GENOCIDE - Armenia(one of the first genocides that received world-wide attention - still an issue in the Middle East today) - Rwanda / Bosnia / Darfur / Cambodia / "Rape of Nanjing" (Japanese genocide in China during WWII-still an issue considering Japan/China relations today)
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT - You could address the issues by talking about a specific group or individual (Martin Luther King/Medgar Evers/Malcolm X/ Black Panthers / SNCC(Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) / SCLC(Southern Christian Leadership Conference) / James Meredith / Ruby Bridges / Rosa Parks / Freedom Riders / Emmett Till or a specific event(Selma(Bloody Sunday)/March on Washington/Montgomery Bus Boycott / Bombing of church in Birmingham) or a law (Civil Rights Act of 1964 / 14th 15th amendment / Brown vs. Board of Education / Voting Rights Act of 1965 & Update 2015
TERRORISM - 9/11 / Oklahoma City Bombing / Cyber-terrorism /Earth Liberation Front/ al-Qaeda / Benghazi Attack/ Boston Marathon Bombing / Paris Attacks / Boko Haram / So-Called Islamic State(ISIS) - ISIS / Al-Shabab / Brussels Attacks
IMMIGRATION - Ellis Island-Angel Island -Castle Garden / Chinese Exclusion Act / Quota Act / Immigration and Nationality Act / Patriot Act / Is America Really a Melting Pot? / New Legislation about Immigration/ New Immigrants to Europe / United States Legislation/ World / Illegal Immigration / Dreamers
DRUG WARS - Mexico / Is it possible to win the “war” on drugs? / Afghanistan / Colombia
RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE -Anti-Muslim violence in the US / Antisemitism/ Anti-Mormonism / Anti-Christianity in Africa and the Middle East / atheism / Quakers
HOLOCAUST – Specific camp(they were all a little different), Nuremberg Laws, Specific groups(Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, Homosexuals), Einsatzgruppen, Holocaust Deniers, Ghettos, Liberation, Resistance, Medical Experiments
GLOBAL ECONOMY - IMF(International Monetary Fund) / Outsourcing Opinion/ NAFTA Opinion/ WTO (World Trade Organization) / Multinational Corporations / Trans-Pacific Partnership/USMCA
EDUCATION- The Common Core / Standards-based Education / Differences between schools in US and another country / Differences in Male/Female Education
VETERAN CARE - PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) / Veterans Administration / Homelessness / Suicide
CAPITOL PUNISHMENT - the bungled execution in Oklahoma and its implications / US vs. Europe / Comparison of States with or without death penalty / Fairness of sentencing (what DNA testing adds to the issue) / Is the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment(Furman v. Georgia - Gregg v. Georgia)
FAMINE / HUNGER -Hunger in America / Climate Change and Famine / Definition / East Africa
EPIDEMICS - AIDS in Africa / AIDS in America / Ebola / Other Epidemics / Zika
LABOR LAWS (Adult) - US Department of Labor / International Labor Organization(ILO) / See Sweatshops
LABOR LAWS (Children) - C138 Minimum Age Convention, 1973, C182 Worst Forms of Child Labor Convention, 1999, The Convention on the Rights of the Child / See Sweatshops
CHILD SOLDIERS – South Sudan / Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers / Democratic Republic of the Congo / Sierra Leone / Somalia / Uganda(Lord's Resistance Army)
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT - You could address the issues by talking about a specific group or individual (Martin Luther King/Medgar Evers/Malcolm X/ Black Panthers / SNCC(Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) / SCLC(Southern Christian Leadership Conference) / James Meredith / Ruby Bridges / Rosa Parks / Freedom Riders / Emmett Till or a specific event(Selma(Bloody Sunday)/March on Washington/Montgomery Bus Boycott / Bombing of church in Birmingham) or a law (Civil Rights Act of 1964 / 14th 15th amendment / Brown vs. Board of Education / Voting Rights Act of 1965 & Update 2015
TERRORISM - 9/11 / Oklahoma City Bombing / Cyber-terrorism /Earth Liberation Front/ al-Qaeda / Benghazi Attack/ Boston Marathon Bombing / Paris Attacks / Boko Haram / So-Called Islamic State(ISIS) - ISIS / Al-Shabab / Brussels Attacks
IMMIGRATION - Ellis Island-Angel Island -Castle Garden / Chinese Exclusion Act / Quota Act / Immigration and Nationality Act / Patriot Act / Is America Really a Melting Pot? / New Legislation about Immigration/ New Immigrants to Europe / United States Legislation/ World / Illegal Immigration / Dreamers
DRUG WARS - Mexico / Is it possible to win the “war” on drugs? / Afghanistan / Colombia
RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE -Anti-Muslim violence in the US / Antisemitism/ Anti-Mormonism / Anti-Christianity in Africa and the Middle East / atheism / Quakers
HOLOCAUST – Specific camp(they were all a little different), Nuremberg Laws, Specific groups(Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, Homosexuals), Einsatzgruppen, Holocaust Deniers, Ghettos, Liberation, Resistance, Medical Experiments
GLOBAL ECONOMY - IMF(International Monetary Fund) / Outsourcing Opinion/ NAFTA Opinion/ WTO (World Trade Organization) / Multinational Corporations / Trans-Pacific Partnership/USMCA
EDUCATION- The Common Core / Standards-based Education / Differences between schools in US and another country / Differences in Male/Female Education
VETERAN CARE - PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) / Veterans Administration / Homelessness / Suicide
CAPITOL PUNISHMENT - the bungled execution in Oklahoma and its implications / US vs. Europe / Comparison of States with or without death penalty / Fairness of sentencing (what DNA testing adds to the issue) / Is the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment(Furman v. Georgia - Gregg v. Georgia)
FAMINE / HUNGER -Hunger in America / Climate Change and Famine / Definition / East Africa
EPIDEMICS - AIDS in Africa / AIDS in America / Ebola / Other Epidemics / Zika
LABOR LAWS (Adult) - US Department of Labor / International Labor Organization(ILO) / See Sweatshops
LABOR LAWS (Children) - C138 Minimum Age Convention, 1973, C182 Worst Forms of Child Labor Convention, 1999, The Convention on the Rights of the Child / See Sweatshops
CHILD SOLDIERS – South Sudan / Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers / Democratic Republic of the Congo / Sierra Leone / Somalia / Uganda(Lord's Resistance Army)