I need help thinking of a topic for an English paper.

Check out the forums, so many idea so little time.
If you can't find an interesting topic in there somewhere.............

how about the issue of violent crime by underage teens being tried as adults or not.

Think of the pro's and con's of anything . . .


Welcome to A2K, Fagatron!

Think of the pro's and con's of anything:

Live together - not live together (without being married)

To marry - to not marry

Have kids - not have kids

Mother works - mother doesn't work

Celebrate another's birthday - don't (or other similar milestone/holiday)

Vote - not vote

Go to church - don't go to church

Buy a house - rent

Borrow money for . . . education, or? - don't borrow money fo what?

Reasons for buying only new cars - versus used cars

Spank the kids - don't spank the kids

Save money - spend money

Let us know what you decide . . . and your instructor's assessment of your choice! Good luck! [/color]

Nice list, Charli !

Fagatron. What an unusual name.

As far as your subject. How about paper vs. plastic. Both have their good points and bad points.

I like that Gus. The use of resources, whether they be trees or barrels of oil, to make throwaway bags can be argued till doomsday.

Or the paper could be: cloth bags versus throwaways. The entire rest of the civilized world uses cloth shopping bags, we here in America insist on packing our groceries in something we are immediately going to toss out.

Hey, (looking at your avatar), beards or no beards?
or (looking at your previous avatar) leadership by vicar or by independent thought.

Back to bed.

HERE'S A COUPLE MORE IDEAS --


Thanks, Joe Nation - I appreciate that!

Here's are two more ideas:

Legalized gambling - which many states have

Legalized marijuana (similar or other activity) - which most or all states do not have

Good wishes! -- Charli [/color]

I suggest you check out this fine thread of mine here:

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16009&highlight=

Controversial, topical, and not often talked about sort of stuff.

Is the purpose of higher education to prepare for a career, or to become an intellectually well rounded person?

Does violence in the media promote violence in real life?

Should prescriptions medication be promoted on TV?

Hi, I loved the above list, here is one that I am familiar with...
Homeschool or not. You can argue on both sides! If you need help let me know. I homeschooled both of my children k-12 and they are both in college.

Why some people want to have "Christian" nations, when the religion promotes the idea of personal, rather than national, salvation....

How "family values" came to be the cormerstone of some conservative sects, when the phrase and the concept are scarcely mentioned in the Bible...

Why some people want to remove temptation from public life through the elimination of "bad" drugs and businesses, when the soul, theoretically, can only be tested by resisting evil, which must exist in order to be resisted...

Thanks a bunch guys! This topic was a great success. It REALLY jumpstarted my brain and got me thinking, which led to me coming up with a few possible topics on my own. I still haven't fully decided on a topic yet, but I'm leaning towards doing one on speed limits and the capable speeds of cars. The question I would address would be something like "If speed limits in the United States do not exceed 75 mph, why should cars made for road use be capable of far exceeding 100 mph?"

I don't know enough to tackle this topic yet. I'm hoping you guys can help me out again. Here are a couple things I need info on.

- How can cars be designed without the capabilities of exceeding the speed limit while still being capable of sufficient acceleration for such things as merging and pulling out into traffic? And how can they be made like this without being easily modified for breaking the speed limit. (I know that controlling the speeds of cars with a governor wouldn't work great, because they are easily modified.)

- Of course if you eliminate cars capable of breaking the speed limit, you eliminate a huge source of revenue: the speeding ticket. Who exactly does this money go to by the way? And how "huge" of a source of revenue is this?

- Is there any other info that you think I should know about before tackling thins topic?

Homeschool was actually the topic of my first essay this semester! I was homeschooled, and it was the best thing in the world!

I don't know about the US. But speeding ticket revenue in Australia goes the state governments. But we constantly hear about how much the road toll costs us financially. So you reduce the number of speeding tickets, remembering that a speed limited car can still do 50mph in a 30 mph zone, but you also reduce the road toll (one would expect).

Haven't seen any suggestion about genetic engineering-good or bad. Genetically modified food?

That's a good meaty topic, Wilso, especially with the 3rd world arguments for cheap food; Mary Warnock who is one of our most revered ethicists is ambivalent about it, mostly thinking it's more immoral to let people die of starvation than keep the genetic stock pure - while saying that in the West, we have the luxury of not genetically modifying. Where I come from, normally law-abiding people have been out burning GM crops!

NEW DISCUSSION TOPIC BY THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOC. (NEA)
Here's a new discussion topic by the National Education Association (NEA). And, the URL for their web site. Maybe for another paper?

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The Dialogue Question:

Should four-year public colleges and universities accept students who need remediation in reading, writing, or math?

http://www.nea.org/he/advo-new/dialog.html

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