Acting/Theatre:
Actor motivation
Actor/actress salaries
Contemporary American Drama
Shakespeare
Animal Rights:
Zoos: cruel or educational?
Whaling industry is evil
AOL buying (merging with) Time/Warner
Art:
Dead cows as art
Body art (good/bad)
Bottle/can deposits raised to 10 cents
Chapstick is bad for your lips
Clowning
Education:
High textbook prices/low book buy-back rates
Sex education in schools
Campus diversity
High college tuition
Self-defense classes made mandatory in schools
Unequal athletic funding in colleges/universities
Lack of diverse student activities in colleges/universities
The assumption that college athletes "slide by"
Low teacher salaries
Public school uniforms
Evolutionary theory vs. creationism in the classroom
Racial discrimination on college campuses
Campus news
School sponsorship by Coca-Cola & distribution
Grade inflation does not help students
Resident Assistant compensation: is the room and board waiver worth it?
Mandatory year of prep. cchooling between high school and college (similar to Canada’s OAC program)
Ban drinking on all college campuses
Foreign language requirement for English students is a waste of time
Environment:
Ocean pollution
MBTE in water wells
Water contamination
Styrofoam is evil
Organic vs. chemical farming
Global warming is not occurring
Manure: harmful or helpful?
Auto emissions
Pollution in Maine rivers
Proper disposal of wastes and chemicals
Tropical deforestation
Gay Rights:
Homosexual couples having children
Homosexual marriage
Government/Law:
Flat vs. graduated tax
Big business dominating the government
Immigration
Mandatory 18-year-old military enlistment
Limitations on health care costs
Cap on winter gas prices
Car phone use illegal while driving
National health care
Socialized health care: society's responsibility?
Most efficient means of dispensing health care?
Funding to create jobs for the poor
Motive behind tobacco price hikes
Clinton scandals: never-ending
Politics
Mandatory helmet/seatbelt laws
Censorship
Hillary Clinton running for a Senate seat in NY
Cigarettes should be made illegal
School prayer
Confederate Flag in southern states
Second Amendment: does it apply to only a "regulated militia" or all citizens?
Elections:
Is low voter turnout the result of "big money" donations?
Can elections be bought?
Gun laws/gun control
Regulation of the Internet
Capitol/corporal punishment
Drinking age:
Louisiana’s is only 18
Legal drinking age
Freedom of Speech and the Internet
Embargo against Cuba still necessary?
Internet vs. copyright laws
Drunk driving punishment
PATRIOT Act
Grandparental visitation rights
Interracial/inter-religious marriages
I-95 north of Portland, Maine widened to three lanes
James Bond movies are predictable
Language:
English as a/the national language
Ebonics as a separate language
Media:
Portrayal of women
Influence on female body image
Cartoon sidekicks: best or most helpful?
TV: good or bad?
American Beauty: how this movie touched the University of Maine, Orono
Does the media encourage more violence by reporting on it?
Negative influence on America’s youth
Media is highly deceptive
Negative portrayal of men on TV
Medicine/ Health issues:
D.A.R.E. effectiveness
Diet fads:
Atkins
Partnership for a Drug Free America
Smoking:
Ban in bars as well as restaurants
Non-smoking restaurants
Spiritual healing
Vegetarianism
Abortion:
Partial-birth abortion
Doctor-assisted suicide (euthanasia)/punishment
Doctors (general practice) should not be allowed to prescribe psychiatric medications
Psychiatric medications must be tested before use on children
Microsoft is a monopoly
Muppets: their affect on the world of puppetry and animation
Open adoption
Overpopulation
Parental attention vs. TV and computers
Police harassment
Poverty
Santa Claus is a terrible lie
Science:
Animal experimentation/testing
Space (Mars) exploration
Human cloning
Genetically-altered food
Genetic cloning
Genetic manipulation
Gene therapy
Is human behavior genetically controlled?
Nature vs. nurture
Can human behavior evolve?
Sports:
Team mascots derogatory to certain cultures/just a name
Athletic supplement support/ban
High professional athlete salaries
Affect on the well being of the mind and body
Stereotyping musical forms
Technology ruins society
U.S. population growth
Victoria's Secret: the catalogue, the company, and the prospect of becoming a model
Violence:
Blaming high school shootings on television
Campus rape
In the media
On TV
Police brutality
Weather
Working mothers vs. stay-at-home mothers
Works of Sylvia Plath
Y2K crisis
Youth program funding