I think that the topics that I may write on would be feminism/gender equality, sex education in schools, or the effects of online social networks. (while the last one may seem a strange grouping, I also think it would be interesting)
The first topic of feminism/gender equality I know a lot about already. I think this could be hard in the one respect because I may not have sources for every opinion I'd like to put in, but I will have well-formed thoughts on the subject. The three things I would probably include in my essay would be how women are treated as sexual objects by way of media representation, how being treated as objects leads to bad relationships and inequality, and how this needs to be changed. I don't know if that's three points or if I should instead include how this needs to be changed in each point? If so, then my third point would instead be possibly splitting up the bad relationships and inequality (and relate inequality to inequality in the workplace). My reasons for holding this opinion are because women are equal to men and the fact that they're oversexualized leads to discrimination and inequality. and that's not okay.
The next topic would be how sex education in schools is failing its students. I don't know as much about this topic, but I still know quite a bit. I hold this belief because I know from experience in even Orion's "sex ed" classes that we learn almost nothing about safe sex or protection for anyone other than m/f couples. This in turn leads to saying that sex is bad and also scary and you know nothing about your body. Which isn't so cool when you're a teenager. I would talk about how exactly we need to change our current standards in each paragraph. I would include how we needed to talk about safe sex for everyone, sexual orientation, and also teach students about their bodies.
My last topic could be the effects of social networking. I'm not sure how easy it would be to find sources for this, so that's a little bit of a problem. I hold the belief that social networking isn't bad for us, while there may be some bad things involved with it, it isn't all bad. I would include points about how it helps reduce culture shock by educating because these things span worldwide, it builds friendships, and it improves your technology skills by html coding for future jobs. This one would be really neat to write about, but again, I'm not sure how much I could come up with for resources since it is a fairly new issue.
If you focus on gender equality, I would narrow it down to one topic with regards to it. It might be too grand of a topic to handle for this essay.
ReplyDeleteThe second topic is interesting. I'd do some research about different methods used in the teaching of this topic. What has worked in schools? What has not? What evidence shows that they have or not (teen pregnancy rates?)? Once you find what does and does not work, you can focus on your own opinions on what should be done.
Given that social media is such a new thing (relatively), it would be harder to find a lot of hard data. That being said, I know a lot has still been written on the topic.
If I had to choose, I'd go with topic #2, unless you have a good idea for #1 or a specific thing about #3.
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