Research Options:

Write a FULL essay with introduction, Body and conclusion, with a Works Cited page of at least 5 works on one of the following questions. Give your paper a title with a spin like this, “Artemesia Gentileschi: Wonderwoman,” but DO NOT, under penalty of death (D or F grade) write a merely biographical paper. You MUST create a thesis that is complex and does not merely follow an author, artist, or intellectual around for their life—such material can easily be found in my spare time on a wiki site, and what we want to see is you bringing in these disparate sites to solve some question.

Beccaria—very interested in his work on rehabilitation in prisons. What effect did he have on Bentham, who wrote about the Penopticon I mentioned once in class? What about Piranesi, who did drawings of prisons?