Freshman English Research Paper Topics
Select a topic from one of the following, although you may narrow the topic that you choose. Once you make your choice, please drop me a note stating a reason for the choice and your current view of the issue.
Should there be mandatory drug testing in the workplace?
- Should women be allowed full access to military combat specialties in the U.S. Armed Forces?
- Should assisted suicide be legalized?
- Should the use of animals in medical research be illegal?
- Should an individual’s right to privacy override the public’s right to know?
- Should “workfare” replace welfare?
- Should “legalized gambling” in the form or state and regional lotteries be discontinued?
- Should single sex classrooms be an option in the public educational system?
- Should strict quotas on immigration be eliminated by the U.S. government?
- Should affirmative action policies be eliminated?
- Should there be a legal limitation on the building of casinos owned by Native Americans?
- Should adopted children be allowed access to knowledge about their biological parents?
- Should minors be tried as adults?
Should “environmental activists,” such as the Earth Liberation Front, be considered terrorists?
- Should employers have access to genetic information of current and potential employees?
- Should stem cell research continue?
- Should the U.S. military exclude homosexuals?
- Should all school employees be fingerprinted?
- Should hate crimes be treated differently from other crimes?
- Should all students receive scholarships to any grade school, public or private?
- Should alternative medicine, such as the use of ephedra, be more closely regulated??
- Should pregnant women who take illegal drugs be penalized?
- Should public funding of election campaigns be increased?
- Should people over a certain age receive only limited medical insurance?
- Should nuclear electric generation be encouraged?
- Should the new higher educational standards be lowered for some students?
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