11th grade research paper topic choices

Topics:

Most of these are general topics and will need to be narrowed down when you make your topic selection. For example, if you choose the topic of US-Japan relations, you will want to narrow down the time period or the geographic region or both.

Multilingualism

• What are the positive/negative effects of being multilingual?
• Should America become bilingual/multilingual?

Multiculturalism
Third Culture Kids
Economics

• What causes an economic depression?
• What are the effects of a consumer culture on the environment?

US-Japan relations

• Westernization during the Edo period
• American interactions with Okinawa
• How have the US and Japan shaped the international stance on climate change?
• Internment of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians during WWII

Transportation

• What are some new types of vehicles that are being developed (e.g. zero-emission vehicles, vehicles that drive themselves)? What laws or other factors prevent them from being marketed right away?
• What is the history of automobile manufacturing in the United States and around the world?

Asian influences on American culture

• Asian immigrants to America
• What difficulties or forms of discrimination did Asian immigrants originally face in America? How have conditions changed?
• Development of China Town, Little Tokyo, etc.

The changing face of the Christian church in America

• Who were the Puritans really, and how have they affected American society? Do they deserve their poor reputation? What were the American Puritans really like?
• Great Awakening; Jonathan Edwards
• What are some current trends in American religion?
• The American emphasis on logical thought
• Has the percentage of Christians in America increased or decreased since colonial times, and what factors have caused it to do so?

Individualism vs. collectivism
Propaganda

• Wartime propaganda in WWI/WWII
• How is propaganda used in politics today?

An American writer: _______________________
Poetic forms imported into English-language poetry (sonnet, villanelle, haiku)
History of the gothic genre, from its European roots to the American southern gothic
Influence of jazz and blues on American poetry
American tall tales (e.g. John Bunyan)
Native American myths and legends
Your choice, as approved by the teacher