Controversial Essay Topics

Controversial Essay Topics

Controversial essay topics are often the subject of your research assignments. These

carefully selected topics will help you with your essay.



 Abortion  Macintosh vs. IBM

 Adoption  Male/female role

 Advertising Ethics  Marijuana - Medicinal Use

 AIDS reappraisal  McCarthyism

 Alternative medicine  Media and Terrorism

 America's prisons  Media Images of African-Americans

 "American dream"  Media Images of Women

 Animal experimentation  Media in Wartime

 Animal rights  Medical Ethics

 Anti-Semitism  Medical Marijuana

 Assisted Suicide  Medical Malpractice

 Atheism  Mental Health Policy

 Battered women  Minimum Wage

 Binge drinking  Miranda Rule

 Bioethics  Multiculturalism

 Biotechnology  NAFTA

 Bilingual education  Nuclear and Hazardous Waste

 Bill rights  Nuclear Disarmament

 Black supremacy  Nudism in Florida

 Breakup of the Soviet Union  Overpopulation

 Breast cancer  Paranormal phenomena

 Business Ethics  Pharmaceutical Industry

 Capital Punishment  Pedophilia

 Censorship  Physician-assisted suicide

 Chauvinism  Piercing and tattoos

 Child abuse  Plastic surgery

 Child trade  Police brutality

 Circumcision  Political Ethics

 Civil Liberties and Anti-Terrorism  Politics in America

Measures  Pollution

 Cloning  Pornography Debate

 Corporate Corruption  Prescription Drug Reform

 Corporate Responsibility  Prisons in America

 Creationism  Privacy

 Cults  Privacy and The Internet

 Death penalty  Pro-Choice Movement

 Discrimination in the workplace  Pro-Life Movement

 Domestic violence  Purchasing foreign cars vs. American-

 Dress Codes in School made ones

 Drug Legalization  Racism

 Drug Testing  Rainforests

 Eating disorders  Rape

 Ebonics and Black English  Rape on campus

 Economics in America  Right to Bear Arms (Second

 Education in America Amendment)

 Elderly people  Schizophrenia

 Embryo drawings  School uniform

 Endangered Species  School Violence

 English - official language  School Vouchers

 Environmental Ethics  Search and Seizure (Fourth

 Eugenics Amendment)

 Euthanasia  Separation of Church and State

 Evolution  Sex Education

 Extremist groups  Sex before marriage

 Family violence  Sexism

 Fascism  Sexual harassment

 Female Genital Mutilation  Shakespeare Authorship Controversy

 Feminism  Smoking Laws

 Free Speech  Social Security

 Free condoms in school  Space exploration

 Freedom of the Press  Sports in America

 Future of the Net  Standardized Testing

 Gambling  Stem Cell Research

 Gay marriage  Steroids

 Gay Parents  Suicide

 Gay Rights  Surrogate Motherhood

 Gays in the Military  Swearing in classrooms by teachers

 Genetic engineering and students

 Genocide  Tax Reform

 Globalization  Teenage Pregnancy

 Global warming  Terrorism

 Gun Control  Tibet

 Harry Potter Controversy  Tobacco Industry

 Hate Crimes  UFOs

 Health Care Reform  United nations

 Health and fitness  Vegetarianism

 Hijacking Aftermath  Video game controversy

 Holocaust Denial  Violence in the Media

 Holocaust Reparations  Weapons of mass destruction

 Home Schooling  Whistleblowing

 Homelessness  White supremacy

 Homeopathy  Women in the Military

 Homosexuality  Working Mothers

 Human rights  Workplace Diversity

 Illegal Immigration  World religion

 Immigration  Year Round School

 Insanity Defense

 Internet censorship  Zionism and racism

 Iraq war

 Landmines



 Legal Drinking Age