Ideas for Papers & Speeches

Children
• Raising children in affluent America
• Child geniuses: how smart are they?
• Breast feeding vs. the bottle
• How to instill in children a respect for the natural world
• Shy children: causes, concerns, and corrections
• Disciplining children
• Pros & cons of marriage without children

Consumerism

• Frauds & deceptions in the used automobile market
  
• Would the consumer benefit from the breakup of large corporations?
  
• How electronic banking affects the consumer
  
• Financing abuses: common instances, current regulations, and techniques for avoiding misleading & dishonest practices

Contemporary Issues

• Should sex education be taught in school?
  
• What are human rights?
  
• Can democracy survive?
  
• Refute/defend: free enterprise & environmental issues are incompatible
  
• Substantiate or refute: America recovers from recessions by waging war
  
• Objections to legalized gambling
  
• The case for a stronger United Nations

Crime & Criminal Justice

• Police training standards
  
• Police weaponry
  
• Mental illness among law enforcement officers and national surveys
  
• Should prison be abolished?
  
• Women behind the badge
  
• Child molesters: detection, prevention, and punishment
  
• The correlation between education levels and crime

Health

• Preventive measures for common running injuries
  
• New ways to manage stress
  
• Problems of health care in rural areas
  
• Permanent effects of methamphetamines
  
• Exercise and pregnancy
  
• Prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States vs. other countries or Idaho
  
• How the United States controls epidemics

Family Life
• Changes in the American family since the 1950s
• Sex-role changes in the American family
• Complex problems single parents face
• Teenage suicide and families
• How children view divorce
• Why sibling rivalry develops and how to cure it
• Dealing with Alzheimer’s in the family

Essay Ideas

• Books that changed my life
  
• How to teach children manners
  
• How to flirt
  
• Advantages of honesty
  
• Why get married nowadays
  
• A little learning is a dangerous thing
  
• Absence makes the heart grow stronger
  
• Life’s most painful lesson(s)
  
• The very best way to make fool of yourself
  
• All’s fair in love and war
  
• Worst experience I ever had
  
• The ‘good old days’ weren’t so great
  
• Information overload

The Future

• Refute or substantiate: “By 2050 the world will consist of two cultures—the permanently rich and the permanently poor
  
• Potential energy sources
  
• What will be the effects of worldwide overpopulation on the environment?
  
• Can acts of international terrorism be forecast? How?
  
• United States’ funding of health care

Geography

• Current immigration issues and their possible solutions
  
• Birth defects and their demographic implications
  
• Impact of populations on tropical soils
  
• What are the geographic dimensions of poverty in the United States? Why?

Food & Drink

• A comparison of commercial and homemade baby food. Consider nutritive contents, convenience, additives, and appearance.
  
• The widespread mechanization of food production has affected food quality. Review some of those changes, both pro and con
  
• Cooking with solar energy
  
• Bioengineering and food: what’s ahead
  
• Are fast foods synonymous with junk food? Evaluate them from a nutritional point of view.

• These ideas come from 10,000 Ideas for Term Papers, Projects, Reports & Speeches. 4th Ed. REFDESK REF LB1047.3 L35 1995. Check Amazon.com for prices of this title in its several editions.