking. Bad habit, thinking. It leads to questions and ideas and more questions and more ideas. I would have to lit search to see if anyone has answered these. I am sure somebody will have, somewhere. On a planet of 7bil, ideas must frequently strike in many different places.

Any IB student want an Extended Essay Topic? Any of these take your fancy? You can do the lit search & see if the topic is still open.

• Paying for Water - Soft-drink Companies and the Biggest Public Heist of All Time
• Hygiene and Democracy - How people who began to feel entitled to not die from infectious disease also started feeling entitled to choose their leader
• The Luck of the Gulag - What modern-day employees can learn from the stories of Polish prisoners in Sibera during WWII
  Change from unexpected places 1: How Superman comics undermined the power of the Klu Klux Klan
• Change from unexpected places 2: The impact of music recording and distribution technology on Cold War policies, specifically the period 1962 - 1989 (compact cassette tapes were first sold in 1962, and CDs started being distributed in 1983; Reagan & Gorbachev were both in power from 1985 and by then many historians argue it was all over bar the shouting from the trigger-happy military brass, I have a proposed mechanism too but not enough time or space to write here.)
• Change from unexpected places 3: the role of street lighting in the progress of the feminist movement
• Change from unexpected places 4: the internet and the dropping average age of political activists: is this ever going to drop the voting age in first-world nations?
• Micro-credit and its interaction with institutionalised corruption in developing nations - such as Bangladesh - or the USA?
• The effect of fixed-price trading (as opposed to an expectation of bargaining) on peoples' ability to evaluate object (or service) value and quality (I would love to come up with a quantitative study but am not in a position to.)
• Surviving London before the Fire and the Sewer Cleaned it Up - What did a life expectancy of 40 really mean, in the absence of child-soldier-recruiting African warlords?
• Examples of Genetic Adaptation of Humans to Specific Regional Diets, and the migrant (/invaded) population's health cost of deviating too far from those diets
• A proposal for educating members of the newspaper-writing and -reading public about the difference between correlation and causation
• A proposal for educating members of the scientific and legal communities on the importance of a timely, even if not-quite-right, statement from an educated authority

 Okay. Back to the spewy laundry. *sigh*.