POSSIBLE TOPICS for Expository or Persuasive Speeches (bold = controversial, possibly offensive) Acupuncture Adoption Advertising Africa Aging Air Pollution Air Traffic Control Airlines Alcoholism Allergy Alternative Medicine American Flag American Indian Amnesia Animal Experimentation Anorexia Nervosa Architecture Artists Aspirin Asthma Astrology Astronomy Automobile; building one Automobile; history Automobile; safety equipment Awards, Academy, Tony, Emmy Babysitting Batteries Bees Bermuda Triangle Best Vacation Spot Bicycling Bird Migration Birth Defects Books Botany Brain Bridge Building Broadcasting Bull Fighting Caffeine Cancer Capital Punishment Kidnapping Lakes and Rivers Law Living Wills Lock Ness Monster Lung Disease Magic Charity Cheese Child Abuse China Chocolate Civil Rights Cloning Clothing Communism Computer Viruses Computers Consumer Protection Contamination Copyright Laws Cotton; history Counterfeiting and Forgery Country vs City Crib Death, SIDS Crime Protection Cults Dance Death Denmark Depression Diabetes Diet Diseases Divorce Dreams Dropouts Drug Abuse Drugs, legal but dangerous Drugs in Sports, Steroids Earthquakes Ecology Education Emergencies Endangered Species Energy Environmental Protection Agency Epilepsy Euthanasia Exercise; importance of Railroads Raisins Recycling Reincarnation and immortality Religion, the Pope Rock Music Censorship Fasting, history of FBI Fingerprinting Fishing Floods Football Foreign Relations Funerals Gambling Gender Generation Gap Genetic Engineering Glass Government Gravity; what / how works Great Lakes Guilt Gun Control Gymnastics Halloween; origin of Handicapped persons Hazardous Jobs Hazardous Toys Headaches Health Care Heart Disease; transplants Hockey Homelessness Hospitals Humor Hunger; world Hunting Hyperactive Children Hypnotism Icebergs Indians Inflation Insanity Defense Juvenile Delinquency Kangaroos Vanishing Forests; Amazon Violence in Schools Violence in Sports Violence in Television Vitamins Walking; the fitness craze Water Pollution Weapons Weather Welfare & Unemployment Mass Transit Materialism Memory Meningitis Mental health Mental illness Mental institution improvements Mental retardation / Cognitive Disabilities Mexican Americans, civil rights Military Minimum wage Miracles Money Multiple Sclerosis Musical Instruments Noise Pollution Norway Nuclear Energy Nutrition Oceanography Oil Spills Olympics Organized crime Out-of-body Experiences Ozone Depletion Parenting Patriotism Peanuts Pearl Harbor Pet Overpopulation Photography Pickles Poisoning Police Pollution Population problems Poverty Prison reform Protection of Crops w/out Insecticides Pulitzer prices, origin, definition Ratial discrimination Racing; auto,dog, horse Radio; history, influences of Runaways Safety School censorship Schools Secret Service Security, Home Sharks Shoes; how made Skin, diseases of, grafting Slavery Sleep Smoking Soap Operas Social Security Social Values Social Work Socialism Soft Drinks; how made Solar Energy Space Exploration Sports; overemphasis Stamps State lottery Stock Exchange, Market Sugar Suicide Superstition Supreme Court Sweden Switzerland Taj Mahal Tay Sachs Disease Teenage Gangs UFOs Telepathy Telephones Television Censorship Tobacco Toxic Waste Disposal Tracing Genealogy Transplants; human Trees United Nations White Collar Crime White Collar Jobs Wildlife Women’s Rights World Trade 9/11