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