You know how frustrating it is when a teacher or prof asks you to write an essay on anything you feel like writing. Teachers often do this to check your writing style, creativity, or grammar. This is an easy assignment for a teacher to give but a stressful one for the student. What do you write about? Coming up with a topic is usually reduced to writing the same topic as everyone else. Guaranteed, as bored as you are writing it, the teacher is bored reading it.
Here is a list of less common topics that may peak an evaluator's interest and get you a better mark.
I give the topic, but in some cases, I also include a book that examines this idea. The books are not necessary to write the essays but would help as references.
For a few topics, a book is required to avoid plagiarism. Those entries have (*BQ) beside them. For (*BQ) I will provide an amazon link to the book for you but they should all be in your local library.
Think of this list as a series of theses that you are free to use as your own. Check back often as I will frequently update this list.
- Pass by any school and you will see a billboard promoting their virtue of the month. Why are those signs there? Imagine learning to play hockey without every stepping on to the ice or picking up a stick. This idea seems ludicrous; some things are only learned by doing. It may seem obvious but it it is not so obvious to the schools, governments, and moral institutions that attempt to teach virtue by means of lessons and posters.
- War: any probability that does not decrease with time will occur. Since the probability of nuclear war is not decreasing, it will occur. Perhaps the only solution is a world government.
- The New World was not conquered by superior weapons. It was conquered by domesticated animals.
- Although it is commonly believed that we have a brain. This is incorrect. According to the Triune Brain Hypothesis, we actually have three brains.
- In this novel, the relationship between the reader and author should not be overlooked. The relationship can be characterized as X. (This is a less common type of essay therefore it is more interesting to a teacher. The idea is to discuss the relationship the author has with the reader. Does the reader share in the author’s knowledge? Does the author assume a more secretive stance by using tools like foreshadowing etc. Does the author make your conclusions for you or does the author ask you to draw your own.)
