Persuasive Essay Topics for Mr. Kruger’s Class
Directions: Your assignment is to write a persuasive essay and
take a stand or support an issue. This is a debate on paper. State
your thesis sentence in the first paragraph. Use an attention
grabbing opening and a strong ending. I expect you to use the
Internet to find facts, examples and expert opinion. You may
choose your topic from the list below. Good Luck!!!!
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Abortion
Adoption
Advertising Ethics
AIDS reappraisal
Alternative medicine
America's prisons
"American dream"
Animal experimentation
Animal rights
Anti-Semitism
Assisted Suicide
Atheism
Battered women
Binge drinking
Bioethics
Biotechnology
Bilingual education
Bill rights
Black supremacy
Breakup of the Soviet Union
Breast cancer
Business Ethics
Capital Punishment
Censorship
Chauvinism
Child abuse
Child trade
Circumcision
Civil Liberties and Anti-Terrorism Measures
Cloning
Corporate Corruption
Corporate Responsibility
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Creationism
Cults
Death penalty
Discrimination in the workplace
Domestic violence
Dress Codes in School
Drug Legalization
Drug Testing
Eating disorders
Ebonics and Black English
Economics in America
Education in America
Elderly people
Embryo drawings
Endangered Species
English - official language
Environmental Ethics
Eugenics
Euthanasia
Evolution
Extremist groups
Family violence
Fascism
Female Genital Mutilation
Feminism
Free Speech
Free condoms in school
Freedom of the Press
Future of the Net
Gambling
Gay marriage
Gay Parents
Gay Rights
Gays in the Military
Genetic engineering
Genocide
Globalization
Global warming
Gun Control
Harry Potter Controversy
Hate Crimes
Health Care Reform
Health and fitness
Hijacking Aftermath
Holocaust Denial
Holocaust Reparations
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Home Schooling
Homelessness
Homeopathy
Homosexuality
Human rights
Illegal Immigration
Immigration
Insanity Defense
Internet censorship
Iraq war
Landmines
Legal Drinking Age
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Macintosh vs. IBM
Male/female role
Marijuana - Medicinal Use
McCarthyism
Media and Terrorism
Media Images of African-Americans
Media Images of Women
Media in Wartime
Medical Ethics
Medical Marijuana
Medical Malpractice
Mental Health Policy
Minimum Wage
Miranda Rule
Multiculturalism
NAFTA
Nuclear and Hazardous Waste
Nuclear Disarmament
Nudism in Florida
Overpopulation
Paranormal phenomena
Pharmaceutical Industry
Pedophilia
Physician-assisted suicide
Piercing and tattoos
Plastic surgery
Police brutality
Political Ethics
Politics in America
Pollution
Pornography Debate
Prescription Drug Reform
Prisons in America
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Privacy
Privacy and The Internet
Pro-Choice Movement
Pro-Life Movement
Purchasing foreign cars vs. American- made ones
Racism
Rainforests
Rape
Rape on campus
Right to Bear Arms (Second Amendment)
Schizophrenia
School uniform
School Violence
School Vouchers
Search and Seizure (Fourth Amendment)
Separation of Church and State
Sex Education
Sex before marriage
Sexism
Sexual harassment
Shakespeare Authorship Controversy
Smoking Laws
Social Security
Space exploration
Sports in America
Standardized Testing
Stem Cell Research
Steroids
Suicide
Surrogate Motherhood
Swearing in classrooms by teachers and students
Tax Reform
Teenage Pregnancy
Terrorism
Tibet
Tobacco Industry
UFOs
United nations
Vegetarianism
Video game controversy
Violence in the Media
Weapons of mass destruction
Whistleblowing
White supremacy
Women in the Military
Working Mothers
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Workplace Diversity
World religion
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