Can someone help me pick a topic for English?

Question

In my english honor class, I need to pick a debating topic. It needs to be different, and have a lot of facts for me to research.

Here are examples she gave me (I don't want to use though):
*Stem cells
*Abortion
*War (Iraq, WWII, Vietnam)

Please help me figure out something good. I need something useful.

Answer 1

My senior year of high school I had to do a persuasive essay and turn it into a speech. If it helps, I did mine on why we should mass produce and distribute ecstacy as a form of world peace.

Answer 2

It depends on how risque your teacher will let you be. What about gender identification during the fertility process. When scientists can genetically configure the sex of a person's baby? Or what about when a child is born hormone deficient and treatment changes their identification? I had a 14 year old female student once who was taking hormones because she believed that she was meant to be a boy. Was she too young? Were her parents right in allowing her to choose for herself? There are so many better topics than those three. Find your interest and use your power of persuasion to show your teacher a new perspective on interesting topics.

Answer 3

A lot of those topics are really old and overused. i recently had to do a paper on the same thing. I was suppose to persuade the audience of a certain thing..so i picked "Thinking Green" you know recycling, why it's important, how we and the environment benifit from it, and how we can utilze wind energy to someday be sulf reliant on using our own methods of obtaining fuel rather than purchasing so much overseas. here is my email
[e-mail] email me if you want to know more.....ill even send you my paper....it was an "A" I am in college by the way at MU. so maybe that will trust you toward my integrity.

Answer 4

I believe a more specific approach should help.

Here are some debate motions my school's team has debated on within the year. It is up to you as to which side you're defending:
This House will tie development aid with good governance. [development aid]

This House believes that the Market should be held responsible for problems caused by global warming.
[accountability for global warming]

This House celebrates the homosexuality of Albus Dumbledore.
[homosexuality in Literature]

This House celebrates the whitening of Michael Jackson.
[I think this is obvious]

This House believes the poor should celebrate capitalism.
[it's macroeconomic in approach. if you're for government (affirmative side), you can use Keynesian Economics as a kick-off board]

Answer 5

I just had the same assignment in my college writing class. I chose to write about the debate on whether religious beliefs are reason to not get your child vaccinated, along with the higher risk of Autism that scientists have found may accompany the vaccines that make parents now question whether it is worth it for their child to get the vaccines. It was very interesting, and my professor loved it!

Answer 6

I have some that make good topics
- Keeping the death penalty
- Illegal Immagration
- Contractors (mercenaries) in Iraq and Afghanistan
- foreign oil trusts
- Increased airport security

Hope I gave you an interesting topic!

Answer 7

What about a living will topic? You know, like Terry Spravo (?) she was in the news awhile back, hurt in an accident, veggitative state, husband wanted her to die parents did not. The whole if I was in an accident and unable to deceide for myself......the cons and pros of it. Like the fact of having an DNR order so your family wouldn't have to decide. Good Luck

Answer 8

How about how education is different now in the new millenium verses the education of the 90's or even earlier. Maybe compare or contrast the technology that is available or lack of and maybe the different teaching techniques that are being used now in the present.

Answer 9

Those are lame.

How about this - How has the internet changed politics in America? Has it brought people of different minds (opinions) closer together or pushed them further apart?

Now there's an original (and interesting question).

Answer 10

You should assert that the world, in fact, is flat after all. Modern scientists have it all wrong.

Now if you can pull that off, then you're a hell of a debater.