Speech Topics

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Environment and Agriculture

  • Regulating pesticides

  • Protecting the oceans

  • Global pollution

  • Food safety

  • Climate change

  • Genetically modified food

  • Global hunger

  • Raising food prices

  • U.S. trade policy

  • Tobacco industry

  • Animal rights

  • SUV debate

  • Global warming

  • Electric cars

  • Mass transit

  • Saving the rainforests

  • Natural disasters

  • Recycling

  • Zoos

  • Endangered species

Arts, Culture, and Sports

  • Future of TV

  • Humanities education

  • Arts funding

  • The book business

  • Liberal arts education

  • New directions in architecture

  • Dance

  • Movies as art

  • Archaeology

  • Teaching history

  • American Revolution

  • Paying college athletes

  • Violence in media

  • Gambling in America

  • Social media

  • Hip-hop

  • Cosmetic surgery

  • Celebrity culture

  • Consumer culture

  • Artists’ rights and copyright

  • Dining in America

  • Fashion

  • Holiday customs and origins

  • Trends in advertising

  • Fast food

  • Alcoholism

  • Legalization of marijuana

  • Anti-Americanism abroad

  • Voting

  • Political polls

  • Beauty business

  • Sunday selling

  • Hosting the Olympics

  • College football

  • Women and sports

  • Extreme sports

  • National parks under pressure

  • Sports and drugs

  • Gender equality in sports

  • Fantasy sports

  • Soccer in America

  • Hunting controversy

  • Native Americans

  • Free agency

  • TV sports

  • Physical fitness

  • Betting

  • Vacation in America

  • Tourism

  • Summer camps

  • Passport policy

Business and Economics

  • Advertising overload

  • Alcohol advertising

  • Direct marketing

  • Oil business

  • Airlines

  • Natural gas regulation

  • Wealth and inequality

  • Minimum wage

  • Internet shopping

  • Consumer debt

  • America in debt

  • Identity theft

  • Credit cards

  • E-cigarettes

  • Privacy

  • Future of the music industry

  • Copyright and the Internet

  • Dollar depreciation and devaluation

  • The economics of recycling

  • Hard times at the nation’s newspapers

  • Economic recovery

  • Gasoline prices

  • Unemployment

  • Small business

  • Lottery

  • Rebuilding after natural disaster

  • Business ethics

  • Chain stores

  • Internet shopping

Education

  • Bilingual and multicultural education

  • Immigration

  • Student debt

  • Getting into college

  • College recruiting

  • Public vs. private colleges

  • Bullying

  • Urban schools

  • Dropout rate

  • Affirmative action

  • Testing in schools

  • Homeschooling

  • Religion in schools

  • Learning disabilities

  • Youth suicide

  • Arts funding

  • Textbooks

  • Sex education

  • Cost of education

  • Early childhood education

  • Future of libraries

  • Video games

  • Children’s television

  • Technology in the classroom

  • Online education

  • Evolution vs. creationism

  • Gay rights

  • Homeless students

  • Academic tenure

  • Foreign language study

  • Drinking on campus

  • Community colleges

  • Vocational and adult education

Government and National Security

  • National debt

  • Health care

  • Taxes

  • Gun control

  • Political polarization in America

  • Campaign finance

  • Women and politics

  • U.S. foreign policy

  • Disarmament

  • Chemical weapons

  • Mexico’s drug war

  • Nuclear test ban

  • Government spending

  • American military abroad

  • Disaster preparedness

  • Military draft

  • Military bases

  • Prosecuting terrorists

  • Torture

  • Border security

  • Threat from al Qaeda

  • Remembering 9/11

  • Jihadists

  • Women in the military

Health

  • Abortion

  • Contraception

  • Cancer

  • Elderly health issues

  • HIV and AIDS

  • Hospitals

  • Mental health

  • Smoking

  • Substance abuse

  • Nursing homes

  • Obesity

  • Nutrition in America

Human Rights

  • Death penalty

  • Gay rights

  • Racial profiling

  • Assisted suicide

  • Press freedom

  • Voting rights

  • Communism today

  • Honor killings

  • Child soldiers

  • Genocide

  • Religious persecution

Media

  • Media bias

  • Google’s dominance

  • Computer hacking

  • Social networking

  • Cyberbullying

  • Blogs

  • The future of books

  • The digital divide

  • Media ownership

  • Movie ratings

  • Future of newspapers

Personal and Family Relations

  • International adoption

  • Foster care

  • Children and divorce

  • Gay marriage

  • The changing American family

  • Feminism

  • Teen pregnancy

  • Domestic violence

  • Homelessness

  • Child care

Religion

  • Prayer and healing

  • Future of the papacy

  • Religion and politics

  • Megachurches

  • Religious persecution

  • Eastern religions

  • Prayer in schools

  • Holy Wars

Social Movements

  • Youth volunteerism

  • Declining birthrates

  • Gourmet cooking

  • Communal living

  • Underage drinking 

  • History of social movements in the US

  • Types and fucntions of social movements

  • Civil Rights Movement

  • March on Washington

  • March for Life

  • Use of social media in social movements

  • Social movements in the age of the Internet

  • Protests

  • Occupy Wallstreet