Structure:
1.	Definition and background
2.	Pros and cons
3.	Can it be financed?

Vocabulary/names:
referendum
left-wing/right-wing
libertarian
Martin Ford
“Mincome”
alienation
stigma
Susanne Wiest
bureaucracy
Ed Dolan
poverty threshold
means-tested
tax expenditures
pensions

Universal Basic Income – Dream Come True, Pipe Dream, or Nightmare? - click here for vocabulary

Full title: "Of Alcopops, Ladettes and Little Red Riding Hood: 
Girls & Alcohol in the US and the UK"

Structure:
1. Introduction: Facts about teenage drinking
2. Why girls drink in the UK
3. Why girls drink in the US   

Vocabulary/names:
Culver City
Little Red Riding Hood
Missouri
Jack London 
National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
Rob Foss, Manager of Alcohol Studies for the UNC Highway Traffic Center
binge
European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Drugs (ESPAD)
Martin Plant, Professor of Addiction Studies at the University of the West of England
alcopops
distilled alcohol
Bacardi Breezer, Smirnoff Ice
lad/ladette
Snatch (movie), Oasis (band)
Partnership for a Drug Free America
social lubricant
Amelia Arria, Director of the Center on Young Adult Health and Development, U. of Maryland


Girls & Alcohol - Click here for vocabulary

Full title: “Are the Humanities Useless? A Brief Look at the Debate”

Structure:
1. Background and Definitions: The Sciences and the Humanities—“Two Cultures”
2. Utilitarianism and the Culture Wars: Attacks on the Humanities
3. Saved by the Arts? Two Exemplary Defenses

Vocabulary/names:
Wilhelm Dilthey
Geisteswissenschaften
Naturwissenschaften
verstehen (German for: to comprehend/understand)
erklären (German for: to explain) 
C.P. Snow
The Culture Wars
Cultural Studies
Postmodernism
Martha Nussbaum
Anthony Kronman
contrarian
Stanley Fish

Are the Humanities Useless? - Click here for vocabulary

Full title: "Europe Before and After the Great War"

(Original recording of the second assessed summary 2015.)

Vocabulary/names:
Entente Cordiale
Central Powers/Alliance
Dual Monarchy
Ottoman Empire
Prussia
Austrian-Hungarian Empire
Serbia
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Tsar Nicholas II
King George V
Emperor Franz-Joseph
Archduke Franz-Ferdinand
Morocco 1905-06
Bosnian Crisis
Morocco 1911
First Balkan Wars

Europe Before and After World War I - Click here for vocabulary

Full title: "NGOs: Increasing Demand but Limited Effectiveness?"

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Structure:

1.	Why are governments in developing countries marginalizing smaller sectors of their population, and how has this increased the demand for development-oriented NGOs?

2.	What does it mean for an NGO to have a grassroots ideology and practice?

3.	Why are development-oriented NGOs not effective overall?


Some Sources:

J Wagona Makoba (key word: NGOs and third-world development)

Goran Hyden: Civil Society, Social Capital and Development: Dissection of a Complex Discourse

Franic Stewart: Root Causes of Violent Conflict in Developing Countries


Vocabulary:

adhere
development-oriented NGO
government subsidizing
grassroots
influx
marginalizing by the government
NGO donors
ostracized
paradigm
precipitously
respective government
shortcomings
standard of living
sustainable

NGOs: Demand and Effectiveness - Click here for vocabulary (no model summary available)

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Full title: "'Who Helps the Helpless?': The Bystander Effect and Other
Findings from Social Psychology"

(Original recording of the first assessed summary 2016.)

Structure:
1. The Genovese Murder and the Search for Explanations
2. The Bystander Experiment and Its Result
3. What Further Research Tells us About Helping the Helpless

Vocabulary/Names:
Kitty Genovese
John Darley & Bibb Latané
diffusion
pluralistic
hypothesis
questionnaire
epileptic fit/seizure
Princeton Theological Seminary
Good Samaritan
parable
confederate

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Full title: "Does True Altruism Really Exist?"

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Vocabulary/names:
Sacrifice
Evolution
Kin
Reciprocity / Reciprocal 
Empathy / Empathic
Daniel Batson

Does True Altruism Really Exist? - Click here for vocabulary (no model summary available)

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