Assignment for 2/11

Please bring to Monday's class a list of at least three topics you find compelling.  Your list will be used to help determine the topic you are assigned for your research paper.  (This is intended to express your general interests; few people will be assigned one of the exact topics listed.)  Don't worry about whether your topics are too broad or too specific; the research process will include a narrowing-down step to ensure that your topic is suitable for a short research paper.

Feel free to add to your list any topics not listed here, but your list should include a minimum of three of the topics below.

• Nutrition
• The food pyramid
• Prenatal development
• Formation of cancer cells
• Long-term effects of smoking
• Influence of childhood events (e.g. deaths, divorce) on adulthood
• Gas prices
• Career satisfaction
• Obesity
• Fast food
• Textbook prices
• Financial stability
• History of sports
• Impact of technology on society
• Embarrassment 
• Influence of family and/or culture on personality
• Psychology
• Reliability of meterologists
• Super Bowl blackout
• AIDS policy during the Reagan administration
• Ray Lewis
• Deer antler extract
• Gun Control
• School shootings
• Academic Stress
• Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Poaching
• Children's cognitive ability
• Chinese dynasties
• Hitler
• Steve Jobs
• Reasons for cheating
• Causes of violence
• Reasons for volunteering
• Energy dependence 
• Atheism
• Bullying
• Gay rights
• Sexism in the works of Ernest Hemingway
• Overuse of psychological medicine
• Class discrimination
• Felons and voting
• College sports
• ADHD
• Air pollution
• Factories and improving the environment
• Teaching/learning technologies
• Infidelity
• Organ donation
• Sesame Street
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Fitness after age 35
• Beaches
• Alfred Hitchcock
• The Godfather films
• Sleep apnea
• Sleep deprivation 
• Nurse practitioners
• Heroin
• Reality TV
• Mothers in college
• Infectious disease and nursing hazards
• Teen hormones
• Suicide
• Organic foods
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Coal power
• Internet and socialization
• Internet regulation
• The Velvet Underground
• Andy Warhol
• STD prevention
• Inguinal hernias
• Personality disorders and effects on family members
• Dolphins
• Mary Cassatt
• Taxes
• Stocks
• Plate tectonics 
• Volcanoes
• Stem cell research
• Cremation
• Hazing
• Organ donation
• Pro athletes after retirement
• Kids and emotional stress
• Video games and addiction
• Procrastination
• Robert Kennedy
• The films of Woody Allen
• Mozart's influence on hip hop