QHS Research Topics
Updated 1/10/2010 ~~~ supported by print material in the library
21st Century Earth
Abortion
Abuse
Battered women
Child abuse
Domestic or family violence
Verbal abuse
Adoption
Affirmative action
Aging population
Alcohol / drunk driving
America’s prisons
Animal experimentation
Animal rights
Arms trade
Astrology
Atlantis
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Biodiversity
Plant or animal extinction
Rainforests
Global Warming
Biotechnology
Biological & chemical weapons
Body Piercing & Tattoos
Bullying (see School)
Business ethics
Capital punishment
Censorship
Cheating (see also Teens and cheating)
Child labor/sweatshops (see Human rights)
Child welfare
CIA (see also espionage)
Civil liberties
Creation vs. evolution
Criminal justice
Criminal profiling
Culture wars
Date rape
Death and dying
Euthanasia (assisted suicide)
Life after death
Near death experiences
Physician-assisted suicide
Suicide
Death penalty
Depression
Drunk Driving (see also alcohol)
Education in America
Elderly
Endangered species
Energy alternatives
Environment
Espionage & intelligence (see also CIA)
ESP
Faith healing
Family in America
Day care in America
Divorce, child custody
Foster Care
Gay marriage: legal or not
Single-parent families & latch key children
Family violence
Fast food
Feminism (see also social justice)
Free speech
Gambling
Gangs
Garbage & recycling
Genetic engineering
Germ warfare
Global resources
Global warming – see environment
Gun control
Hate crimes or Hate groups
History topics
Breakup of the Soviet Union
Cuban Missle Crisis
Darfur
Epidemics
Jap./Am. Internment camps
King Tut, curse of
Middle East
North & South Korea
Pearl Harbor
United Nations
Home schooling
Homeless
Human rights (women’s rights, child labor, land
mines, factory standards for workers, etc.) (see
Child labor)
Hunting
Identity theft
Illegal immigration
Immigration policy
Imports from China
Internet – see technology
Islam
Juvenile crime – see also teens
Learning disabilities
Legal system
Mafia
Marriage and Divorce
Mass media
Media violence
Military service
Mandatory military service
Military draft
Women in the military
Mononucleosis (mono)
National security
Native American rights
Natural disasters
Hurricane Katrina
Asian Tsunami of ‘04
New world order
Nuclear waste
Olympics
Outsourcing
Paranormal phenomena
Alien abductions
Extraterrestrial life
Ghosts
Haunted houses
King Arthur
Loch Ness monster
Poltergeists
Psychics
Stonehenge
UFOs
Unicorns
Vampires
Witches
Police brutality
Pollution
Pornography
Poverty
Race relations
Racism in America (see also social justice)
Rap music
Recycling (see also Garbage)
Religion
Christianity
Religious extremism
School
Bullying in school
Religion in school
School shootings, school violence
Self-mutilation
Serial killers
Charles Manson
DC sniper shootings
Green River killer
Zodiac Killer
Sexual harassment
Smoking
Smoking bans
Space exploration
Sports
Benefits of sports
Child athletes
College sports
College athletics & steroids/HGH
Drugs and sports
MLBaseball & Steroids
NFL & steroids / HGH
ProWrestling & Steroids
Sexual equality in sports
Sports and athletes
Sports in America
Sports injuries
Steroids in sports
Steroids
Student rights
Student drug testing
Tattoos (see also body piercings)
Technology
Blogs
Computer hacking
Downloading music
Information revolution
Internet
Internet censorship
Internet safety
Online sex predators
Social networking (MySpace, Facebook,..)
Television (see also media violence)
Teens
Bullying
Teen addiction
Teen crime or juvenile crime
Teen suicide
Teenage drinking
Teenage pregnancy / teen parenting
Teens and cheating (copyright, music
piracy, etc.)
Terrorism, terrorist attacks
9-11 (see books on espionage)
Oklahoma City bombings
The Disabled
Third World
Toxic nightmare: ecocide
Trade
Vegetarianism
Video games injuries & fitness
Violence in America
War on drugs
Waste disposal
Weapons of mass destruction
Web (see Internet)
Welfare
*Wireless Society
Health & Medicine
Alternative therapies
Biomedical ethics
Cancer
1. Breast cancer
2. Cancer treatments
3. Chemotherapy
4. Lung cancer
5. Risks/causes for cancer
6. Skin cancer (melanoma)
Cloning (specify human or animal)
Cosmetic surgery
Dieting (see eating disorders, anorexia, & bulimia
under Diseases &
Disorders)
Diseases & Disorders
1. Academic anxiety
2. AIDS / HIV
3. Allergies
4. Anorexia
5. Anxiety & panic attacks
6. Asthma
7. Attention deficit disorder
8. Autism
9. Avian flu
10. Bulimia
11. Cerebral palsy
12. Depression
13. Diabetes
14. Down Syndrome
15. Dyslexia
16. Eating Disorders (see also anorexia & bulimia)
17. Epilepsy
18. Hodgkin’s disease
19. Leukemia
20. Lyme disease
21. Migraines
22. Mononucleosis (mono)
23. Mood disorders
24. Multiple sclerosis
25. Phobias
26. Schizophrenia
27. Sexually transmitted diseases
Women (see also social justice)
Battered women
Self-defense for women
Violence against women
Women in the military
Working women
World hunger
28. Sleep disorders
29. Social anxiety
30. Tourette syndrome
Dreams
Embryonic/stem cell research
Food allergies
Health and fitness
1. Alternative medicine
2. Exercise
3. Health care
4. Health care in America
5. HMOs (health maintenance organization)
High-tech babies
1. Surrogate mothers (surrogacy)
2. Fertility & infertility
3. Artificial human reproduction
Human embryo experimentation
Infertility
Mental health
Mental illness
Obesity
Organ & tissue transplants
Public Health
Stem cell research (and embryonic research)
Steroids
Treating the mentally disabled
Drugs
1. Chemical dependency
2. Club drugs / ecstasy
3. College athletics & steroids / HGH
4. Drug abuse
5. Drug legalization
6. Drug testing
7. Drug trafficking
8. Drugs and sports
9. MLBaseball & Steroids
10. NFL & steroids / HGH
11. Medical marijuana
12. Prescription drugs
13. ProWrestling & Steroids