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Covers multiple topics including the hard sciences, medicine, engineering and business. Includes the New York Times from 1985 to the present as well as the London Times and Financial Times. Covers 1980 to present.
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Final Essay: Research Paper

Possible Topics

Business

● Cybersecurity

● Fast Fashion

● Sweatshops

● White collar crime

Crime & Law

● Animal rights

● Capital punishment

● Three Strikes Law

● Voting rights

Drugs & Drug Abuse

● Doping in sports

● Nicotine

● Fentanyl

● Drug testing

Education

● Charter Schools/Vouchers

● Book banning

● Prayer in schools

● Standardized tests

History

● Colonialism

● Alamo & its history

● Native American Boarding Schools

● Internment of Japanese Americans

● Controversial Monuments

Environmental

● Alternative fuel/hybrid vehicles

● Bee Population

● Greenhouse effect

● Pesticides

● Radioactive waste disposal

● Soil pollution

● Space Tourism

Political & Social Issues

● Censorship

● Children’s programming and/advertising

● Media bias

● Portrayal of women

● Gender pay gap

● Concussion in sports

● LGBTQ+ Issues

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