Need to find a good essay topic :(

etalns

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Need to show my essay writing skills, need a juicy topic to write about.

Anyone know something that would be good?

I'm considering doing either "Life in 2050," or "The origin of the universe."
 

wfbberzerker

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Originally posted by: Qosis
Need to show my essay writing skills, need a juicy topic to write about.

Anyone know something that would be good?

I'm considering doing either "Life in 2050," or "The origin of the universe."

*snore*
 

etalns

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Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
Originally posted by: Qosis
Need to show my essay writing skills, need a juicy topic to write about.

Anyone know something that would be good?

I'm considering doing either "Life in 2050," or "The origin of the universe."

*snore*

Agreed, any better ideas?
 

VBboy

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How about:

"Computer Viruses"
"Life in the AOL lane"
"My first iMac"
"War in Iraq"
"Privacy online"

(some of these are serious)
 

chiwawa626

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Do i smell a scifi geek? :D

Hmm...could always do a controvercial topic like guns, the war, abortion, or bush as el presidente.
 

Zim Hosein

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How about how technology has changed the way countries fight war Qosis? It's a current topic that you can find a lot of info on and also look at the future of warfare. :)
 

chocobaR

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Dude, forget the essay and write some cool science fiction story with robots and stuff like that. :)
 

zippy

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What class is this for? Is it an assignment for English that just says to write an essay about anything you want?
 

etalns

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lol, it can't be a story.

I like the idea of gun, war, abortion...Keep those styles incoming ;)
 

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Originally posted by: Qosis
Need to show my essay writing skills, need a juicy topic to write about. Anyone know something that would be good? I'm considering doing either "Life in 2050," or "The origin of the universe."

Life in 2050 would be easier because you don't have to add any facts
 

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Write about the parallels/comparison that we as a nation seem to be drawing with old Teddy Roosevelt's Isolationist strategy. It's interesting to think about at least. How we used (think wwI, the sinking of the Lusitania got us in the war) to apply the Monroe Doctrine....and say, you do your thing and we'll do ours, to learning that might not be the case, and how we developed the failed League of Nations (W.Wilson). Then going into WWII, we were in effect isolationists again until Pearl Harbor. We followed that with 50 years of we'll go wherever there's a democracy in trouble---I don't remember what doctriine that was.....but it's main goal ended up being to prevent the spread of communism and authoritarian goverments.

Now, here we are 50 years later, and although there's no argument that we're not isolationists anymore----it's almost as if we act like we are. The impetus isn't any longer on the world to make international decisions, it's on us to make our own international decisions based on our own National Security, thus making our policy seeming to be that of isolationists.

A great over-simplification mind you, but me and my friend (a history major) were talking about this just today.
 

ElFenix

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Originally posted by: calpha
Write about the parallels/comparison that we as a nation seem to be drawing with old Teddy Roosevelt's Isolationist strategy. It's interesting to think about at least. How we used (think wwI, the sinking of the Lusitania got us in the war) to apply the Monroe Doctrine....and say, you do your thing and we'll do ours, to learning that might not be the case, and how we developed the failed League of Nations (W.Wilson). Then going into WWII, we were in effect isolationists again until Pearl Harbor. We followed that with 50 years of we'll go wherever there's a democracy in trouble---I don't remember what doctriine that was.....but it's main goal ended up being to prevent the spread of communism and authoritarian goverments.

Now, here we are 50 years later, and although there's no argument that we're not isolationists anymore----it's almost as if we act like we are. The impetus isn't any longer on the world to make international decisions, it's on us to make our own international decisions based on our own National Security, thus making our policy seeming to be that of isolationists.

A great over-simplification mind you, but me and my friend (a history major) were talking about this just today.

roosevelt isolationist? he woulda had us in WWI long before that pussy wilson did.
 

etalns

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Originally posted by: calpha
Write about the parallels/comparison that we as a nation seem to be drawing with old Teddy Roosevelt's Isolationist strategy. It's interesting to think about at least. How we used (think wwI, the sinking of the Lusitania got us in the war) to apply the Monroe Doctrine....and say, you do your thing and we'll do ours, to learning that might not be the case, and how we developed the failed League of Nations (W.Wilson). Then going into WWII, we were in effect isolationists again until Pearl Harbor. We followed that with 50 years of we'll go wherever there's a democracy in trouble---I don't remember what doctriine that was.....but it's main goal ended up being to prevent the spread of communism and authoritarian goverments.

Now, here we are 50 years later, and although there's no argument that we're not isolationists anymore----it's almost as if we act like we are. The impetus isn't any longer on the world to make international decisions, it's on us to make our own international decisions based on our own National Security, thus making our policy seeming to be that of isolationists.

A great over-simplification mind you, but me and my friend (a history major) were talking about this just today.

I actually really like this topic, but I don't know where to start looking for information :(. Gonna see if I can pull up anything on google.
 

joohang

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Originally posted by: Qosis
Originally posted by: calpha
Write about the parallels/comparison that we as a nation seem to be drawing with old Teddy Roosevelt's Isolationist strategy. It's interesting to think about at least. How we used (think wwI, the sinking of the Lusitania got us in the war) to apply the Monroe Doctrine....and say, you do your thing and we'll do ours, to learning that might not be the case, and how we developed the failed League of Nations (W.Wilson). Then going into WWII, we were in effect isolationists again until Pearl Harbor. We followed that with 50 years of we'll go wherever there's a democracy in trouble---I don't remember what doctriine that was.....but it's main goal ended up being to prevent the spread of communism and authoritarian goverments.

Now, here we are 50 years later, and although there's no argument that we're not isolationists anymore----it's almost as if we act like we are. The impetus isn't any longer on the world to make international decisions, it's on us to make our own international decisions based on our own National Security, thus making our policy seeming to be that of isolationists.

A great over-simplification mind you, but me and my friend (a history major) were talking about this just today.

I actually really like this topic, but I don't know where to start looking for information :(. Gonna see if I can pull up anything on google.

What is this essay for?

If for school, I'd avoid Google.
 

pyonir

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Originally posted by: joohang

What is this essay for?

If for school, I'd avoid Google.

Why would anyone write an essay if it wasn't for school?

For fun? :confused:
 

etalns

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Originally posted by: joohang
Originally posted by: Qosis
Originally posted by: calpha
Write about the parallels/comparison that we as a nation seem to be drawing with old Teddy Roosevelt's Isolationist strategy. It's interesting to think about at least. How we used (think wwI, the sinking of the Lusitania got us in the war) to apply the Monroe Doctrine....and say, you do your thing and we'll do ours, to learning that might not be the case, and how we developed the failed League of Nations (W.Wilson). Then going into WWII, we were in effect isolationists again until Pearl Harbor. We followed that with 50 years of we'll go wherever there's a democracy in trouble---I don't remember what doctriine that was.....but it's main goal ended up being to prevent the spread of communism and authoritarian goverments.

Now, here we are 50 years later, and although there's no argument that we're not isolationists anymore----it's almost as if we act like we are. The impetus isn't any longer on the world to make international decisions, it's on us to make our own international decisions based on our own National Security, thus making our policy seeming to be that of isolationists.

A great over-simplification mind you, but me and my friend (a history major) were talking about this just today.

I actually really like this topic, but I don't know where to start looking for information :(. Gonna see if I can pull up anything on google.

What is this essay for?

If for school, I'd avoid Google.

It's for school :( I won't actually be marked on it. It's mainly to see my writing skills to see if I can take AP English Language. So if my facts are off, it won't really matter :p