coming up with topics

These past three classes we have been trying to come up with three topics to write argumentative papers about. Everyone had their minds set on what three topics they wanted, but we had to all be on the same page. We could not just say majority rules. We had to convince the minority on why or why not we should about that topic. Some people kept saying they did not know why they didn’t want to write about certain topics. As the class time went by people were getting angry because no one could give a reason as to why they didn’t want the topic. We tried to convince people, but things were just not succeeding.

Finally on the last day, we decided to all compromise on the three topics. After three days we had come to the conclusion that we would write about crime and punishment, family, and they third was a ”free for all.” The free for all topics can be either: education, gender, pop culture, race/ethnicity, religion, environment, or sexuality. Now you could try to tie all these topics into one, but our professor said that we could not “double dip”. What he meant was we could not write two papers on family. It should be interesting to see what topics people come up with.