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Some Persuasive Topics suggested by Faculty

  • Adoption laws
  • Affirmative action
  • Age discrimination
  • Aids
  • Alternative energy sources (any kind)
  • Amnesty International
  • Animal Rights
  • Overuse of antibiotics
  • Bilingual education
  • The dream act
  • Studying abroad
  • Reducing bottled water containers
  • Campaign finance reform
  • Campus safety
  • Censorship on the internet
  • Use of Facebook
  • Bullying
  • Reducing child abuse
  • Global warming
  • Cloning
  • Stem cell research
  • The rain forrest
  • Organic foods
  • Affects of drinking milk
  • Affects of drinking soda
  • Obesity
  • Exercise
  • Death Penalty
  • Hunting
  • Reducing depression
  • Reducing violence against women
  • Blood diamonds
  • Reducing divorce
  • Puppy Mills
  • Drug laws
  • Drunk driving
  • Elderly drivers
  • Electoral college
  • Electric cars
  • Endangered species
  • English-only laws
  • Eugenics
  • Euthanasia
  • Living Wills
  • Right to die
  • Evolution
  • Exercise
  • Factory Farming
  • Fast Food
  • Financial planning
  • Fluoride in Water
  • Food safety
  • Foster Care
  • Gay Rights
  • Funding for the arts
  • Benefits of garlic
  • Gas Prices
  • Genetic engineering
  • School grading systems
  • Greenpeace
  • Gun control laws
  • Habitat for Humanity Volunteering
  • Volunteering in general
  • Greyhounds
  • Pit Bulls
  • Wal-mart
  • Holistic medicine
  • Home schooling
  • Homelessness
  • Humane society
  • Hunger
  • Identity theft
  • Illiteracy
  • Immigration
  • Inoculations
  • Ivory trade
  • Voter fraud
  • Head start
  • Land mines
  • Laughter
  • Liquor laws
  • Magnet schools
  • Using carpooling
  • Meditation
  • Minimum wage
  • Motorcycle helmets
  • National health care
  • No smoking laws
  • Food labeling
  • Nutrition
  • Offshore drilling
  • Olive oil
  • Organ donation
  • Ozone depletion
  • Peace corps
  • Personal fiance
  • Plastic surgery
  • Children's pageants
  • Prescription drug overuse
  • Prisons
  • Privacy laws
  • Prostitution
  • Racial profiling
  • Recycling
  • Road rage
  • Seatbelt laws
  • Sexual harassment
  • Sleep deprivation
  • Space exploration
  • Speed limits
  • Standardized testing
  • Student loans
  • Sugar
  • Sweatshops
  • Tenants' rights
  • Term limits
  • Tobacco subsidies
  • High tuition
  • Vegetarianism
  • Water safety
  • Women's rights

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