Has legalizing abortion caused the crime rate to go down?
Essay Topic
Select one topic from this list and answer the question using a minimum of 6 academic
sources. The Questions relate to Canadian Society and thus must be answered from that
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Essay Topics
Does a person’s social class affect their chances of divorce? In other words, are those from the
upper class more likely to divorce or less likely to divorce than those from the lower class?
Why?
Is social class related to IQ?
Is social class related to family size?
Is family size related to IQ?
Is social class related to life expectancy? Do those from the upper class live longer than those in
the working class, or is it the opposite? Why?
Is getting a postsecondary educational qualification still worth it? Compare the success
(income, type of job, etc) of those with postsecondary qualifications to those with only high
school qualifications.
Are working class students more likely dropout of university than students from the upper
class?
Does attending a private high school increase one’s chances of going to university compared to
going to a regular high school? Why?
Is parental social class related to their offspring’s cognitive ability?
Why are more women pursuing further education today than they did in the past?
Why do women do more housework then men?
Why do men and women tend to select different types of occupations? In other words: why are
women more concentrated in some occupations while men are more concentrated in others?
Why do more women work part-time than men?
Why do women, on average, earn less money than men in the labour market?
What explains why men physically abuse women?
Do immigrants do as well as Canadian Born individuals in terms of income and educational
employment?
Is being born to a single mother related to a person’s race? Are some racial groups more likely
to have children?
Why were residential schools created and what was their purpose?
Does smoking marijuana frequently negatively affect academic performance?
Does having an ethnic name rather than an Anglo name affect whether you get a job interview?
Why are Aboriginals less likely to go to university than the average Canadian?
Who is more likely to be selected as a fashion model: a woman of colour with European facial
features, or a woman of colour without European facial features?
Why do Jews earn more university degrees than other groups in Canada?
Why do Chinese earn more university degrees than other groups in Canada?
Why do Portuguese have a lower percentage of students graduating high school and attending
university than the Canadian average?
Is social class related to the violent crime? Do the lower class commit more violent crime than
the upper class?
The crime rate in Canada has been in decline since 1991. Why?
Is Race related to crime?
Does the prison system reform criminals? Does prison reduce recidivism rates? Yes or no and
why?
If the Police use racial profiling to reduce crime rates does it actually work to reduce crime?
Why or why not?
Has legalizing abortion caused the crime rate to go down?
Does having sex before marriage increase the likelihood of divorce after marriage? In other
words, if you have sex with the person you are going to marry, before you get married, rather
than after you get married, does this increase your chances of getting divorced?
