DebateTopics

=Debate Topic List =

**Find out ONE controversial topic. Write down the persuasive speech topic (statement, declarative sentence.) List 2 arguments for the pros side. List 2 arguments for the cons side. Post your topic with arguments on this page.**

**Please follow the format of the formula**:

**Pros: ** 1) _ 2) _ **Cons: ** 1) __2) ___ || **Pros: ** 1) For Education, we can teach children to cherish animals. 2) Serving as a way to protect animals like some rare species. **Cons: ** 1)It deprives the freedom of animals,and they cannot go to the place where they want to go. 2) Most of animals in the zoo are not rare species,so the function to protect animals is questionable. __ || **Pros: ** 1) Kids nowadays are sexual precocity, it's better to know sex early. 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 19px;">Reducing the rate of preganancy, sex behavior and sex disease among underage people. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Cons: ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; padding: 0px; text-indent: -18pt;">1) It implys that premarital sex is not amoral and encouraging sex. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; padding: 0px; text-indent: -18pt;">2) Sex education shold be family's business. It is the interference for people that government put the power into traditional value. || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Pros: ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; padding: 0px; text-indent: -18pt;">1) Two heads are better than one. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; padding: 0px; text-indent: -18pt;">2) Cooperation will be more efficient because of segmentation. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Cons: ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; padding: 0px; text-indent: -18pt;">1) Competition is the energy of progress. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; padding: 0px; text-indent: -18pt;">2) Competition will keep quality and be effective. || Pros: (1) In some situation, those dogs may attack students at random. (2) Stray dogs make the environment of college dirty and unfriendly. Cons: (1) If they are taken out of school, they may become vulnerable to outside environment. (2) Stray dogs make our campus more diversified. || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Pros: ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; padding: 0px; text-indent: -18pt;">1) Some science course is much harder to pass than social science course. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; padding: 0px; text-indent: -18pt;">2) It gives students chance to remorse. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Cons: ** 1)The quality of students is becoming hard to control. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; padding: 0px; text-indent: -18pt;">2) It decreases the entering chances of transfer students, who are usually more serious than the original students. || Pros: (1) This system is unfair for students in the low socio-economic status. (2) Senior students are too young to know what major is the most suitable to themselves. Cons: (1) It provides another option for some students with speical talents. (2) All universities can select prospective students according to their demands ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Name ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Topic ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Example || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Topic: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> _
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Peter || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Topic: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> We should keep the Zoo existing.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Will || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Topic: ** We should teach kids about sex education in the elementary school's course.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Nelson || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Topic: ** Cooperation is better than competition.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Jason || Topic: We should not keep stray dogs on campus
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Roy || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Topic: ** The school norm of one-half-drop-out should be released.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Richard || Topic: We should not abolish the college admissions for senior high school students.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Vera ||  ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Nevin || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** Topic: ** We should move out from our parents house when we pass 18.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">2) Children might not have that much privacy at parents house.
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Ricky || ====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** Topic: ** Be a home chef rather than an outside or to-go digger ====

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">2) Time-is-money dilemma - long duration for a meal.
|| **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Pros: ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">1) Studying abroad provides a optimal way to improve language skills. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">2) We can have more chances to interact with foreigners. It's really important in that we live in a global village nowadays. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Cons: ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">1) It will become a burden to afford all the expenses. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">2) People might go through a hard time to deal with the culture shock. || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Pros: ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; padding: 0px; text-indent: -18pt;">1) Corporal punishment may hurt children's heart and dignity, make them be afraid to adults or going to school. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; padding: 0px; text-indent: -18pt;">2) It may have bad influence on children's future moral integrity. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Cons: ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; padding: 0px; text-indent: -18pt;">1)When children make mistakes, we should let them know and remember it's wrong and cannot do it again, and corporal punishment is the best way. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; padding: 0px; text-indent: -18pt;">2)If we spare the rod, we spoil the child, and that's a damage to children. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Stephanie || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Topic: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> We should go abroad for further study.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Claire || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Topic: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> We should forbid corporal punishment in school
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Terry ||  ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Islia ||  ||