Suggested Topics for Persuasive Papers

Controversial Topics

• Abortion
• Advertising Ethics
• Affirmative Action
• Animal Rights
• Anti-Semitism
• Assisted Suicide
• Australian Aborigines
• Bilingual Education
• Bioethics
• Biotechnology
• Business Ethics
• Capital Punishment
• Censorship
• Civil Liberties and Anti-Terrorism Measures
• Class Action Lawsuits
• Cloning
• Conscientious Objectors
• Corporate Corruption
• Corporate Responsibility
• Creationism
• Dress Codes in School
• Drug Legalization
• Drug Testing
• Ebonics and Black English
• Endangered Species
• Environmental Ethics
• Euthanasia
• Evolution
• False Memory
• Female Genital Mutilation
• Foreign Aid
• Free Speech
• Freedom of the Press
• Gay Parents
• Gay Rights
• Gays in the Military
• Globalization
• Gun Control
• Harry Potter Controversy
• Hate Crimes
• Hate Speech
• Health Care Reform
• Holocaust Denial
• Holocaust Reparations
• Home Schooling
• Homelessness
• Illegal Immigration
• Insanity Defense
• Landmines
• Legal Drinking Age
• Maori People
• McCarthyism
• Media and Terrorism
• Media Images of African-Americans
• Media Images of Women
• Media in Wartime
• Medical Ethics
• Medical Marijuana
• Medical Malpractice
• Mental Health Policy
• Minimum Wage
• Miranda Rule
• Multiculturalism
• NAFTA
• Nuclear and Hazardous Waste
• Nuclear Disarmament
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• PLO
• Police Interrogation
• Political Ethics
• Pornography Debate
• Prescription Drug Reform
• Privacy
• Pro-Choice Movement
• Pro-Life Movement
• Right to Bear Arms (Second Amendment)
• School Violence
• School Vouchers
• Search and Seizure (Fourth Amendment)
• Separation of Church and State
• Sex Education
• Shakespeare Authorship Controversy
• Smoking Laws
• Social Security
• Standardized Testing
• Stem Cell Research
• Steroids
• Surrogate Motherhood
• Tax Reform
• Teenage Pregnancy
• Tibet
• Tobacco Industry
• Transracial Adoption
• Violence in the Media
• Whistleblowing
• Women in the Military
• Working Mothers
• Workplace Diversity
• Year Round School