Submit your list of 10 potential problem/solution speech topics as directed below.
Before you select any of the following categories of topics, open the eLibrary database (or one of the Persuasive databases below) and verify that there is AT LEAST one photo or chart that matches your topic somehow.
Open Opposing Viewpoints, Points of View and/or SIRS to make certain there are at least three news articles on your topic since you will need at least these articles and the eLibrary image to create your visual aid and outline.
Encyclopedia Britannica will offer definitions of problem topics as well, but DO NOT use ONLY EB to research and write your speech.
I do not need these photos or research database links copy/pasted in this assignment. I only need to know that you VERIFIED your topic is researchable from the collection found in the respective database(s).
Topic can be a local problem, a state problem or a national problem. Avoid international problems–thinking “globally” is too big for this assignment. However, since Dallas and Texas are not known as research hubbubs, you may have to research other cities and states and “infer” that whatever problems they have there we may also have here.
Examples:
-Body: “We need to drink more water and less sodas” or “We should exercise more to prevent diabetes and heart attack.”
-Local: “A kid at my sister’s/brother’s school was bullied into an attempted suicide, so we need to fight bullying” or “We need a neighborhood watch program on my street.”
-City/County: “We in Dallas need to appeal to city hall to get potholes in streets repaired.”
-State: “Texas needs to build a high-speed rail train from each major city to the next.”
-National: “The USA has crumbling bridges and overpasses. We must demand our Congress raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans to pay for bridges and overpasses that threaten each of us every day with collapse.”
NOTE: Write these 10 proposals as a vertical “grocery” list just like the example list above…but write them AS A PROBLEM. In other words, do not write just “Homelessness” but rather “We need to help the homeless get off the streets in our city.”
