Name: ___________________
COMM 101 Potential
Speech Topics
Rank your top five
choices in the blank provided. For each topic you
select below, write on the
back a one sentence description of the Specific
Issue you want to speak
about.
_______ 1. Fighting Terrorism
( PATRIOT Act, NSA Spying, Homeland Security effectiveness, civil rights
issues, TSA ) [ circle one or write out another]
____________________________________
_______ 2. Responses to
"Inappropriate" Media (parental
controls, ratings, violence inciting movies, video games/ratings, FCC
decency rules, minors and internet explicit sex sites, etc.)
_______ 3. Gay Rights (Religious
Freedom Protection Acts, Hate crimes
laws, etc.)
_______ 4. Drug law reform (e.g. medical marijuana, mandatory sentencing, decriminalization, legalization, treatment programs) List a specific issue/drug _____________________________
_______ 5. Reproductive
Technology or Reproductive Ethics List a specific Issue _________________________
_______ 6. The 2nd Amendment
("Right to Bear Arms" - Gun Control)
_______ 7. Assisted Suicide
_______ 8.
Election Reforms (financing reforms, balloting systems, campaign advertising,
registration procedures, voter ID laws, gerrymandering, electoral college,
etc.) [circle one or write out another]
_______ 9. Educational Reforms
(Funding Reform, Teacher Evaluation, CORE Curriculum, School Choice / Charter
Schools, etc._ List specific issue ___________________
_______ 10. Religion in Public Life
(separation of church and state, Is there too much / too little religious
_______ 11. Responses to Climate Change. List a specific issue __________________________
_______ 12. Other Environmental
Issues. List a specific issue __________________________
_______ 13. Trial / Jury Reform ( TV
coverage of trials, jury selection/bias issues, sentencing discrimination,
etc.)
_______ 14. Medical Care (ACA, costs,
ethics, reforms. managed care problems), [ circle one or write
out another]
_______ 15. Drug and/or Tobacco -
abuse, prevention, and regulation, e-cigarette regulation, [ circle
your choice ]
_______ 16. Individual Privacy in the
digital age (children, criminal backgrounds, sexting, identity theft)
_______ 17. Intercollegiate Athletics
- Reforms. List a specific issue ______________________________
_______ 18. Professional Sports -
Reforms. List a specific issue _________________________________
_______ 19. American foreign policy in relation to ?? ____________________________ List a specific topic
_______ 20. Crime and Punishment
(juvenile justice, death penalty
reform, discriminatory sentencing, eye witness testimony, DNA evidence,
over-incarceration, etc.) ), [circle one or write out
another]
_______ 21. Controlling Violence ____________________________ List a specific topic
_______ 22. Jobs and Trade
____________________________ List a specific topic
_______
23. Other?? List a
specific topic ____________________________