TOPICS: CAUSES & EFFECTS
· 9/11 (or any national tragedy)· Abuse
o (physical, mental, spousal, child)
· Addiction
o specific drug, alcohol
o food, porn, gambling…
· Adult Illiteracy
· Adult suicide
· Affirmative action
· AIDS
· Alopecia
· Alzheimer’s disease
· Apartheid (or End of Apartheid)
· Arthritis
· Asperger’s
· Autism, Spectrum Disorder
· Bad press
· Cancer (specific-Throat)
· Cell Phones
· Cheating (relationships, school)
· Child sex abuse
· Childhood obesity
· Claustrophobia
· College
o going to, flunking out
o athlete, education, stress
· Concussions (specific sport)
· “Cramming” for Exams
· Cyber Bullying
· Decline in DVD sales
· Deforestation
· Diabetes (childhood, type)
· Diets
· Discrimination
o religious, sexual, racial, age…
· Disease
o Fibromyalgia
o Depression
o Cancer, AIDS
· Divorce (rising divorce rate)
· Domestic violence
· Down syndrome
· Dropping Out
· Eating Disorder
o (specific eating disorder)
o Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa
· Economic Crash (1929, 1987, 2008)
· El Nino
· Fad (“craze” or hysteria)
· Fall Egyptian Empire / · Fast Food (popularity)
· Flunking out
· Gambling addiction
· Gangs
· Gas Prices (to rise, to be lowered)
· Genetically modified food
· Global Warming
· Goods grades
· Government program or reform
· Gun Control
· Having Pets
· Health Care Reform
· Heart defects
· High aggression levels
· Historical Movement
o Capitalism, Communism, Info. Age
· Hospice
· Illegal Music Downloading
· Injury (sports-specific)
o ACL, Rotator cuff
o NFL & concussions
· Insomnia
· Low Self-Esteem
· Lower Legal Drinking Age
· Lung cancer
· Lupus
· Medical needs children
· Migraines
· Natural disaster
o (Agnes, Katrina, Gulf Oil)
· Negligence
· Obesity (childhood, e.g.)
· Online Courses
· Outsourcing, Global Economy, Globalism
· Over-Eating
· Peace (“Grant & Lee” article)
· PEDs
· Peer Pressure
· Phobia (any irrational fear)
· Plagiarism
· Pollution (noise, air, …)
· Poor Time Management
· Pop music on teens
· Poverty
· Procrastination
· PTSD
· Rape / · Religion
o conversion to specific religion
o late in life conversion
· Revolution
· American, French, Sexual, other
· Riots (in general, specific)
· Road Rage
· Running Away
· School Shootings (Columbine, Virginia Tech)
· School stress
· Second-Hand Smoke
· Smoking
· Social phobia
· Social programs (Head Start, CHIPs)
· Sports & teens
· STDs
· Steroid abuse/sports
· Suicide
· Tattoos
· Technology Boom (1990s)
· TEEN
o Alcohol abuse
o Alcohol/heroin/cocaine addiction
o Bullying
o Depression
o Bi-polar
o Driving accidents
o Marriage
o Pregnancy
o Reckless driving
o Smoking
o Suicide
· Terrorism
· Texting, Texting while driving
· Underage Drinking
· Veganism
· War (in general, specific war)
o WWI, WWII, Iraq
Spring 2014
· Drug addiction
· Bullying
· Dropping out of school
· Flood
· Alcohol addiction
· School shootings
· Child abuse
· Beauty pageants
· Anorexia nervosa
· Suicide
· Depression
· Grandparents parents – unconventional families
· Heroin addiction
· Music education cuts
· Obesity
· Poverty
· Serial killer
· Spree shootings
· Youth sports
· Steroids
· Energy drinks
· Road rage
· Cell phones
· Teen, adult smoking
· General anxiety disorder
· Alzheimer’s disease
· Cyber bullying
· Bulimia
· Obesity, childhood
· Student-athlete stress
· Divorce
· Adult suicide
· Child beauty pageants
· Teen suicide
· Over-Exercise
· Diets
· Gangs
· Teen adoption
· Illegally downloading music
· Tech & childhood
· Down Syndrome
· Women smoking
· Bullying
· Cheating in relationships
· Heroin addiction
· Single-motherhood
· Borderline Personality Disorder
· General Anxiety Disorder
· Female weight training
· Birth control
· Tattoos
· Insecurity
· Childhood Neglect
· Emotional abuse
· Fast food popularity
· Lung cancer
· Moving, transfer
· FB, Social Media
· Child beauty pageants
· Poverty
· Bulimia
· Migraines
· Adolescent self-injuring
· Legalizing marijuana federally
· Video game addiction
· Teen suicide
· Stress in college students
· Divorce
· 9/11
· Lupus
· Steroids in sports
· PEDs
· Adult suicide
· Gambling addiction
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Spring 2015
· ACL
· Arthritis (rh)
· fall Egyptian empire
· alopecia
· bullying
· alcohol addiction
· FF
· Steroids in sports
· Cell phones
· NFL concussions
· Non-ell. Seizures
· Procrastination
· PEDs
· Divorce
· Cysts
· Hyperactive thyroid
· Heart defects
· Shark attacks
· Autism
· Heroin addiction
· Civil War
· Gall Bladder Disease
· Poverty
· Welfare/Government Assistance
· School shootings
· Mass shootings
· Media
· Body image
· Advertising & women
· Adult illiteracy
· Teen depression
· Procrastination/college
· Conspiracy theories (specific event’s)
· Scapegoating, Magical Thinking
· Cyber bullying
· Alzheimer’s disease
· Pain killer addiction
· Type I diabetes
· Mental abuse
· In-patients in ER
· Prenatal genetic testing
· Running away
· reckless driving teens
· WW II
· Steroids in BB
· Winning in sports
· W2F, $ ball
· Stressors in sports
· Bad coaches, head injuries
· ACL, Tommy John, rotator cuff
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