Senior+Paper+topics+2007-2008

List of 2007-8 topics

 * Senior paper topics 2007/08 **
 * Running is the best way to lose weight (causal—evaluation)
 * Thomas Edison was a more successful inventor than Alexander Graham Bell because Edison was a better businessman (causal—single difference)
 * Spanking does not qualify as child abuse (definitional)
 * X (?) is an example of hip hop, though you might not think so (definitional)
 * Phrenology does not explain the relationship between facial appearance and character (causal—elimination)
 * Shooting the fight scene digitally (rather than in analog) is essential for the type of movie I’m creating (causal—elimination)
 * The personality one develops while using Prozac is not a different self (causal/definitional)
 * Atheists should be classified as a group worthy of special legal protections (causal)
 * Despite the fact that acupuncture and vaccinations share a similar history, the theoretical basis for acupuncture will prevent Western doctors from accepting it (causal)
 * Gladwell’s theory in //Blink// is a scientific theory (definitional)
 * Students with Aspergers would do better in mainstream classes than in isolated classes (definitional)
 * Graphology is a scientific theory (definitional)
 * Buddhism (Dharma, in particular) can solve the problems faced by many teenagers (definitional)
 * [Uncertain argument about how the US should deal with the controversy over the 2008 Olympic games in China]
 * Gangs are the main source of violence in federal prisons (causal—elimination)
 * The 2000 Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore was reached inappropriately (definitional)
 * The album, //Oh Brother, Where Art Though//, was so successful because it was a variation on what was already familiar (causal)
 * John Lennon should be consider a significant political leader (definitional)
 * The main cause of the US difficulties in Iraq stems from the decision to dissolve the Iraqi Army (causal)
 * My grandmother’s recent dream is best described as a “significant dream” (to use Jung’s term) and therefore should be taken as an indication of her true feelings (definitional)
 * The morality that mountain climbers should follow is different than that which most of us follow (definitional)
 * [Something about paranoia as mental illness v paranoia as non-mental illness]
 * Cryptography has been the key to the development of the Internet (causal)
 * The Avian flu resembles the Spanish Flu of 1918 and thus we should devote more money to research and preparedness (resemblance—proposal)
 * The situation in Darfur resembles the situation in Germany in the 1940s and, for this reason, the US should do the following… (resemblance, proposal)
 * The oppression of women in Afghanistan is a result of decisions made by political leaders and not because of what is written in the Koran. (Causal—elimination)
 * Graphology provides an efficient and effective way to positively alter personality (definitional; causal)
 * The theory of birth order is not scientific (definitional)
 * Major League Baseball should use an asterisk to designate the records of those players who were found to have used steroids (causal)