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Databases

EMAIL Mrs. Williams for Remote Access Passwords.

Use the Browse or Explore by Theme options to get ideas for topics. Each database has issues organized into broad categories and then more specific subcategories.
The first 2 databases listed below are the best places to start exploring topic ideas.
Once you are settled on a topic you can expand to looking at the Gale and ProQuest databases.

ABC-CLIO: Issues This link opens in a new window
Provides authoritative historical context, expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources on today's most important issues.
Issues & Controversies This link opens in a new window
Updated weekly, explores and analyzes hundreds of hot topics in politics, business, government, crime, law, energy, education, health, family, science, foreign policy, race, rights, society, and culture.
GALE: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
Cross-curricular research tool supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts, covering today’s hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration, to violent video games.
GALE: Global Issues This link opens in a new window
Ties together sources to present a rich analysis of issues - social, political, military, economic, environmental, science related, health related, cultural - and headlines in world hot spots.
PROQUEST: SIRS Issues Researcher This link opens in a new window
Background and analysis on 345+ leading issues with article selections from more than 2,000 international sources; including newspaper and magazine articles, graphics, charts, maps, primary sources, government documents, websites, multimedia, as well as critical thinking questions, and timelines.
PROQUEST This link opens in a new window
Designed to bring instant results to users across thousands of journals, magazines, newspapers, videos, reports, and other types of content. This multidisciplinary resource brings together some of ProQuest’s most used databases in education, humanities, psychology, science, social sciences, and news.

Debate Websites

Debatabase
Collection of over five hundred debates from the International Debate Education Association that cover topics from the affirmative action to Zimbabwe, on all sorts of themes including politics, economics, religion, culture, science and society.
ProCon.org
Presents controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format.
Debate Central
Online resource created and maintained by the National Center for Policy Analysis with the largest free collection of information targeted to high school debaters.

MHS Library: English 1 - Debate / Persuasive Essays

Databases

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Debate Websites

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