West High School Extended Essays 2016

Carolina E. Banos

Racial Bias issues on the justice system

Alisa Bedrov

Revealing Interpersonal Secrets

Ivy Chomjak

An Investigation into the use of Death as Literary Device in The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak and Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

Sarah Groebs

To what extent do fractals appear in our everyday lives?

LeAnne Hodges

Stigmatized Emotions

Kelsey Hutten

The medias influence on rape culture on college campuses

Noah Lobell

To what extent is the human body biologically inclined to have one partner

or many?

Thea Holcomb

The Impact of Racial and Socioeconomic Privilege in the United States’

Public Education Systems

Xavier Matheson

Will moving Bonneville Cutthroat trout from one stream to three streams

effectively secure the long term survival of the species?

Nathaniel Nelson

Kicking Against the Patriarchy: Feminism in Video Games

Joelette Organista

An examination of West High violation of The Equal Protection Clause of

the U.S constitution.

Danna Orozco

Anorexia Nervosa and Tumblr

Trent Perry

Clash of Entities: The debate between economics and religion concerning

water in India.

Emma Singleton

Learned Helplessness in the American School System

Parker Ralph Steenblik

Unlocking the controversy of twin studies

Kaleb Thomas

Privacy and Security in America

Emily Uchida

Gender Stereotypes: Men and Women in Nontraditional Occupations

Emma Wood

Would the women in Greek mythology be considered strong women by

todays standards?

Gordon Zhang

An Analysis of the Strategies and Applications of the 4 person card game,

24 point

Anna Boyes

Exploring the objectification of women in modern music

Griffin Taylor

Comparative U.S. Support Between African and Middle East Conflicts

Blake Odekirk

The Cultural traits that make esports thrive in South Korea

Laura Anderson

Hard Times and 1984: Technology and the Human condition

Jony Balk

Climate change and its role in global conflict.

Ruby Barrett

To what extent did Soviet propaganda accurately portray women?

Amanda Carrasco

To What Extent is Immigration Status a Barrier for Latino/as in Achieving a

Higher Education?

Jake Colangelo

How has the use of EPO and other performance enhancing drugs effected

the cultural of professional cycling?

Haley Drechsel

History of the Cattleman

Melisa Ferhatovic

Nature vs. Nurture in a Serial Killer’s Motives

Nina Filippova

Thought Experiments in Science

Neal Hapairai-Hansen

To what extent does gender affect criminal punishment?

Ryan James

The Impact of Voting Systems on Democratic Government

Connor Johnson

To What Extent can We Control Great Change: Applied to Adolf Hitler, the

Third Reich, and Revisionist History

Annina Kennedy-

Yoon

Changing the Body Image of Ballet

Cameron Kim

How anti-vaccinators negatively effect a community

Nathaniel King

To What Extent Do Video Games as a Whole Have Artistic Merit in

Comparison to Other Art Forms?

Jocelyne Lopez

The Lack of Choice Women Have in India

Nam Nguyen

Racial Diversity and Income Inequality

Amerique Phillips

The Flight of a Black Bird

Lucas Rivera Jr

The effectiveness of a restorative justice system on offenders who did not

receive a high school diploma

Asma Rokhaneevna

Beauty Modification in China and India

Karishma Shah

Higher Education as a Veblen Good

Lauren Sneddon

How can schools limit the spread of adolescent type 2 diabetes?

Elmira Sperling

Investigating the Relationship Between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-

Day Saints and Homosexuality

Christy Than

Unconscious Racial Discrimination

Lauren Treiman

KABOOM: THE EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Hunter Tuesday-Heathfield

What is the better choice between hybrid and electric cars?

Kelly Anne Williams

Hollywood Vs. History

Liliana Dinwoodey

The Psychology of Religion

Marling Alvarez

To what extent do the concepts that we use shape the conclusions that we

reach?

Emily Bacon

Examining long term effects on fertility and neurocognition when using

intrathecal chemotherapy in treating ALL in children

Nora Boyle

How Does the Perception of the Transgender Identity Effect their Treatment

Within the United States Federal Criminal Justice System?

AJ Bull

King Charles I’s rule according to Machiavelli’s and Aristotle’s philosophies.

Tony Chadwick

How the United States Government has handled political & natural disasters

in the 21st century.

Alejandra Dechet

The Effect of Multilingualism on Personality

Zander Granath

How can soccer be used to help refugees better assimilate in the United

States?

Ayesha Khan

Evaluation the Benefits and Risks of Genetically Modified Organisms

(GMOs).

Jared Green

Pacific Naval Combat during World War II

Seodam Kwak

The abuse of Marxist ideals by Vladimir Lenin

Jamie Law

The Influence of Internal and External Factors On Human Intelligence

Katherine Morelli

Love and the Bible

Caroline Nester

To what extent are Robert Schumann’s struggles with mental illness

reflected in his composition style?

Ema Parker

Operation Barbarossa’s role on Nazi synthetic oil production

Hannah Pos

A Changed Era: Utopias in Literature

Samira Saeed

Religious persecution of Baha’is in Iran and higher education.

Eliza Samore

Where Beauty and Pain Intersect

Zuleyma Sanchez Trujano

Parenting Styles and the Development of Eating Disorders in Adolescents

Sydnee Sartor

Does the Distance Decay Theory apply to levels of femicide in India?

Konrad Serbinowski

Reducing casualties during police encounters through increased training

and accountability.

Erik Steenburgh

Corporate Impact on Government and Citizens

Leo Stillinger

San Francisco As a Setting in Film Noir

Zachary Stroud

Training Artificial Intelligence in the Real World

Sarah Ta

The Psychological Aftermath of the Vietnam War

Lucas Van De Graaff

How does the presence of dragons within any given culture’s mythology

reflect its socio-cultural values?

Siani Weston

The effect of the contact fungicides clarified hydrophobic extract of neem

oil, chlorothalonil, and sulfur on Beta vulgaris L. var cicla

Yuanhang Zhao

The Impact of the Step Initiative on E-Waste Cycling in Developing Countries

Nathan Louie

The connections made between people through hip hop dance