The worse possible project an IB student can be assigned. This enormously long and difficult project must be completed as part of the IB Topics of the 20th Century history course, or else you fail. It involves answering a specific research question of interest (well, really, who gives a fuck?) and poring through books and journal articles on the subject, therefore wasting an enormous part of the time you DON'T have as an IB student.
I hate the historicalinvestigation. It shouldn't have the FIVE parts it contains, but rather be a single paper in which we are allowed to write more than 2000 words--if we need to
(adj.) characterized by an occasionally capricious disposition that undermines a prominent topic in an ongoing dialogue by redirecting conversation on the pretense of remarking on external visual stimuli.
Her remark on the scenery was no mere fleeting observation, but rather the mark of one skilled in tactically invertigate persiflage to move the discussion in another direction.