Students may choose to write about one of the following topics:
To inform adults perhaps college officials explain what causes students to post and read postings on social-networking sites. Why are the sites so important to students?
What causes a person to like a particular song, movie, television, show, video game, music video, or a book?
What causes a person to buy particular items in the grocery store, pharmacy, or bookstore, or from a Web site?
What are the effects of illusions? For example, what is the effect of the illusion a person creates in a chat room, on a resume, or with such artifices as posturing, lying, makeup, hair dye, wigs, and plastic surgery?
Discuss the effects of judging people based on their appearance.
