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POSSIBLE RESEARCH PAPER TOPICS – ORAL PRESENTATION TOPICS

Local Issues • Is college necessary?


• Sub-prime mortgage crisis • Should U.S. students be required to learn
• Recession/how to jumpstart the economy a foreign language?
• Revitalizing Upstate New York • How to make college more relevant
• Who should be in charge of horse • How to reduce high school drop out rate
racing? • Do charter schools really work?
• Is horse racing abusive? • Low graduation rate of college students
• Should NY lease the lottery to private • How to ensure high schools prepare
firms? students for college
• Brownfields Sports
• Nanotechnology • Should college athletes be paid?
• Right to farm • Favoritism and college athletes
• Saving family farms • Women in professional sports
• Buy Local movement • What should baseball do about steroid
• Ways to increase Tourism use?
• Taxes (property, gas) • Should professional athletes be role
• Energy costs models?
• Should prisons & correctional facilities • Why don’t Americans care about
be closed? soccer?
• Animal cruelty • Why do hockey players brawl?
• Snowmobiling • Why do fans riot after championship
games?
Criminal Justice • Are pro sports (and/or college sports)
• Crime Prevention becoming too expensive for fans?
• Drug abuse-treatment programs • Are pro players overpaid?
• Should drugs be legalized? • Title IX—effective or not?
• Alternative/creative sentencing
• Juvenile crime Politics
• White collar crime • Evaluation of Bush or Clinton
• Hate crimes presidencies
• Overcrowded prisons • Obesity in America
• Legalization of gambling • Should fast food companies be sued?
• Should prostitution be legal? • Did sexism sink Hillary Clinton’s
• Megan’s Law—effective or not? presidential run?
• Civil disobedience • Does business have too much influence
• Police—brutality, overworked, Guardian in politics?
Angels, chases, shortage • Why are Americans so apathetic about
• Do stars/celebrities get preferential voting?
treatment? • Does voting still matter?
• Mandatory drug treatment or sentencing • Need for a third political party
• Electoral College—outdated?
Education • Who really won the 2000 presidential
• Reasons for high college costs election?
• Reasons for high textbook costs • Voting Rights Act—still needed?
• Role of technology in schools • Lobbyists—too much influence?
• Need for arts programs in schools • FEMA – effective or not?
Space Health/Medicine
• Proof of life in outer space • Are we ready for the next pandemic?
• NASA – continue funding or not? • Economic impact, etc. of the next
• Should we go back to the moon? pandemic
• Mars exploration • Organ donation
• Is NASA taking unnecessary risks? • Are we overreacting to the Swine Flu?
• Should shuttle missions continue?
• Should the public be allowed to travel in Nature/Environment
space? • SUVs – impact on environment
• Alternative fuels
Technology • Global warming
• Virtual reality—effect on society, • Did Steve Irwin act irresponsibly?
benefits of, etc. • Drilling in Alaska
• Downloading music ethics • Endangered species act—weakened?
• Cell phones—how they’ve changed Organic farming
society, culture, driving, cell-phone free • Vegetarianism as lifestyle advantage
venues, etc. • Recycling – essential or fad?
• Are we too wired? • Logging—clear-cutting effect
• Modern technology & invasion of • Wind power
privacy • Importance of saving the rain forest
• Weblogs • Animal rights
• MySpace - Facebook – have we gone • Desalination key to survival?
too public? • Clean water
• Decline of manners, social interaction, • Urban sprawl
attention spans, etc. due to technology • Overfishing
• Downside of internet, texting, etc. • Whale hunting
• National Parks—shortage, budget cuts,
Health/Medicine purpose
• Egg/sperm sales • Animal testing
• Genetic engineering of food
• Over-prescription of Ritalin Economics/Business
• FDA—doing a good job? • Wal-Mart: good or evil? Beneficial or
• Safety of food supply detrimental? Community involvement,
• Medicare analysis labor practices, etc.
• Health care management • Do Americans work hard?
• cloning ethics • How to revitalized economically
• Stem cells research ethics depressed areas
• alternative or herbal medicine • Labor unions—still needed or obsolete?
• Safety of cosmetics • How to improve coal mining safety
• Prescription drugs—expense, Canada v. • Should the minimum wage be raised?
U.S., generics • Insurance companies
• Pharmaceutical companies—greedy or • Tax system—how to revise?
concerned researchers? • Budget deficit
• Mental health care in USA • Inheritance tax
• Obesity link to increase in diabetes • Are oil companies gouging consumers?
• Cosmetic surgery • Bailout of Big Companies – Pros? Cons?

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Social Issues • Should colleges & universities be
• The haves and the have-nots required to allow recruiters on campus?
• Discrimination—obese, minorities, • Has the war increased terrorism?
women, poor, gays • Patriot Act – effective or not?
• Should English be the official language? • Do we have enough troops?
• The graying of America—older workers • Should we stay in Iraq?
return to work • Guantanamo Bay – keep or not?
• Immigration policy • Is torture ever justifiable?
• Gays in the military • Wireless tapping – legal or not?
• Gay marriage • Border control-management
• Racial profiling • Airport security
• Should smoking be illegal • Homelessness among veterans
• Smokers’ rights • Veterans – adequate medical care
• Poverty acceptance • Has the war weakened our military?
• Should gays be allowed to adopt? • Effects on family members left stateside
• Are holidays over-commercialized?
• Gentrification 9/11
• Eating Disorders • Should 9/11 families have received
• Should there be a death penalty? compensation
• The American Dream—possible still? • Could 9/11 have been prevented?
• Homelessness epidemic • Are we safer 8 years later?
• Decline of good manners • Homeland Security—are we secure?
• How are genders equal? Unequal? • Best way to memorialize 9/11?
• Affirmative Action • Health effects of 9/11 1st responders, etc.
• Native Americans
• Katrina Media
• Midwest flooding • Violence in TV, movies, video games,
• Online gambling music, etc.
• Crumbling infrastructure (highways, • Are women objectified/degraded in
bridges, roads, levees, etc., etc.) videos?
• Why celebrity-obsession?
Family/Children • Why fascination with reality shows?
• Kiddie beauty pageants – child abuse? • Funding of PBS
• Children’s television programming— • Hollywood ratings system—effective?
child abuse? • Advertising – reinforcing stereotypes?
• How to make businesses more family • Minorities in TV and movies
friendly
• Childcare in the workplace mandatory? The Arts
• Foster care system • Harry Potter-effect: Increase in reading
• Are children overscheduled? • Dearth of creativity in programming, art,
• Is there still a childhood? music, television, etc.
• Cartoons – effective political-social
Iraq/The War on Terror commentary?
• Economic impact • Broadway/live theatre v. film
• Should the draft be reinstated? • The Oprah Effect

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