QHS Research Topics

Updated 1/10/2010   ~~~   supported by print material in the library

 

21^st Century Earth

Abortion

Abuse             

Battered women

            Child abuse

            Domestic or family violence

            Verbal abuse

Adoption

Affirmative action

Aging population

Alcohol / drunk driving

America’s prisons

Animal experimentation

Animal rights

Arms trade

Astrology

Atlantis

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Biodiversity

Plant or animal extinction

            Rainforests

            Global Warming

            Biotechnology

Biological & chemical weapons

Body Piercing & Tattoos

Bullying (see School)

Business ethics

Capital punishment

Censorship

Cheating (see also Teens and cheating)

Child labor/sweatshops (see Human rights)

Child welfare

CIA (see also espionage)

Civil liberties

Creation vs. evolution

Criminal justice

Criminal profiling

Culture wars

Date rape

Death and dying

            Euthanasia (assisted suicide)

            Life after death

            Near death experiences

            Physician-assisted suicide

            Suicide

Death penalty

Depression

Drunk Driving (see also alcohol)

Education in America

Elderly

Endangered species

 

Energy alternatives

Environment

Espionage & intelligence (see also CIA)

ESP

Faith healing

Family in America

Day care in America

Divorce, child custody

Foster Care

Gay marriage: legal or not

Single-parent families & latch key children

Family violence

Fast food

Feminism (see also social justice)

Free speech

Gambling

Gangs

Garbage & recycling

Genetic engineering

Germ warfare

Global resources

Global warming – see environment

Gun control

Hate crimes or Hate groups

History topics

            Breakup of the Soviet Union

            Cuban Missle Crisis

            Darfur

            Epidemics

            Jap./Am. Internment camps

            King Tut, curse of

            Middle East

            North & South Korea

Pearl Harbor

United Nations

Home schooling

Homeless

Human rights (women’s rights, child labor, land

     mines, factory standards for workers, etc.) (see

     Child labor)

Hunting

Identity theft

Illegal immigration

Immigration policy

Imports from China

Internet – see technology

Islam

Juvenile crime – see also teens

Learning disabilities

Legal system

Mafia

 

Marriage and Divorce

Mass media

Media violence

Military service

            Mandatory military service

            Military draft

Women in the military

Mononucleosis (mono)

National security

Native American rights

Natural disasters

            Hurricane Katrina

            Asian Tsunami of ‘04

New world order

Nuclear waste

Outsourcing

Paranormal phenomena

            Alien abductions

            Extraterrestrial life

            Ghosts

            Haunted houses

            King Arthur

            Loch Ness monster

            Poltergeists

            Psychics

            Stonehenge

            UFOs

            Unicorns

            Vampires

            Witches

Police brutality

Pollution

Pornography

Poverty

Race relations

Racism in America (see also social justice)

Rap music

Recycling (see also Garbage)

Religion

Christianity

Religious extremism

School

Bullying in school

Religion in school

School shootings, school violence       

Self-mutilation

Serial killers

            Charles Manson

            DC sniper shootings

            Green River killer

Zodiac Killer

Sexual harassment

Smoking

Smoking bans

Space exploration

Sports

            Benefits of sports

            Child athletes

            College sports

College athletics & steroids/HGH

            Drugs and sports

            MLBaseball & Steroids

            NFL & steroids / HGH

            ProWrestling & Steroids

            Sexual equality in sports

            Sports and athletes

            Sports in America

            Sports injuries

            Steroids in sports

Steroids

Student rights

            Student drug testing

Tattoos (see also body piercings)

Technology

Blogs

Computer hacking

Downloading music

Information revolution

Internet

Internet censorship

Internet safety

Online sex predators

Social networking (MySpace, Facebook,..)

Television (see also media violence)

Teens

            Bullying

Teen addiction

            Teen crime or juvenile crime

            Teen suicide

            Teenage drinking

            Teenage pregnancy / teen parenting

            Teens and cheating (copyright, music    

            piracy, etc.)

Terrorism, terrorist attacks

            9-11 (see books on espionage)

            Oklahoma City bombings

The Disabled

Third World

Toxic nightmare: ecocide

Trade

Vegetarianism

Video games injuries & fitness

Violence in America

War on drugs

Waste disposal

Weapons of mass destruction

Web (see Internet)

Welfare

*Wireless Society

Women (see also social justice)

            Battered women

Self-defense for women

            Violence against women

            Women in the military

            Working women

World hunger