Need your help: any ideas for below transfer level comp class research topics?

[yurbud]

I've got a bunch that I've used for years, but I like to freshen it up and add and subtract from time to time. Here's the ones I'm keeping:

• Pick an issue that affects your life and look at what Congress and the President have done or will do and what it will do for or to you
• Terrorism (why it happens, what will help reduce it)
• Terrorism (what are your chances of being a victim compared to other crimes or causes of death?)
• Energy (how much oil left, what are our alternatives?)
• How much does oil cost us per gallon BESIDES what we pay at the pump?
• Energy internet
• How could VC make it’s own energy, how much would it cost and how long to recover investment?
• Is homosexuality biologically caused?
• Does daycare hurt or help kids more?
• Privatizing the military (how much does it cost and how well does it work?)
• Impeachment: Bush vs. Clinton (or Nixon or Andrew Johnson—or Obama for that matter)
• Media consolidation and the effect on the news you get
• Press freedom. Compare a foreign press interview with any public official, or watch the BBC, and figure out why our news media is such an embarrassment.
• Media bias: Fox vs. broadcast network vs. BBC or Al Jazeera
• Health insurance: what do other countries do, how much does it cost, and what are the results compared to our current system?
• The future of reproduction: designer babies and artificial wombs
• How do other countries balance what students and their families vs. government pay for college?
• Astroturf and science for hire—how often do they sneak into the debate unnoticed?
• What should and do we get for natural resources taken from American land?
• Prison rape—how big a problem and how to prevent it
• Was 9/11 preventable? What warnings did we have or policy weaknesses?
• Who helped the 9/11 hijackers besides Al Qaeda? What should we do as a result?
• How much has the Iraq War cost us and how does that compare to what we could have spent the money on?
• Corporate crime: what can be done? What has been done in other countries?
• Nuclear threat in 21st century (should we be scared of other countries with nukes? How many do we have? Who has used them?)
• Dirty bombs, depleted uranium, other radiological weapons
• What is the real current threat from biological weapons? Who would use them against us and what would they gain by doing so?
• How far are we from creating something like the Matrix with brain interface technology?
• Cointelpro/false flag/agent provocateurs, moral and political implications
• What does the rest of the world or the Arab World in particular think of the United States? What can or should we do to influence their opinion?
• What will happen if we attack Iran?
• Should we have a draft?
• Environmental hormones and human evolution
• Surveillance technology versus privacy rights
• Tracking your kids


What would you add?