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Is life worth living if we know we are doing everything for nothing in the end
2. Lying is always bad
3. Boys are higher achievers than girls.
4. Do You Think The Death Penalty is Unjust?
5. Celebrities should not be role models.
6. Cellular phones should be allowed in schools.
7. Is the Internet an effective tool in building our children’s minds?
8. married couples should live separately from their parents?

9. Whether you can have both a happy family life and a successful career.
10. Whether you should live frugally and save for retirement or spend money now.

College
1. Benefits and limitations of teaching sociology in nurse education.
2. Is competition necessary in regards to the learning process?
3. Lowering the drinking age.
4. Should animal dissections be banned in schools?
5. What impact does social networking have on the classroom?
6. Whether being a college graduate is necessary for a successful career.
7. Whether homework is necessary.
8. Whether students should be guaranteed two years of free tuition to a community or
technical college.
9. Whether an associate degree or a bachelor’s degree is more beneficial.
10. Whether cell phones may be used during class.
11. Whether it’s a good idea to have laptops in classrooms.
12. Why all college campuses should or should not be co-ed.

Controversial
1. Animal testing for cosmetic products.
2. Are humans causing climate change?
3. Drug abuse and addiction as a choice versus a disease.
4. Is global warming an issue?
 5. Should abortion be legal?
6. Should euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide be legal?
7. Should bottled water be banned?
8. Whether drug prohibition minimizes drug use.
9. Whether sexual orientation matters for marriage rights.
10. Whether shall-issue laws are decreasing violent crime rates.
11. Whether the death penalty is an appropriate penalty for certain crimes.

Current
1. Are spectator sports overemphasized in America today?
2. Can cell phones be educational tools?
3. Gun rights.
4. Is Facebook better than Twitter?
5. How should we prevent future mass shootings?
6. Should marijuana be legal?
7. The importance of reducing fossil fuel emissions.

Funny
1. Ketchup or mustard.
2. Kobe or LeBron?
3. When should Black Friday sales start?
4. Why homework is harmful.
5. Why pizza is the best food on the planet.

Health
1. Benefits of vegetarianism for health.
2. Can the growing problem of obesity in the United States be reversed?
3. Cell phone radiation as a cause of cancer.
4. Should everyone be eating a gluten-free diet?
5. Should genetic engineering be utilized in food crops?
 6. Should sodas and sugary snacks be banned from schools?
7. Weightlifting vs. cardio: Which is better for weight loss?
8. Whether milk benefit outweighs the cons of consuming dairy products.
9. Flu shots are necessary for risk groups.

High School
1. Does class size matter?
2. Does separating boys and girls help students perform better in school?
3. How important is arts education?
4. If you can get a good job as a high school graduate.
5. Should computer games be used for classroom instruction?
6. Should homework be banned?
7. Should we rethink how long students spend in high school?
8. Why money should be spent to improve your school’s athletic complex.
9. Year-round schooling is better for students.
10. Should school prayer be prohibited?
11. Do school authorities have the right to search student’s lockers?

Lincoln-Douglas
1. Adolescents having the right to make autonomous medical choices.
2. Countries prohibiting the production of nuclear power.
3. National security concerns being valued above personal privacy.
4. Placing political conditions on humanitarian aid to foreign countries.
5. The United States intervening in the internal political processes of other countries to
attempt to stop human rights abuses.
6. The United States limiting qualified immunity for police officers.
7. The United States using private military firms abroad to pursue its military objectives.

Media
1. Are violent video games contributing to violence in the world today?
 2. Celebrities earning too much money.
3. Do Photoshopped images promote unrealistic expectations of beauty and body image?
4. Is posting videos online a right of free speech?
5. Is the Indo-Asian news service biased?
6. Is there too much pressure on girls to have perfect bodies?
7. Which current musicians will stand the test of time?
8. Do Hollywood movies have a bad influence on the world?

Middle School
1. All students being required to learn sewing.
2. Grade 8 students being done with the school year before the rest of the school.
3. Should students be required to wear a school uniform?
4. Should junk food be banned from schools?
5. Should the Internet be banned from schools?
6. Students being required to learn a foreign language in middle school.
7. Students should never be forced to repeat a year of school.
8. Students should not be graded on their handwriting.
9. Should homework assignments be limited to a maximum of three nights a week?

Politics/Legislation
1. Defending a decision of the Supreme Court, such as in the Roe vs. Wade case.
2. Does capital punishment reduce the rate of violent crime?
3. Minimum wage rates.
4. Should affirmative action be allowed?
5. Should Hillary Clinton have won the 2016 presidential election?
6. Could a President serve for more than two terms?
7. Should states have more control over the implementation of Federal government
decisions?
8. Should the United States build a physical barrier along the US-Mexico border to stop
illegal immigration?
 9. Should there be restrictions on free speech?
10. What is the biggest threat to national security?
11. Whether Donald Trump should be impeached.
12. Whether Jeb Bush should have made it further in the presidential election.
13. Whether the United States federal government should increase its funding for elementary
or secondary education in the United States.
14. Who really won the final presidential debate?
15. Who the best or worst candidates were for the 2016 presidential election.
16. Who the next Democratic candidate should be for the presidency.
17. Who the next Republican candidate should be for the presidency.

Public Forum
1. For-profit prisons in the United States should be banned.
2. Hofstra University is the best place to host the presidential debate.
3. Is Lester Holt the best person to choose the presidential debate topics?
4. The United States Federal Government ought to pay reparations to African Americans.
5. Whether Foreign Direct Investment multi-brand retail should be allowed in India.

Teens
1. Do curfews keep teens out of trouble?
2. How can bullying in schools be stopped?
3. How long should you have to drive with a permit before you get your license?
4. How old should you be before you’re allowed to go on your first date?
5. If posting students’ grades publicly is motivating or humiliating.
6. If social media is ruining the way teens communicate.
7. Should juveniles be tried and treated as adults?

Sport
1. The Olympic Games a waste of money?
2. Should the use of animals in sports and entertainment be banned?
 3. If football is so dangerous to players, should we be watching it?
4. Should teens play sports in high school?

Misc
1. Should skateboards and any look-a-like large roller-skate wheel transportation devices be
prohibited on sidewalks?
2. Should 16 year old people be allowed to get a tattoo?
3. Should there be a curfew for people under 18 years to reduce crime?
4. Do adopted children have the right to know who their biological parents are?
5. Should factory farming of chickens be banned?
6. People in their 50s are too old to adopt children.
7. Trial by jury is not objective.
8. The Freedom of Speech Amendment must be applied to internet communication.