Essay Samples and Ideas Repository

Date Rape

Should there be a separate criminal offence of date rape?

DDT in the Developing World

Should the developing world use DDT?

Dealing with climate change – regulations versus market methods

Do market approaches have greater potential to reduce carbon emission than regulatory approaches?

Debate, Limits of

Are certain topics inappropriate for debate?

Debt Relief following natural disasters

Whether the United States should provide debt relief through the UN to countries affected by natural disasters

Degree courses, shorten

Should the number of years it takes to achieve an undergraduate degree by shortened?

Democracy

Is democracy, as is so often assumed, really the best form of government?

Democracy Promotion

Should the United States promote democracy internationally?

Democracy, Imposition of

Can, and should, democracy be imposed on countries?

Democracy: Pace of Development

What is the right pace for democracy to develop?

Detention on the Grounds of Mental Illness

Should the government have the power to detain people identified as having dangerous personality disorders?

Developing World Debt

Should developed countries cancel the debts of the poorest nations?

Devolution

Is devolution (in Scotland and Wales) to be regretted? (UK specific)

Digital Rights Management (DRM) Technology

Should media companies and software producers be allowed to use Digital Rights Management technologies in order to protect their media from illegal use, duplication and reproduction?

Direct .vs. Indirect Aid

Should foreign aid donor nations and the World Bank continue to give the majority of their aid through the direct channel of Official Development Assistance (ODA), or should they instead give that aid indirectly to Charities, NGOs, PVOs and microfinance initiatives? (NB. See also Bilateral .vs. Multilateral Aid)

Direct Taxation [UK]

Should direct taxation be abolished?

Direct vs. Representative Democracy

Is direct democracy preferable to representative democracy?

Disestablishing the Church of England [UK]

Should we disestablish the Church of England?

Disillusionment in Central and Eastern Europe

Are individual and social disillusionment having a significant impact on Central and Eastern European transitions to democracy?

Divorce

Should divorce be made even easier to obtain, or are there social and moral reasons to discourage it?

DNA Database for Criminals

Should we create a database of DNA that can be used by police authorities in order to apprehend criminals?

Do It Yourself / Home Improvement

Is trying to improve your home yourself worthwhile, or should building, decoration and interior design work be left to paid professionals?

Dollarization

Should countries change their official currency to the U.S. dollar?

Double Jeopardy Rule, Abolition of

Double jeopardy™ means being tried twice for the same offence. The double jeopardy rule means that an individual cannot be tried again for the same offence if acquitted. Should the rule be scrapped?

Downloading music without permission is an example of theft and is immoral

Is downloading music without permission from the internet wrong?

Driftnets

Should there be a worldwide ban on the use of driftnets to catch fish, including within each countrys Exclusive Economic Zone?

Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Should the United States Congress allow drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge?

Drinking age, lowering of

Should the legal age for drinking alcohol be lowered?

Driving Age, raise to 18

Should the age at which you can legally drive be raised to 18?

Droit de suite (resale royalty)

Should visual artists be entitled to a royalty every time a work is re-sold?

Drug Patent Laws

Should the pharmaceutical patenting system be liberalised?

Drug testing, mandatory for public officials

Should continued office for public officials be dependent on (successfully) taking a drug test?

Drug-Testing in Schools

Should school students face mandatory drug-tests?

Drugs in Sport

Should the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport be legalised?

Drugs, legalisation of

Should governments legalise all drugs?