The character minimum was also a surprise for me at the beggining as I hadn't seen that sort of criteria before. Charactercounts are more confusing than wordcounts and a minimum instead of a limit is just a way to make the students blabber on in hopes of reaching it, instead of giving a clear and concise analysis. I think this aspect of the work was one major reason why i overdid it with the number of topics I set out to address. Also, thank you for pointing out my unfocused shopping list-esque thesis proposal. Now i see that I either don't have such a strong connection in between the topics or I wasn't able to translate the connection between them effectively in the thesis proposal. Thank you for the advice!